Aaron Swartz

It was indeed a sad day today to hear about the untimely death of Aaron Swartz..
Co-founder of Reddit, Demand Progress...

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/technology/aaron-swartz-internet-activist-dies-at-26.html?_r=0

Vertica

http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2013/01/11/h-p-using-its-analytics-software-to-grow-sales/?mod=wsjcio_hps_cioreport

I was a little surprised today to read about Google blocking Win 8 Google maps functionality.
http://t.co/XHumUYXI

Happy New Year 2013

Here's wishing all my friends a very Happy and Prosperous New Year. May the new year bring everybody peace, happiness, health and everything they wish for.

Open source stack

Looking at the different open source options like Node.js with MongoDB.
Also looking at Google's AngularJS to see how it fits into the overall scheme of things.
Looked at Testacular + Jasmine combination for a proper testing framework and found the power in the simplicity of this testing framework.