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Brajeshwar is an ardent believer of KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid), he envision pushing the technical envelop time and again for the betterment of commercial and practical applications.

Rails versus Django

“These are the sorts of differences seen in both stacks. They are common, and commonly pivotal to arguments comparing the two frameworks. Proponents of one framework typically argue one way ‘because it is the way decreed by our language authors’. So really you’re looking at which language you prefer.”

(Via: SuperJared)

Pre Public-Beta

oCricket sports a new Design and an improved user experience. Check it out for yourself to experience the new features, experience, etc which besides the new Design includes the ability to add people as your friend, see their content (articles, photos and videos).

We’ve also moved totally to the Amazon AWS Cloud – EC2, S3 and [...]

Managers' Deadlines vs. Developers' Estimates

Deadlines come from external sources, for example, “Feature X needs to be ready for the summer trade show”.
Estimates come from internal sources, for example, “Feature X will take me N weeks to complete”.

oCricket on Alltop

We got on to Alltop’s Cricket section, starting from the bottom. Thanks to Guy Kawasaki and Neenz Faleafine for assisting us with the inclusion.

“Alltop is an ‘online magazine rack’ of popular topics. They update the stories every hour. Pick a topic by searching, news category, or name, and they’ll deliver it to you 24 × [...]

The Cricket Feeds

We’ve few more days to go before we open up the new UI and the whole new site to public. Nonetheless, our Feeds are totally open and finalized.

If you wish to stay ahead of the Cricket curve, subscribe to the feed of your choice.

Articles (or pick just the Excerpts)
Links
Photos
Videos

oCricket Blog
The Team’s Prologue

Typogrify: easily produce web typography that doesn't suck

Typogrify is a collection of Django template filters that help prettify your web typography by preventing ugly quotes and widows and providing CSS hooks to style some special cases. Read more about Typogrify from Jeff Croft.

100% on Amazon Web Services: Soocial.com

Soocial Web application: Nginx running behind an Elastic IP, proxying the request to an HAProxy on every “webapp” instance, each of which has its own memcache server (they don’t need to explicitly expire the cache). The reason they use Nginx is to supply SSL support, if HAproxy would do SSL they probably wouldn’t be using [...]

South brings migrations to Django applications

The main objectives of South are to provide a simple, stable and database-independent migration layer to prevent all the hassle schema changes over time bring to your Django applications.

Notes on a Django Migration

Scott Hacker, has posted an interesting, and quite detailed post discussing a developer’s move to Django. It’s both a personal account and a researched account, which makes for a strong post.

Read the article — Notes on a Django Migration.

GitX

GitX is a git GUI specifically for Mac OS X. It currently features a history viewer much like gitk and a commit GUI like git gui. But then in silky smooth OS X style!

Google Hosting YUI

Google has been hosting some of the popular AJAX libraries for awhile, now YUI have been added to that roster. Developers now have the choice between yui.yahooapis.com and ajax.googleapis.com when evaluating hosting options for YUI files.

Via: YUI Blog.