https://hemchand.thalanchery.com/posts/ Writing on engineering, technology, AI, leadership, and product-building. en-ca Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:32:46 GMT Hemchand Thalanchery Hemchand Thalanchery https://hemchand.thalanchery.com/posts/ai-assistants-and-the-quiet-expansion-of-data-access/ https://hemchand.thalanchery.com/posts/ai-assistants-and-the-quiet-expansion-of-data-access/ Wed, 11 Mar 2026 01:43:49 GMT Hemchand Thalanchery Hemchand Thalanchery In the last one year, AI assistants have started creeping into everyday workflows. They summarize documents, draft responses to messages, analyze spreadsheets, collect receipts, and surface insights from tools teams already rely on. These systems have become dramatically useful when they can see the aiAI AGENTSAI AppsData SecurityFutureTechnology https://hemchand.thalanchery.com/posts/introducing-em-aide-an-agentic-ai-copilot-for-engineering-managers/ https://hemchand.thalanchery.com/posts/introducing-em-aide-an-agentic-ai-copilot-for-engineering-managers/ Thu, 05 Feb 2026 04:06:20 GMT Hemchand Thalanchery Hemchand Thalanchery Over the past few weeks, I’ve been building EM-Aide, an open-source, local-first agentic AI system designed to help Engineering Managers answer a very practical question: “Based on how my team is actually working, what should I focus on this week?” EM-Aide ingests real delivery signals from GitHub ( aiartificial-intelligencellmollamaopenaiTechnology https://hemchand.thalanchery.com/posts/signing-assemblies-with-a-pfx-file/ https://hemchand.thalanchery.com/posts/signing-assemblies-with-a-pfx-file/ Sun, 23 May 2010 14:20:00 GMT Hemchand Thalanchery Hemchand Thalanchery When you use a .pfx file for signing your assemblies in Visual Studio and if you have enabled UAC in Vista or Windows 7, you are bound to have trouble building or debugging your applications. This can be by-passed by using the delay signing option. https://hemchand.thalanchery.com/posts/jobhuntin-easiest-jobsite/ https://hemchand.thalanchery.com/posts/jobhuntin-easiest-jobsite/ Thu, 09 Oct 2008 04:15:17 GMT Hemchand Thalanchery Hemchand Thalanchery “redefine: EASY” This is what my friend and I had in mind when we decided to create a job site. To make the “Easiest Job site”. A job site which I and most probably you will use without scowling. With a lot of reusable stuff from Skillda and 2 months of planning and developme https://hemchand.thalanchery.com/posts/a-bad-worker-blames-his-tools/ https://hemchand.thalanchery.com/posts/a-bad-worker-blames-his-tools/ Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:40:31 GMT Hemchand Thalanchery Hemchand Thalanchery I have spent my last 4 and a half months learning how you should never execute a (software) project. 🙂 Though a big disappointment and failure, the previous project had changed my view on a lot of stuff especially processes and documentation. I had always considered micro-level documentation to be https://hemchand.thalanchery.com/posts/setting-the-value-for-a-select-list/ https://hemchand.thalanchery.com/posts/setting-the-value-for-a-select-list/ Fri, 22 Feb 2008 07:20:41 GMT Hemchand Thalanchery Hemchand Thalanchery We come across a lot of instances where we need to set the values of form elements programmatically using client side script. To set the value of a select list (in case of multiple select or single select), the best way to do it is to loop through the options, checking if the value matches [… https://hemchand.thalanchery.com/posts/the-left-right-dancing-girl-optical-illusion-cracked/ https://hemchand.thalanchery.com/posts/the-left-right-dancing-girl-optical-illusion-cracked/ Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:52:38 GMT Hemchand Thalanchery Hemchand Thalanchery The myth of the left – right brain test and the rotating girl is an interesting read and is a good food for thought. The original post says that if you see her spinning clockwise you are imaginative, ….. or if you see her anti-clockwise you are logical, … and if you can see her [&h clockwise - anticlockwisedancing girlleft - right brainOptical illusion https://hemchand.thalanchery.com/posts/follow-your-heart-or-your-head/ https://hemchand.thalanchery.com/posts/follow-your-heart-or-your-head/ Sat, 12 Jan 2008 04:10:30 GMT Hemchand Thalanchery Hemchand Thalanchery I don’t know how others think. But for me decision making was always simple and fast. “Just follow the heart“. I never cared to think if it was right or wrong. And I forbid myself from regretting my past decision or choices. This thumb rule made me take decisions which at times oth https://hemchand.thalanchery.com/posts/stealing-passwords-had-never-been-easier/ https://hemchand.thalanchery.com/posts/stealing-passwords-had-never-been-easier/ Wed, 19 Sep 2007 04:29:44 GMT Hemchand Thalanchery Hemchand Thalanchery I have already written once on how web security has taken a back seat thanks to the ever growing popularity of social networking websites. Recently I saw a trend in Orkut where people are setting their homepage to some http://meu.powerscrap.com/&#8230 ;. I tried one of those links and saw a rep https://hemchand.thalanchery.com/posts/css-style-positionfixed-and-internet-explorer/ https://hemchand.thalanchery.com/posts/css-style-positionfixed-and-internet-explorer/ Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:30:31 GMT Hemchand Thalanchery Hemchand Thalanchery The CSS styling attribute position:fixed makes an HTML element stationary (does not move on scrolling) and absolutely positioned. If you are familiar with position:absolute, the fixed styling is quite similar except for that it remains in position even on page scroll. Most of the modern browsers (IE https://hemchand.thalanchery.com/posts/javascript-and-cross-browser-window-focus/ https://hemchand.thalanchery.com/posts/javascript-and-cross-browser-window-focus/ Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:57:22 GMT Hemchand Thalanchery Hemchand Thalanchery It is a common requirement in today’s highly interactive web applications to keep track if the browser window is currently in focus. Let me tell you one thing. If you take a look at the browser events and the very limited documentation, you might be tempted to believe that you are in safe hand https://hemchand.thalanchery.com/posts/social-networking-and-web-security/ https://hemchand.thalanchery.com/posts/social-networking-and-web-security/ Thu, 12 Jul 2007 01:26:33 GMT Hemchand Thalanchery Hemchand Thalanchery Working on a professional networking website Skillda, I was always confronted with a question from my friends about a missing feature. In Skillda there is no option to import contacts from any of other networking sites or email account. Almost all of us are familiar with the large number of automate https://hemchand.thalanchery.com/posts/july-9-2007-a-day-to-remember/ https://hemchand.thalanchery.com/posts/july-9-2007-a-day-to-remember/ Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:08:20 GMT Hemchand Thalanchery Hemchand Thalanchery This date, I don’t know if it has any significance to anybody else. To me it marked the end of a very, very long journey. A journey I never believed I would finish. But I did it. I am really happy about finishing it. And I will always remember this day. https://hemchand.thalanchery.com/posts/python-relative-datetime-formatting/ https://hemchand.thalanchery.com/posts/python-relative-datetime-formatting/ Thu, 05 Jul 2007 13:38:59 GMT Hemchand Thalanchery Hemchand Thalanchery I wanted a function in Python to get a relative datetime string formatting. For a given datetime object, it should be compared with the current date/time and a relative date/time format should be given as output. For example, given a date/time lets say (July 2, 2007 7:00 pm) the output should be 7:0 https://hemchand.thalanchery.com/posts/openofficeorg-and-ubuntu-feisty-fawn-704/ https://hemchand.thalanchery.com/posts/openofficeorg-and-ubuntu-feisty-fawn-704/ Sun, 01 Jul 2007 04:38:15 GMT Hemchand Thalanchery Hemchand Thalanchery The OpenOffice.org package (2.2.0-1ubuntu3) that comes with Ubuntu Feisty Fawn distribution has some issues especially on the document conversion front. I did not face any problem on my dektop edition installed directly from the feisty fawn dvd. But on the server edition the conversion was taking al https://hemchand.thalanchery.com/posts/openoffice-as-a-document-converter/ https://hemchand.thalanchery.com/posts/openoffice-as-a-document-converter/ Sun, 01 Jul 2007 03:33:37 GMT Hemchand Thalanchery Hemchand Thalanchery Though not well known for it, OpenOffice.org can be extended as a doument conversion engine capable of conversion between almost all kind of office documents. OpenOffice.org directly doesn’t support a command-line option, but allows it to be run as a service. An open source tool JodConverter ( https://hemchand.thalanchery.com/posts/odondo-the-wireless-communication/ https://hemchand.thalanchery.com/posts/odondo-the-wireless-communication/ Sat, 30 Jun 2007 11:12:13 GMT Hemchand Thalanchery Hemchand Thalanchery If anybody wondered about Odondo- The Talking Drum, it is a West African percussion instrument. Used by local tribes in Ghana, it also serves as a communicating device for passing messages to far off places. I guess everyone of us has imagined the talking drum when we read the phantom stories. It is https://hemchand.thalanchery.com/posts/every-journey-has-a-beginning/ https://hemchand.thalanchery.com/posts/every-journey-has-a-beginning/ Mon, 18 Jun 2007 02:31:14 GMT Hemchand Thalanchery Hemchand Thalanchery This is my first real attempt to write something on the net! Though I’ve got some avid blogger friends, my laziness had kept me from starting my own. The laziness factor inside me has just melted off during last few days when I started looking at blogs seriously. In fact there were plenty of i