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 February 19th, 2007
Took the camera along on my visit to Dadar yesterday. I enjoyed taking the pictures, and I am planning to take a Mumbai tour sometime in the next 3 months! There is so much of vibrancy and diversity. There are so many things to observe and learn. Just got present to the world around me as I was taking the pictures. I felt immersed in it, being a part of the world and saw the enormousness. Quite an experience!
Some more pictures here.
