http://blog.vxtindia.com The Vercingetorix Technologies Blog Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:38:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We have had the old design on our company website for a really long time now. So finally, after a lot of procastination, the new design is out - Vxtindia.com. Looking forward to your comments. http://blog.vxtindia.com/we-have-a-brand-new-design.html Of late, we have been spending a lot of time to build a library which can reduce the number of hours that we need to spend on every project. The library, called Generatrix, is already in alpha, and to test it out we created a small app - Get Inspired. Go ... http://blog.vxtindia.com/getting-inspired.html I wrote the first version of Gmail in one day. It was not very impressive. All I did was stuff my own email into the Google Groups (Usenet) indexing engine. I sent it out to a few people for feedback, and they said that it was somewhat useful, ... http://blog.vxtindia.com/paul-buchheit-creator-of-gmail-on-his-blog.html So they are finally at it. Google is integrating data from Analytics into Adsense and Adwords. Now they know exactly how much ROI you get on ads placed on which networks. This also means they now now how to optimize it. But for whom? “In order to improve your experience with Google products, ... http://blog.vxtindia.com/google-knows-how-much-you-spend-and-on-which-network.html Kentbrewster has put a series of interesting posts about how to find out if a user on your website has logged into Facebook, Twitter or Google. Basically, he searches the code to find some specific javascript code, which is loaded only if the user is signed in to the service. Once ... http://blog.vxtindia.com/cool-hack-how-to-find-out-if-a-user-is-logged-in-to-google-facebook-twitter-or-your-website.html http://blog.vxtindia.com/how-to-become-an-expert.html Mbakarma is down. Though not because we didn’t pay up the hosting bills, but because its time for it to be new again. Joel Spolsky says that good software takes 10 years to mature, and at Mbakarma we are already closing in on the first year. The first version, which came out ... http://blog.vxtindia.com/getting-started-with-mbakarma-again.html …in our case we (eventually) did feel the need to make something faster, so we looked at the Campfire application. Where was the bottleneck? Where were we having issues or issues that were going too slow? We found that bottleneck and that bottleneck was a hundred lines of ... http://blog.vxtindia.com/david-heinemeier-hansson-on-scaling-ruby-when-asked-about-how-they-scaled-campfire.html Here is some great news, MBA Karma featured on the Time of India, Mumbai Edition today (20 Aug). If you have the newspaper, you need to move to page 5 to view the article. I have reproduced the text here. http://blog.vxtindia.com/mba-karma-featured-on-the-times-of-india-mumbai-edition.html The first Online On-Demand Testing Solution for CAT Good news for CAT aspirants. MBAKarma is about to go live soon! MBAKarma is the first ever online and on-demand testing solution for CAT preparation. It implements a revolutionary and ground breaking approach which is much superior to the traditional approach for CAT preparation. ... http://blog.vxtindia.com/mbakarma.html