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Monday, September 28th, 2009
Timezone changes while you travel
I’m just back from a business trip. I had to be in 5 different timezones in the last 2 months. The most annoying thing was to change timezones in each of my desktop and web applications. For eg. Google Calendar Google Voice (Funny that these two are still not integrated) Gizmo VoIP Desktop applications System [...]
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Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
Team Velocity – Right word at the wrong place
Agile development methods are overly hyped; probably after cloud!!!. I happened to read SKORKS today. I agree with his observation, ie. measuring velocity does not replace planning and scheduling on an agile project. Velocity is just a metric to measure team productivity. I would compare this to kloc or design complexity metrics of the traditional [...]
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Wednesday, August 5th, 2009
Building Software Development Expertise – Using The Dreyfus Model
Jon shared this blog two days back. I could relate to many things that we do in the organization. I was also surprised to see some of my thinking patterns reflected in the blog. Some of the points I particularly liked in the context of software development are: Majority of people will be most advanced [...]
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Sunday, August 2nd, 2009
Google Voice: Another Innovation from Google
Google’s acquisition of Grand Central a while ago was seen as a smart move by industry. They took almost two years to invite fresh accounts to try out their new beta program, . The good thing about Google Voice (for that matter Grand Central) is that it lets users integrate all of their existing phone [...]
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Thursday, July 30th, 2009
Hospitality Suite: Day 3
Its more like the meet the expert day of Brainshare. Each vendors get a room where they can showcase their products and talk to customers; you can attract more people if the food and drinks are better in your room!!! Presentations also started today. I must admit that the sessions were targeted mostly towards CTOs [...]
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
Catalysts09: Day 2
I decided to attend a couple of sessions today. The format of the sessions is called Workshop. Its more like experience sharing by industry leaders and some panel discussions around the topic. Since panel discussions can take a long time, duration of the session is 4hrs, which means one can attend only one session in [...]
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Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
Burton Group Catalysts 2009 at San Diego
Burton Group Catalysts conference is an annual event which explores cutting-edge ideas, current challenges as well as emerging technologies shaping today’s and tomorrow’s enterprise. Catalyst Conference is renowned for its attendee-driven agenda, high-profile speakers, in-depth content and fiercely independent point of view. This year, Novell is unveiling its Cloud initiatives through an interoperability demo in [...]
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Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
One Sunday Afternoon Visit to Melkote
Melkote is one of the sacred places in Karnataka. It has been in our wish list to visit this place some time. I read a pretty detailed trip report before starting to this place yesterday. You can see the process of jaggery making towards the end of this report. We visited that place too… The [...]
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Saturday, July 11th, 2009
Publishing Your Blog Posts on Your Facebook Wall
Collaboration is all about getting information easily and through the tools that you want to use. So, in this respect, I need complete connectivity. Since I started using facebook actively, I wanted my blog posts to appear on my wall automatically. So, I configured wordbook which takes care of this syndication. It appears to work [...]
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Saturday, July 11th, 2009
Using Reliance NetConnect with OpenSUSE 11.1
I wanted to explore the possibility of using Reliance Netconnect with my openSUSE 11.1. Finally, I managed to try this out today at two different outlets in Jayanagar. I must say that I’m partially successful as I could get it working once and got a speed of 0.5Mbps. Here is the summary. Several new USB [...]
