Category Archives: General

We're hiring
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 … more

IP to Location
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 … more

Another update to the site
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.… more

Save MySQL!
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 … more

arroWebs.com gets a facelift
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 … more

Google Dance - heard of it?
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.… more

The Mobile Blues
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?… more

The importance of enthusiasm
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. … more

Internet - what are we expecting
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 … more

Upgrade Wordpress via SSH
The Automatic Upgrade, ever since it came into the scheme of things, we had mixed reactions. We told some of the customers that you won’t need us for doing this. WordPress has made it so easy that it’s available at a press of a button. Nay! The customers went to … more

WalkScore - an interesting addition
One of the real estate sites that we were working on required us to explore WalkScore. It’s an exciting new way to look at things – very practical also. Do visit the site and see what it does. See our implemenation using WalkScore API and Google maps API
It’ll be … more