Tech & Engineering

Hey folks, it has been a while since I posted. I was in a peer group discussing some of these terms recently and then a friend, who was writing a post to demyst...

Introduction Are you chasing deadlines? Finding yourself looking at the Monday to Friday cycle every week and feeling like sheep in an economic system where peo...

I have primarily been a backend web developer, started out with PHP around 2005 and then moving to Python in 2011. I have worked with a lot of JavaScript, mostl...

I am going to create a repository of common configurations related to web development software. These would include stuff that I use, or I have used earlier and...

Yes it has really been a while since I had blogged last. 2 years, according to the date on the previous post. I have been feeling to write for sometime now, but...

Today I had some trouble getting libxml to work in PHP. I was compiling PHP 5.3.10 for a client's Joomla site and it needs libxml. The issue seemed to be common...

A friend of mine needs a web application to be revamped. I had originally created it about 2 years back using a custom PHP mini framework that I had built for m...

I have been using Amazon Web Services for all of my (or companies' I work with) compute or storage needs for the last 4 years. That include AWS S3, EC2, SimpleD...

First an apology to anyone who read my previous blog post. I had used wrong rates for throughput capacity. I noticed this since my calculations seemed a little...

Its been just about a day that I have been going through the documentation of the newly released Amazon DynamoDB. Using the PHP SDK and getting a basic Table up...

For the impatient: link to spreadsheet. For the last few weeks I have been looking around a lot on the web, checking for details and prices of VPS or dedicated...

The last couple weeks we have been thinking to shift from our current web serving platform which was powered by nginx + Apache + mod\ wsgi to nginx + uwsgi. The...

We are preparing for our new product's launch at TechCrunch Disrupt SF2011 (Startup Alley) and to be honest we are fighting with all our might. The last 3 weeks...

Hi there! Am blogging after a few months now. I have settled in the MobStac team as an all hands engineer. I have shifted to Bangalore with 2 friends from Kolka...

Recently at MobStac we restructured our layout of EC2 on Amazon Web Services so that we are more secure than earlier. We wanted a scheme that would not be painf...

I have deliberately titled this blog post such that it gets more hits when people search one of the most common issues related to hosting: free web hosting :D....

For a long time I have used PHP as the template language with nothing else on top of it. No template engines ever. This was all fine till the point that we want...

We are re writing few base codes in forums.com and one of things re written is the pagination logic. We needed something very simple, good looking, yet works. T...

We have a setup for background jobs for all the websites we manage like forums.com, files.com, payments.com, etc. The background jobs play around with lists of...

At forums.com we are trying to look at something similar to what Facebook and other sites do when it comes to displaying external content. Users usually refer t...

Webhosts like GoDaddy and other similar often limit how much you can import with the online control panel (phpMyAdmin in most cases). So here is a simple PHP sc...

Continued from Introduction to Amazon EC2 (Continued...)... If you have come this far then I can assume you have an Amazon account, Firefox, Elasticfox extensio...

Continued from Introduction to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)... So now that you have seen the feature lists and have some idea, lets start with the...

Continued from Dummies Introduction to Amazon Web Services... Imagine you need a web server. The hardware and the software, all together. You have a website whi...

It's been a long while since I got lost. Well personal, professional and all other kinds o nals. But its good to be back. Have been doing a lot of Amazon WS the...

Lot of you may have heard of this. Well certainly you have heard of Amazon.com and if you are into software/IT/web there is a good chance someone in your compan...

I have learnt a lot in past 4 years of PHP and here are some tips I want to share: Think in code : Many times when we learn a foreign language we are told to th...

Well I somehow felt I could yum erase sqlite since I do not need it. Well I did not see the dependencies that would be removed too! The result: yum, rpm, php, h...

Well two months back I bought my first laptop. A Compaq V3155AU with following configuration: AMD Turion64 (single core) 2.0Ghz Hyper Threading support 512MB DD...

"There is a problem importing one of the Python modules" : ever faced this error after installing an running yum. Well I faced that. And searched on Google for...

Well I had to do some phpBB (phpBB2) issues for a client who runs hispanito.com. He had a forum which ran on probably phpBB2 version 2.0.7 and with MySQL 4.x. N...

My ISP has a little fault that I use to my advantage. The software that they use works kinda in the following way: Before I login to their network all my extern...

Recently me and some friends changed from our web hosts to a full dedicated server. We took a nice server from Layered Technologies (http://www.layeredtech.com/...

Me an some friends took a new server two days back. We threw in Xen and made four guests. I being in one of the guests which runs Fedora Core 5. I had to instal...

I wanted to do some PHP Extension making and so started googling around for help. Most help is about using VC++ 6.0 or have project files for the full VC++ IDE....

The banyanTree Project Introduction: The banyanTree project is intended to be the central resource to bring volunteers (interested professionals, students, prog...

Its Exam time going on now... so cant think much :P But for few days two different ideas have been making rounds in my brain(ahh brainless has a brain o.O). The...

Discussion on banyanTree (freenode): [14:31] ai2097: Hate to be Mr. Negative... but shouldn't the details about what is being provided be pinned down first? Is...

How to successfully complete this project ? Well the answer follows as a roadmap: 1. Atom module presents the features of Atom syndicating protocol and it seems...

Me in a Drupal project : I am a PHP coder for almost 3 years now. I have knowledge of C / C++ and so I chose PHP 3 years back for web programming due to the sim...

Introduction : GData is a (new) protocol from Google which is based on RSS and Atom and combines both of them. Infact underlying GData are actually RSS and Atom...

Further Clarification on Apache SCT (Simple Config Tool) With regard to discussions on httpd dev channel on freenode yesterday I am posting some more details: T...

Simplifying Apache configuration : The intention of this project is to make a tool or application which will greatly simplify the configuration process for Apac...

The College project : An 8085 Microprocessor Kit Emulator The project, done in C++ tries to emulate the functions of an 8085 emulator ditto as a hardware traine...

A Sample Settings Form: Welcome back, Sumit Edit settings for your website Website domain Tip: This is the domain name for this site. Do not use http:// I have...

Name : Sumit Datta Project Title : Simplifying Apache configuration Synopsis : The intention of this project is to make a tool or application which will greatly...

Oh hello, 2006: I am Sumit (brainless or techfundas on some IRC channels). A student web developer from India. Interested in Computers, Music, Movies. You know...