Image Credit: A Japanese manga/character (let me know if you know).
2 ears, 2 eyes, 2 hands but 1 pair of lips
— By Brajeshwar
Bulletproof your self-hosted WordPress blog: how to survive traffic spikes
— By Brajeshwar
There is a rather complex, long and detailed article on how to Bulletproof your blog: a guide for surviving traffic spikes, but for all the other self-hosted WordPress blogs out there, here is a simple non-geeky solution suited for most of us. You don’t need to edit anything, pull or push anything – you’ve to just worry about your actual writing/blogging.
Note: Recently one of my article, Desingineer – the mythical person every Startups are looking for, stayed on the frontpage of HackerNews for about 24 hours and it held up without any problem. Here is the video of the traffic onslaught.
Hosting
Host with a service provider who can scale up when you get a traffic spike. These days, there are WordPress speciality hosting providers. If yours is WordPress, why not host with them. I’ve hosted with both WPEngine and Page.ly and they’re equally good – go ahead and pick one.
Stop torturing yourself with plain CSS, code with a CSS pre-processor
— By Brajeshwar
First, let me tell you, I’m pretty good with CSS. However, I’ve always hated writing CSS. Writing CSS is like using dried woods, leaves and rocks to lit a fire everything you need to cook something. You may become very good with it, but it’s an unforgiving task and you’ve to do the rigorous feat every time you need the fire. CSS is bland, dumb, linear and it’s utter lack of intelligence is derogatory even to the most novice coder.
Many designers and developers have urged the need for variables, constants or at-least some rudimentary intelligence. But it is unlikely, a far-fetched dream and is not happening anytime soon. And, there is the often dreaded math you have to do every time you write CSS grids/columns.
Tool Mobile App Maker ShoutEm Mobilizer
— By Brajeshwar
Mobile application revolution is changing business, social and lifestyle landscape. They complement our online and offline presence and enable us new ways of communication and interaction. They are changing the way we live. They become our lifestyle. Where is your app?
ShoutEm is tech startup located in New York and creator of ShoutEm Mobilizer – a Mobile App Maker that enables users easy creation of iPhone, iPad and Android apps. It creating new ways for publishers, organizations and businesses to share their content, message and extend their reach.
We talked to their CEO Croatian entrepreneur Viktor Marohnić who told us about his entrepreneurial venture into mobile app creating for top smartphone and tablet platforms.
A (Virtual)sit-down with Andrea Chang and her brainchild BrainGig
— By Robin Wilding
Most entrepreneurs go into business for the incredible experience or with aspirations of financial freedom – but very few go into it with a benevolent agenda like Andrea Chang. OK, quasi-benevolent. The technology/idea Andrea invented, BrainGig, helps connect individuals and teams with much-needed funding opportunities.
When Andrea saw the disconnect between existing funding opportunities and individuals working on under-funded projects she took the ‘Steve Job’s'-style approach – “I have an app for that.” For the last year her website has been helping individuals studying and working in the arts, sciences and humanities by connecting them with grants, fellowships and residencies.
Like many individuals breaking into the entrepreneurial business Andrea has an eclectic background; one that includes an education at the Harvard Business School, the University of California and Georgetown, in addition to real-world work experience in business development and as a financial analyst.
How is it like during the first hour when your site is on top of Hackernews
— By Brajeshwar
A tweet led to an article, which was fortunate to be on Hackernews. The above two-minute video is a cut of how my site experienced the traffic during it’s initial first hour on Hackernews.
And yes, NSFW is a service I run. It’s been giving my site a run for it’s traffic for quite a while.
Desingineer – the mythical person every Startups are looking for
— By Brajeshwar
“Desingineer” -> mythical person startups are looking for who can do UI, UX and also excellent front-and back-end coding.
That was a tweet from the Chris Dixon
Of course, many a founders who have also asked me, keep saying, “we need a designer who can code in HTML5, CSS3, Javascript and Python/Ruby.” My usual answer is, “you’re looking for a genius, you should try splitting it into (i) a designer who does HTML, CSS (ii) a programmer and (iii) perhaps even a separate Javascript coder.”
Social Entrepreneur Arunachalam Muruganantham Disrupts the Period Industry
— By Brajeshwar
Arunachalam Muruganantham is a social Entrepreneur who decided to disrupt the period industry, specially for developing countries like India, where cost of sanitary napkins is not affordable to most women. He says that only 7% of the Indian women uses the modern-day sanitary napkins and his target is to make the remaining 93% have access to really cheap sanitary napkins. Read more about his journey or visit his website.
Here is a Interview, by BlogAdda, of awesome man.
Robotics as advertisement platform
— By Brajeshwar
Went to Jaaga (photos) today to greet the “Geeks on a Plane”. I did a quick video talk with the guy (Shadab) behind ‘Shady Robotics’, who plans to use Robotics as a platform for Advertisement.
Entrepreneur Interview Series: A Sit-Down with Screenius genius co-founder Seth Cohen
— By Robin Wilding
Screenius may sound like the ominous description of an evil-genius iPad app hell-bent on world domination — but it’s far less maleficent than that. Screenius is a newly-launched iPad app that is joining the ranks of Angry Birds, Doodle Jump and Pocket God.
Screenius is another infotainment tool — one that helps you funnel your video choices through its ‘video valet’ services. This video-funnelling tool reduces the ridiculously-large amount of online video choice and whittles it down to a bearable size to offer you just two choices.
Quite genius if you think about it. If you were to go to a Ben and Jerry’s and stare at their 75+ flavors your eyes would glaze over as you tried to choose. Go to McDonalds however and your choice between their simplistic Chocolate or Vanilla is practically child’s play. “People can be paralyzed by too many choices,” points out Seth Cohen, co-founder and CEO of Screenius.
Screenius is more than just a video-viewing app though. It’s an intelligent app that learns your tastes as you go. If you watch TED Talks and The Colbert Report clips regularly, it won’t pop-up with Justin Bieber’s new Christmas hit or Jersey Shore reruns (both of which YouTube erroneously suggested to me last week, shudder). In addition to learning your likes the app includes review posting, sharing, and short menus for video browsing.
Themes
- Autochrome (WP)
- Nishita (Standalone) (WP)
- Nishita (Wordpress.com)
- KISS (WP, MT, Blogger)