Troidus

How many blogs?

Indranil — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 12:53:53 +0000

If you have one company/studio, one upcoming product, and one or more personal domains, and you want to speak about the upcoming product, the company, and tidbits and links and life in general, how many blogs do you really need?

I’m thinking, one for the app and one for everything else.

PHP variable printing method

Indranil — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:36:55 +0000

At this last project, I kept having to use the print_r function to check the millions variables floating around. So, instead of always writing 3 to 4 lines filled with

 and print_r, I finally gave in and wrote a small function to easily replicate the dumping. Here it is :
function garble( $ar, $ondie = FALSE) {
    echo ' ';
    print_r($ar);
    echo ' ';
    if($ondie)
        die();
}

So then, if you want the function to die after outputting the variable, just add TRUE to the call.

National Novel Writing Month

Indranil — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:53:48 +0000

Yup, I signed up for it today. Yup, I know I’m 10 days late, and have to write almost 2.5k words per day. And yes, I know I suck at writing. But it looks like fun.

The US elections.

Indranil — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:41:00 +0000

So, Obama won. Which, in itself is a great thing! But what’s even greater is the amount of hope the whole World seems to have put behind him.

After a disastrous 8 years, where the US single handedly kind of tore the world apart for no particular reason, now, people see hope of one being rebuilt with trust and hope.

And while as an Indian, I’m not supposed to like Obama because he doesn’t support outsourcing, I think it’s brilliant! Now is the chance for us, for nations like us who’re so dependant on the scourge of the US to actually wake up and realise that we too should aim for the sky.

GObama!

Domainr

Indranil — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 04:37:23 +0000

A very lovely domain search tool and domain hack suggester, with a slick, if somewhat erratic Ajax UI. Helped me bag a brilliant domain! (via Garrett)

The wordpress app for the iphone

Indranil — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:11:45 +0000

To be quite honest, the most convincing reason to come back to wordpress was the WordPress iPhone app I had been dying to try out.

After getting to play around with it for a while, it comes off as a very solid and well made application. Though mostly I think that it is made for posting pictures taken with the iPhone, it’s actually quite fun to play around with, and maybe even write a short post when you’re commuting or suchlike. That is, of course, if you’re comfortable typing on a glass screen. It’s great for uploading pictures taken with the iPhone though!

Now, if only Flickr would release an app for uploading pics!

Take it easy

Indranil — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:49:54 +0000

The thing with my on-again, off-again, on-yet-again blogging spree has, I believe, a lot to do with my personality. I’m kind of an introvert, a loner who’s way to happy to be by himself. Yet, there are times when I crave recognition, to be heard, and to be acknowledged. Troidus, for what it’s all worth, has meant more to me than any other website, project or anything else I’ve done online, till date.

And one thing about myself I figured out recently. I grow different very fast. I mean, at times, I’m all for WordPress, next month, I’m loathing it. It’s got nothing to do with peer pressure or anything. It’s just the way I am.

I’ve had this blog since 2004, and it’s a shame that I’ve only got archives going back to 2006. That’s half of what it should’ve been. And half the time, I haven’t even blogged.

This time, I think I’ll let it brew. People stagnate blogs to come back to it later. So, if at any time, I find myself getting uninterested, I’ll let it be, take it easy, and come back when I find it appealing again.

So, with that as a lame excuse for any lapses, let me start Troidus.com again!