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Refocus on the Basics

Most of what I learned about programming was during my first year at Yahoo!. I wrote so much Perl code and dove into naive attempts at distributed computing, and the like. I was pretty proud of my code and that I put in hard work, and was vindicated when I went back to meet old … Continue reading Refocus on the Basics →

swaroop Self Improvement, Tech 6 Comments January 14, 2009April 21, 2013 2 Minutes

How Fresh Graduates Can Grow

As a small experiment, I had put up a skribit sidebar where anybody can suggest what I can write about. Little did I know that it would actually be used seriously. Someone posted the topic "On how fresh graduates can learn independently and grow. Instead of waiting for the Company to help" and today, there … Continue reading How Fresh Graduates Can Grow →

swaroop Self Improvement 13 Comments December 13, 2008April 21, 2013 4 Minutes

Thought for the Day

Look at the design of a lot of consumer products—they’re really complicated surfaces. We tried make something much more holistic and simple. When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with … Continue reading Thought for the Day →

swaroop Business, Design, Tech 1 Comment November 12, 2008April 7, 2013 1 Minute

Career Advice

There have been many times where I've been asked for "career advice", especially after a talk. I usually suggest them to 'build a repertoire of things you have done, things you are capable of, things you like to do'. But I've never really been sure of this advice nor do I feel I have the … Continue reading Career Advice →

swaroop Self Improvement May 9, 2008April 21, 2013 1 Minute

Last day at Adobe

As Jeff Atwood said recently in his entry on Choosing Your Own Adventure: I've spent the last six months staring at this page trying to figure out what to do. With some trepidation, I'm now turning to page 10. Thursday will be my last day at Vertigo. I will sorely miss the camaraderie and the … Continue reading Last day at Adobe →

swaroop Tech 17 Comments April 9, 2008April 6, 2013 2 Minutes

Closed source on Linux is hard

Update: Please read the article carefully before commenting. If you notice, most of the problems being described here is part of Eclipse, which is open source. So, usability issues are faced by open source programs as well, and not just proprietary programs on Linux. The reason I wrote that title was because this pain is … Continue reading Closed source on Linux is hard →

swaroop Tech 30 Comments October 22, 2007April 6, 2013 3 Minutes

Announcing Flex Builder on Linux

Now presenting the alpha of the Flex Builder IDE on Linux! (this was announced at the Adobe MAX 2007 conference). You can now create Flex projects, write code with intellisense-like hinting, compile and debug all within an IDE based on Eclipse, on Linux. You heard it right, it's officially supported by Adobe. Download it NOW. … Continue reading Announcing Flex Builder on Linux →

swaroop Tech 7 Comments October 3, 2007April 6, 2013 1 Minute

Moxie . AdvancedDataGrid . OutInTheWild()

Flex 3 beta 1 is out, and along with it something that I've been part of - the AdvancedDataGrid component. An example built using the AdvancedDataGrid is embedded below (it is a SWF file, requires Flash Player 9 for viewing): Notice the tree view within a grid - that alone is a feature not found … Continue reading Moxie . AdvancedDataGrid . OutInTheWild() →

swaroop Tech 3 Comments June 11, 2007April 6, 2013 1 Minute

Evolution of Adobe Flex : now open source

That's right, the Flex SDK is going to be licensed under the Mozilla Public License - this means the compiler, debugger, the huge libraries - it's all going to be open source when Flex 3 "Moxie" is going to be released. This news was not so surprising to me because I've heard there have been … Continue reading Evolution of Adobe Flex : now open source →

swaroop Tech 2 Comments April 26, 2007April 6, 2013 1 Minute

Big Brother

Long ago, I had seen Nat Friedman show off a small Mono app that displayed the amount of time you spent on each application, and updated the chart in real time - so that you could clearly make out how much time you're spending in the browser and how much time you're actually spending on … Continue reading Big Brother →

swaroop Tech 27 Comments April 10, 2007April 18, 2013 2 Minutes

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My name is Swaroop. I currently work as a Staff Engineer in the Machine Learning Platform team at DoorDash in San Francisco.

I write mostly about what I have learned in pursuit of my curiosity, mostly around software engineering, books and ideas.

I have previously worked at big companies, did freelancing, tried building a startup, and was at startups of all sizes (from 6-person company to Series B+ to acquisition).

Long ago, I wrote A Byte of Python beginners book and A Byte of Vim book.

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