We have been working on a couple of our own applications, and since they do involve a server side components as well, we decided to spend some time to understand which service should we go ahead with. I have been been a big fan of Slicehost for years, and when they got acquired by Rackspace, [...]
It is only once in a while that an interesting company comes up here in India AND they give you an API to play around. This is why we jumped with joy when we saw that Zomato had come out with a really cool API. Sadly, due to a huge influx of client projects, we [...]
Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t [...]
You would expect that stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding would easily encode your strings, but since Apple devs usually spend time on more convoluted problems, this still doesn’t work, even after the fifth major iteration of the SDK. So, if you need to URL encode a string, here is what you have to do NSString *encoded = (NSString *)CFURLCreateStringByAddingPercentEscapes( [...]
Every time you purchase a new Linux VPS, you need to go ahead and set it up for use. Even though we manage to do one server a month, we always seem to forget one thing or the other. So we decided to write down the things that we do. I thought it would be [...]
If you’re planning to start a web application, the first thing that you need is to setup your own server. Usually people start with shared hosting, which sucks if you’re trying to run anything more than a wordpress site. A dedicated server is expensive, and can range between $200 – $9000/month. The best thing to [...]
We have always been big fans for Github, but recently decided to move from github to hosting them ourselves. The only reason was that we have a lot of projects going on and because of that github started getting a little too expensive for us. So we decided to start hosting repositories ourselves. When you [...]
Generatrix is our PHP5 stack for building web based applications. We have been working on it for quite some time and over 20 websites have been built on top of it already. Yet, there are always new things which need to be added to ensure that it’s up to date with the latest happenings in [...]
WordPress is great at handling URLs and making them ‘pretty’ with custom permalinks. You can use almost any kind of URL structure for your website using the ‘Custom Permalinks’ tags. However, this fails in case you want to have permalinks that a plug-in should recognize and redirects you to the WordPress 404 page. For example, [...]
This is not about tracking your status on the plethora of social networking sites, rather about checking up if our internet connection is still active! We have been using a data connection from Reliance for quite some time, but the connection keeps failing quite frequently during summers. We wrote a script on our local servers [...]