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Software Engineer | Chennai, India | Pipecandy | pipecandy.com | Onsite We, at PipeCandy, are trying to re-imagine the way B2B outbound prospecting is carried out, by unleashing th…

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Off late this segment seems to be getting a lot of attention. See http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/28/private-sales-site-beyond-the-rack-raises-2-million/. Anybody has any insight…

Yes, we do at www.bharatmoms.com and of all the rich text editors(js based) we tried, this worked out to be the best.

Co-founder Founder of www.radaptive.com an Asset Management and Ticketing solution(running in Ebay/paypal/danger-now Microsoft! and ask.com. Role: I handle all things technical.

Splitting my time between Chennai, India(80%) and San Jose, California

They also have code snippets and Application Creation wizards. I think the later will be useful what with the api still being unstable(pmi pkg disappearing between 1.0 to 1.5 etc).…

Guy Kawasaki used to write good articles based on insight gleamed from his personal experience. But these days he seems to be more about just generating some content to get eye bal…

Given that white label social networks like kickapps have had great success, what you think of doing a white label mobile social network as a product idea? Every telco seems to wan…

Doing feasibility on white label mobile social network.

I am running a rails app with 100,000 pages views/month with a 86MB slice(not at slicehost though) with <2sec response times. The pages are pretty heavy dynamic pages.

Another take on 'copy' is to take an idea that worked in one market and do it another market with appropriate localizations applied. Say a successful product in US done right for I…

If you are using Sphinx on a rails project, I strong recommend Thinking Sphinx( http://freelancing-god.github.com/ts/en/ ). We used to use Ultra sphinx plugin, but thinking sphinx …

I think for developers the advice of 'work your connections to get a job' is highly over rated. In my 15 years of experience not even a single job I got is based on connections.

keyboard short cuts.

I also liked the specific action items. Like which exact css selector is inefficient. Also liked it called out the exact images that could do with compression, what % can be gained…

Go full time on your idea. Or at least make some commitment so that there is a monthly burn(say a hosted server or a github account at the minimum). Nothing like pressure to keep o…

FAQ is not the first thing I look for in a site. To me, in context hints and help links are more useful. Personally, I would focus more on these. I do check the faq, if all else fa…

Solutions in Programming Pearls. Each solution is iteratively improved with the proper reasoning. http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Pearls-2nd-ACM-Press/dp/02...

I agree. I usually choose to read an article based on the comments. Also most times, it the comments that are interesting.

RUBY/RAILS. As productive as Django. More books, good community and so on.

full time on a startup

One of the best startup retrospectives I have read. Especially the points about marketing and user acquisition are very relevant to what I what I am doing currently.

When you have tabs(options/welcome in your case), it might be a good idea to visually indicate which is the current tab.

What should be the approach for banning offending users from your site? The only way I can think of to identify them is their IP. In the world of proxies and shared ips, how to ban…