Les Aventures de Techiemaque…

As many of you would know that I have had to dissociate myself from the ESME for personal reasons. However I had a chance to be back with the team and honored when I was provided with an opportunity to present ESME at DemoJam, SAP TechEd Bangalore along with Mrinal, a friend and a ESME […]

Americans have spoken ! And to celebrate this occasion my dear friend and college junior Alfi Ashraf has posted a really amazing poem on his blog. It is with his due permission I republish it here… Remember Remember, the Fourth of November (more…)

It just needed some prodding from Craig Cmehil (as always) and I’ve just uploaded two of my plugins to the official wordpress repository. This blog also serves to be a shout out to my friend Oliver Kohl whom I’ve been constantly pestering to upload his fantastic SDN Contibutor plugin to the official wordpress repository. It’s […]

Autumn is that time of the year when all Bengalis (also known as Bongs) head over to their respective hometowns in the eastern state of West Bengal in India. And the reason for this mass homecoming is the festival season triggered off by the greatest festival for the Bengalis, Durga Puja, the worship of the […]

…and they will love you. I am always on the lookout for new ways to make my blog more accessible and helpful to visitors. And this does not only mean that I write something that helps them but also hold their hand if they stumble into a 404 or want to search my site better. […]

I heard about mx:Devsummit on Twitter when Mrinal tweeted about it and then the details from Raghu’s Blog. A RIA Developer Summit from Adobe is exciting enough but the icing on the cake are the free Adobe Flex Builder 3 licenses that go out to every participant, how cool 🙂 From the mailer that Raghu […]

Diveagar is small secluded beach on the Konkan coast roughly 150 Kms from Pune. I had been once sometime in 2005 and had fallen in love with it’s virgin beach. So in the long weekend of 15th – 17th August, 2008 I decided that it’s time i visit the place again, but this time with […]

I’ll be there at SAP TechEd 2008, Bangalore. Will you ? (more…)

Singleton Classes are based on the Singleton Design Pattern and have a single instance of the class throughout the application. When would one need a singleton class ? A simple example would be a database manager class which would instantiate a connection to the database at the application initialization and have methods for data manipulation […]

I use StatPress on my Blog for statistics management. According to the Plugin’s page on WordPress Statpress is “The real-time plugin dedicated to the management of statistics about blog visits. It collects information about visitors, spiders, search keywords, feeds, browsers etc.” It also has a nifty view called Spy which lets you view who visited […]