Archives (All Blog Posts)
April 2012
March 2012
January 2012
- Eclipse: How to remove default non modifiable M2_REPO from Classpath
- Tips and Articles
- 2012 Python Meme from Amit: HeapQ, Flask, Python on Quora & Python 3
December 2011
August 2011
- On Quora: Workspace, Problem Solving, Tools for Python Developer, Real time in Python or Ruby
- On Quora: Best iPad Apps, What to do in LA, Toddler foods, Kettlebells & Making Friends
December 2010
August 2010
- Entrepreneurship Success Factors, Before & After, Highlights from Survey by Vivek Wadhwa & others
- Entrepreneurship Factors: Age & Family, Highlights from Survey by Vivek Wadhwa & others
July 2010
- Programming & Software Engineering Podcasts: SE Radio, Pragmatic, Java & more
- Notes, Memories and Tips from visiting Paris in Dec 2009
March 2010
- Yoga & Ayurveda for Eyes incl. Allergies: Milk cotton balls, Berries & Daily Yoga
- Highlights from The Way I Work: Paul English, Co-founder Kayak
December 2009
November 2009
- Interesting podcast: Inside Out Weight Loss – Renee Stephens
- Notes from the Audio Book: Career Warfare: 10 Rules for Building a Successful Personal Brand and Fighting to Keep It – David F. D’Alessandro
August 2009
- Toyota Car plant and its tours in SF Bay area have closed
- Decide your places to visit using Flickr and TagMaps from Yahoo Research
- On Estimation: Software that makes you a legend
July 2009
- The Marshmallow test: Is Self-Control in your Genes or a habit to acquire?
- From 43places.com, the places I would like to visit over the next decade or so
- From 43places.com, the places I have visited over the last decade or so
June 2009
April 2009
- Elizabeth Warren, Congressional TARP oversight panel is guest on Daily Show with Jon Stewart (Video)
- On a break from blogging
February 2009
- Quotes: He who seeks, Comfort of feeling safe with a person, Wisdom and Enlightenment and New Paradigms for Full Engagement
- Design Patterns in Java (JDK) and Java Frameworks
January 2009
- Talks I would like to see at the Open Source Conference (OSCON 2009)
- Salaries and Job openings for different programming languages
December 2008
October 2008
August 2008
- Lesson from the book, All your worth: Must Haves 50%, Wants 30% & Savings 20%
- Money management tip for US residents, try mint.com
June 2008
- Two Poems: Not in Vain by Emily Dickinson and The Builders by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Richard P. Feynman on Not repeating, Great Men & Ideas
- Programming Sutras aka Selections from Epigrams on Programming by Alan Perlis
- Visualization of past Blog titles using Wordle
May 2008
March 2008
February 2008
December 2007
- Insights from Mr. Twitter, Evan Williams in the Economist
- Tuxcards (Note taking software for Linux): 2.1.1 release
- Want a different way to send a holiday greeting: Post it on any yahoo webpage
November 2007
- Advertising and how sometimes We(Consumers) do not know what we want
- For me, it is Pranayama after Yoga
- Solve Customer pain, not just provide Features
- The tougher side of startups: SiliconValley.com article on a Bootstrapped startup
- Two methods to keep learning Maths
October 2007
- Charities we donated to over the past few years
- On Long trips 1: Around the World… with kids, 28 countries in one year
- My Link Blog: Articles worth reading
- Yoga Studios in Silicon Valley\Bay Area (San Jose, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, Mountain View, Los Altos, Campbell and Palo Alto)
- How do you show dismay about your CEO & Company
September 2007
- My experience on cancelling Vonage VOIP phone service
- The Ultimate Bikram Hot Yoga Poses: By Tony Parrish in Sports Illustrated
- Executive MBA & Product Manager: The path to Executive, VC & CEO Careers
- Socratic Method of Inquiry and Dialog: From Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- Relevance of Quotes and Quotations
August 2007
- Results of Quiz: What kind of Yogi am I? A Hippie Yogi? Seriously?
- Quotes: Thoughts, Not knowing, Life, Doing and Journey. From Peaceful Warrior the Movie
July 2007
- Math: For Programmers and in Everyday Life
- On Cash Incentives or Bonuses, Regular & Extremely High, My thoughts
- A call for South Asian Bone Marrow Donors
- Articles on becoming Great. The key: Time, Smart Hard work & Visualization
June 2007
- Personal Development Guidelines: Golden Verses of Pythagoras
- Startup Thoughts 3: Tips for starting a company later in your life
May 2007
- More Goenka Vipassana Course thoughts and other information
- Startup tips from Po Bronson’s Wired article on Sabeer Bhatia of Hotmail from 1998
April 2007
- Yoga studios in Bellevue, Redmond, Mercer Island, Kirkland & Issaquah (Seattle Eastside)
- Quotes: Career advice from a Technology Researcher Jim Gray, Temptation, Vision and Spirit and Better than you
- About getting Venture Capitalist attention for startup financing
- Results of Quiz: When will my life peak, apparently after 35
- Results of Quiz: What religion do you fit in with? taoism
March 2007
- Results of Quiz: What D&D character am I? apparently a Fighter or Monk
- Startup Thoughts 2: Lessons from when I was exploring creating a startup
- For parents: Using lavender based products on male children and article on not getting too cautious
- Startup Thoughts 1: What to look for in a Startup co-founder
- Need Humility: There is somebody better than you
- Some Yahoo Pipes: Filtered and Merged RSS feeds
- Quotes: Flight, Free Time, Moving moments & River to Ocean
- Thoughts on learning Java
- Product design methods from IDEO for Entrepreneurs, Engineers and Product Managers
- Learning Ruby and Ruby on Rails: Part 3
- What a way to learn! or notes on Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby by Why the Lucky Stiff
- A story on skeptics and psychics: Inside Job by Connie Willis
- Reasons to move from Green Card to US Citizen
February 2007
- Dan Shapiro from Ontela on startups: You need a place and you need time
- And that’s why California builds more and bigger roads than Washington
- Learning Ruby and Ruby on Rails: Part 2
- Learning Ruby and Ruby on Rails: Part 1
- Cool Multi-Touch Screen Demo
- The secret and law of attraction: Some practical next steps
- Quotes: What you would be, Today, Long enough and What you did not do?
- Bellevue Bikram Hot Yoga Class Schedule
January 2007
- More feeds: Work and Spiritual items
- Linux Device Drivers written for free and FreedomHEC
- Google v/s Microsoft: The war for internet users
- Consumer internet or enterprise software startups not hot anymore: Fortune Midas VCs
- Questions to ask about your startup or idea from TechStars
- Summary of Rajesh Jain’s article on moving from Employee to Entrepreneur
- Quotes: True face in the mirror, Victory or defeat and First law of success
- Creating companies on the cheap, basics for round one startup and an event on bootstrapping
- Using Google Maps in WordPress blog and Google Maps API links
- Gas pump recommendations from Sierra club
- Suggestions and tips for cholestrol control and side effects of cholestrol drugs
December 2006
- Top ten reasons to try out Stephen Cope’s Yoga book and Meditations CD
- Quotes: Qualities for spiritual pilgrim, Intention manifestation and Abundance model
- Steve Pavlina’s spiritual goals from his spiritual path
- Spiritual path ideas from my spiritual goals
- Quotes: Sucessful people, Customers and Self-discipline
- Ideas to think consciously about your spiritual goals and evaluating spiritual paths
- Spirituality back again for me
- Quotes: Yoga mat, Value rigidity and Wisdom
- Weird experiences during spiritual quest, meditation or yoga session
November 2006
- Tips and reducing lockups for Palm Treo 650
- Introduction to Hot Bikram Yoga and Review of Bellevue Hot Bikram Yoga
- Using your Cingular Treo 650 in India or other International locations
- Gunas test: A self-evaluation method from ancient Indian texts & Ayurveda
- Ways to build your body back again
- Please do not save money you might move the USA economy into recession
- Your personal morals and values: Do you apply them to your work?
- bot-check 1.2: WordPress anti-spam comment plugin
- Notes from The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation
- Archives (All Blog Posts)
October 2006
- Where is the Code from the Google CodeJam?
- Linkedin, what is it good for?
- Some more ways to a better Netflix
- Review of the book: My Job Went to India, 52 Ways to Save Your Job
- PF_RING 3.1 GEN1: Packet capture software for Linux
- YouTube means Linux and that runs against the Microsoft DNA
- A signon bonus or a better shot at an interview call
- Credit for inventions incorrectly credited or How companies go bad
- Indian music in the mix
- Netflix offers US $1 million and US $50k for improving it’s movie recommendation
September 2006
- Animes worth watching
- Your rights to online audio and DRM limits
- Presenting: Google Gadget for Zillow ZIndex graph
- Introduction to Zillow API: Web Service to access Real Estate data from zillow.com
August 2006
- Comparing living in Seattle (Eastside) or Silicon Valley (SF Bay Area): Part 3 (Traffic and Miscellaneous)
- Dysfunctional Financial Personalities
- Excerpt from How Meditation Works by Shinzen Young
- Quotes: Meditation, Multitude, Energy, Talking to God and Desiderata of Happiness
July 2006
- Quotes: Art, Think and Spiritual Journey
- Comparing living in Seattle (Eastside) or Silicon Valley (SFBay Area): Part 2 (Weather)
- Comparing living in Seattle (Eastside) or Silicon Valley (SF Bay Area): Part 1 (Housing and Tech Jobs)
- 29th way to save your job: Say No ‘or’ Say No to unrealistic schedules or deliverables
- Rent vs Buy: back of envelope cost analysis
- 28th way to save your job: Learn How to Fail ‘or’ Handle errors in code and work life
- Quotes: Coincidence, life, private victory, unconsenting soul and a good way to live
- 27th way to save your job: Eight-Hour Burn ‘or’ Work less hours with more focus
- Suggestions to New Parents
- Software development lessons I learnt from Amazon
- 26th way to save your job: Learn to Love Maintenance ‘or’ Maintenance should be minority or less of your work
- My Job Went to India, 52 Ways to Save Your Job: TOC, Notes and Comments
- Spammers growing powerful through botnets
- Immaturities by Bikram Hot Yoga Teachers
- Quotes: Living takes time and which habit do you feed the most
- Letter to Senator Stevens about Net Neutrality: Comments, Information and Impact
- Quotes: Glorious souls, Humans and Deepest fear
June 2006
- Microsoft\MSN: When will they start contributing to the developer community?
- My political compass
- Blowfish C++ code with bugfix
- Yamas and Niyamas: The Yoga guidelines for conduct
- Tuxcards 2.0: New release for the Notes taking software for Linux
- Software and Projects
- Please show the data behind reasoning
- Creating Coincidences
- About
- Nipun: On Lee and Laundry basket
- Steve Yegge of Google\Amazon: Ten Great Books
- Notes from Entrepreneurial Proverbs on OReilly Radar
- Google’s 9 Notions of Innovation & Marissa Mayer VP Google’s schedule
- Erin Pavlina on How To Raise Your Vibration
- Article on how to respond to kid’s tantrums and positive parenting
- Vitamin D in Milk and Animal products in creating Vitamin D
- Alternate text for Google blog and Google CEO’s request on Net Neutrality
- Review DVD: Journey into Power: Baptiste: Power Vinyasa Yoga: Vol. 2
- Seven foods that fight fat: From rediff.com
- Review Book: Living Yoga, articles from Yoga Journal
- Steve Pavlina: On Purpose\Awakening\Eagle or Bear
- On encryption and blowfish
- Review Book: The Search by John Battelle
- Steve Pavlina: On Patterns
- On Detox
May 2006
- Focus on Asanas: Salamba Sirsasana (Supported Headstand)
- On negative thinking, peace of mind and dealing with other people
- No dangers in meditation and dealing with setbacks in meditation
April 2006
- About Toxic gases from Teflon (including Teflon coated nonstick cookware)
- Guri makes a case for not settling
- Yoga Magazine by Bihar School of Yoga: Antar Mouna
- Steve Pavlina on Self-Acceptance vs. Personal Growth
- High-Intensity Training aka Sprint 8 | Outside Online
- Guru rating or Guru reviews by Sarlo (Updated)
March 2006
- Study shows Prayers did not help with recovery
- Concept of scanner as a personality
- Yoga Journal on Caffeine and Coffee
February 2006