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How my simple iPhone app made it to the top of the App Store

22 Sep 2009

Slightly more than a month back I wrote this little iPhone app (App Store link), almost a toy app really, to check the usage of my data plan with my local telco (Singtel). I wanted to scratch an itch and I also really didn’t want to exceed my data plan – the fees are excessive.
Anyway, [...]

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Blog redesigned

In: Blogging| Personal

5 Jul 2009

After 5 long years of using the same old blog theme, which I’d handcrafted from scratch way back in 2004, I’ve finally got down to refreshing it to a more contemporary look. I’ve also updated the woefully outdated About page.
Here’s a before and after shot:

I think it’s much better, definitely more modern and minimalist.
The new [...]

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I’m still alive, and on FriendFeed and Twitter

In: Blogging| Personal

24 Mar 2009

Wow, it seems like I haven’t posted anything this year. Don’t worry, you aren’t rid of me yet. I’m still alive and posting updates to FriendFeed and (less often) to Twitter.
If you belong to what I imagine must be now the microscopic population of loyal readers of my blog, please do hook up with me [...]

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RailsConf 2008 Day 1 – pics and a summary

In: Personal| Ruby on Rails

30 May 2008

Day 1 of RailsConf 2008 was basically tutorial day (schedule) and started with my colleague here with me, Arun, missing out on Yoga on Rails and me sleeping until the first tutorial session. Anyway, I snapped some photos while trying to remain the unobtrusive tourist.
Here’s a shot of Portland Convention Center where it’s all happening:

There’re [...]

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Command history meme

In: Personal

18 Apr 2008

See this.
history | awk ‘{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’ | sort -rn | head
4605 cd
3576 svn
2141 ls
1701 ruby
1308 cap2
1066 ss
978 rake
867 sshb
688 rm
635 mate
cap2 is just my alias for Capistrano 2 (I use both 1.x and 2.x, since I’m lazy to upgrade some old Rails applications, ss is my alias for script/server. sshb [...]

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