Archive for May, 2008

Gmail Type Attachment - How to make one?

Friday, May 30th, 2008

Google and its wide range of web applications have simple changed the way we used to look at internet. Be it the revolutionary fast Google search engine or mail by Google i.e Gmail. You will find enormous amount of threads and forums discussing How do google achieve doing XYZ? or ...

My Interview with Yahoo-Inc! (Part 1)

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

Hello Friends, Last month I was interviewed by Yahoo-Inc! for a job as software engineer. Here I would like to point out the discussions and various question/answer sessions I went through before I got my confirmation letter :) Probably someone looking to join yahoo can take some tips from here. In total ...

Life in Bangalore after IIT Guwahati

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

Bangalore, Bangalore, Bangalore !!! This was what everyone wished for in their final year at IIT Guwahati. Everyone wanted to get a job in one of the multinational firms in Bangalore and like everyone else, this was what I longed for and got too! After a long wait for my joining ...

Google, Yahoo, Microsoft toolkit for startups

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

Welcome, Well there is some good news for young entrepreneurs out there. Google released Google Apps which can be used by for your websites email, hosting needs. You can use all the google applications (Gmail, Gtalk, Google docs, Calendar, Page Creator etc) for your site and all for free. This really ...

How to configure Ubuntu and LAMP on Windows

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

Hello all Linux freaks, Having already looked upon how to configure Apache-PHP-MySQL on Windows, now here I will try to explain in short how to do the same on Linux OS. I personally don't have a seperate machine for linux. I run Ubuntu on my Windows machine using VM Ware. So ...

Essential frameworks for web development

Monday, May 12th, 2008

Hello developers, Initially when I started working on Altertunes, I was unaware of the various frameworks which one can use for his website. Though I never have used any of them for Altertunes (main reason being the eagerness to do everything by myself), but may be some of you out there ...

Altertunes featured in Bangaloreinc.com

Sunday, May 11th, 2008

Hello All, Yesterday Altertunes was featured and reviewed by BangaloreInc.com. This is first ever coverage of Altertunes over web. To read more on the same visit: http://www.bangaloreinc.com/2008/05/11/introducing-altertunescom-music-from-the-web/ To have a look at "In conversion with Abhinav Singh, Founder of Altertunes.com" visit: http://www.bangaloreinc.com/2008/05/11/binc-talk-time-in-conversation-with-founder-of-altertunescom/ Many thanks to Pravin Karoshi for covering Altertunes on BangaloreInc.com. digg_url = 'http://abhinavsingh.com/blog/2008/05/altertunes-featured-in-bangaloreinccom/'; Blogged with the ...

How to write crawlers and parse a page using Perl (Part 1)

Friday, May 9th, 2008

Hello all perl freaks, One of the most powerful thing which we can achieve using perl is, extracting any content from a website you want to. For example, you can use perl to extract information of all the artists from All Music, extract information about all cricket players and matches from ...

Web Development - Part 1: Apache, MySQL, PHP

Sunday, May 4th, 2008

Hello Friends, Ever since I have started web development and launched Altertunes, many of my friends have asked me, "How and Where to start web development ?" . Though there are infinite tutorials over the internet on web development, I will try to jot down my experiences and learnings here. To start ...