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There has been a lot of debate in the tech community about working remotely and the willingness of employers to allow this option to their employees.

Oh, is this what you guys have been building for three years?

Letting users copy text and URLs from a webpage effortlessly is one of those things that sound easy in theory, but is a pain when it comes to implementation.

I use Emacs as my primary text editor and I use it to edit commit messages for Git.

I moved to San Francisco last week and is just getting acquainted with the city.

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I released my first Firefox plugin today.

Download the plugin here On numerous occasions, I have ran in to the situation where I had to look up how to load Google’s cached version of a particular page.

Representational State Transfer (REST) is a style of software architecture for distributed systems that has replaced technologies like SOAP as the predominant Web service design model.

When I saw the newly released Heyoffline.js library, I was curious to see how it figured out if the user was online or not.

People love URL shorteners.

A shot flew over the bar.

Click on the image to see the visualisation: Context The football season in Europe began this weekend with countries hosting their equivalents of the Super Cup.

Yesterday a colleague of mine asked me if I was on Facebook.

I did a d3.js workshop at ThoughtWorks Bangalore yesterday (31st July, 2012).

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I have been noticing lately that much of the traffic that my blog receives comes from Twitter’s t.co domain or Google+’s plus.url.google.com domain.

Last Saturday, Srijayanth Sridhar (@craftybones) and I gave a talk at XConf, ThoughtWorks India’s internal conference series.

What is it?

I have been doing some coding in Python recently.

Today, I pushed out Microjournal, a simple and lightweight journal.

Srijayanth Sridhar and I did a talk yesterday at vodQA NCR.

Imagine this - Your build is taking forever.

For me the last two weeks or so have involved a lot of wrestling with SSL certificates.

An hour ago, I was staring at a problem on the 4clojure website.

As I picked up my bicycle, climbed on it and spotted the blood on my elbows and the bunch of curious onlookers in front of the pan shop nearby, I did not feel fear or embarrassment.

Recently a friend and I had an argument about who makes better debuts among Indian and Pakistani cricket players.

I use the flyspell-mode as a spell checking mechanism in emacs.

In a project that I was a part of in the recent past, we used Story Branching.

In this post, I will describe how a neat setup and some discipline will ensure a Jenkins that can be rolled back and recreated very easily - a bullet proof Jenkins setup.

My new team at work is writing a bunch of Rails applications.

Recently I spent some time debugging an issue our team was facing around some C# code making a request on one of our servers.

I recently did a talk on football and the politics behind it, as part of the Banyan Tree talk series at ThoughtWorks.

I joined a 7 langauges in 7 weeks study group started by jocranford and others.

I have realized that like most users of Wikipedia, I do a lot of Wikipedia page-hopping [1].

The intense, almost mystical sound of the second set of prayers wafted through the air, following him through the wind, as if they did not want him to walk away from them.

There is not anything to add, except it is a poorly executed attempt to spoof xkcd.

I use Empathy as my preferred IM application.

I was reading this very interesting thread on the xkcd forum when I noticed a post from a user with the following signature in binary: 01001101 01100001 01100100 01100101 00100000 01011001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01001100 01101111 01101111 01101011 001…

Today, I installed Yasst.

Njaan Varaam, Assalamu Alaikum (I will be back, Peace Be Upon You).

Recently my team encountered a frustrating thing while working with a Java library in JRuby.

A week ago, I was running Ubuntu 9.10 on my laptop, and had a great bookmarklet that let me select any text from a webpage and post the quoted text to Twitter along with the URL to the page.

The last time I wrote about Athletic, they were relinquishing at the bottom of the La Liga table, their record as one among the only three clubs in La Liga to have never got relegated in threat.

I have continued to watch and follow the beautiful game, save for my first few months in Bangalore.

I really liked ZenTest’s Autospec in action.

As I had predicted, the last week of training was hectic, chaotic and crazy.

Next week will be the craziest, most hectic and chaotic week in my training period and it is the last week, of course.

The past few days have just flown by.

Yet another week of my Bangalore life has unfolded.