This last week, the fine folk at the Virtusa Open Source SIG organized an event to celebrate the Software Freedom Day where my good friends Mifan and Suchetha made keynotes. Also in attendance was Arunan, so it was a re-union of sorts with some old friends. It’s been a while since I have participated in […]
Earlier this month, Google App Engine released support for outbound sockets and I figured that a Saturday spent mucking around with AppEngine to see if I could get it to work with APNS would be time well spent. In the sandboxed world of GAE, lack out outbound socket support meant that it was not possible […]
Today I will dive into the guts of git to showcase the simplicity and elegance in which git manages the content internally in it’s own content addressable file system. Armed with this knowledge, you will be able to get a deeper understanding of the underlying data structure to help you figure out and troubleshoot issues […]
The week so far has been an eventful one. Being bed-ridden has made me pensive and nostalgic about my childhood, and long for the simpler days. I was specifically dwelling on the subject of interpreters and compilers which took me back to when I was nine, when I asked my uncle, who I considered as […]
Having spent some quality time with Git over the holidays, my appreciation for the flexibility of this DVCS and the elegance with which it has been constructed has reached a state of awe. I remember following the BitKeeper debacle of 2005 on Kernel Traffic that spawned the project that would turn out to be git, […]
