
For the information of the rest of the unsuspecting world, the images below illustrates the process of having Pizza at FusionCharts Lab. It has been long since our RnD team has been discussing about having something like a Pizza Chart (just kidding!)
And after closing down the sole Pizza outlet of Dominoz near our ex-lab, we are doing the same for Salt Lake Sector V.
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fusioncharts,
pizza

This was shot on the way to my maternal uncle’s house in Bhatpara on the 5th of September 2007 with all my friends. We had travelled in car and had stopped at various locations on the highway to take snaps.
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nature,
travel,
wallpaper

After the unfortunate seismic disaster inflicted by one Mister Dhruva Ghosh, my little fortune plant finally gets a new home. All this while it was staying in a plastic cup, waiting for Dhruva to restore something a bit more tasteful for its living. Continue reading
One of the most important challenges in the world of software design is designing a good API . Prominent software product development organizations are known for their wide developer network, extensive and helpful documentation, good support services and obviously: products that are worthwhile. Interestingly, a common thing between all these organizations is a “good product API” (stress: good).
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api,
design

It has happened with me a number of times that documents got stuck in my print queue like super-glue!
Perhaps it was the wrong document or maybe the wrong printer chosen. In any case, going to printer options and cancelling/deleting the print would result in all but the last document being stuck at “deleting…” state in the printer queue. Nothing would remove that last document from the list of print jobs. And you know that until that small little document is not cleared off the list no other work can be done without getting distracted! Continue reading
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printer,
tips,
windows

During my regular use of computers, I realized that there isn’t a good software that does simple repetitive actions on images. What I wanted to do is simple resizing of a set of images before I could upload them to Orkut or Facebook. I always ended up opening a huge image processing software to do the job. Even while using dedicated image management software like Picasa, I realized that for simple resizing of images I needed to perform a large number of steps.
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software release

It had been a pretty long time that I had been wondering about the various technical aspects that define a font. This time I have come across this very nice page with a simple diagram that explains a lot.
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design,
font
In my years of experience in programming, I have observed that certain performance ‘tweaks’ work best for certain languages. This is mostly due to the nature of the interpreter/compiler involved in executing a particular piece of code.
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javascript,
optimization,
programming