http://www.techmasala.com TechMasala is a mixture of everything around information technology world. It is more for audience who want to keep in pace with what is happening in the internet world, for the newbies to the industry and know what foundations they should possess, some tips and tricks, latest in the web world. Wed, 27 May 2009 14:02:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It is becoming easy for me to identify phishing emails these days. Kudos to some of these guys, they give their best to get these mails delivered to inbox despite the mail clients constantly updating their spam filtering methods. Now these guys have to be really smart and surpass these ... http://www.techmasala.com/2009/05/27/hard-work-for-a-bad-cause/ Ever since I started working on the Amazon cloud, I was stuck with one thing - not being able to scale the web applications dynamically. To be honest it didn't even strike me until companies like Rightscale and Scalr started to come into the limelight. Until that time I was ... http://www.techmasala.com/2009/04/06/dynamically-scale-web-applications-in-amazon-ec2/ For the past few months I have been working on migrating our customer's applications to Amazon cloud. As part of the migration I was making some environmental changes like switching to light weight web servers. Specifically for Rails applications I moved them from Lighttpd to using mongrel clusters (mongrel_cluster) front-ended ... http://www.techmasala.com/2009/03/06/rails-web-services-connectivity-issue/ My interactions with my nephew have provoked thoughts of wisdom on many occasions. One such occasion happened recently. If you were an Indian you would know about the Indian roads and what it takes to cross the roads. There is only one thing Indian road users believe in. More than ... http://www.techmasala.com/2009/03/01/foundation-stone-48-to-lead-is-to-take-the-first-step/ Google Labs recently launched Offline Gmail a feature that was most wanted. The advantage of using a web based email client is that the mails can be checked anywhere where there is internet connection. But one of the disadvantages is there is no local copy that can be used offline ... http://www.techmasala.com/2009/02/04/offline-gmail/ Everyone knows in this industry you are in a rat race. The more you are ahead in the race the more you are wanted and the lesser you are a commodity. Even if you are not ahead in the race it is important you are still in the race. If ... http://www.techmasala.com/2009/02/04/foundation-stone-47-keep-running-even-if-you-are-in-the-rat-race/ Sometimes it is good to be a copy cat. This post is one of those. The Validation movie is the one that I had watched few times recently through several blogs I read. And everytime someone blogs, I watch the video again. This is one inspiring movie that you will ... http://www.techmasala.com/2008/12/31/you-are-great/ If you are a person who is keen in maintaining your balance sheets up to the penny and keep track of it everyday then probably Xpen$er is a handy tool that will let you keep track of your expenses in a simple and very effective manner. The application as a ... http://www.techmasala.com/2008/11/11/xpener/ "Necessity is the mother of invention". But are we pushing the limits of our necessity? I was thinking about it when I happened to see this new gadget - "Flying Alarm Clock". Have we become so lazy that we can't force ourselves to get up when the alarm goes off? ... http://www.techmasala.com/2008/11/07/flying-alarm-clock/ This is a forwarded joke that I couldn't resist laughing after reading. It is a copy pasted joke about copy paste. A popular motivational speaker was entertaining his audience. Said he:  "The best years of my life were spent in the arms of a woman who wasn't my wife!" The audience was ... http://www.techmasala.com/2008/10/23/a-copy-paste-joke/