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ApnaBill.com selected amongst 15 startups to present @ Proto.in

Friday, July 18th, 2008

All the hard work of almost 9 months culminated with an invite from Proto.in to showcase ApnaBill.com at Proto.in’s July 08 event. Proto.in is India’s premier event for startups. Going to be held in IIT Delhi on 18th and 19th July 08 - its one of the most promising events that ...

A teaser from ApnaBill.com

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

The current week is just halfway through, but it has already been one of the most eventful week for ApnaBill.com - some definite advances to the release. We’ll be launching the live pilot mode release in just days time. More good news - we’ve expanded our network coverage from a handful ...

Updates - Life and ApnaBill.com

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

Its been long since I last blogged - and I was kinda missing the blogging scene. Days and nights are as usual - super hectic. At 4:45am, with “Summer of 69” running at full volume - work on ApnaBill.com is going on in full swing. Last week, we completed integrating our ...

Making web a prettier place!

Saturday, May 10th, 2008

As we speak, CSS goodieness is oozing out of ApnaBill.com developer codebase. I just wish if I could paste some screenshots of our work here… Anyways - that time would come!

ApnaBill.com completes 600 Beta Signups!

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

Nothing is more rewarding than watching beta singups grow on ApnaBill.com. We just completed 600 signups. We are planning some awesome schemes for our Beta users. So please signup if you havn’t already.

How do 300 svn commits feel like?

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

ApnaBill.com SVN repository has seen some real hard work in past few days. We have had over 300 svn commits and 87 live bugs - 22 of which are still open (in new/assigned/lingering state). These figures make me feel elated, happy - and confident that our release would be devoid of ...

LITBox helper for Rails

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Introducing - LITBox Helper for Rails! Disclaimer: This is a work in progress and is available on “as is” basis. For long, I was trying to integrate Criag Ambros’s RedBox plugin into ApnaBill.com project for implementing modal dialogs but somehow, the CSS always used to get upset, rendering the lightbox in such ...

So what is an {ab}normal day like?

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

Considering that I am more of a night person, my day starts at 9pm 9pm - Back from office 10pm - dinner 11pm - Start work on ApnaBill.com - pack a solid 3 hours of work - feature/bug fixes. 3am - Plan to watch a movie - search Rama’s collection. 5am - Yawwn! Lets sleep ...

Meeting Entrip.com guys…

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

The day was very hectic… was up @ 10 AM, saw “Horton hears a who” @ 11 AM, had a quick breakfast @ 1PM, started for LCG meeting @ 3PM and then finally met the Entrip.com guys at 6PM - all as I planned yesternight …and by now I ...

Back to the basics - validating HTML anyone?

Friday, April 18th, 2008

Its almost 4 AM now & past 3 hours saw a lot of commits going into ApnaBill.com code. After realizing that we were not generating (X)HTML code, the effort was targeted at containment, if not eradication Many thanks to Zundra for pointing this out to me. Due to an open ...