This is an interesting article on the age group of programmers by Phil Johnson But where do those middle-aged programmers go? Do they leave programming completely, due to burnout or for a career switch, or are they moving up into…
This is an interesting article on the age group of programmers by Phil Johnson But where do those middle-aged programmers go? Do they leave programming completely, due to burnout or for a career switch, or are they moving up into…
I was just reading Apps, Gaps and Equilibrium: Businesses and IT are facing a world of Apps, where the supply of technology vastly exceeds business demand or IT’s capacity to implement, integrate and operate. The world of apps is a…
I mostly deal with startups and small and medium enterprises. No matter who you are, you can always use some help in marketing. So what are some of the marketing tools and services out there that are either free or…
We have been experimenting with some ideas at in50hrs and 32hourstartup and here is the latest incarnation of one of those ideas – Sponsored Projects. Why Sponsored Projects? Sponsored Projects allow you to work with developers in the region to…
redmodel 0.3.0 Python Library for Data Models Persisted in Redis ws4py 0.1.1 WebSocket library for Python digraphtools 0.2.0 Some tools for working with digraphs, partial orders and topological sorting with Python reddit 1.0 A Python wrapper for the Reddit API…
You hear a lot about Cloud Computing. What is this Cloud thingy anyway? From the various definition of cloud computing we will just pick a couple. Computing in which services and storage are provided over the Internet (or “cloud”) –…
Some Thoughts on Service Business vs Product Business in Software. 1. In a service business, the customer tells you his problem and you provide a solution. In the product business, you discover a set of customers with a problem and…
I keep getting this question a lot – why don’t we build products like many US companies? We at Chennai, do not yet have a product culture, like they do in Silicon Valley or Boston or Austin. When we don’t…
I, like a lot of others in the software industry, belong to the Fred Brooks fan club. I first read The Mythical Man Month in 80s but since I was just doing my first startup, did not fully comprehend some…
Facebook is the largest site in the world. Some of the statistics are staggering. Please take a look at this article on Facebook use and customization of open source to scale. Facebook still uses PHP, but it has built a…
