The movie 'Gold' starring Akshay Kumar, is an inspirational story of how passion, determination and persistence can help one achieve the Impossible. The character of Tapan Das, who was the… Read More

I would like to get the facts straight over here before we get more offended reading the headlines of all the major Indian bulletins. Lets breakdown this incident: This is an allegation. T… Read More

After my post on How similar is Lalu Prasad Yadav and Donal Trump? , I have been getting request to write a post on their difference. So lets see how different they are: Money… Read More

Initially when I found that amazon is selling Cow Dung cakes online,  I was shocked and humored but recent news of Government Researching Cow urine for Cancer Treatment have taken… Read More

Donald J Trump's Inaugural Speech: Chief Justice Roberts, President Carter, President Clinton, President Bush, President Obama, fellow Americans, and people of the world: Fuck you. W… Read More

I am trying to use the following code to send out meeting request using nodemailer. The problem I am facing is that the meeting invite is going as an attachment ics file instead of request w… Read More

Its amazing how two people continents apart could be so similar. We recently analysed personality of Mr Lalu Prasad Yadav and Donal Trump and the results are: Comical Character: Both thes… Read More

In recent discussions with a friend who being a die hard Laloo and RJD supporter came up with a claim that crime have gone down in Bihar since the government came into power. I doubted his c… Read More

If you are building any VSTO for any of the office applications, then its quite common to run into this issue. The error message would say that "The customization cannot be installed b… Read More

Amazon India today has become the most visited e-commerce site in India. So, I decided to analyze the most expensive products that Amazon India Sells across various category. So lets star… Read More

After a lot of googling and searching, I realized the best way to do this is to create a service call to the backend witht he url of the image whose size needs to be figured out. This servi… Read More

Ever wanted to gift someone Gobar? Now you can. Just follow the link below!   Buy Now! And suppose if you dont wanto buy Cow Dung Cake, then you can also get it in powder form… Read More

Lots of people are looking for one plus X invite so I decided to write a crawler to scrape it. Use this buy link to test your invite. I would keep on updating new invites here and would requ… Read More

On clicking debug in Visual Studio, it gives "The debugger cannot continue running the process. Unable to start debugging" The problem here is that no project is selected as default sta… Read More

I have been facing this problem where entire of my drive C had always been full, though it was having almost 50 GB, and no content apart from windows and program files. I have tried disk cl… Read More

Recently I wrote a jquery plugin which would allow you to validate an email address for: Syntax checks (RFC defined grammar)   DNS validation Spell checks  Email Service Pro… Read More

Today lots of ISP's have banned tonnes of site in India. But they can still be accessed. There are various options to do that: 1) If its a page without media, video content, then search it… Read More

Quite often on my Guest Ubuntu system on virtual box, I face this problem, where network is accessible via IP but not my domain name. I am able to ping any IP but DNS resolution fails. In th… Read More

There is a lot of material online about these and I would try to keep it short and sweet to explain what is my current understanding of these. Promises are syntax to implement callbacks, so… Read More

Git Rebase Command git checkout branch name # checkout branch on which you want to merge git rebase branch_name # Original branch would be rebased to current branch. Rebase would rem… Read More

I have a set up where I use my IDE on my host system and build my code on an Ubuntu server and deploy there. To achieve this I have used virtual box to install and run Ubuntu as a guest sys… Read More

I was facing this problem when I was updating images from my site on linkedin. I even asked a question on stackoverflow (When using linkedin share api submitted-picture-url or sharing url vi… Read More

I have been facing problem where whenever I was accessing jsp page which were using some Java 7 specific features, the compilation of such JSP pages use to fail with following error: Resour… Read More

I was trying to upload an image and do status update on twitter using there api version 1.1. For this I was using media/upload.json . I was trying to send content of files as base64 enc… Read More

As per the documentation on Facebook https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.2/user/photos/ For /photos api if we want to post a photo to user timeline, using an ur… Read More

When you are working with windows and nodejs, then you might face this problem, whatever npn packages you install might not be accessible through commandline. By this I mean, is that, suppos… Read More

Today whatsapp have launched an online/web version of their overly popular smartphone messaging app. I was very much interested in seeing the architecture of this app because as far as i kn… Read More

I have been doing AI Planning course and I decided to implement the first basic problem in Java. To implement this, i tried to create the algorithm with right level of abstractions so that i… Read More

The third question is also a simple one: Link to the question is on HackerRank: http://www.hackerearth.com/problem/algorithm/project-team/ The submission code in python can be seen he… Read More

This is the second problem from HackerEarth that I tried for the friend for interview: Problem: HackerMan says that 5 and 8 are smart digits. A positive integer is called a smart number if… Read More

Recently a friend asked me to solve a problem which he got on one of the interview, online assessment test. I decided to document my solution here. The companies name was Zopper and the ques… Read More

If you are doing any form of programming in Javascript then understanding its eventloop is very important. Any javascript engine has three kinds of memory models: Stack, which has the cu… Read More

In an another attempt to reorganise the way email communications work Google has come out with Inbox. Here, google has attempted to use machine learning and nlp for better organise email… Read More

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Same Stars shine every night, But you drew a different constellation each time. Same faces smile everyday, But it radiates a different warmth each time. Why is it that a person so dear once… Read More

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I usually don't tend to write about politics. But this time around it has started effecting me. I have been reading news paper since early days and have been much aware of the previous elect… Read More

Amazon is running its Guess the Price Contest, where you can win the Amazon Gift Cards worth Rs. 10,000. Lets utilize this post, and create a community to help each other by commenting answ… Read More