Sanat's Blog

App Updates - IE9 vs Chrome

2011-02-12T22:51:00.000+05:30

Installed IE9 RC on my Win 7 Laptop. I had to uninstall IE9 Beta first, restart Windows, then run the IE9 RC installer and restart Windows again. When I compare this to how easily Chrome updates, I know why it is winning.

Hg Init: a Mercurial tutorial by Joel Spolsky

2011-01-15T21:09:00.000+05:30

"Mercurial is a modern, open source, distributed version control system, and a compelling upgrade from older systems like Subversion. In this user-friendly, six-part tutorial, Joel Spolsky teaches you the key concepts."

Git Immersion

2011-01-15T21:01:00.000+05:30

"Git is a powerful, sophisticated system for distributed version control. Gaining an understanding of its features opens to developers a new and liberating approach to source code management. The surest path to mastering Git is to immerse oneself in its utilities and operations, to experience it first-hand.

Git Immersion is a guided tour that walks through the fundamentals of Git, inspired by the premise that to know a thing is to do it."

The Quentin Tarantino Guide to Creating Killer Content

2010-12-13T18:22:00.000+05:30

"If you want to be a great writer, you’ve got to own the story. Fiction or sales copy, know your story like nobody else and you will write words that no one else can touch."

The Quentin Tarantino Guide to Creating Killer Content

Aikido - The ascent to beauty

2010-12-13T18:20:00.000+05:30

Google Chrome blocks persistent javascript alerts

2010-11-12T22:04:00.001+05:30

Have you encountered a badly crafted/malicious webpage that shows javascript alerts and you just can't make them go away? Well, Google Chrome detects if a webpage is throwing up too many alerts and gives you an option to block them. Neat feature.

Trade what you see, not what you think

2010-11-03T21:54:00.001+05:30

Nice video

Learning to blog again

2010-11-03T14:01:00.000+05:30

There was a time when blogging was all the rage. Then with the rise of Twitter, the task of actually sitting down and composing a well thought-out piece of text seemed too onerous a task. Shooting off random thoughts in 140 characters or less seemed so much easier. As was taking a link to someone else's content and sharing it. Anything, but composing my own thing.

However, I have realized that blogging serves a different purpose. No other medium gives you the opportunity to express yourself so fully, while retaining control of the things you write about. So here I am.

As the title of this post says, I will need to relearn how to write long prose again. But I am beginning to enjoy it already.

2010-10-22T08:02:00.000+05:30

Value this time in your life kids, because this is the time in your life when you still have your choices, and it goes by so quickly.

When you're a teenager you think you can do anything, and you do. Your twenties are a blur. Your thirties, you raise your family, you make a little money and you think to yourself, "What happened to my twenties?" Your forties, you grow a little pot belly you grow another chin. The music starts to get too loud and one of your old girlfriends from high school becomes a grandmother. Your fifties you have a minor surgery. You'll call it a procedure, but it's a surgery. Your sixties you have a major surgery, the music is still loud but it doesn't matter because you can't hear it anyway. Seventies, you and the wife retire to Fort Lauderdale, you start eating dinner at two, lunch around ten, breakfast the night before. And you spend most of your time wandering around malls looking for the ultimate in soft yogurt and muttering "how come the kids don't call?" By your eighties, you've had a major stroke, and you end up babbling to some Jamaican nurse who your wife can't stand but who you call mama.

Any questions?

- Mitch Robbins (City Slickers)