September 2006
11 posts
Emoticoned birthday cake
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birthday cake, originally uploaded by meebo.
This is what you get on your birthday if you work at a startup which developes an instant messenger. Quite cool (and for the first time I feel like I wouldn’t...
Template for 90 sec startup pitch
Part 1: What We Do
* For [insert customer company/department/type here]
* Who want to [insert what prospective customers want to fix/improve here]
* Our product is [insert how your technology helps the people in line 1 do line 2]
Part 2: Why We’ll Win
* Unlike [insert competitors here, whether direct or indirect]
* Our product [insert customer- and competitor-relevant points of differentiation...
E27 Singapore makes it to the mainstream media!
[tags]e27, entrepreneur27, nus, singapore, unconference, smu, insead, web2.0[/tags]
Shhh!
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Shhh!, originally uploaded by JakeP.
How to know you’re in Redmond
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How to know you’re in Redmond, originally uploaded by JakeP.
Tutorial: Using Mpatrol on Windows
This semester I’m writing a simple static program analysis tool in C++ for a software engineering course. I was looking for a nice memory profiler tool for Windows and realised that nothing like Valgrind exists for Windows. IBM/Rational’s PurifyPlus seems to be good but it is commercial. The best tool that I can find until now is mpatrol. One of the main features that I needed out of...
OSFlash.org
OSFlash is a watering hole for open source Flash developers and users to meet, talk about and contribute to new and existing open source projects for the Flash Platform. OSFlash supports the development community by providing open source projects with free source code hosting and project management tools as well as a web presence on the OSFlash wiki.
As such, we provide a service that is similar...
Webyog opensources SQLyog
Webyog is the company behind the popular SQLyog GUI tool for managing and developing MySQL databases. They have a great history of partnership with MySQL and, recently, decided to open source part of their product line. I had a chance to interview Rohit Nadhani, co-founder of Webyog, about their decision to move to open source, the changes they’ve made to the code as a result of that move,...
Joel Spolsky on ‘developer needs’ in a company
Programmers have very well-honed senses of justice. Code either works, or it doesn’t. There’s no sense in arguing whether a bug exists, since you can test the code and find out. The world of programming is very just and very strictly ordered and a heck of a lot of people go into programming in the first place because they prefer to spend their time in a just, orderly place, a strict...
August 2006
11 posts
Upcoming India-specific Web2.0 sites
Content Sutra points to a BusinessWorld article which lists some of the upcoming Web2.0 sites built specifically for the Indian audience.
Meanwhile travel search engine area is getting a lot of attention because of the sudden growth in domestic air travel in India largely contributed by the numerous budget airlines which have started their operations in the country. Apart from the old player...