R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah

pat.go - Sinatra in Go (golang)

noreply@blogger.com (R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah) — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 04:00:00 +0000

Blake Mizerany, the author of Sinatra along with Keith Rarick brings Sinatra to Go (Google's golang) with pat.go library. In an announcement, he has mentioned "This has been in use for awhile at Heroku. It's solid."

I'm more tempted to try it out as Go looks hot on memory usage.

Scala: Xitrum > Play!

noreply@blogger.com (R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah) — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:30:00 +0000

I personally find that Xitrum Scala framework (readme) is more appealing or easier (to build fast) than Play!/Scala. It looks like Play! 2.0 will fix the gap.

First MongoDB + Play!/Java project alpha release

noreply@blogger.com (R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah) — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:30:00 +0000

Our team has alpha released the first project written using Play!/Java and MongoDB at Teach 'n Learn. Play! reduces the pain of working in Java.

Node.C a la Node.js (?)

noreply@blogger.com (R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah) — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:00:00 +0000

Impressed by Node.js, I'm wondering why there's no similar libs in C. Probably it's time to start writing one?

Russian wives - must watch [video]

noreply@blogger.com (R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah) — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:30:00 +0000

I was highly disturbed when I watched this scene in my favorite Desmond Morris's The Human Sexes program in Discovery channel. On a second telecast, I've asked Heleena to watch this scene and she too got moved.

Here's the video (from 45:26 timestamp till end; especially from 46:36).

The prison shown in the video is Kresty Prison, Saint Petersburg, Russia. After watching the video, you may:

Start loving & trusting human beings, and or,
Stop blabbering about Indian culture and stop salivating at overrated Indian girlfriends

Work avoiders on the rise

noreply@blogger.com (R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah) — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 05:00:00 +0000

roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes
-- 80–20 rule / Pareto principle

One popular store (that is known for its less selling price, 6-storied air-conditioned showroom) is situated to close to our home. But, Heleena is allergic to it. Reason? Even though there are at least 50 sales people per floor, only 1 or 2 people will be working and responding to the customers' queries.

In another shop, I even noticed that the owner was serving customer when many staffs were cleverly avoiding the show! I'm finding the same problem everywhere. Who're affected here? Obviously the people who're actually working--they will have to handle more work that the clever people have avoided.

Two common gestures/characteristics I have noted in these clever people: 1. They'll pretend to be absolute ignorant (These people's agenda are merely to avoid works, but not to take credits.), 2. They'll create politics on anything (These people's agenda are to take credits without working. These people will usually be more shrewd and talkative.).

While I don't have any solution, I think, over the period of time, everyone will get smarter and will start avoiding works.

Buggy UI/UX software will get no bug reports?

noreply@blogger.com (R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah) — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 04:30:00 +0000

Experience-1

"One client has praised the UI of Burrow for more than half an hour", my boss told me once. It's no surprise for us as even Airbnb was adopting many of the features introduced in our software. Sometimes we used to get petty, trivial feedbacks as bug reports--then we used to wonder how and why clients are pointing out even these tiny dots.

Experience-2

Some long time ago, someone brought me shopping cart software and its UI was big mess. When I pointed out messy UI, the person told me that it must be rugged at core level... but software was so buggy--even basic functionality of the cart system didn't work. We then wondered how such buggy software is surviving.

Possible reasons

I think there are couples of reasons why poor UI software will get less bug reports:

Poor UI means rugged core? I think, people wrongly associate poor UI with solid core.
"Shouldn’t expect more" attitude. Some people may underestimate the knowledge of the coders on seeing poor UI and they may learn not to expect more from such guys.
Good UI means more happy usage. When the software has good UI, they may find it happier to use it lot and so finding tiny issues.
Expecting more from good UI. Some people may expect more from the developers of good UI (e.g. Flickr, etc). So, they can't stop reporting even tiny dots.

Our team's 7-days = 5-years?

noreply@blogger.com (R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah) — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 04:00:00 +0000

I'm so happy and proud of our team... especially after reading a technology critic of an experienced developer who used it for 5-years, through Hackers News.

Like I mentioned earlier, we had to ditch a part of the stack from the new technology that our team was hacking. The surprising fact is that our team faced and identified half of the issues mentioned by the experienced developer within 7-days of learning, lurking and hacking.

Exponential traffic in jobreapr

noreply@blogger.com (R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah) — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 03:30:00 +0000

Exactly 1-year ago, our team developed jobreapr, the search engine for freelancing jobs. We just noticed that its traffic is suddenly growing--in last 30-days alone the site received 20% of traffic.

Interviews and stupid brainteasers, Infosys et al.

noreply@blogger.com (R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah) — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 04:00:00 +0000

Ever since I came to know about Infosys’s puzzle-solving interview pattern, I felt sorry for them. It's such a stupid idea to test puzzle solving skill for programming, IMHO. So far I have seen programmers/hackers as versatile, having artistic (as opposed to scientific) mindset towards programming, having passion for algorithms, having passion for tight codes... But, found only very very few puzzle solvers who can code well.

Some long time ago I was ranting about this stupid interview process. At that time, someone pointed out that it's a technique to identify the people's caste and herd-people. Because of this, we always pushed unique interview pattern to identify real hackers. For the sake of records, some long time ago, I (along with my Marketing Manager) visited one of such companies where they take brilliant puzzle solvers on hefty pay packages... but, we found that even normal CSS effects are rocket science for them!

I couldn't resist blogging this after reading Why 37signals Doesn't Hire Programmers Based on Brainteasers in Hackers News.

Node.js and client app are the future of webdeving?

noreply@blogger.com (R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah) — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:30:00 +0000

Recently we had to try a new technology. As expected, we did hit edge case quickly. After analyzing thoroughly, we had to ditch part of the stack.

But, I had developed much interest over Node.js, Redis, WebSocket and client app technologies lately and I hope that they'll take the lead.

Some frequently asked questions about these technologies:

What is Node.js?
It is set of JavaScript libraries around Google’s V8 JavaScript engine, written by Ryan Dahl in 2009.

Why Node.js is picking up?
With Node.js, it’s easy to write web server in pure JavaScript. We can totally eliminate another language interpreter layer by programming the web server to handle the request directly (For example, in LAMP, PHP is required to handle the requests. But, in Node.js based server, no such layer is required).

Is Node.js a right choice?
It depends. Though few developers may find it easy to adopt, others may find it difficult to write quality code in event-driven asynchronous style. When there are lots of modules in a project, it is better to stay with Rails-like framework.

What is Redis?
Redis is key-value (think about array('key'=> 'value')) based in-memory database.

Why Redis is picking up?
With Redis, the data access time will be greatly improved.

Is Redis a right choice?
For me, Redis is an ideal choice for medium-to-high data store and where complex reports are not required; in those cases, it’s better to use it around any RDBMS like MySQL.

What is client app technology?
The "views/templates" are available in client-side (obviously transferred from server once) and the data are transferred in JSON format from server. With this, it may be enough to setup REST service in server-end; but the client-side code may get trickier. This approach is already used in Gmail and Twitter. With Backbone.js, Knockout.js and similar frameworks, it's somewhat easy to write client apps.

Why client app technology is picking up?
Few modules--like digg, delicious, etc are the latest trend in web. So, it would be right choice for fast responsive web pages.

Is client app a right technology?
If there are too many modules and SEO is of big concern, it’s better to stay with Rails-like framework. But, note that LinkedIn has mentioned that SEO is possible with dust.js, the library that they have chosen for their client app technology migration. Some developers may find it difficult and would end up writing sloppy codes. When more browsers compatibilities are required, it may not be the right fit.

What is WebSocket?
It is the push technology through we can instantly push changed data to client.

Is WebSocket a right choice?
It depends. When the data changes are to be propagated to all clients, it will be ideal choice. We may use Socket.Io library for the browser compatibility. It is also a good fit with Node.js

Think Different - truth and creative people behind

noreply@blogger.com (R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah) — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:00:00 +0000

Here's to the crazy ones.
The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers.
The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently.
They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status quo.
You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify and vilify them.
About the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things.
They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as crazy, we see genius.
Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.
-- Think different, Apple's TV commercial

Kids of Mac toys often attribute everything to Steve Jobs. But, I recently happened to read the people and story behind the inspiring "Think Different" ad. I think, everyone must read it--to be inspired.

Prapanchan's Humans, Angels, Devils - article of the year

noreply@blogger.com (R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah) — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 14:30:00 +0000

Tamil writer Prapanchan is writing மனிதர் தேவர் நரகர் (Humans, Angels, Devils) in Puthiya Thalaimurai magazine every week. His writing style is amazing. I liked all the series, but close to my heart are his take on Kanimozhi/Karunanidhi and memories related to Kumudam magazine in which he has quoted Haiku of Issa:

A world of grief and pain:
Flowers bloom;
Even then ...

Masala programming

noreply@blogger.com (R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah) — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 14:00:00 +0000

Recently I came across some code snippets and it's full of mess, lacking fundamentals, lacking basic code separation... That made me to wonder why some developers aren't learning the basics before trying anything.

Koodankulam - another ISRO? And best critic from John Rubert

noreply@blogger.com (R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah) — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 14:00:00 +0000

Mahendragiri ISRO is situated close to my hometown and now Koodankulam...

When ISRO was started, there were no industries. At that time, everyone was happy about the project as many believed that it would create more employment opportunities. (As per some conspiracy theories, Kanyakumari was sidelined for being Congress-fort then). Later on few guys got job there... and later on they complained that they're been transferred to other place for being local guys--by Anti-Tamil seniors.

Few months ago, an Engineer from Secundrabad who's working in ISRO joined me in train. The guy shared some information... he's recruited/recommended by his Secundrabad colleague, his ambition is to work in NASA, his job is just to check meter and make a note of it..., many guys have similar boring jobs... Anybody who's complaining IT guys should talk to these ISRO guys!

ISRO is a big example on how Indian government is spending crores of rupees lavishly. Majority of the projects--according to the guy, are architected by some members from space companies; they'll give few instructions and processes to these guys and they'll do monitoring works. This in India is called rocket science!

Though ISRO is usually marketed as Indian government's effort, Koodankulam is clearly marketed as Russian project. Some nuclear scientists have started supporting it; I wish they do more than meter-reading! I wish that local guys are not sidelined as in ISRO! So, what's the point? I don't know much about the safety; but I think it will be another ISRO for Indian government to spend crores lavishly... I think, it will be another ISRO for Anti-Tamil experts. (On another note, I don't know how still some pathetic Nadar groups are thinking that they'll get job there)

Best Anti-Koodankulam critic from John Rubert

Recently, I have been directed to Jayabarathan 's blog where he's supporting nuclear plant and bashing Gnani. In that blog, I have noted a wonderful critic by John Rubert. Through his critic, I came to know many safety issues exposed by Tehelka magazine:

Home, Next to N-Reactor (Jun 23, 2007)
Accident Sites - radiation, cancer, blindness, tardiness, cover-ups. The lessons from the Kalpakkam nuclear facility (Sep 11, 2010)
The rules are in place. But they are broken all the time (Oct 02, 2010)

Here I have copy-pasted the whole critic that are in Tamil; I'll try to translate them and publish in Englishified blog:

மீன்பிடித் தொழிலால் கூடங்குளம் பகுதியில் இருந்து ஆண்டொன்றிற்கு அரசுக்கு 2000 கோடி ரூபாய் வருவாய் கிடைக்கிறது. இதை எல்லம் அணுவுலை அமைந்தால் எந்தா நாட்டிற்கும் நம்மால் மீன் ஏற்றுமதி செய்ய இயலாது. இந்த இழப்பு உங்கள் கண்ணிற்கு தெரியாதது ஏனோ? கல்பாக்கத்தில் பணி புரியும் பொறியியல் வல்லுனர்கள் அங்கு கிடைக்கும் மீன்களை வாங்குவதில்லை என்பது உஙளுக்குத் தெரியும் என எண்ணுகிறேன்.
புவி வெப்பத்திலிருந்து(Geothermal) மின்னாலைகள் அமைப்பதில் ஆராய்ச்சி செய்வதற்கு கூட அரசு சற்றும் சிந்தியாதது ஏனோ? இதில் 35GW முதல் 2000GW வரை கிடைக்கும் என ஆய்வுகள் கூறுகின்றன.
அணுக்கரு உலையிலிருந்து குறைந்த அளவு கதிர்வீச்சு எக்காலத்திலும் வந்து கொண்டிருக்கும் என்பதை அறிஞர்களே ஒத்துக் கொண்டுள்ளனர். இது உயிரிகளில் திடீர் மாற்றத்தை (Mutation) ஏற்படுத்தும் என்பது உஙளுக்கு தெரியாதது ஏனோ?
இந்த கதிர்வீச்சு அதை சுற்றியுள்ள பகுதியில் வாழும் மக்களுக்கு உடல் நலக் கோளாறுகளை ஏற்படுத்துகிறது. எடுத்துக் காட்டாக கல்பாக்கத்தில் அணுமின் உலையில் வேலைப் பார்ப்பவர்களின் குழந்தைகள் உடல் ஊனமுற்றவர்களாகப் பிறக்கின்றனர். அதைச் சுற்றி வாழ்பவர்கள் பலர் புற்றுநோயாலும் தன்னெதிர்ப்புள்ள (self immune) தைராய்டு நோயினாலும் பாதிக்கபட்டுள்ளார்கள் என்பதையும் தாங்கள் டெகல்கா அறிக்கையில் ஏன் படிக்க வில்லை?
கல்பாக்கத்தில் இயல்பு அளவை விட 50 மடங்கு காமா கதிர்வேச்சு கூடுதல் என்பதை நீங்கள் எப்போது உணர்ந்து கொள்வீர்கள்? (டெகல்கா படியுங்கள்)
தமிழ் நாட்டில் உள்ள காற்றாலைகள் இத்தகைய மின் தேவையுள்ள நிலையிலும் காற்று இருந்தும் ஓடாமல் இருப்பது ஏன் என்று உங்களுக்குத் தெரியுமா? மின்னாற்றலை கையாளும் அளவிற்கு போதுமான அளவு துணை மின் நிலையங்கள் இல்லாது இருப்பது தான். அணு உலை வந்தால் மட்டும் என்னவாகும்?
தமிழ் நாட்டில் போதுமான அளவு மின் உற்பத்தி இருந்தும் மின் வெட்டு இருப்பது. தயாரிக்கும் மின்சாரத்தை நடுவண் க்ரிட் இல் இணைக்கும் அளவிற்கு கூடுதல் ஆற்றலை நடுவண் க்ரிட் தாங்க வல்லது அல்ல என்பது உங்களுக்குத் தெரியுமா? அங்ஙணம் தாங்கினால். மரபு சாரா மின்னாற்றலை கிடைக்கும் சமயத்தில் பயன்படுத்தி விட்டு அது இல்லாத சமயத்தில் மட்டும் பிற மின்னிலையங்களிலிருந்து மின்சாரம் உற்பத்தி செய்து தன்னிறைவு பெற்று. மின்வெட்டிலிருந்து தற்காத்துக் கொள்ளலாம் என்பது ஏன் உஙளுக்குப் புரிய வில்லை.
டெகல்கா அறிக்கையை எடுத்து படியுங்கள் எத்தனை பேர் கல்பாக்கத்திலும் பிற அணு மின்னிலையங்களிலும் கதிர்வீச்சால் இறந்துள்ளார்கள் என்று. அவர்கள் குறிப்பிட்டுள்ள அதிகாரப் பூர்வமான ஆதாரத்தையும் பாருங்கள். அல்லது உங்களைப் போல் உள்ளவர்கள் நம்ப
நீங்கள் கூறிய ஆறாவது விரல் பலருக்கு தோன்றியுள்ளது. ராஜஸ்தான் யுரேனியச் சுரஙத்தைப் பற்றித் தேடிப் பாருங்கள். அனைத்து அணுமின் நிலையங்களைப் பற்றி டெகல்காவில் படியுங்கள். பூனை கண்மூடினால் உலகம் இருளாது அல்லவா? குதிரைக்கு கடிவாளம் இட்டால் பாதையின் பக்கவாட்டில் புல் இல்லாமல் போகுமோ! (மின்சாரம் நல்லது பயனுள்ளது என்பது எனக்கும் தெரியும் அதன் அழிவுகரம் கடிவாளம் நீக்கிப் பார்த்தால் தான் தெரியும்.
உஙளுக்கும் உங்கள் பிள்ளைகளுக்கும் பாதிப்பு ஏற்பட வில்லை என்பதால் யாருக்குமே ஏற்படாது என்பது தவறு. ஒருவேளை இந்தக் கதிர்வீச்சடியின் பாதிப்பு பத்து தலைமுறைக்குப் பின் தெரிந்தால் என்ன செய்வீர்கள். உஙள் ஜீன்-இன் ஆயிரக் கணக்கான மூலக்Kஊறுகளில் ஒன்றும் பதிக்கப் படவில்லை என்பதை எப்படி உறுதி செய்வீர்கள்?
வடக்கு வளர்கிறது தெற்கு தேகிறது என்று சொல்லிவிட்டு உங்கள் மகளை மேற்கு வளர அனுப்பி விட்டீர்கள் போலும்.
முறையுடன் பழக்கினால் யானையின் மூர்க்க குணத்தை கட்டுப்படுத்த தான் முடியும். யானை ஒருபோதும் மதம் பிடிக்காது என்று உறுதி கூற முடியுமா? ஒரு வேலை மதம் பிடித்தால் என்னவாகும். அனைவரையும் கொன்று போடும் அணு உலைக்கு மதம் பிடித்தால் தலைமுறை தலைமுறைகள் பதிக்கப் படுமே.
அணு மின்னிலையத்தால் உங்களைப் போலுள்ள 0.01 விழுக்காடு மக்களுக்கு வேலை வாய்ப்பு கிடைத்தது என்பதற்காக 99.99 விழுக்காடு மக்களை அழிவு வாய்க்கு இழுத்துச் செல்வது ஏன்?
இதுவரை விபத்து நடந்த எல்ல இடத்திலும் அதை கட்டிய பொறியியல் ஆளர்கள். விபத்து நடக்காது என்று உறுதி அளிக்க வில்லையா? பின் ஏன் விபத்துகள் நடந்தன அதுபோல் கூடங்குளத்தில் நடவாது என்று நீங்கள் எப்படிக் கூற முடியும் தாங்கள் கடவுளா என்ன?
நடுவண் க்ரிட்டை அரசு மறுசீரமைக்கப் பரிசீலிக்காதது ஏன்?
நாளொன்றிற்கு 100,000 டாலர் இழப்பு என்றீர்கள் அது எப்படி என்று விளக்க முடியுமா?
தமிழகம் இந்த மின்சாரத்தை அண்டை மானிலத்திற்கு விற்கதான் போகிறது என்பது உங்களுக்குத் தெரியாதா? இதன்மூலம் வடக்கை மேலும் வளர வைக்க வேண்டும் என்பது தான் உங்கள் நோக்கா?
சரி உங்கள் கூற்றை சற்று மாற்றி 100,000 டாலர் வருவாய் இழப்பு என்று வைத்துக் கொள்வோம். அப்படியானால் நாளொன்றிற்கு வருவாய் அணுமின் நிலையம் மூலம் கிடப்பது 50 லட்சம் ரூபாய். அப்படியானால் ஆண்டிற்கு 182.5 கோடி (இது மீன் மூலம் கிடைக்கும் வருவாயை விட பத்து மடங்கிற்கு மேல் குறைவு). இதில் முதலீடு 13000 கோடி. முதலீடைப் திரும்பப் பெற ஆகும் காலம் 71 ஆண்டுகள். 1 விழுக்காடு வட்டிக்கு வங்கியில் இட்டு வைத்தால் கூட இதை விட ஆதாயம் அதிகம் கிட்டுமே?
உங்கள் புள்ளீ விபரத்திற்கு வருவோம். இரு சக்கர ஊர்தியில் விபத்து ஏற்படுவதற்கான வாய்ப்பு 4000 ஆண்டுகளுக்கு ஒருமுறை என்று உள்ளது. ஒருவேளை 4000 பேர் ஓட்டுவதாகக் கொண்டால் ஒரு ஆண்டிற்கு ஒருமுறை. சற்று மதி நுட்பத்தோடு சிந்திதாலே நான் சொல்லுவது சரி என்பது புலப்படும். நான் சொல்லுவது சரியாக இல்லை என்றால் ஒரு இந்த ஆண்டில் ஒரு விபத்துக்கு மேல் ஏற்பட்க் கூடாது. இந்தக் கணக்கில் பார்த்தால் உலகம் முழுவதும் 10,00,000 அணுமின் பணியாளர்கள் உள்ளதாகக் கொள்வோம். எனில் 10 ஆண்டிற்கு ஒரு முறை விபத்து நிகளும். அங்ஙனம் நிகழ்ந்தால் என்னவாகும். இருசக்கர ஊர்தி போன்று அவர் மட்டும் மடியா மாட்டார். பலர் மடிவர். அவர்களது சந்ததிகளும் சேர்ந்து அல்லவா மடியும். பிற விபத்துகளை இதனுடன் எப்படி ஒப்பிட முடியும். நீங்கள் சொல்லுவது போல் 100,00,000 ஆண்டுகளுக்கு ஒருமுறை தான் விபத்து நிகழும் என்றே கொள்வோம். அது ஏன் நாளையாக இருக்காது எஙிறீர்கள்?
அழிவு வாய் (அபாயம்) பற்றியது அல்ல மக்களின் அச்சம் அதன் விளைவைப் பற்றியதே.

Who is S.P. Udayakumar, (Koodankulam anti-nuclear) activist of the year

noreply@blogger.com (R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah) — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 03:43:00 +0000

I greatly admired S.P. Udayakumar (Koodankulam anti-nuclear activist) for his calm and composed response; it is usually not easy to reply moronic Narayanasamy and moronic Ponraj (advisor of Abdul Kalam) who're always blabbering irrationally. By wrongly judging from his sober and humble look, I'd thought that he's an illiterate villager from Koodankulam. But, recently I came to know that he's studied in USA and worked as a professor there. My respect for him greatly increased when I compared him with other exhibitionist NRIs.

Here are the details that I collected...

Name: S.P. Udayakumar
Age: 50
Native: Nagercoil
Family: Wife Meera running SACCER primary and middle school, 2-sons

Education

M.A. (Peace Studies) from Notre Dame University in the United States (1990)
Ph.D. (Political Science) from the University of Hawaii (1996)

(Past) Occupation

Research fellow at Kirwan Institute
Professor at Governor's School of Public Issues and the Future of New Jersey at Monmouth University
India-Pakistan Reconciliation School, a free on-line course (2001)
Director of TRANSCEND South Asia, the world's first on-line peace university

Activism

Co-founded the Green Party of India (2000)
Member of World Futures Studies Federation
Member of the International Peace Research Association
Editorial member of Journal of Futures Studies
Koodankulam anti-nuclear movement

Links

Stupid Times of India demands 100 crores!

noreply@blogger.com (R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah) — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 04:30:00 +0000

For some time now, I was wondering why Times of India is reporting against to Tamils, especially on death penalty and Mullaiperiyar dam. Today, I came to know that it’s demanding 100 crores from The Weekend Leader for unhiding the truth with Rising emotions, falling objectivity, the truth behind Mullaiperiyar coverage in Chennai newsrooms authored by Radhika Giri.

Fore more information, refer Savukku: Is Times of India, an anti-Tamil newspaper?, Death of neutrality in Mallu fanaticism, Demanding 100 crores

Get well soon - creative political tag line of the year

noreply@blogger.com (R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah) — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 04:00:00 +0000

I personally find "Get well soon Kapil Mamu", the political tag line against to Internet censorship is quite creative.

Hacking new technology

noreply@blogger.com (R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah) — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:00:00 +0000

Our team always used to hit the edge cases quickly... Some technologies might be there for years, but when we start hacking, we'll immediately come across a situation that might faced only by veterans. Our experience with Delphi (one of the coolest technologies), ASP.NET MVC, MonoRail/ASP.NET, iPhone/Android programming proved that. This time, with another new technology... fingers crossed...

Blockade for "Save Perarivalan"

noreply@blogger.com (R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah) — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 03:30:00 +0000

My post Save Perarivalan was sadly late, but one of the earlier posts written in English. I have also tried my best to translate popular conspiracy theories on Rajiv Gandhi assassination. Fortunately that seem to have worked well and the post got more attention -- especially news like this: The noose and their views [Mid Day, November 4, 2011] started to appear.

Recently I have noticed traffic to the page with referrer links http://x.x.x.x:15871/cgi-bin/blockOptions.cgi?ws-session=xxx -- meaning the page is blocked using Websense. When I resolved the IPs, shockingly they're from some big IT companies!

PHP Ajax Cookbook for pre-order

noreply@blogger.com (R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah) — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 04:00:00 +0000

PHP Ajax Cookbook is now available for pre-order.

Rajiv Gandhi assassination, conspiracy theories in English

noreply@blogger.com (R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah) — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 09:18:00 +0000

This is part of my Save Perarivalan series.

In Tamil, we have lots of news articles available on the conspiracy theories surrounding Rajiv Gandhi assassination, investigation, Subramanian Swamy's alleged involvement, Chandraswami's alleged involvement, P. Chidambaram's alleged involvement, Jain Commission report, other countries' alleged involvement, etc. But in English, we have very few articles available on the topic:

The Deadly Duo Crucial evidence linking Chandraswami to the Rajiv case went missing from Rao's PMO. Outlook investigates. Outlook Magazine, dated November 24, 1997
The Scoop Is Ours THE Jain Commission's interim report on Rajiv Gandhi's assassination has created a furore in political circles and hogged the headlines in all major national dailies. Outlook Magazine, dated November 24, 1997
Dusty Trail TWELVE extensions in six years and no sign of the final report yet. Outlook Magazine, dated November 24, 1997
"Some Files Weren't Shown To Me" S.B. Chavan, Union home minister in the Narasimha Rao years, talks to Outlook about the government's role in the alleged cover-up. Outlook Magazine, dated November 24, 1997
Rajiv Gandhi murder-- who organised it and who wanted Rajiv bombed? LankaNewspapers.com Nale, dated January 26, 2009
Rajiv Gandhi Murder--Part II. LankaNewspapers.com Nale, dated January 28, 2009

So, I thought of translating two important news articles on the topic:

Afzal Guru might be innocent -- Savukku

noreply@blogger.com (R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah) — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0000

I have stopped reading Savukku.net (Once I called it as WikiLeaks of India) for sometime-- when it started J.J. evangelism after the state elections. But, recently, when I checked, it seems to be back to its core journalism with good hidden truths on Pramakudi incident and articles on death penalty.

Its article on Afzal Guru is first of its kind in media--especially when everyone is crying foul to hang him. In மரண தண்டனையை ஒழிப்போம் 4 (Let's stop death penalty, Part 4) article, it highlights counter theory about police brutality. I have noted that majority of the information are already available on the book written by Afzal Guru available online from JusticeForAfzalGuru.org website--but not prominent in mainstream media.

Beyond Groupon Now -- Street marketing platform in GroupDeal

noreply@blogger.com (R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah) — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 04:15:00 +0000

Our team has developed GroupDeal, group buying software platform that powers many Groupon competitor sites.

Being ours is the first and popular groupon clone in the market, our team introduced many new features. Like I already pointed out, we added self service merchant login in the first version itself and Groupon introduced the same feature--much later as Groupon 2.0.

By August 2011, our team introduced another killer feature termed as "GroupDeal Live". It is more than Groupon's Groupon Now:

It has street marketing ability. With it, merchants can create deals for the (sudden) crowd.
By looking at merchant control panel, they can find the users around their shops and branches. The users are classified into Normal/Web Users and iPhone Users--and so, merchants can identify the new crowd. They can then create deals to attract the online crowd.
The platform will be of huge help during any procession or sudden crowd in any branches.

I hope, Groupon will adopt this concept in their software soon and tech news sites will call it as a big innovation (if they didn't read or follow our platform).

Rise of chatterbox men

noreply@blogger.com (R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah) — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0000

I have lamented many times about rise of hypocritical smile among men--because of the fad for imported soft skills.

Earlier, girls used to have these characteristics:

Smiling and laughing without reasons
Being chatterbox
Being shy to stand alone (often pairing with other girls, during events)

In recent times, guys acquired all these characteristics, while girls have acquired the opposite. Recently, I happened to attend one pooja function and majority of the men couldn’t stop chatting even during worship time.