Reviews on Shivanand Velmurugan — Product leader. Systems thinker.

Battle of the static site generators

Wed, 10 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000

I set myself a goal to write more this year - in fact, I attempted to do so once every week. This required me to look at my blog, which led to the inevitable: small changes in what it looked like, led to general dis-satisfcation with the current solution I have to publish my blog, which quickly ballooned into a whole host of activities.

Let me step back a bit.

Sometimes, they are useful for a lifetime

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000

And sometimes, they barely hold your attention. However, the recent acquisition is the former. I got the mammoth of a book, over the weekend; it weighs a ton and I’ll be sleeping with it, clutched tight in my hands.

If you already have the tomb by tanenbaum of similar name, the unix programming interface, you probably are not going to glean much value from this one (you can thank POSIX for maintaining a modicum of consistency over the years and some would vehemently contest that). That said, if you write code for *nix systems, it definitely deserves the shelf-space as much as any other programming book.

Fun with an iphone app

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Got a new iPhone app called sketchbook, by autodesk.

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=327375467&mt=8

You need to check this out. Trust it is really cool and loads of fun

Review: A Year in the Merde by Stephen Clarke

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000

A Year in the Merde by Stephen Clarke

rating: 5 of 5 stars
If you are on your way to Paris, or on the way from Paris, or in Paris, or … nevermind… just read this book if you are associated, in any way, with Paris. You’ll love it.

(If you are French, read this too, get angry, rebel and then revel in the glory! :) )

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Movie Review: The Dark Knight (spoiler alert)

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

In a moment of mild insanity (actually more like boredom), I decided to watch the last show last night. I was plesantly surprised to find that the movie was playing in 2 theatres @ Silvercity, Coquitlam. With all the hype, and the huge revenue generation in the first week, the movie does deliver most of what it promises.

Before you start reading the rest of the post, there are few items, that could give away the plot. I wonder if one needs to worry about the plot in Batman. Here’s the short version of the review - watch it if you haven’t done so as yet. NOW!

Review: Canon 40D

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0000

The best thing since .. well a Canon 20D.

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The webfaction experience

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0000

The reason for the respite in my blogging, was my move to a new web-host. After several hours of researching, I decided to go with webfaction.com. If you haven’t already visited webfaction, DO IT right now! It has been simply amazing. I love the one click installer, and within hours of getting billed, I got access to my account. It comes with shell access, SFTP, enough space, rails 2.x (just days after it was release), django, wordpress 2.3.1 and a host of other webapps, all of which you can install with a just a few clicks on their web interface.

A review of "Crash (2005) (Widescreen Edition)"

Fri, 24 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Crash (2005) (Widescreen Edition)

Some one tell me what the hell are they talking about in this movie!!!! It is the mind-numbing experience of watching 7 movies at one go.

I must give it to the director though, for tying together each of the sub-plots, but man.. you gotta tell me something by the end of the story!!

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