Archive for February, 2009

Wipro Campus recruitment

Friday, February 20, 2009 1:01 No Comments

I heard this morning that Wipro is cutting salaries any where between 30-40% across the board to adjust itself to global recession.  I also heard from friends in Wipro, the company is also laying off. And this news came as a total surprise that Wipro is continuing to recruit at College campuses. Not sure, how [...]

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Shifting Away From Tables To Entity Models

Saturday, February 14, 2009 20:01 2 Comments

RDBMS relational data management systems, simply put, most Database systems allow us to create data models of businesses in terms of rows and columns in a table. Tables can be ‘related’ to indicate dependencies of data between tables. RDBMS was on the best things that ever happened to software abstractions. Every business domain has been [...]

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Google AppEngine : Lazy Data Migration with Versions

Saturday, February 14, 2009 19:24 1 Comment

If you have already used Google AppEngine to develop an application, you would have already scratched your head around data migration. And Google App Engine is not that great when it comes to Agile style iterations of web development. In its own way, it forces you to design models up front instead of making life [...]

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WordPress Automatic Upgrade : WoW!

Saturday, February 14, 2009 18:40 No Comments

Upgrading WordPress installation is now just a breeze. Just one click away. I logged in this morning to the dashboard and it alerted me that a new version is available and gave a nice sweet button to automatically upgrade. It just took 5 seconds. No downloads, absolutely. I love it. I use a shared hosting [...]

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Political Perspectives : Interview with Arvind

Monday, February 9, 2009 1:17 No Comments

Nothing is black and white in Politics. Especially, Indian politics. So do our perceptions about Politics. We don’t hate politics. We don’t like it either. Then what does Politics really mean to each of us? I set out to find myself an answer on what it really mean and how it would impact. And I [...]

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