A container for all my views with excerpts from technology, travel, films, books, kannada, friends and other interests. I am Thejesh GN, friends call me Thej.
Deployments are usually very painful. We generally write scripts to make it automated as much as possible. I wanted my method to be as easy as running single line on command prompt from anywhere in the world. I didn’t want to worry about anything. At last with some experimentation I have found my...
Since last december I have been listening to books than reading. It makes my daily commute enjoyable. The last three books have been Steve Jobs, Art of Inception and Ghost in the Wires. That’s three books in one and half months, not bad. I used to listen to lot of podcasts while driving....
My reasons: SOPA and PIPA are the worst laws that anybody can propose to stop piracy They are actually anti-technology than anti-piracy They break internet Even though I am an India, It hurts me and my business Internet is supposed to be international, not yet, it’s mostly controlled by USA India has an...
Ever since I joined Mavrix, friends have asked me about the project that I am working on. I have given different versions. But now that MySwar is open to public, here is the almost definitive description “MySwar is the complete guide to Hindi film music. It lets you browse your favorite Hindi film...
I love Sublime Text and Mercurial. All most all my projects use these two tools. Clearly I need a tighter integration between these two. Sublime Texts provides Python based plugin API architecture. Its quite easy to follow and write a plugin. So I took sublime-text-2-git and modified it to work with Mercurial. I...
Most of the people whom I work with are very confused about repository and work-folder of mercurial. If they are comfortable with that then they are hesitant to use named branches. Hence I stopped using branches for maintaining my dev and prod code streams. Instead settled on clones (forks on Bitbucket/GitHub). I find...
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Thejesh GN (ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ.ಎನ್) "Thej" is an Independent Technologist, Hacker, Maker, Traveler, Blogger, InfoActivist, Open data and Open internet enthusiast from Bangalore, India. He loves experimenting with all things life and hence some times he is called hacker and other times duct tape. You can read more about him here. Email [ i @ thejeshgn dot com]. PGP/GPG Keys are here.
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