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How to say “No”: A book review of “NO” by Augusto Pinaud

This is the first of a series of book review posts that I will be doing. I am a recovering people pleaser. I always find myself struggling not to offer too much of myself to others in order to keep them satisfied with my work. Last month, I was working on a new project for

Posted in Lifestyle

Starting it over again

Hello there! Yeah, it’s me! I know, I know, it’s been more than a year since I last blogged. I even failed to fulfill the blogging tradition this year by posting the year in review feature and my new year’s resolutions. To be honest, I had too much going on in my life this year…although

Posted in Ruby on Rails

How to create local copy of Rails API doc and Guides

If you’re a programmer, I’m sure you know the importance of API documentation. No matter what language you’re using, or what your expertise level is, API documentation is always essential for your reference, whenever you need it. Of course you can find and use API documentations online, but I’m sure there are many occasions, when you’ve wished to have an offline version of the document.

Posted in Lifestyle

Reaching new horizons

Here we are, on the very first day of the New Year – 2012. For the past 9 years, it has become a practice for me to keep myself free on the last day, so as to have a deep reflection and review on the year that was just about to end. I would take my small notebook and write about all the experiences gathered, as well as my New Year resolutions. Last year, for the very first time I decided to change this tradition and posted them on the

Posted in Lifestyle

Passing of a Legend

Yesterday I was burning mid night oil for deadline at Feedgen and went bed around 2.30 AM (IST) with the hope that I could sleep a little more in the morning. But, early this morning around 6.00 AM, I suddenly got a call from a cousin and said "Hey, your hero passed