I have been spammed so much recently via sms and email from Kalyan Manyam , the dude behind indyarocks who claim to be a top social networking site

I don’t even remember signing up on their site . But may be i did some 2years back

There’s no option to unsubscribe from their newsletters and sms.

Sites like these cause so much bad reputation to brand India .

Twitter is working on a Real time search engine and this might be change the face of twitter

Zdnet broke a story about the same

Santosh Jayaram who was VP , Search Quality , Google is now VP of Operations at Twitter .

SEO will have a new term – after Google Optimization and Yahoo, get read for Twitter Optimization

Soon Twitter will crawl tweeted urls and index the content.

This will be used to display results inside twitter.

Spammers who post crap links as tweets will die a slow death if this feature goes live

Also useless retweets will now go down the drain.

Off late twitter has been information overload to me after RSS overload.

IM really excited to see this decision by twitter in organizing the data better.

Also , when you have such data , Contextual ads will do really well. Twitter is not going to keep making losses for long

Imagine a user searching for mobile phones is reading a tweet pointing to http://fonearena.com

Advertisers who usually advertise on the site will love to target the potential user base of fonearena.

It gives them more ROI than advertising on a tweet pointing to say my personal blog

only time will tell whats going to happen

Recently I was playing with the linux command line .. I was testing out a script which i was interested in..

i ran a wget command and download the file to the server and then extracted it using unzip

But the worst part is that the after the extraction i ran a mv command to move the files to root directory

And the command replaced the sites’ index.php .htaccess and robots.txt

I did not bother for a couple of days until I figure out that the site is not working as the main index file is broken and also google and other search engines started deindexing the site as the urls were broken and worst part is that robots.txt had a Dissallow * line

Its a Very painful mistake both for me and the site ..

So the lesson learnt is that Never try out new things / change files on a live site without prior testing even if ur confident enough ..

Such mistakes can cause irreversible damage to the site and might take days / month to discover ( glad i found in 2 days )

IM not surprised of the incident when Google recently flagged the whole web as Malware.

So having a Local , Dev or Staging environment .. even on same godamn server or machine would make a HUGE difference in such calamities

Daily backups were disabled for this site as its small one .. and the weekly backup was taking ages to extract

Only the host Servint saved us from this disaster .. they restored the files needed from a recent backup and we were back on track.

We had about 10hrs of downtime due to this negligence .. Unforgivable !

I just got a mail from Venture beat which was just headlines and ads

See it for yourself ..

is this a glitch in adsense for feeds or is VentureBeat running short of cash for its servers

I would expect to see a paypal donate button if its the latter

I have not been blogging for quite some time now .. blame a hectic work schedule .. cooking and too much partying !

Another reason for me to stop blogging is that IM really tooo lazzzy to login to my blog and write a new post and publish it ..

I prefer twitter these days ..

the past few months have been really exciting for me ..

a lot of travel .. working with new technologies .. ROR , PHP .. worked on a Facebook App and an iPhone app ..

Right now IM using jquery working on a site using OOJS .. and also working on performance tuning for a couple of sites ..

IndiaPlaza.in are a bunch of idiots running the shopping site ..

Nothing gets delivered in time

No wonder e-commerce sucks in india . these f***ers have debited the money from my account on aug 30 and the item has still not been delivered in chennai ..

After using Amazon.com and their order tracking systems .. i feel sick of sites like indiaplaza .. why do they even operate a business ?

Never Buy from indiaplaza ..

I m indeed surprised at this move by google to launch a browser product ..

Google Chrome was released a few hours back for download ..

Google did it first with gtalk, reinvented IM. some people felt it lacked a lot of stuff . but for me gtalk is my primary IM now .. its just simple and clutter free..

Now Google is doing the same thing with Chrome. The main idea behind the product is to simplify Web Browsing and they have done a great job .. the initial version of the product looks impressive ..

I m a Web Developer and I was impressed when I saw that development tools came bundled . Also there’s a fancy task manager which I have not seen in any browser so far.

Version Control was not a big thing as long as I was doing freelance development. But once I got into the process of working with a team I released that a Team programming without source control is useless.

I started using CVS with the WinCVS client .. Then moved on to use Sub Version with the TortoiseSVN client..

I spent most of the last 2 years in Microsoft world .. So Team Foundation Server was the system..

Right now IM on Ruby and we are using Perforce which is actually Damn Good !

Ther user interface is damn simple although it might look a bit funny.

Its one the systems used by development teams which work on various platforms ..

I can check in code from my windows box and get latest on my Linux box / server ..

This is really cool !!

This event happened on March 23rd at Amethyst Cafe, Off Peters Road

Kiruba named it Tweetup a

event wiki

I don’t use twitter that much but still Twitter has such a large user base .

It was fun meeting folks using the application

Gosh ! I finally managed to get the pics on Flickr ! check my twitter meet photo set Photos were captured by my Nokia N82 .. and damn IM not even there in a single pic !

I remember writing about Aptana on this blog about 2 years back

But god , they have grown really bigger over the past 2 years and have support and intellisense support for so many javascript frameworks like mootools , jquery, scriptaculous, ext js1.1 (ext js 2.0 plugin unofficial)

The IDE has also improved in terms of speed ..

They also have an iPhone plugin which looks like a iFrame hack..

Must have for any web coder out there..

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