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      <title>Vibe coding as a Software Engineer</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>I started vibe coding early June 2025 with the aim to write as little code myself as possible. My intent is to be a founder with a lot of time for marketing, sa...</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Sumit Datta</dc:creator>
      <description>Hello everyone, Sumit here from the Himalayas. I have been on a career break since November 2022. I was working with Hearth Display as their software engineerin...</description>
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      <title>The different worlds of Personal and Professional relations</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>I have somehow always mixed the worlds of Personal and Professional relations and paid huge price for that mix up. It is an aspect that I am still learning, but...</description>
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      <title>During the 2020 Pandemic: starting a new product from Laos</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Sumit Datta</dc:creator>
      <description>I have been traveling all across SE Asia since November 2019. This was part of my long term digital nomad lifestyle which would have otherwise taken me to live...</description>
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      <title>Mental health, Routines, Anchors and Blah</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>I started talking freely about mental health a couple years back. Initially I used to have enough lack of confidence that I was not even able to share that I ha...</description>
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      <title>Lost touch with writing, yet again!</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>This happens a lot it seems. I am 36 years old now and it has been about 13 years from my first blog post in 2006. Also, in between I already blogged once about...</description>
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      <title>It is OK</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Sumit Datta</dc:creator>
      <description>2020 will be a year to remember. But I am not going to write about the perils of 2020. Rather I want to talk about what is important to accept that is it OK. I...</description>
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      <title>Machine Learning, AI, Data Science in simple terms</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>Hey folks, it has been a while since I posted. I was in a peer group discussing some of these terms recently and then a friend, who was writing a post to demyst...</description>
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      <title>Continuous Improvement for teams</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 27 May 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>Introduction Are you chasing deadlines? Finding yourself looking at the Monday to Friday cycle every week and feeling like sheep in an economic system where peo...</description>
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      <title>Frontend Driven Development</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Sumit Datta</dc:creator>
      <description>I have primarily been a backend web developer, started out with PHP around 2005 and then moving to Python in 2011. I have worked with a lot of JavaScript, mostl...</description>
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      <title>The reality of failures</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Sumit Datta</dc:creator>
      <description>Look around your office desk for a moment (you can imagine an office if you are not at office). What do you see? People focusing on the daily tasks, glued to th...</description>
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      <title>Common Web Development Configurations (Older - PHP setup)</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>I am going to create a repository of common configurations related to web development software. These would include stuff that I use, or I have used earlier and...</description>
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      <title>Hackathon HH - 24 hours of awesomeness</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>It has been three and a half months since I relocated to Hamburg, DE. Working at a medium sized company is a very different experience from the entrepreneurial...</description>
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      <title>It's been a while</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Sumit Datta</dc:creator>
      <description>Yes it has really been a while since I had blogged last. 2 years, according to the date on the previous post. I have been feeling to write for sometime now, but...</description>
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      <title>PHP libxml issue while compiling</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>Today I had some trouble getting libxml to work in PHP. I was compiling PHP 5.3.10 for a client's Joomla site and it needs libxml. The issue seemed to be common...</description>
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      <title>Building a Yii app: The Data Model</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>A friend of mine needs a web application to be revamped. I had originally created it about 2 years back using a custom PHP mini framework that I had built for m...</description>
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      <title>Trying out non AWS options</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Sumit Datta</dc:creator>
      <description>I have been using Amazon Web Services for all of my (or companies' I work with) compute or storage needs for the last 4 years. That include AWS S3, EC2, SimpleD...</description>
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      <title>Trying out GeoDNS</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Sumit Datta</dc:creator>
      <description>For the last 3 weeks that we have started working on Mag, we have been talking to a few prospective clients or other knowledgeable folks out there. We want to u...</description>
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      <title>Schema Example on Amazon DynamoDB</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>First an apology to anyone who read my previous blog post. I had used wrong rates for throughput capacity. I noticed this since my calculations seemed a little...</description>
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      <title>Day One of Amazon DynamoDB</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>Its been just about a day that I have been going through the documentation of the newly released Amazon DynamoDB. Using the PHP SDK and getting a basic Table up...</description>
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      <title>Mag will use Amazon DynamoDB</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Sumit Datta</dc:creator>
      <description>Amazon's latest announcement (and offering) could not have come at a better time for Mag. I am talking about Amazon DynamoDB here and I feel it is a good fit fo...</description>
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      <title>Price comparison of dedicated or VPS hosts</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>For the impatient: link to spreadsheet. For the last few weeks I have been looking around a lot on the web, checking for details and prices of VPS or dedicated...</description>
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      <title>Serve static files from nginx for POST request</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>This is a quick tip, I haven't had the time to dig deep into this. I am working on a Facebook app, and was doing a demo with static HTML. Everything was set, in...</description>
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      <title>Height of Facebook custom Page Tabs</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>This is a quick tip: I am currently working on a Facebook app. I have a demo for a custom Page Tab. But somehow the height was not setting properly. The canvas...</description>
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      <title>Oh! So we have started up</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>Today is Friday, January 6, 2012 (Indian Time). Last week I was at MobStac at this time. That was my last day at MobStac. 2012 started with fun, food, a short d...</description>
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      <title>Shift from mod_wsgi to uwsgi</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Sumit Datta</dc:creator>
      <description>The last couple weeks we have been thinking to shift from our current web serving platform which was powered by nginx + Apache + mod\ wsgi to nginx + uwsgi. The...</description>
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      <title>The 9 to 5 work at MobStac</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Sumit Datta</dc:creator>
      <description>We are preparing for our new product's launch at TechCrunch Disrupt SF2011 (Startup Alley) and to be honest we are fighting with all our might. The last 3 weeks...</description>
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      <title>S3 storage for Django</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Sumit Datta</dc:creator>
      <description>Hi there! Am blogging after a few months now. I have settled in the MobStac team as an all hands engineer. I have shifted to Bangalore with 2 friends from Kolka...</description>
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      <title>Basic security setup on AWS</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>Recently at MobStac we restructured our layout of EC2 on Amazon Web Services so that we are more secure than earlier. We wanted a scheme that would not be painf...</description>
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      <title>Google's Les Paul Doodle</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>Today (June 9, 2011, India) Google's doodle on Les Paul is just a great time killer. Spent the whole morning interacting with it. I got interested to understand...</description>
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      <title>Vision, Team, Leadership and Business</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>For the last few days Nitesh and myself were discussing team building, work, processes, leadership, business and everything in between. As a full time team lead...</description>
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      <title>Kolkata's date with Bloggers, Feb 20, 2011</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>Feb 20, 2011 was a fun filled day for many bloggers of Kolkata. Probably for the first time here we had two back to back blogging events organized separately in...</description>
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      <title>Buzzwords: Cloud, Mobile, Social</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 19 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>The list of the hottest buzzwords in the industry would certainly include Cloud , Mobile and Social. The impact they each of these have is immense, and when com...</description>
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      <title>Good code, great code</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Sumit Datta</dc:creator>
      <description>When you do software development (or any other work for that matter), getting to the first 60% is comparatively easier than the rest 40%. The initial 60% work u...</description>
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      <title>Free web hosting with Amazon Web Services (AWS)</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Sumit Datta</dc:creator>
      <description>I have deliberately titled this blog post such that it gets more hits when people search one of the most common issues related to hosting: free web hosting :D....</description>
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      <title>Templates with Mustache in JavaScript and PHP</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>For a long time I have used PHP as the template language with nothing else on top of it. No template engines ever. This was all fine till the point that we want...</description>
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      <title>A simple clean good looking pagination</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>We are re writing few base codes in forums.com and one of things re written is the pagination logic. We needed something very simple, good looking, yet works. T...</description>
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      <title>Users! Where are they?</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 12 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>In our effort to build forums.com there are a lot of things that we must learn, one of them being the art/science of getting users. First of all I must tell you...</description>
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      <title>To startup or not to startup</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>Just yesterday and day before a friend came up to me and said he was confused. He was building iPhone apps and was earning very well. But he was not sure if he...</description>
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      <title>Kolkata adda at AD38, Nov 3, 2010</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>We have planned a Kolkata meetup (adda) at AD38, Salt Lake Sector 1, on November 3, 2010, from 6PM onwards. Its a no agenda meet, the original adda, Bengali for...</description>
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      <title>Movie: Letters to Juliet</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 24 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>I had a fine opportunity to catch two movies back to back today all by myself. The movies were &quot;Letters to Juliet&quot; and &quot;The Other Guys&quot;. &quot;The Other Guys&quot; wasn't...</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>Recently read a notice on Google Groups Announcements Page that Google Groups will no longer support pages and files. From November 1, 2010 Google Groups will n...</description>
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      <title>Odd error with Redis, PHPRedis, Gearman, PHP</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>We have a setup for background jobs for all the websites we manage like forums.com, files.com, payments.com, etc. The background jobs play around with lists of...</description>
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      <title>Senior developer for software.com (PHP)</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Sumit Datta</dc:creator>
      <description>We are looking for a senior developer for software.com. Here are the details: At least 4 years experience in developing with PHP At least 1 year in a large E co...</description>
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      <title>Requirements for Software.com</title>
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      <description>After a long battle I finally got my first look at ESPN HD on our newly installed Airtel DTH HD. We have a Samsung Series 5 40&quot; LCD (LA40C550) which is a full H...</description>
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      <dc:creator>Sumit Datta</dc:creator>
      <description>We recently bought a new Airtel Digital TV DTH service for our Salt Lake office. All was fine until I noticed an upgrade to Airtel DTH HD (High Definition) at a...</description>
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      <description>At forums.com we are trying to look at something similar to what Facebook and other sites do when it comes to displaying external content. Users usually refer t...</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Sumit Datta</dc:creator>
      <description>Its been a while since I have written anything. Well I have been very busy with work lately (forums.com to be precise, which will launch soon). More on that in...</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Sumit Datta</dc:creator>
      <description>Hi all, At the Upper Wood Street CCD we came across a blog post on Venture Woods, informing an Angel Investor Event happening on the 21st of this month. During...</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>Hey Kolkatans, Kolkata had another splendid OCC, on Sat Aug 29. We did have some glitches, with the Internet not working at the Park Street CCD venue. And since...</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Sumit Datta</dc:creator>
      <description>We need a very experienced PHP developer willing to work full time on a contract basis. This is telecommute work so you can work from anywhere. You will be work...</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Sumit Datta</dc:creator>
      <description>Hello Kolkatans, I am glad to make this blog on what happened yesterday at our first attempt to bring people to a CCD. That does not sound out of the ordinary r...</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Sumit Datta</dc:creator>
      <description>Hello fellow Kolkatans, Wednesday, August, 26th, 2009 we are kicking off Open Coffee Club in Kolkata. You may already be aware of OCC. Its simply bringing your...</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Sumit Datta</dc:creator>
      <description>Webhosts like GoDaddy and other similar often limit how much you can import with the online control panel (phpMyAdmin in most cases). So here is a simple PHP sc...</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>Continued from Introduction to Amazon EC2 (Continued...)... If you have come this far then I can assume you have an Amazon account, Firefox, Elasticfox extensio...</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>Continued from Introduction to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)... So now that you have seen the feature lists and have some idea, lets start with the...</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>Continued from Dummies Introduction to Amazon Web Services... Imagine you need a web server. The hardware and the software, all together. You have a website whi...</description>
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      <title>I am back!</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Sumit Datta</dc:creator>
      <description>It's been a long while since I got lost. Well personal, professional and all other kinds o nals. But its good to be back. Have been doing a lot of Amazon WS the...</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Sumit Datta</dc:creator>
      <description>Lot of you may have heard of this. Well certainly you have heard of Amazon.com and if you are into software/IT/web there is a good chance someone in your compan...</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Sumit Datta</dc:creator>
      <description>Writing after a really long time. Just doing my usual work stuff when I suddenly found search on Google has changed. Almost every other site on the web is now u...</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Sumit Datta</dc:creator>
      <description>Seems Google has made a quick fix. First the redirect URL now seems forbidden: And after that all seems back to normal. A search through most common terms takes...</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Sumit Datta</dc:creator>
      <description>I have learnt a lot in past 4 years of PHP and here are some tips I want to share: Think in code : Many times when we learn a foreign language we are told to th...</description>
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      <title>I uninstalled sqlite on my Linux box !!!</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Sumit Datta</dc:creator>
      <description>Well I somehow felt I could yum erase sqlite since I do not need it. Well I did not see the dependencies that would be removed too! The result: yum, rpm, php, h...</description>
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      <title>My laptop: my local web server</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Sumit Datta</dc:creator>
      <description>Well two months back I bought my first laptop. A Compaq V3155AU with following configuration: AMD Turion64 (single core) 2.0Ghz Hyper Threading support 512MB DD...</description>
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      <title>Problems with installing Yum on Fedora Core 4</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>&quot;There is a problem importing one of the Python modules&quot; : ever faced this error after installing an running yum. Well I faced that. And searched on Google for...</description>
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      <title>Upgrading forum with phpBB2 and restoring from database backup</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Sumit Datta</dc:creator>
      <description>Well I had to do some phpBB (phpBB2) issues for a client who runs hispanito.com. He had a forum which ran on probably phpBB2 version 2.0.7 and with MySQL 4.x. N...</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Sumit Datta</dc:creator>
      <description>My ISP has a little fault that I use to my advantage. The software that they use works kinda in the following way: Before I login to their network all my extern...</description>
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      <title>Share our web hosting server</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Sumit Datta</dc:creator>
      <description>Recently me and some friends changed from our web hosts to a full dedicated server. We took a nice server from Layered Technologies (http://www.layeredtech.com/...</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 09 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Sumit Datta</dc:creator>
      <description>Me an some friends took a new server two days back. We threw in Xen and made four guests. I being in one of the guests which runs Fedora Core 5. I had to instal...</description>
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      <title>Making a Hello World PHP extension with VC++ Toolkit 2003</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 06 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Sumit Datta</dc:creator>
      <description>I wanted to do some PHP Extension making and so started googling around for help. Most help is about using VC++ 6.0 or have project files for the full VC++ IDE....</description>
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      <title>banyanTree project</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>The banyanTree Project Introduction: The banyanTree project is intended to be the central resource to bring volunteers (interested professionals, students, prog...</description>
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      <title>Human Language Learning System</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 13 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Sumit Datta</dc:creator>
      <description>Its Exam time going on now... so cant think much :P But for few days two different ideas have been making rounds in my brain(ahh brainless has a brain o.O). The...</description>
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      <dc:creator>Sumit Datta</dc:creator>
      <description>Discussion on banyanTree (freenode): [14:31] ai2097: Hate to be Mr. Negative... but shouldn't the details about what is being provided be pinned down first? Is...</description>
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      <title>Roadmap for GData module work</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 05 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Sumit Datta</dc:creator>
      <description>How to successfully complete this project ? Well the answer follows as a roadmap: 1. Atom module presents the features of Atom syndicating protocol and it seems...</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 05 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Sumit Datta</dc:creator>
      <description>Me in a Drupal project : I am a PHP coder for almost 3 years now. I have knowledge of C / C++ and so I chose PHP 3 years back for web programming due to the sim...</description>
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      <title>GData module for Drupal</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 05 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Sumit Datta</dc:creator>
      <description>Introduction : GData is a (new) protocol from Google which is based on RSS and Atom and combines both of them. Infact underlying GData are actually RSS and Atom...</description>
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      <title>Further Clarification on Apache SCT</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 04 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>Further Clarification on Apache SCT (Simple Config Tool) With regard to discussions on httpd dev channel on freenode yesterday I am posting some more details: T...</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 04 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Sumit Datta</dc:creator>
      <description>Simplifying Apache configuration : The intention of this project is to make a tool or application which will greatly simplify the configuration process for Apac...</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 03 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Sumit Datta</dc:creator>
      <description>The College project : An 8085 Microprocessor Kit Emulator The project, done in C++ tries to emulate the functions of an 8085 emulator ditto as a hardware traine...</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 02 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Sumit Datta</dc:creator>
      <description>A Sample Settings Form: Welcome back, Sumit Edit settings for your website Website domain Tip: This is the domain name for this site. Do not use http:// I have...</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 02 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Sumit Datta</dc:creator>
      <description>Name : Sumit Datta Project Title : Simplifying Apache configuration Synopsis : The intention of this project is to make a tool or application which will greatly...</description>
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      <dc:creator>Sumit Datta</dc:creator>
      <description>Oh hello, 2006: I am Sumit (brainless or techfundas on some IRC channels). A student web developer from India. Interested in Computers, Music, Movies. You know...</description>
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