Hitesh Sarda

Get started… Those were my thoughts when I took up the challenge of building Maven (then known as Project Andromeda).

There are different stages of prototyping, which increase in fidelity and time taken to create.

Now with the goodness of Hacker News and reddit.

It is the process of observing people to discover their needs, goals, and values.

I am currently taking the Human Computer Interaction class, and unlike last time, will make notes during the course and not after.

There are several methods to evaluate a design: Usability studies This could be informal, watch and learn or formal usability labs.

While visiting rediff.com today, I was intrigued by the home page promotion of ‘Biz Solutions’.

I started Sangeet Planner based on bottle.py micro framework, which allowed for rapid prototyping.

I needed a library which could stem Hindi words written in roman script (transliterated), but could not find one.

Logistic regression is used to classify things into positive case or negative case.

Linear regression is a fancy name to a simple technique.

I recently finished the machine learning class offered online by Stanford.

In-house frameworks The very mention of this word brings out different memories and emotions for different people.

I wrote the Stack Monthly site on the one file Bottle framework, since my needs were really bare bones.

With the stunning world cup victory behind us, it’s time to reflect on what lessons we can learn from it.

where dead technologies go Some photos taken at the Technology Museum in Munich.

Multi-threaded Java practitioners know about the indispensible ways to taking thread dumps to see a snapshot of what’s happening in the JVM, and resolve ‘hang’ issues.

Why Clone In this world of concurrent, multi-threaded programming, functional style of programming makes more sense.

Quick note to self, to save some searching next time.

A short post about interesting business ideas, I came across in the last week or so.

Recently I had a good discussion on twitter about the different methodology out there and their relevance.

When we see a person, like the one below, nothing seems out of the ordinary.

A few incidents in the last few weeks, made me think of this saying again and again.

[caption id="" align=“alignright” width=“233” caption=“photo credit: hfb @ flickr”][/caption] The blog is now one year old, woo hoo!

The last two weeks, I have been researching options for processing free text.

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We spent the long Easter weekend, lazing happily indoors since the weather did not permit going out.

Every once in a while, I have to stop and think about how much consumption driven we have become.

Thanks to the company I keep, online and offline, the only entrepreneurial ventures I see are tech related.

One thing that is clear from the feedback on my previous article on hidden Windows 7 features: we love our keyboard shortcuts.

[caption id="" align=“alignright” width=“316” caption=“joysaphine @ flickr”][/caption] If you have ever worked on a multi-threaded application or even any application of significant scope, one of the unwritten requirement is a log file that helps in suppo…

It’s been over 6 months, and Windows 7 still surprises me, pleasantly.

Introduction Q.

Ever since the iPad was announced, the internet is clogged with updates, analysis and impressions on iPad.

I was trying to explain paper-recycling to my daughter, then thought it is best we do it together.

I am surprised that I haven’t come across a voice based classifieds system.

With Copenhagen behind us, it makes me wonder is there something we as individuals do to help the climate?

I watched 3 Idiots yesterday, and could not resist reviewing it.

Every micro ISV needs several standard things to get started.

Based on my current understanding of Django, this is how a user request is responded to.

Spent the last week picking up Python and Django.

And can only ask Google.

Quick tip on installing flash plugin on firefox portable without administrator privileges.

While analysing my visitor logs, I noticed several people come here looking for a way to install Skype on an EeePC running Ubuntu Netbook Remix.

Yesterday, I spent a few hours optimizing the home page of one of the most sought after colleges in India (most of my readers are alumni of that college).

This is an experimental post.

If you have come here looking for a way to install Skype, visit this post instead.

On the 21st, our wait finally ended and a little angel arrived.

Update: Paul reached out and clarified the problem.

I recently stumbled across Hornget, which plans to be the maven of .NET world.