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Must Use Web Applications

Here are a few of the applications that I would heavily recommend. Workflowy Here’s how Workflow describes itself. WorkFlowy is a simple, but powerful way to manage all the information in your life. Here’s their introductory video: If that does not hook you, I don’t know what wi…

Blogging with Jekyll

For the past few years, there has been a revolution in the blogging scene. People have moved towards better hosting providers, better blogging tools, with automated, and delayed blogging becoming the norm. Posts are written months in advance, and proof-read dozens of times, befo…

Six Months of Ubuntu

I installed Ubuntu as my primary OS back sometime in February. Not that I’d not tried it earlier. In fact, I’d used a copy of Ubuntu 3 back in day. But this time around, Windows (from my dual boot) just gave up and died. The partition with Windows got heavily corrupted, lost lot…

Programming in Node.JS

After my attempts at python, Ruby on Rails, this was the time for node.js. You ask me what is node.js ? Remember when Google Chrome came out and went blazing past the rest of the browsers in Javascript benchmarks. That was because of its internal Javascript Engine, called V8. So…

Learning Ruby on Rails

Continuing my quest on Web Designing, I’ve started learning Ruby On Rails, which is like the most-hyped web framefork of the moment. After all, Github runs on Ruby On Rails, Redmine uses Rails, and so do Basecamp,Hulu,Scribd, and even Twitter. Even though RoR has Ruby in its nam…

Announcing Planet IITR

Planet IIT-R is a blog collection similar to the Planet Ubuntu, Wordpress, and the likes. The basic idea is to create a single address where all blogs of IIT-R are aggregated. This way, people can easily follow happenings and blogs at IIT-Roorkee without individually following v…

What if Linus Torvalds designed Google+

Google’s announced its next big thing, Google+ to take on Facebook left people wondering if the next version would be called Google++. Inspite of all the great work that Vic Gundotra has put into Google+, it still lacks something. The creator of linux, Linus Torvalds. Google+ is…

Why Indian Government Sucks at Technology

Note: All opinions are mine alone. Please keep your opinions limited to comments. This is in wake of the not-so-anonymous attacks on the nic servers. Apparently a few people had decided to brand their own version of AnonymousIndia and hack into the nic servers. This had been vie…

New Website [ CaptNemo.in]

Just if someone's still following this blog around(don't, its already dead). I've moved over to my new website (http://www.captnemo.in). Its running from github and will be a perfectly static website where the power of my awesome magical skills shall finally be revealed. Just jo…