Rambling Thoughts

Sharpen Your Skills

Posted on 20. Jan, 2010 by Nikhil Sheth.

Once upon a time a very strong woodcutter asked for a job with a timber merchant, and he got it. His salary was really good and so were the working conditions. For that reason, the woodcutter was determined to do his best.
His boss gave him an axe and showed him the area where he was [...]

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Scraping websites using YQL

Posted on 19. Jan, 2010 by Nikhil Sheth.

We typically do lot of data scraping for various projects. We either use php functions or CURL for scraping data from remote websites. This involves reading remote url content, removing unwanted characters from it and then using regular expressions getting relevant data.
While this is not that complex, it sometimes becomes too messy. So while exploring [...]

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Pinstorm wins ‘Red Herring Global Top 100’ award

Posted on 18. Jan, 2010 by Nikhil Sheth.

We made history of sorts yesterday, by becoming the only brand management firm in the world to be awarded the “Red Herring Global Top 100” award this year.
The award is given by US-based magazine Red Herring to innovative technology-driven and commercially successful firms around the world and picked through its editorial process.
While we have won [...]

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