Category Archives: Technology

Toying with node.js

By Diwaker Gupta | Published: August 4th, 2010
A commenter rightly complained that despite my claims of “playing around” with node.js, all I could come up was with the example in the man page. I replied saying that I did intend to post something that I wrote from scratch, and as promised, here is my first toy node.js program: var sys = require('sys'); [...]
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Some thoughts on dbShards

By Diwaker Gupta | Published: August 3rd, 2010
I heard about dbShards via two recent blog posts — one by Curt Monash and the other by Todd Hoff. It seemed like an interesting product, so I spent some time digging around on their website. As the name suggests, dbShards is all about sharding. Sharding, also known as partitioning, is the process of distributing a [...]
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What is node.js?

By Diwaker Gupta | Published: July 21st, 2010
Image via Wikipedia If you follow the world of Javascript and/or high-performance networking, you have probably heard of node.js. If you already grok Node, then this post is not for you; move along. If, however, you are a bit confused as to exactly what Node.js is and how it works, then you should read on. [...]
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Rupee symbol finalists

By Diwaker Gupta | Published: June 30th, 2010
The ToI reported a few days ago that there are five finalists for the Indian Rupee symbol: I had previously written about the Rupee symbol here. The ToI seems to suggest that #4 is the likely candidate. According to the article, the symbol should have been decided by now, but I haven’t found any information [...]
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How the mouse moves

By Diwaker Gupta | Published: May 12th, 2010
Random interesting find of the day: IOGraphica. Here’s mine for about 7 hours at work: Such a simple app, but such a fascinating output. An easy way to create computer generated art! Couple of observations: I have a dual-monitor setup at work. I use the left monitor for email for browsing and the right monitor [...]
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