After 10,000+ minutes of listening, these three podcasts dominated my 2025 1. Teen Taal: The ultimate Hindi comedy podcast. Hosted by Tau, Sardar, and Khan Cha, it’s pure “therapeutic bullshit.” Imagine the funniest, most nonsensical conversation with your friends. I was skeptical at first, but one episode in late 2024 made me a devotee. I […]
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From Inspiration to Action: Highlights of DPG Tech Fusion Event
Last week, I was privileged to participate as a speaker and panellist in the DPG Tech Fusion event. Organized by the Sunbird community and Tekdi Technologies, the event brought together a diverse range of professionals passionate about Digital Public Goods (DPGs). One of my highlights was Dr. Pramod Varma’s talk on “India’s DPI Journey.” While […]
How I started With PHP
Khayrattee( @7php) of 7php.com recently published an interview with me, do read and let know your feedback.
Why PHP is So Popular on Web?
If you ever wondered why the hell PHP is so popular on the web when there are better and powerful languages available? Well, the answer is very simple, It is only language that allows even musicians to build sites for themselves. By the way that is also the reason why WordPress has become the king […]
The Pune effect on Indian Tech Events
Do you know about ‘The Pune Effect’ which influences all the Tech events in India, if not go read. And if you are an event organiser then consider Pune as venue for your next event.
Get An Introduction To Functional Programming At TechWeekend 5
5th edition of the TechWeekend is going to be about Functional Programming and if are hearing this term for first time, or if you are like me who has heard about it, but never got time to look into the details then you should definitely attend it. Event is on 18th Dec 2010, ie this […]
Testing Extjs Application With Selenium : Few Pointers
On a project that I am working on we needed to create few automated tests using selenium. Our frontend is completely written in Extjs. Being new to testing using selenium, I searched the web and here are few useful advices that I found. The most comprehensive one was by Ates Goral on stackoverflow. The biggest […]
CodeIgniter 2.0 Is Baking
Just when I was loosing all hopes about CodeIgniter, yesterday EllisLab announced about their move to assembla and mercurial, in that there was a small but significant news about CodeIgniter 2.0. A quick look into the change log revealed PHP 4 support is deprecated. Features new to 2.0.0 may not be support PHP 4, and […]
One Year Of Writing
On 25th February this blog turned 1 year old. I am happy to say that in my 3rd attempt to be a blogger I have finally succeded. Thank you every one for commenting and reading which kept my interest alive.
How do I find out more about the startup ecosystem in Pune?
Their was a very good discussion that happened at Pune startups mailing list. Topic of discussion was how do students find a way to get inside startup fraternity. Result of that discussion is that, we now have POCC-students group and mailing list created to help fill the gap. What is the most interesting is, we […]