Wandering in the Phoenix Mall in Mumbai we stumbled upon the posters of the Avengers Experience exhibit. Well, next we were standing at the location trying to figure out if it was worth our time, as frankly I did not assume it to be that good. I've pushed my wife into Marvel Universe in the …
So, it's finally done and checked off the list. I've been to the Grand Meetup 2019 organized in Orlando, Florida by Automattic. Since the day I joined, it was on my mind. I had equal share of excitement and assumptions related to meeting all the people I see everyday through the Slack window. Joining Automattic …
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TL;DR: If you buy a Dell monitor and somehow end up with a physical damage to any one of its component, you cannot get it repaired. Dell does not provide paid repairs, warranty or spare parts to do the repairs. The only option, if your monitor must be repaired is to get a new one. …
This blog is a result of a long time itch to create and maintain a blog to write stuff, just about anything and everything that I want to share, have experienced or have an opinion about. I was going for the domain name with the keyword - curious, but it was taken and randomly felt like …
Recently I had a chance to grab a copy of Exceptional Service, Exceptional Profit by Leonardo Inghilleri and Micah Soloman and believe me when I say, it opened a new dimension of how I perceived customer servicing. Having worked in customer-facing industries for the majority of my career span so far, I had always followed …
Last year, in 2017, after celebrating my birthday, I had a sudden epiphany. I'm fat. I had been overweight for past 10 - 12 years and that was not for any medical condition, but because I had always been a laid back, eating everything, chilled out guy who wanted 16-pack abs but never did anything for …
We met a lot of amazing people who are doing phenomenal in their respective niche which includes development, sales, business development, customer support and so forth in the WordPress ecosystem. Everyone of the attendee was an absolute delight to meet. Whilst the interaction with many professional in the camp, I'm compiling the list of major takeaways that I can recall.
This post is to sum up my 50 hours long struggle which led me to do two reinstalls of Ubuntu, just to install Vagrant and then Varying Vagrant Vagrants for the WordPress Development Workflow. Now, let me make this clear, so that you don't have to browse through several tuts to read something specific on …
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Migration is a pain. Don't believe me? Ask any developer who've migrated an above average quantity of content from one WordPress install to another. You lose pieces here and there (at times) and when the post type and taxonomies needs shuffling, it's another ball game. Recently I had a task to migrate content from a …
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As far as I remember I'm using Gzip compression in all the websites we build; it's sort of a no-brainer. You build a website, you use Gzip, you be happy. But few days back, I decided to know more about Gzip just than the fact that it is used for HTTP compression; hence I browsed …
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