June Archive
Being a Euro Parent
Today I spent my entire morning helping my kid at pre-school. She is not a friendly kid and we were worried how she will adjust to school. Last week Indu was managing her, and since my wife's leave is over, I was in charge.Eurokids is a reputed pre-school and though I was sceptical at first, I think they are doing ...
Django 1.0 version on Sep 2nd 2008
So what's the big deal?Nothing really!I have more than two dozen web sites in production on the Trunk version. Yes there are some bugs, and some are still in active development. But almost all of them are running rock solid.But 1.0 status matters. Especially hwen you are trying to sell Django to some old timers who believes that version numbers signify ...
How Microsoft has locked the Indian government?
India's Government represents a huge opportunity for both developers and systems integrators. The government is expected to spend by conservative estimates about $ 20 billion in buying IT products, infrastructure and services over next five years. This is huge money by any stretch of imagination. Unfortunately the spadework for all this happened many years back. And as I talk ...
seven reasons why I love Django
In the first part I had perhaps bored you with some of the details of my attempts to learn programming. Anyways let me stick to the main points in this blog entry. As I mentioned in the previous entry, the biggest reason for me choosing Django is the better documentation and the wide availability of both code and content ...
Why I chose Django over TurboGears and Pylons?-I
Dust still hasn’t settled over the Pythonic web framework wars. However, I felt it is necessary to chronicle my own thoughts, why I chose Django over TG and Pylons, two very good frameworks that deserves to have more followers.If you happen to be the one in billion who had seen my earlier blog entries at pythonmag.blogspot.com, on the thought process ...
Some more thoughts on this blog
May be a few years back I think it was Pradeep Kishore Gowda , who suggested me to start blogging. I was at that time, earning, small but significant remuneration editing a magazine, and I told him, that I am doing enough of writing, and I did not want to write any more. Many of my friends did try convincing ...
New blog announcement
It took me just about 2 hours to build this blog from scratch.Well, not really! The blog is on top of my yet unreleased blog engine or CMS system if you may call it so, Gangtok.I did not get sleep at night and perhaps the best way to get some sleep was to write code, I thought. Result is what ...