If you’re interested in why I make the switch, that post is here. This post merely documents the actual steps to move your stuff over. Overall, I’m very happy with the move. Setup a vacation response to announce your new address If people are going to email you at your email address, you need to…
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Theory of universal processing
As a heads up, I think I’ll be widening the topics on this blog to include topics which some may consider a bit “out there” or “all over the place”. This blog isn’t on a specific topic like parenting or science or personal philosophy – it’s more like a public diary. Anyway, today I’m going…
Goodbye transmission!
For those that know me – I love performance cars and motorcycles! Whether it’s a sports car or a motorcycle or even a speed boat – if it’s fast, I’ve already got an eye on it. It’s little wonder that I love my own car, a Porsche 911 (996 C2 to be precise). And at…
Best baby products to buy!
Ever since Poonam and I had our first child, Jei, we’ve had a few questions related to baby products, baby patterns and other baby stuff. I began this as an email to a friend and then thought I might as well put it in on the blog since the content has wider audience and I…
Windows 8: My impressions
So Windows 8 has been out for a few months. I’ve been using it on my work laptop (a Macbook Pro Retina) since Q3’12 when Microsoft released it to it’s MSDN partners. Investamatic is an MSDN, BizSpark and BizsparkPlus partner with Microsoft, so I got an early start. This is just a quick dump of…
Comparing different serializers
If you know what a “serializer” is, skip the introduction! Introduction I’ve decided to also blog about technical issues my engineers and I run into during the developement of Investamatic.com. It’s a good way to document what worked while simultaneously sharing the learning experience with others. Today’s issue is serialization. “Serializers” are commonly required when…
Xoom’s poorly implemented customer experience
The following is an example of poor customer service and a poor customer experience. As a startup CEO and founder myself, it is my belief that IF the founders or management were aware of this they’d fix it because that’s just the nature of founders – wanting to improve. It’s also a great example where…
Fatherhood !
My wife Poonam and I recently had our first child, a son. Baby Jei is about 21 days old now and I’ve been wanting to jot down my thought about the entire experience. Of course, having a newborn means you hardly have any sleep – so the act of putting thoughts into written form took…
Remotely debugging a Windows Azure webrole via Visual Studio Debugger
UPDATE: Even after 3 years this is still popping up on Google’s first page results, so worth mentioning Visual Studio makes this a LOT easier now. Original post below. Warning: This is a highly technical post and beyond the first two paragraphs requires a deep understanding of cloud web engineering (especially Microsoft Azure)! This is…
Amazon’s cloud computing platform as a disruptive technology
You may have heard about Amazon’s Elastic Cloud Computing platform. It’s a way to run virtual computers in the cloud and it’s changing the way a lot of IT business operate. Virtual machines? In a cloud? Huh? Ok, they sound confusing for the non-technical folks. However, it’s actually straight forward. For the savvy who already…