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What motivates us? The surprising truth

arroWebs — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 05:49:28 +0000

Have you wondered what motivates us? Watch this video, it might certainly tell you the secret. Well, lot of us don’t believe this – which is why we’re a lot

But truly though, the purpose and the mastery seem to overtake a lot of other material concepts.

We’re hiring

arroWebs — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:33:12 +0000

Over the next week, we’ll be reviewing the applications that were sent at http://bit.ly/cKgAoz and shortlisting candidates. Please apply using the form and refer your friends. More details on the link provided above.

We’ll be finalizing the hiring process as soon as possible and move on to the ramp up program. The training program for freshers that was planner earlier is still on hold and we intend to get back on it after the project pressures subsides – Don’t know when?

IP to Location

arroWebs — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:21:31 +0000

Most occasions we depend on certain web services that pump so much of ads to support their interface. We built our own using the binary database maxmind has for free. We spiced it up with some map so that it’s more visual. We’ll be making that an optional feature controlled by the URL very soon.

Earlier, only the country data was available – which it claims is still very accurate but what has been used here is their lite data for the city info across the globe. One thing that must be noted is that the IP information provided by these databases do not have direct relationship with the location of the user but the location where the IP range has been allocated. So, when we use our ISP, BSNL to connect, we get at least two IP ranges – one from Udaipur and another one from Jaipur.

The sad truth still is that the coordinates of Udaipur are wrong even in this – i guess they took it from a wrong geolocation.

Another update to the site

arroWebs — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:40:06 +0000

arroWebs website gets another update. We have added a host of new projects that we worked on as we crossed over to the new year. Please check out the What we’ve made section and explore the various things we’ve recently done.

Save MySQL!

arroWebs — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:58:02 +0000

If Oracle buys MySQL as part of Sun, database customers will pay the bill.

In April 2009, Oracle announced that it had agreed to acquire Sun. Since Sun had acquired MySQL the previous year, this would mean that Oracle, the market leader for closed source databases, would get to own MySQL, the most popular open source database.

arroWebs.com gets a facelift

arroWebs — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:46:41 +0000

It’s been long time coming. There had been at least three attempts lately and they had to be shelved . We just keep our fingers crossed and hope that you all will continue to support us as you have always been. Do update your bookmarks as the site now moves to the root and will continue to be so.

Visit the site now and let us know your thoughts and feedback.

Google Dance – heard of it?

arroWebs — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 09:56:44 +0000

Another SEO jargon – This is something that you better pay heed to. It seems like when google updates their servers with the crawled information, their test servers and the main results show different outputs. There are many tools that help quickly display the results side by side to compare.

Here’s a quick one that we put up at labs.arrowebs.com/googledance/. If you have comments, please post them here and we’ll get back with necessary updates to the tool. Though there are many on the web, this one is attempted to provide a very simple interface with no bells or whistles – sounds googlish? eh!

The Mobile Blues

arroWebs — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 09:35:23 +0000

We at arroWebs are trying to diversify efforts into mobile space but are finding it rather very difficult to choose between many platforms that are available. The coolest one being iPhone which is running into controversies like this. Sprint’s palm pre seems to be the way go.

Any thoughts?

The importance of enthusiasm

arroWebs — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 07:44:17 +0000

It’s very true that without this anything can be nothing sooner or later. There have been times that I thought it may not be a feeling that everyone has or need to have. But I just read this article which talks about how Steve Jobs makes it happen at Apple. Not a big fan of Apple that I am, still use an iPod for music and envy the folks who talk about their Macs. Many videos or screencasts that people do, they use one and it looks cool.

Without deviating from the subject, I think the way these guys feel about the products and services that they provide – it’s not just in their talks but in their beliefs. Now that I know it, it’ll be added to the mentoring armory and will be used where possible.

No matter what people might think how silly a product, an idea or what you do can be. If you believe in it – you can make it happen. It seems that’s what many felt about twitter, but I’ve read somewhere that the folks at twitter think that they can change the world with twitter.

Internet – what are we expecting

arroWebs — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 03:11:34 +0000

I happen to watch this video a moment ago and thought it’s a good idea to put it up here and maybe look for what would be happening in times to come.

Certain policy discussions that has happened worldwide is pretty interesting to see if it gets implemented in countries such as US and India.