ashwinraghav
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- September 14, 2010 (15y ago)
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- Google's Firebase Android SDKs are now open source (github.com)
- My Fiance made our lovely Wedding E-Invite (shar-weds-ashwin.com)
Wedding website templates out there suck! Sharadha and I are both hackers. She built most of our wedding invite. Thought U guys might like it.
- RANTS- Retrospective Analysis of Not so Terrific Systems (blog.ashwinraghav.com)
- How to find a job as a Systems Engineer? (blog.ashwinraghav.com)
I have recently been looking for a job in a systems team that will give me some experience with building scalable systems. Here are some things that I learnt.
- How does the "Internet" know which CDN server is located close to you? (blog.ashwinraghav.com)
Content Delivery networks hack around the BGS to deliver content effectively.
- Android Market quietly updated (xda-developers.com)
Courtesy @vigneshv_psg
- Predicate Abstractions for Dynamic Languages (blog.ashwinraghav.com)
- State explosion in programming languages (blog.ashwinraghav.com)
- A simple approach to handling concurrency-- AVOID IT (blog.ashwinraghav.com)
- Evolution's Delusive Backdoor-Programming in our brains (blog.ashwinraghav.com)
Personal Blog-- Some analogies and a tribute to a lovely book written by VS Ramachandran
- Compare Content Management Systems (cmsmatrix.org)
Comparing the plethora of cms systems around
- [Rails] Writing better ActiveRecord migrations (blog.ashwinraghav.com)
- A Rationalist's View to Functional Programming (blog.ashwinraghav.com)
- Symantec says change your Facebook password now (ubergizmo.com)
- Angry Birds on the Chrome WebStore (chrome.angrybirds.com)
Now play angry birds on your browser
- Writing Cohesive Event Driven Code in Ruby (ashwinraghav.wordpress.com)
Often I try my hand writing evented code with eventmachine and Node.js. I find that it becomes very difficult to take a top down approach to debug these programs. Here is what made my life a little better.
- Smarter Caching Strategies for mobile phone application developers (ashwinraghav.wordpress.com)
This is a talk about contemporary cache replacement strategies for Location Dependent Information Systems that I originally gave at a mobile-computing conference in Kuala Lumpur.
- The attitude towards campus recruitment in India (ashwinraghav.wordpress.com)
I had a chance to study in one of India's premier private institutions for Engineering. In my experience, I found campus recruitment to be among the most diluting experiences. I truly believe that there are a bunch of…
- Building Jabber Chat Bots in place of redundant web applications (ashwinraghav.wordpress.com)
I spoke at a conference recently on building jabber chat bots as interfaces instead of getting end-users to run scripts on their machines. I find it an interesting way to present scripts to non technical users
- Pushing Concurrency out of your system (ashwinraghav.wordpress.com)
Recently, at ThoughtWorks, we built an application involving a lot of operations work and background jobs. Things were good until we wanted to speed up some jobs calling REST APIs. Here is how we managed to.