Starting my Second Innings at Microsoft

I will be starting my second innings at Microsoft on 11th October, 2021. After years of building customer facing products at my self-owned business, I believe it is now time to accept new challenges and build new things. I am excited to be joining Microsoft again. I will be shifting back my full time focus …

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Launching MDiGi.tools and DailyDevBytes

I have decided to give two of my side projects a little more attention, and have moved them to their own domain. These are: MDiGi.tools – Web based digital tools that work inside your browser. It contains handy little web based tools for helping developers, designers or tech professionals in accomplishing some of their day-to-day tasks. DailyDevBytes – Aggregates …

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Cost of Running My WordPress Websites

Self-hosting a WordPress website is often a trade-off between cost and time. When you have a commercial website built with WordPress, shared hosting or cheap hosting providers are often not a good option as you would want to have optimal performance while serving web pages to your visitors. So what do you do? If you …

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List of Plugins Installed on My WordPress Sites

In this post, I am sharing all the WordPress plugins that I have currently installed on my sites built with WordPress. You may also want to read my post about cost of running my WordPress websites. While the plugins listed below are specific to the sites I run, I also helped compile a post on essential WordPress plugins on …

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My New Projects – SDR Tools and SDR News

Update: These projects have now matured and moved to their own domain. You can learn about them here. Source code of initial version of these sites can still be accessed using the links below. In my earlier post, I wrote about two new open source projects that I started in 2016, namely: MM.css – A CSS Framework & MMpilot – A …

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A New Minimal Look and Static Site

Although I havn’t posted in a while on my personal site, I do try to keep it up to date with my latest projects and work. This year, you will notice a new minimal look for the site as well as a move from WordPress to a statically built site. In 2016, I spent some …

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Effects of being featured in Red Stripe deals on Windows Phone

A few weeks ago, one of my most popular app MyTextTwister Pro was selected to be featured in Red Stripe deal on Windows Phone. The deal ran from 23rd – January 29th, 2014 and offered a 50% discount on its regular price of $1.99 Below you can read more about the red stripe deal invitation and how being featured for …

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My sites now running on self-made themes

As you may already know, I started developing WordPress themes about a month back and released my first theme called Fastr for free download. I dedicated last few weeks to update most of my WordPress sites with self-made themes. The result is a few new WordPress themes which you can find on TemplateFlip. I have used Underscores as well as Beans theme framework to build these themes and …

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Fastr – a simple, elegant & fast WordPress theme

I use WordPress on many of my sites and love its flexibility and extensibility. A new blogging platform called Ghost came into existence lately. But WordPress remains my first choice mostly because WordPress is more than just a blogging platform. However, I was quite impressed with the simple and minimal design of Ghost blogs and their focus on blog content. Instead …

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2 million downloads on Windows Phone..

What does a developer ask from Santa on Christmas? A new gadget and all would be cool but how about a million downloads of the apps he made? Well, this year it was double the Christmas presents for me when downloads of my apps on Windows Phone reached 2 million. Only 8 months back, I had …

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