https://sairam.dev/categories/misc/ Recent content in Misc on Sai Ram's Blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us © 2020. All rights reserved. Fri, 14 Apr 2017 16:01:36 +0530 https://sairam.dev/post/2017-04-14-install-older-ruby-rvm-on-mac-10.10/ Fri, 14 Apr 2017 16:01:36 +0530 https://sairam.dev/post/2017-04-14-install-older-ruby-rvm-on-mac-10.10/ If you are installing 2.1.x or 2.2.x versions of ruby from 2014/2015, support is missing for some of them. gem install stops working with the default gem that installs via rvm when installed on Mac OS X 10.10 (OS X Yosemite) This is the error I faced. You get the error ERROR: Could not find a valid gem 'rubocop' (>= 0), here is why: Unable to download data from https://rubygems.org/ - SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 state=SSLv3 read server certificate B: certificate verify failed (https://api. https://sairam.dev/post/generating-header-images-for-blog/ Sun, 09 Apr 2017 16:40:00 +0530 https://sairam.dev/post/generating-header-images-for-blog/ Inspired by Sense-Si, the process fills in text into a HTML page and uses a PhantomJS (on a docker container) and takes a screenshot. I wanted to see if I can make these in a simpler way with other tools I currently use already. Trying out with Image Magick First, lets download the image wget -O header-plain.jpg "https://source.unsplash.com/featured/1200x630/?mountains" single command but overflows echo -n 'How to generate caption images with ImageMagick? https://sairam.dev/post/2016-11-01-why-i-like-go/ Tue, 15 Nov 2016 23:06:56 +0530 https://sairam.dev/post/2016-11-01-why-i-like-go/ I have been reading and listening a lot about GoLang. There are two great projects with good communities and Documentation Caddy Hugo Why I like go? The standard library is too powerful Creating a http server is very simple Interfaces are too good and provide the best Structs are the new classes (no inheritance, only composition) Concurrency is a first class citizen (via go method) structs for locks are part of the stdlib Syntax is a first class construct, all go code looks the same Terrific garbage collection in order of nano seconds Data can be passed through streams(channels) With this power and the speed Go runs at, I started learning Go by writing a simple productivity tool (my first project in Go), Pastebin via API, named it daata (Check daata-server/ directory) https://sairam.dev/post/migrated-to-hugo/ Tue, 15 Nov 2016 23:02:40 +0530 https://sairam.dev/post/migrated-to-hugo/ I have been using OctoPress since a while. Octopress uses ruby and doesn’t work quite well for 1000s of posts (or so the claim goes). I wanted to try out Hugo because of the hype of great software and fastness of generation of the static site. Related: Why I like Go?. Why change? Change is the only constant Change of thinking helps you learn and discover new things https://sairam.dev/post/customer-perspective-of-the-food-startups-in-india/ Sat, 02 Jan 2016 17:23:00 +0530 https://sairam.dev/post/customer-perspective-of-the-food-startups-in-india/ I live in Bangalore(also known as Bengaluru) which is one of the biggest hubs for startups in India. I reside in Koramangala which is a sub-locality which has one too many restaurants. People think Food Startups are supposed to solve the problem of Discovery — To allow the customer to identify what are the restaurants near them and Conversion — To help order with ease and get the items delivered There is another problem which is not taken into account and there is no solution. https://sairam.dev/post/ambient-sound-for-realtime-events/ Sun, 18 Aug 2013 16:47:00 +0530 https://sairam.dev/post/ambient-sound-for-realtime-events/ A soundscape that gives you ambient awareness without mental effort. It’s the part of your monitoring stack you never knew was missing. - https://choir.io/ Example : Github real time activities https://sairam.dev/post/bound-variable-vs-unbound-variable/ Thu, 15 Aug 2013 20:00:00 +0530 https://sairam.dev/post/bound-variable-vs-unbound-variable/ Image Source: http://learnyousomeerlang.com/static/img/un-bound.png https://sairam.dev/post/migrated-to-octopress/ Fri, 19 Jul 2013 00:52:00 +0530 https://sairam.dev/post/migrated-to-octopress/ Octopress baby! I finally found time to migrate my wordpress(WP) site to a self hosted (at digitalocean) run via octopress. What I know about hosting! I previously hosted at mediatemple, it was getting costly (blame the INR drop compared with USD). I earlier tried Linode, no bad experiences, but went on with MediaTemple on a hunch and never looked back till DigitalOcean came with super awesome $5/month reliable servers and neat interfaces https://sairam.dev/post/2013-05-21-bookadda-gets-its-data-from-barnes-and-noble/ Tue, 21 May 2013 18:05:00 +0530 https://sairam.dev/post/2013-05-21-bookadda-gets-its-data-from-barnes-and-noble/ Looks like BookAdda gets its data from B&N :/ https://sairam.dev/post/2013-05-16-competition-monitoring/ Thu, 16 May 2013 14:18:00 +0530 https://sairam.dev/post/2013-05-16-competition-monitoring/ A bookcosts 11.36 Lakhs. Source: Silence on the Wire | BookAdda.com. Screenshot: Something like this happened between two sellers on Amazon.comfew years ago. Both of them were thinking about buying the product from the other person and the script increased it thousands of dollars. https://sairam.dev/post/2013-05-13-quantum-computers-are-the-upgrades-to-pcs/ Mon, 13 May 2013 20:23:00 +0530 https://sairam.dev/post/2013-05-13-quantum-computers-are-the-upgrades-to-pcs/ For the first time, a commercially available quantum computer has been pitted against an ordinary PC – and the quantum device left the regular machine in the dust. Read more: Commercial quantum computer leaves PC in the dust - physics-math - 10 May 2013 - New Scientist. https://sairam.dev/post/2013-05-11-the-old-queuing-problem/ Sat, 11 May 2013 20:00:00 +0530 https://sairam.dev/post/2013-05-11-the-old-queuing-problem/ — Sheba Najmi (@snajmi) February 16, 2013 https://sairam.dev/post/2013-05-10-infographic-contest-winner/ Fri, 10 May 2013 20:03:00 +0530 https://sairam.dev/post/2013-05-10-infographic-contest-winner/   https://sairam.dev/post/2013-05-10-endless-scrolling-in-websites/ Fri, 10 May 2013 18:30:00 +0530 https://sairam.dev/post/2013-05-10-endless-scrolling-in-websites/ Sites like Facebook set the trend for endless scrolling on their websites. It makes sense for certain news reading sites like Google Reader or Social sites or even Blogs to have endless scrolling. Sites like Flipkart have implement it in not so good way. If you want to browse all the items in a category or in a search result with 100’s of items. It starts out beautifully with autoloading the pages from 2-8 and then stops. https://sairam.dev/post/2013-05-10-doghouse-heaven-and-hell/ Fri, 10 May 2013 15:10:00 +0530 https://sairam.dev/post/2013-05-10-doghouse-heaven-and-hell/   https://sairam.dev/post/2013-05-10-beautiful-sculptures-on-folded-book-art/ Fri, 10 May 2013 10:13:00 +0530 https://sairam.dev/post/2013-05-10-beautiful-sculptures-on-folded-book-art/   https://sairam.dev/post/2013-05-08-10-reasons-the-haters-are-mad-about-adobe/ Wed, 08 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://sairam.dev/post/2013-05-08-10-reasons-the-haters-are-mad-about-adobe/ 10 Reasons The Haters Are Mad About Adobe Creative Cloud | Photofocus. (This is the REAL reason for 90% of the noise!) The haters are mad because they realize they can no longer pirate copies of Photoshop.   https://sairam.dev/post/acqhiring-the-new-way-of-hiring/ Mon, 06 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://sairam.dev/post/acqhiring-the-new-way-of-hiring/ This practice is so widespread that a term, acqhiring, has entered the industry lexicon to describe it. Even for the skeptics, it’s difficult to argue that these acquis- itions are about anything other than people. In many deals, like Facebook’s acquisition of Gowalla, the technology was not even a part of the transaction. And when the technology is included in the transaction, it is frequently released as open source post-acquisition. The New Kingmakers https://sairam.dev/post/repost-firstpost-bet-against-the-rupee-may-2013/ Mon, 06 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://sairam.dev/post/repost-firstpost-bet-against-the-rupee-may-2013/ Source: money/studies/wp0028.pdf Chronology of India’s exchange rate policies • 1947 (When India became member of IMF): Rupee tied to pound, Re 1 = 1 s, 6 d, rate of 28 October, 1945 • 18 September, 1949: Pound devalued; India maintained par with pound • 6 June, 1966: Rupee is devalued, Rs 4.76 = $1, after devaluation, Rs 7.50 = $1 (57.5%) • 18 November, 1967: UK devalued pound, India did not devalue • August 1971: Rupee pegged to gold/dollar, international financial crisis • 18 December, 1971: Dollar is devalued • 20 December, 1971: Rupee is pegged to pound sterling again • 1971-1979: The Rupee is overvalued due to India’s policy of import substitution • 23 June, 1972: UK floats pound, India maintains fixed exchange rate with pound • 1975: India links rupee with basket of currencies of major trading partners. https://sairam.dev/post/the-indian-e-commerce-part-2/ Tue, 30 Apr 2013 23:00:00 +0530 https://sairam.dev/post/the-indian-e-commerce-part-2/ There are lots of choices. Ruby on Rails is a famous choice in the US/England for fast development of websites. PHP is the most famous one for Indian startups (I think its mostly because of the number of people). There are many things that lead you to take the programming language for a startup / project lead. The ** Cart** on an e-commerce websites is the most important of all along with the **Wishlist**. https://sairam.dev/post/the-indian-e-commerce-part-1/ Tue, 30 Apr 2013 21:00:00 +0530 https://sairam.dev/post/the-indian-e-commerce-part-1/ The current trend in India is e-commerce websites. MySmartPrice (a price comparison site for Indian e-commerce sites) compiled | a list of 343 websites (as of May 2012). There are more than 813 seller listings on Junglee.com. There are so many that are not listed I found 24 websites(as of April 2013) which do the aggregation of prices from pretty old to the latest Indian e-commerce websites. I found all these through a quick 15 minute search. https://sairam.dev/post/2013-back-to-blog/ Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:00:00 +0530 https://sairam.dev/post/2013-back-to-blog/ I have been planning since over an year to resume writing blog posts. Being too busy with work, I lost count on how many topics and how many times I wanted to put out something I learned. Finally I am the proud owner of the awesome domain sairam.com. (yay! dot com, but just when ICANN started the new gTLD revolution) I set a higher priority for writing and reading now that my past work project Bookish was launched in early February 2013. https://sairam.dev/post/2012-09-02-well-there-is-lot-of-airtraffic/ Sun, 02 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://sairam.dev/post/2012-09-02-well-there-is-lot-of-airtraffic/ Well, there is lot of traffic https://sairam.dev/post/2012-09-01-hello-jekyll-server-config/ Sat, 01 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://sairam.dev/post/2012-09-01-hello-jekyll-server-config/ Note: This post was moved from 5erver.in (spelled server.in) Intro about 5erver.in I want to write posts about resources and configurations I find when configuring websites to desktop software. If you do rate habits, my best one is configuring stuff. What does this site do ? I plan to use this site to explain details of configurations and sites, and why I choose that way. Why not use Tumblr like my other blogs ? https://sairam.dev/post/2012-08-04-vmware-vmware-vfabric-blog-spring-and-rabbitmq/ Sat, 04 Aug 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://sairam.dev/post/2012-08-04-vmware-vmware-vfabric-blog-spring-and-rabbitmq/ Aadhaar - The 1.2 Billion Person Bio Metric Database owned by the Indian Government Did you know only < 3% of people in India pay Income Tax ?  VMware: VMware vFabric Blog: Spring and RabbitMQ – Behind India’s 1.2 Billion Person Biometric Database https://sairam.dev/post/2012-08-04-now-thats-a-video-on-abusing-500-gig-hard-drive/ Sat, 04 Aug 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://sairam.dev/post/2012-08-04-now-thats-a-video-on-abusing-500-gig-hard-drive/ Now, thats how you abuse a 500 Gig Hard drive. Well they do do a good job explaining how a hard disk works