Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Chromecast and Google Tv difference

Interesting the way Google thinks..hadn't even thought of the different streaming scenarios..

http://allthingsd.com/20130724/sundar-pichai-on-the-difference-between-chromecast-and-google-tv-interview/

Friday, July 19, 2013

Mobile App development

While doing Mobile App development, folks often come up with the question whether to use Sencha or JQuery mobile or in fact the latest Titanium from Appcelerator. Here is a nice comparison:

http://www.slideshare.net/stevedrucker/mobile-platforms-19979061


Saturday, June 08, 2013

Sideloading Windows 8 App

While testing the Windows 8 App, there are some things to consider, unlike iOS and Android there is no Over the air (OTA) or Ad Hoc testing that is available currently in the Windows 8 World. The only way to do this is via Sideloading:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/jj874388.aspx

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/jj721669.aspx

These were some of the links that helped me understand and implement the side loading strategy.

Sunday, May 26, 2013

Tumblr acquistion

Afterthe recent spate of acquistions andnews pertaining to takeovers, some articles revisited

http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/18/tumblr-is-not-what-you-think/



Tumblr acquistion

Afterthe recent spate of acquistions andnews pertaining to takeovers, some articles revisited

http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/18/tumblr-is-not-what-you-think/



Tumblr acquistion

Afterthe recent spate of acquistions andnews pertaining to takeovers, some articles revisited

http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/18/tumblr-is-not-what-you-think/



Monday, May 20, 2013

Yahoo takes up Flickr?

The eMedia is full of posts talking about how Yahoo has bought Flickr for 1.1 B and unveiled the takeover through a 1 TB free space campaign. This will no doubt, help Yahoo get the young and hip cloud to some extent back into its fold but will it help Yahoo at least make a dent in the ever expanding reach of Facebook, Tumblr and Pinterest family?

Only time will tell... 

Thursday, March 28, 2013

Azure Mobile services

With some new releases slated for Windows Azure, what caught my attention was support extended for Mobile service that can be quickly created through Azure Management Portal.

One of the latest blogs also talks about using multiple clients to communicate with the same mobile service.

http://chrisrisner.com/Connecting-Multiple-Clients-to-the-Same-Mobile-Service?WT.mc_id=CIC_TWITTER_Community%20Blogs%20_20130328_20130329053954_37107_WindowsAzure

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

TechEd 2013 in Pune

Was a great experience attending the TechEd 2013 in Pune. The two tracks I was particularly interested was  the Windows 8 / Phone track and the Azure Track. After attending some of the hands on labs and deep dives, I came out concluding that if not a 100% Microoft has at least started their march against the "Fruit" company and the Droid makers in the field of Mobility and Cloud at least.

Interesting to see how this war shapes up.

Sunday, January 13, 2013

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


Monday, January 07, 2013

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

Wednesday, January 02, 2013

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.

Tuesday, January 01, 2013

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.

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

SharePoint 2013

After a long time went back to my Microsoft buddy. SharePoint and started looking at the newer features in SharePoint 2013...To be honest not too excited :(

Found these videos that helped:

SharePoint 2013 Preview Unboxing Part 1


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-5Dcpearwg


SharePoint 2013 Preview Unboxing Part 2



http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=1fqxWuTItMw


Friday, August 03, 2012

Newer techs

It has been a fun last 5 months with lots of new technology tried - PHP, RoR, Alfresco, Liferay..
Not to mention to read up on lots of new tools in Social Media and Mobility.
Also did some deep dives into PhoneGap and Appcelerator...
Interesting technologies

Wednesday, August 01, 2012

Olympics

With the Olympics events going on, lots of things to ponder, despite it really being a great brand ambassador for international unity:
1. Were security measures truly upto the standard for 10K + atheletes to safely compete?
2. Are all players truly playing in the right spirit of the game that this event symbolizes?
3. The oft repeated - Why is India, despite having one of the largest populations and sending one of the bigger contingents still not able to get higher medal tallies?
As the event rolls on, you cannot but think about these things..