rama_vadakattu's comments

rama_vadakattu | 13 years ago | on: The Play Framework at LinkedIn

WE have written lot of code in Play 1.2.X all of a sudden they migrated to Play2.0 without any backward compatibility.This is sad.

WIth Play2.0 they introduced Scala Many folks has the opinion that Scala is complex, and i also lost trust in play because of no backward compatibility and i stuck up with huge code base which is not backward compatible

now iam looking build my other new applications on frameworks like Ruby on Rails , django leaving play.

rama_vadakattu | 14 years ago | on: Dealing with Wrist Pain

I too have wrist pain some time back.

To my understanding this kind of pain will come due to stiffness in the muscles in hands,shoulders,neck.This stiffness radiates the pain to wrist.After some months of pain i visited a famous doctor (http://www.deepaksharan.com/ (india)) he asked to take 6-7 session of Myotherapy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myotherapy) and also suggested few exercises , good posture which has removed the pain from my wrist and hands.

If you want i can send you scanned copy of those exercise posters.(rama.vadakattu at gmail dot com)

I feel you should also consult a professional and get rid of that pain by myotherapy ,regular exercises and good posture.

It is defintely curable (although they may be few exceptions).

rama_vadakattu | 14 years ago | on: Data URI Sprites

>> Just include the sprite dimensional and positional info in an inline CSS stylesheet on the page and generate a sprite sheet as you would normally.

Which set of images do you generate sprite for? Take ebay search results page , for every search it displays a different set of images.How can we construct a static sprite a ahead of time? However we can generate a dynamic sprite.

rama_vadakattu | 16 years ago | on: Ask HN: How to get major bloggers write about my bootstrapped startup?

you have paying customers that is really great. you objective in reaching bloggers is to reach more customers.

Why not follow the other approach instead of waiting for their posts...............

one idea is

1.Make your product viral.[Focus more on creating a component which helps the user to refer this product to their friends at some benefit etc..] Dropbox is a great example free 250 MB storage if you refer a friend.

rama_vadakattu | 16 years ago | on: Balsamiq's new UX Blog

Just curious to know

Is there any specific reason for having different blogs for every individual instead of a single company blog ?

rama_vadakattu | 16 years ago | on: Ask HN: Review my site -- socialreader.net

yeah exactly iam bit worried as i am relying on friendfeed platform .As they are acquired by Facebook i donot for how much time will they support their API.

For scoring/shares i used the following simple algorithm like

1)Number of people shared this link

2)Blog popularity (i.e) If the blog is popular more shares has to happen for it to appear on appropriate topic popular page.

Any other ideas on improving the algorithm?

rama_vadakattu | 16 years ago | on: Ask HN: Review my site -- socialreader.net

I thought a lot on this application.

Can you please guide me on

1)Is this idea worth trying and to focus on? Iam relying on

    a) friendfeed API to fetch diverse content like delicious, facebook,Google Reader 
    b) twitter API for twitter
2) Its sole aim is to provide interesting content for a topic (users can rely on this if he needs to keep track on a topic ),

3)What parts of the application requires an improvement?

Thanks

rama_vadakattu | 16 years ago | on: Ask HN: What do you wish you had known before starting up ?

The below may be seem simple but i don't know when i was starting up :( ................

1.Don't go alone atleast partner with one or two similar minded person .

2.Keep run way for atleast 1 to 1/1/2 Year.(nothing auto magically happens)

3.More features will not make your product popular. Implement few set of features which uniquely showcases the core idea.These features has to be done very very very well (remarkable).

4.Atleast one mentors in same area.

etc..........

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