nirav May 29th, 2007
Yesterday, 27th May 2007, Magnet completed 8 years of building high end web applications. Last 8 years have been a roller coaster ride. We have been at the peak, and we have hit bottoms. But bit by bit, through the hard work of all the people who have worked with us, we have grown. We have grown in experience, size and wisdom.
Thank you, to all the people who contributed. From the college friends who started off, the Magnet e-zine team, initial employees, to clients, associates, families, and everyone else.
We celebrated the 8th Anniversary! Pictures over here!
nirav May 20th, 2007
We had another Hackfest in Magnet this weekend. The last Hackfest was a roaring success. We had only five participants this time, but it was fun as well. For me, it was a “Samosa to Samosa” hack fest. We started at Saturday 7pm, and I really got on after 3 samosas in my tummy around 8.30! And after a Sunday morning dose of samosas, I started pacing down!
Collectively we did a number of things. Let me put some bullet points:
- Openfire integration with MSN, Yahoo!, Google and AOL messengers. So now we can easily talk to our clients using the same internal Jabber based messenger system.
- Streamlined user level backup system - spanning multiple servers and multiple configurations
- Lot of research on Microsoft Share Point Portal Server
- 3D UI with standard Flex components on Outsmart Labs. Amazing work! I wonder how they are doing it!
- We read a lot of blogs and learnt many new things!
- A lot of QuickSilver hacking
- Batch audio conversion using Switch as I wrote earlier
- Lot of research on mobile and mobile web - the trends, technologies etc
- SQL Injection and general hacking around
- SVN
- MySQL Clustering
- And we watched “Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro” - had a great time laughing! Spent more than an hour getting the VCD to show up on the projector though!
- The dinner and in-between discussions were insightful - we talked on topics ranging from security, grid computing, mobile as a computer, IPTV, Windows hacking, Benefits of eating healthy food, GTD philosophy, planning with a calendar, RSS subscriptions with Thunderbird and MP3 streaming
Good fun as usual! I am always looking forward to Hackfests in Magnet! Missed Kartik, Ameya and Naveen though!
nirav April 20th, 2007
We are ready to shoot! The first ever Mumbai Photo Marathon will happen this Sunday. We have a little different style of doing things compared to other Photo Marathons, considering this is the first time we are doing it! But we will have lots of fun, lots of great pictures and many new friends!
Rules of the game:
- Capture all themes. 12 Photographs to be submitted in total.
- Meet the rest of the participants at at least two spots during the day
- Be creative
- Have fun!
Themes
- Roadside Mumbai
- Mumbai Rush
- Tourists in Mumbai
Day Plan
- Juhu Beach, Vile Parle W - 6.15AM (meeting spot # 1)
- Bandra - on the way
- Dadar Station – 10AM
- Haji Ali – 12 Noon (meeting spot # 2)
- Crawford Market / CST Station / Flora fountain / Fashion Street - 2 PM to 5PM
- Gateway of India – 5 pm to 6pm (meeting spot # 3)
- Marine Drive Girgaum Chowpatty – Sunset time (around 6.45)
Participants so far
- Nirav Mehta (093225 04767)
- Kapil Bhatia (098203 31910)
- Nikita Bhansali
- Shabbir Leo Shiraj
- Mansi Bhayani
- Bharat Nijhawan
- Prakash Bhatt
- Sachin Goradia
- Ameya Pandit
- Sai Chitle
- Arun Bagul
- Prem
- Dhara
Ready for it?
(thanks to Ashok S for the logo)
nirav April 15th, 2007
Taking on from the lead from Kapil, and my initial post, I am set for a full day of photography in Mumbai on the coming Sunday. A few friends have already shown interest including Kapil, Harsh and Kartik. Would be great if more people can join.
Here’s the idea:
Amature / Professional photographers take a day tour of Mumbai, clicking shots based on 3 distinct themes. Everyone submits 12 best shots from the ones they have taken, and we pool them together. All participants may meet at the end of the day and share their photos and stories.
What do you get?
- Privilege of participating in first such even in Mumbai
- An opportunity to exeprience Mumbai
- A reason to freak out
So what are the themes?
- Roadside Mumbai
- Mumbai Rush
- Tourists in Mumbai
Drop me an email if you would like to join. The email is nirav (at) mehtanirav . com
Let us know your comments in any case!
nirav March 14th, 2007
We have had a good start to MainBhiBookie. More than 200 people have already registered in the last 3 days and there are a lot of lineups added. People are challenging each other and we have been getting good reviews from early users. The World Cup has just started, so if you missed taking on a challenge about the world cup matches with your friends, start today.