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The American Kanavu

• June 20th, 2010
• Posted in Fiction

The minute you entered his room you left the sultry surroundings of Madras and entered a different world, one that resonated with who he wanted to become one day.  His bookshelves resembled a timeline.  One shelf started with John Locke and ended with Dan Brown in between it were Kerouac, Hemingway, and Steinbeck.  Another was [ READ MORE ]

Ruby Tuesday: Pitfalls of Prototyping in Rails

• June 14th, 2010
• Posted in Ruby Tuesday . Software Development

My last Ruby Tuesday post was pretty laudatory regarding prototyping in Rails.  In this post I’m switching gears and exposing the pains and limitations with Rails. The development team at my current startup is composed of engineers and designers, basically I make everyone on the team write code  I understand that Rails’ benefit is [ READ MORE ]

From Duke to Mint: The Blue She-Devil and Successful Startup

• June 8th, 2010
• Posted in My Experience

Podcast of my talk to the Master of Engineering Management students in January 2010 is available on iTunes. [ READ MORE ]

Ruby Tuesday: Push Button Prototyping in Rails

• June 8th, 2010
• Posted in Ruby Tuesday

I realize I’ve been neglectful in posting articles on Ruby development.  So back by popular demand I’m going to make an effort to resume the Ruby Tuesday series. For the past couples months I’ve been playing with Rails and have been building my product’s prototype with it. The last time I created a prototype for a [ READ MORE ]

Startup Founder: Prepping, Prototyping, and Pitching

• June 6th, 2010
• Posted in My Experience . My Startup

In 2 days I’ll be celebrating my 6 month anniversary of leaving my last startup and working on my current one (cue Jay-Z).  Having been a startup engineer I knew I had to prepare myself for the transition to founder. The long hours of a startup engineer are drastically different from the long hours of a founder. [ READ MORE ]