6: Time for a change
It’s been a month now since the semester is over, but when you are sitting in California, and visiting amazing places on weekends, writing blog posts isn’t the highest priority :) But the 6th semester...
View ArticleSimulating the Facebook Wall in Google+
Its been two days of Google+ and enough articles to fill a couple of books, so I'm not going to say anything about what I think of it and all that. But a couple of friends have been wondering how to do...
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
I first saw DH2 on Friday night, and my thoughts after watching it were:On Wednesday night I saw it again, determined to find out why I disliked it so much, and whether I was just being too hard on it....
View ArticleToolset
Inspired by The Setup and Pratul’s post, here is how I ‘get my work done’.HardwareI currently use a four-core i7 15" Macbook Pro with 8GB of RAM and a 500GB HDD. I love it. For backups I have a Western...
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Life's Little Things: Board Shorts
If you tend to forget your shorts at home when you go swimming, board shorts that dry quick and can be squeezed hard are an invaluable investment.Posted via email from nikhil's posterous
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Life's Little Things: Chocolate
If you can afford to buy a slab of chocolate once in a while, enjoy it. Few things in life come in small packages yet have great joy inside them.Posted via email from nikhil's posterous
View ArticleTalk the Walk
PreludeA few months ago, on the way back to Gandhinagar from attending DocTypeHTML5.in I wondered if it would be a good idea to walk from Ahmedabad to Gandhinagar to get home. The distance is 25km. The...
View ArticleHave some humanity
This article was first published in Entelechy (Issue 29, September 2011), the in-house DA-IICT magazine.“Technology [is] the knack of so arranging the world that we don’t have to experience it.”-- Max...
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A High-Five Experiment
Final exam time is always a time of stress for students. When you have 6 exams in 6 days, the time just before the exam is one of general apprehension and attempts at mentally revising all the key...
View ArticleWhy Indian students should attend college
In recent months, the number of posts extolling dropping out of college, or of people recounting their experiences (mostly positive, probably because the negatives won’t share) has increased...
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Tic-Tac-Toe with Redis and Backbone.js
This post is a technical overview of my Tic-Tac-Toe implementation. It is a zero server-side logic, pub-sub based, realtime, multiplayer game which uses Redis and Backbone as the key enablers of...
View ArticleToggling Proxy settings quickly with Pentadactyl and Firefox
If you use the excellent Pentadactyl plugin for Firefox to get vim super-powers to the browser, here is a quick and painless way to toggle between a direct connection to the internet or using the...
View ArticleThe IT Crowd?
(This article was originally published in Entelechy, edition 32, Jan 2012. It is being published here in full with some annotations.)It has continued to surprise me over the last 3.5 years how few...
View ArticleThe TT Incident
This incident is about those moments of pure magic that sometimes happen when two individuals have light bulbs go on in their head at the same instance based on a series of earlier shared experiences...
View ArticleI'm scared for the Internet
(This article was written for Entelechy Edition 33 (February 2012). The news is slightly old, but posted here so I have a public permalink to the article) When the Internet began over 30 odd years ago,...
View ArticleApache Cassandra: Iterate over all columns in a row
Recently I have been using Cassandra for one of my projects, and one of the needs is to iterate over all columns of a row. Each column represents an individual data, of type identified by row id, and...
View ArticleGreat Indie-an Acts
(This was originally published in Entelechy Edition 34, March 2012)With Synapse a few weeks old, the constant Raghu Dixit songs are starting to fade away from the hostel corridors. Except when we hear...
View ArticlePlaying with Go
With Go 1 being released, I’ve been playing with the language once again. As a long weekend hack, I created a clone of the literate programming Docco tool in Go – quite naturally called Gocco.This blog...
View ArticleDemystifying JSCrush
Some of you may have seen Philip Buchanan’s award winning. Autumn Evening entry for JS1K 2012 Love. While skimming the source I saw that he had used Aivo Paas’s JSCrush to compress the code. The...
View ArticleLessons in 4 years
(This article was written as a piece of advice in the final edition of Entelechy for the year, now that I will be graduating)Never give advice — a wise man won’t need it, a fool won’t heed it.So rather...
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