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		<title>Picasa&#8217;s Face Recognition works really well</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I take a lot of picture. I have probably more than 10,000 pictures on my disk comprising almost 30 GB of storage. I have tried a number of photo organization tools and had finally settled on imatch from photools. This tool has very nice categorization features though it still requires a lot of manual work. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.devenkalra.com/2010/01/15/picasas-face-recognition-works-really-well/</link>
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		<title>Powerpoint to Video</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As part of a presentation for work, I was looking for a tool that could convert a powerpoint presentation to video. There are a number of tools out there but they cost between $49 to $399 or more. I eventually discovered a tool at http://www.effectmatrix.com/PowerPoint-Video-Converter/index.htm called E. M. Powerpoint converter. This tool lets you convert [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.devenkalra.com/2010/01/12/powerpoint-to-video/</link>
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		<title>Fun with &#8220;complex&#8221; Hindi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let me start by saying that I am a big fan of Hindi, fluent in the language myself and proud of it. I also believe in having fun and that the best humor comes from making fun of oneself. In that spirit, here are a few &#8220;hindi&#8221; phrases:
Game of Cricket: Gol guttam lakad battam de [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.devenkalra.com/2010/01/12/fun-with-distorted-hindi/</link>
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		<title>The Anti-Facebook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is an understatement to say that Facebook is an exploding phenomenon. It is a great platform to share your pics and other tidbits with your circle of friends or the world in general.
But, there are large parts of your life you DO NOT want to share with the world. It is for yours to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.devenkalra.com/2009/12/07/the-anti-facebook/</link>
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		<title>Instaling SSL Certificate in Apache2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I went through a major process to set up an SSL certificate in a web server going through a number of error messages including:
Data Transfer Interrupted
The connection to  has terminated unexpectedly.
Some data may have been transferred.
and

(98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80

I am using a certificate from GoDaddy and running [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.devenkalra.com/2009/11/08/instaling-ssl-certificate-in-apache2/</link>
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		<title>Selenium locators</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am a big fan of automated testing and have started to look at Selenium as an automation tool. I have used Watir before as a tool to drive the browser, but have found that the learning curve for Ruby is too much of an overhead for some QA engineers. Since Selenium has a good [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.devenkalra.com/2008/10/14/selenium-locators/</link>
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		<title>Hiring by small companies for success in India</title>
		<description><![CDATA[India has been in the limelight in the context of outsourcing of software development jobs for many years now. The outsourcing process started with business process outsourcing (BPO) with the activities like call centers. It expanded later to outsourcing software development, maintenance and QA jobs to India.
As more and more companies moved to India, a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.devenkalra.com/2007/12/03/hiring-by-small-companies-for-success-in-india/</link>
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		<title>Software Development Tools and Infrastructure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Creating an effective infrastructure for the software development process can make a huge difference in the productivity of any team. In today&#8217;s environment of distributed and global development, it is even more important that the right tools for the creation, capture and preservation of knowledge and intellectual property are put in place from the outset. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.devenkalra.com/2007/10/23/software-development-tools-and-infrastructure/</link>
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		<title>Software Development Methodology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Developing a significant software product with quality requires that a set of processes are established in any organization. There are several phases of the software development life cycle (SDLC).
In the traditional SDLC methodology, sometimes also referred to as Waterfall method, the SDLC is divided up into multiple phases that are performed in sequence. The phases [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.devenkalra.com/2007/10/23/software-development-methodology/</link>
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		<title>Agile in a global development scenario</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Agile in a distributed environment
I had spent 4 years at my last job at VeriSign and the urge to do another startup started to gather steam. I left VeriSign in November 2006 and decided to strike out on my own. This time though, I decided to take a different tack. 
In my previous two startups, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.devenkalra.com/2007/10/03/agile-in-a-global-development-scenario/</link>
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