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Last month I bought a new Dell Studio 14 laptop. I got this from the Dell online store. I had to make the payment in 2 parts, using my Credit Card and the rest by online third party transfer.
I’d used the online funds transfer facilities of my bank many times before using the NEFT method. [...]

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In one of our projects which is primarily a web application, the client had asked that we go ahead and make as much of the copy available across the site, editable. This included not just copy in static pages such as “About Us”, but also copy in dynamic pages. I mean things like tooltips for [...]

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Lessons learned from Agile Bengaluru 2010

Published on 14 February 2010 by Leena in All Posts, Process

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It was a great feeling after attending the Agile Bengaluru Conf 2010. The theme for this Agile Conference was Post-Modern Agile i.e. what’s next after Agile. Most of the sessions were talking mainly on what needs to be done to make a product a success. Just following agile practices will not make any product a [...]

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Our new reading list

Published on 09 February 2010 by Vaidy in All Posts, Business, Process

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As mentioned in an earlier post, our team shares what they learn on a daily basis in our morning stand-ups. Considering our primary focus as a company is lean product development, we felt we could be more aligned with our goals if each of us read books [or blogs] on related subjects. Here’s the current [...]

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One of the requirements we had was to sign the applet that we built for UserThoughts. We had purchased Comodo’s code signing certificate from KSoftware. When you download the certificate from their site, it automatically gets installed in IE. Follow these steps for converting it into format which you can use with the Java Jarsigner.

Export [...]

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JQuery Tools: Smooth JS widgets

Published on 01 February 2010 by Manoj in All Posts, Technology

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Does your web site design have a lot of widgets like tabs, overlays, scrollable etc., to be implemented? Do you want to design and implement smooth looking sites with out using flash? Do you want to improve the UX on your site?
If your answer is yes for any of these questions then JQuery Tools is [...]

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Working with DLLs, the Java way

Published on 29 January 2010 by Jeevan in All Posts, Technology

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We had a very simple requirement, to invoke my DLLs using Java code for couple of reasons:

We want to reuse application code built for a .NET application
We want to integrate the DLLs with a Java based sever technology
Should be simple enough to maintain the code by .NET professionals

There are couple of Java-COM [...]

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Our Pragmatic Processes

Published on 29 January 2010 by Vaidy in All Posts, Process

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One of the things we do is to create a culture of continuous improvement. To help ourselves stay on track and not lose sight of the forest for the trees, we do the following:

We do our standups a little different. We talk about what we learned yesterday than what we got done. Credit for this [...]

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Learnings from 2009

Published on 29 January 2010 by Vaidy in All Posts, Business

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2009 was a year of many special events. We completed 2 years of operations last year. We moved to a new more spacious office. We created our first product. We discovered our niche [more on this in the coming weeks].
But those events are nothing more than punctuations in this journey we’ve embarked on. Its the [...]

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