nshankar

I am a PHP programmer looking out, thanks to the HN community. Out of Python / Ruby what would suit my need of developing web apps at the speed of my current PHP speed of development as well as adequate security. I am…

I have seen many posts that malign PHP for its language problems to the extent that people tend to leave PHP and go for Rails, Python etc. But I was surprised when I filtered the latest round of popular web framework…

I finally dropped my Blackberry and took Android. I was cautious while I moved on and use a $140, unlocked phone from a company (Karbonn) nobody knows. But Gingerbread works fast and it is responsive for my 1000+…

I was checking a G+ page on android. I am shocked to find it does not support Android screen size. Android does not support the Reader functionality or double touch functionality of iOS either, Watching G+ sites on…

I see different views about Twitter Bootstrap. Yesterday, Joomla became the first CMS to go on board with Bootstrap. People around see it as a use-and-throw framework as it is suitable to start a project but not end…

Yesterday, my boss called me to say, the project you were building looks to be over and we would like if the team shifts to new projects. This is after our project processes over 100,000 image based financial…

There are a ton of to-do applications on to-do list management, but none has the simplicity coupled with completeness. In my view, any task management should have goals and results in hierarchical manner. Goals are…

I am old timer to technology. My first language was Fortran (I am an engineer) and then C. I did a few websites in PHP. Listening to a lot of boo against PHP recently, I am thinking of moving over. As I learnt C pretty…

I regularly see new guys to want to learn programming on HN and HN shows takes them to Ruby / Python. PHP is a de-facto choice for many but they may not be too open for it considering the language purity. I also do PHP…

I have a problem that I am sure faced by many. We are not able to complete many tasks in a single To-Do posting. Like talking to someone to fix up meeting or paying bills. To manage such things, there are many follow-up…

I keep getting ideas that can solve my own problems, if converted into products / services and shown to the markets. The markets would shape them to survive or die fast. I want to develop a website in roughly 7 days or…

I am on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with FF or Chrome browser. The flash plugin that Airtime.com requires does not work on either of the browsers. Other flash sites are seen on both. What could be the problem? How to play Airtime…

Hypercard celebrated its 25 years of existence, but doesn't exist now. Many say, it was a precursor to the hypertext protocol. I still don't see what hypercard did 25 years ago. It gave non-programmers an ability to…

Hacker News is my first site every day. I see HN as the best pool of popular stories on that day that scramble to keep their lead. I sometime go to see comment though I find them going sideways (not staying on the topic…

Vimeo is not available in India. But there are some awesome tech learning videos on it. Can someone send the video www.vimeo.com/42530011 to YouTube so that we can watch it? This is from the last post - Git and GitHub…

Diet Coda just hit the iPad. Several programmers are turning to iPad for simple reasons of portability. I was just thinking of using Vim for iPad. Is such a thing available? If it is not, wouldn't it be great to have…