Interests

A failed attempt at being Da Vinci only means that i like knowing about everything ! I would say that this page is work in progress. So here goes a broad list of the current fixes.

Development

  • Python , Django, Web.py, Tornado, beautiful soup
  • PHP, Code igniter, WordPress [mu], Drupal
  • Perl, Mechanize
  • Ruby, Rails
  • Erlang , Nitrogen
  • Browser plugins – Mozilla, Opera, Chrome

Server admin

  • Nginx
  • HAProxy
  • Apache
  • lighttpd
  • Xen
  • OpenVZ

Data mining

  • Mahout
  • Weka
  • Vertica

Social media

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  • The 1% fallacy | Successful Software
    Here is how to make a fortune writing software: Pick a large and established software market e.g. back-up, anti-virus or customer relationship management (CRM) software. Write a new product for that market. Get 1% of the market. Retire to your own island. These markets are massive. The CRM market alone is estimated at around $18 […]
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  • SpaceX’s Autonomous ‘Grasshopper’ Rocket Makes Milestone Flight | Autopia | Wired.com
    Show off … great stuff @ SpaceX.   Musk’s visit to SXSW was his second stop in Texas. The entrepreneur spent time talking to lawmakers about developing a space launch facility in the Lone Star State. SpaceX currently has two launch facilities for its NASA missions and commercial satellite launch customers. The current mission to the ISS […]
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  • Bijan Sabet – Who took a chance on you?
    Bijan Sabet on who took a chance of you Many folks get to experience some of their goals because someone, somewhere along the way, gave them a shot. They took a real chance based on something they felt or saw (vs historical evidence per se).  Bijan Sabet – Who took a chance on you?. […]
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  • Ten things about being a founder I wish I knew two years ago. // Speaker Deck
    Ten tips and concepts that I personally value very much about being a startup founder, managing a team and a product. The white slides represent my speaker’s notes. Ten things about being a founder I wish I knew two years ago. // Speaker Deck. […]
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  • RFC 6455 – The WebSocket Protocol
    The WebSocket Protocol enables two-way communication between a client running untrusted code in a controlled environment to a remote host that has opted-in to communications from that code. The security model used for this is the origin-based security model commonly used by web browsers. The protocol consists of an opening handshake followed by basic message […]
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