Category Archives: blogs

Software Development Blogs

Posted on June 29, 2009 by Krishna

Jurgen Appelo has the latest edition of the top developer blogs up. Surprisingly, I have jumped from 149 to 127 despite having a couple of months where I hardly wrote anything at all, and also after a move to WordPress that … Continue reading →

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WordPress Move

Posted on June 17, 2009 by Krishna

I changed my hosting from Blogger to a hosted instance of WordPress. I hope this does not result in a deluge of posts to your blog reader (Google Reader does that sometimes). Thanks for continuing to read my blog. If … Continue reading →

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Sundries

Posted on April 13, 2009 by Krishna

Or, translated from Australian, miscellaneous items, in this case, too small to write a long blog post on. And a bit too long for Twittering.  So here are a few of those thoughts: Most newspapers have fact checkers for their … Continue reading →

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Best English Software Blogs by Malayalis

Posted on April 3, 2009 by Krishna

I am not entirely sure why I did it, but I spent a few hours going through every single blog in the Kerala Blog Roll maintained by Manoj Prabhakaran, Asst. Professor at the University of Illinois. Out of those, I … Continue reading →

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Some Fun WordPress Stats

Posted on February 5, 2009 by Krishna

WordPress.com just published their statistics for the month of January: 372,519 blogs were created. 393,836 new users joined. 4,592,097 file uploads. 2,710 gigabytes of new files. 553 terabytes of content transferred from our datacenters. 8,771,891 comments. 6,528,657 logins. 1,073,421,738 pageviews … Continue reading →

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When Ads Destroy Branding

Posted on January 30, 2009 by Krishna

The reason why free markets work is that profit is a powerful motivator for economic activity. Supply and demand in the marketplace drive production, encouraging greater investment in goods demanded more by consumers. This is just as true on the … Continue reading →

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The Ugly Side of Online Success

Posted on January 29, 2009 by Krishna

Once again, another blogger (Michael Arrington of TechCrunch) is targeted with death threats. This is fast becoming too crazy for comfort: Something very few people know: last year over the summer an off balance individual threatened to kill me and … Continue reading →

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Comparing Blogger and WordPress.com

Posted on January 24, 2009 by Krishna

Blogger and WordPress are both blog platforms as well as blog hosting services. The latter allows you to write and post blogs on their servers, saving you the effort of setting up your own server. This is useful if you … Continue reading →

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Keeping the Writing Flame Alive

Posted on January 21, 2009 by Krishna

As of January 20th, I have written more posts than I did in the first five months of 2008, which shows how pitiful my blogging activity was. Last year was very chaotic for me on both the personal and professional … Continue reading →

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Bulgarian Translation

Posted on September 9, 2007 by Krishna

Mike Ramm has been kind enough to translate a few of my blog posts into Bulgarian and comment on them. Thanks, Mike! Hard-coding and soft-coding: English version here The Dilemma of the Capable: English version here When Murphy Strikes: English … Continue reading →

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