Sai Ram's Blog

• Don’t buy any charges on the cheap. They may electrocute you or other damages could occur. Source

• Try out Woopra

  • Real time analytics
  • Cool interface w/ timezone etc.
  • Real time chat (this was a surprise)
  • Free for non-commercial setup ( Your personal blogs or home pages for analytics )

• Try Bowling, its got BEER! - B.C.

• I dunno… I kinda figured teachers slept in coffins all summer - Calvin & Hobbes

• Briggs confessed that he is a drug addict spoiler - Graceland

• Nokogiri 1.6.0 now is packaged with sources of libxml2 and libxslt that are required to be installed.

• Open Source as a business - The timeline of Sentry app (side project from Disqus).

• Got my reader list under 300 200 150. Sometimes I get the feeling that Aol Reader is not pulling feeds from all the feeds, could switch back to feedly.

• Aol Reader has this nice feature of opening tabs in the background (was a PIA in late Google Reader)

• 8 things forgotten for launch

• How follower.io saved $3500/year on software

• Inspirational Quotes Wallpapers

• Snowden’s Dead Man’s Switch - Any real-world situation involves multiple adversaries, and it’s important to keep all of them in mind when designing a security system.

• Khan Academy Development

  1. Shipping beats perfection.
  2. Be open. Share your work.
  3. Anybody can fix anything.

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

Amazon Web Services(AWS) is way too costly for non-commercial purposes.

Heroku is free but, I like to host and configure myself.

Domain Name Servers

Running free DNS on CloudFlare and DigitalOcean.

CloudFlare has faster response times compared to others and its free too.

About Octopress

Well I have lot of things to do because of the migration. I am only getting things done in the night rather than in the mornings 😃

Pros

• Deploy from CLI
• Write from CLI
• No complicated UI to upload and edit html

Cons:

• Images to be managed from CLI
• No friendly UI to write simple HTML 😉

TODO:

• Fix old posts
• Write newer planned posts
• Comments migrations from WP
• Disqus setup for comments
• Google Analytics

Links

• Digital Ocean
• Media Temple
• Octopress
• AWS
• Linode
• Heroku
• CloudFlare

The Cloud companies are competing for end users for allowing them to use their services to store their memories(mostly photos/videos) in the Cloud (Ahem! remote harddisks that scale). Its the era of the cloud and sharing.

Pictures are the fastest way to capture a moment. A picture is worth a 1KB of words (but sized about a few MB). Sharing and saving photos, videos are getting famous and easy with cloud storage from each of Adobe, Amazon, Google, Dropbox along with Flickr (now providing free 1TB of storage). Google Glass makes it very easy to snap photos. (Article on Wired). (Don’t forget to read through the most boring parts of Disclaimer and T&C before using services).

Works On: Mac, iDevices, Web

Uses: Amazon EC2 servers

Works on: Android, Mac, Web

Free 1TB of space (1000/1024 GB) (with Ads when browsing)- Announced on 21 May 2013

Pricing: Free | $49/year | $499/year

Works on: Web

Free 3GB or 5GB space for photos/videos - Announced early 2012

Pricing: Free 2GB + 250MB/invite | $9.99/month (100 Gigs) | $19.99/month (200 Gigs) | $49.99 ( 500 Gigs )

Works on: Web, Android, iDevices, Desktop

Pricing: Free with 5GB / 15 GB (15 GB now with Google Drive) | $4.99/month (100Gigs) | $9.99/month (200 Gigs)

Works on: Web

Pricing: 5GB Free | $9.99/month (25 GB) | $19.99/month (50GB)

Works on: Web | Windows

Looks like BookAdda gets its data from B&N :/

Sweet Syntax - Omgrofl - Esolang.