Archive for April, 2009

Facebook’s Architecture

facebook (www.facebook.com) needs no introduction. Here is a presentation done by Aditya Agarwal, Director of Engineering at Facebook about Facebook architecture and the learning they had during development of Facebook. He is presenting the advantages and disadvantages of its major components: LAMP (PHP, MySQL), Memcache, Thrift, Scribe. I think a pretty useful presentation for web [...]


Debug Java Application using JPDA – Eclipse

Debugging is needed when ever you are not sure of the problem in your code and even logs are not helping enough. Some times you need to debug remote Java processes as well to check the issues in execution of code. Java Platform Debugger Architecture (JPDA) technology solves this problem for us and you can [...]


jQuery Essentials

jQuery Essentials View more presentations from 1Marc.


2009 Lok Sabha Elections – Be an Informed Voter!

An effort to make you more informed about your constituency and its development in last few years. This is an effort of Google along with few partners including Hindustan Times, Association for Democratic Reforms etc. See complete list of partners here This web allows searching constituencies and get data related to it like a. It [...]


Edit pictures online (Another one)- fotoflexer.com

I love online tools. Tools which are really useful and can be used by masses for their daily need. I have been doing number of posts on online image editing in past: 1. Edit pictures online – www.picnik.com 2. Optimize images for web – Image optimization/format conversion 3. Resize your photos/pictures Online – www.webresizer.com 4. [...]