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I recently ran into a pip gotcha that left me scratching my head for hours. When you install a package for the first time using pip, it ...

Continuing on setting up the VPS , its now time to install the Python Imaging Library. This is another major pain in the neck. On Windows...

We've just migrated our Django build server to a new box, and I'm currently installing all the necessary dependencies. Even though I...

About Django Dash Django Dash is an online, weekend Django hackathon. You get 48 hours to develop a Django app of some sort, from scratch. ...

I'm reading Ash Maurya's book Running Lean that I picked up from AppSumo's Lean Startup bundle [The bundle gives you $6000 wor...

This is a great post from Tim Kastelle: Why New Ideas Can Be Bad which ties in with my blog post from last year: Too many people are ideat...

This post is the first in a series of stories on selling. This stories in this post are from the book Hope is not a strategy . On targe...

This weekend I presented at the Chennai Geeks meet on using HTML5 to build mobile applications. As a part of the talk, I showed a sample sc...

Here are the slides from my presentation at Doctype Html5 (Chennai edition). The presentation is a very quick, very high level overview in ...

I attended TiECon Chennai today. This is the big annual event organized by TiE Chennai for the entrepreneur community here. I'll put d...

We had the October 2010 meetup of the Chennai OCC. Tony Aug, VP IT of Sanmina had come down to attend the meet. Once of the big problems sta...

One of the things I really like about unconferences is that there is very little "gyan" and a lot of experience sharing. This came...

I was looking at the position papers for the TiE Unconference . Position papers are topics that participants want to discuss at the unconfer...

From Naeem Zafar's book Seven Steps to a Successful Startup : Solving a problem that most users are not willing to pay to solve your...

A couple of links from the discussions at yesterdays OCC meetup - Naeem Zafar's Seven Steps to a Successful Startup - http://www.scribd....