http://tc.pagalguy.com Adventures with Tech and Design Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:20:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In the last couple of months i have gotten attracted to a notion of crafting software which focuses on avoiding the waste. Allow me to explain :- Once we decide what a software should do and how it should behave then we give it to the software developers. Since software ... http://tc.pagalguy.com/2009/06/crafting-software-avoiding-the-waste/ This is a cross post from our Slog Blog - http://pagalguy.com/slog/2009/05/05/young-talent-insane-hiring-and-a-marketing-dream/ http://tc.pagalguy.com/2009/05/insane-hiring-young-talent-and-marketing-dreams/ You've got your website up and chugging along very well (shared hosting or dedicated server or a vps) and life is good - the traffic is increasing, you are hiring and one fine day the site crashes. You panic, check with your hosting provider and you are told that it ... http://tc.pagalguy.com/2009/05/backing-up-woes/ ok, I might have slightly exaggerated my motivation towards why I write code but my fascination towards test first development came from learning lessons the hard way. In later part of the post i shall explain test first development in more detail but before we get there we will come ... http://tc.pagalguy.com/2009/05/why-write-code-because-i-can-test-it/ Every time we grow & traffic sets new records - we never fail to be happy at the need for more servers to be added to our rack.  The happiness however very soon makes me cringe because I know it is going to cost more to add all these servers ... http://tc.pagalguy.com/2009/05/high-availability/ If there is anything worse than being on the wrong side of the digital divide, it is being on it. A considerable part of India now has access to Internet, but so abysmal are the connection speeds in sub-urban towns and college networks that all efforts to increase user productivity ... http://tc.pagalguy.com/2009/04/speed-matters/ Welcome to Thought Crime! We are an set of opinionated technology, design, content, marketing and HR professionals working at PaGaLGuY.com. We've been in business since 2002 with a rather counterintuitive modus operandi. Here we'll share how we do business, our small and big achievements and learnings thus derived. Hope you ... http://tc.pagalguy.com/2009/01/hello-world/