The Irregular Journal of a Pseudo-Random Software Engineer
Last month I got a review request from Packt Publishing for a recent book of theirs on meteor.js. About six months back, I was heavily involved in developing my first real-time web application at work (Accenture). The idea of using the meteor.js framework for building that app came from my mentor who had then recently […]
1. Hank and Dusty were different dogs. Some people wondered why the name of Kents’ dog changed. 2. There was a truck repair shop called Sullivan’s; perhaps to honor the character of Chloe Sullivan in Smallville? 3. Amy Adams also appeared in a guest role in Smallville. 4. Henry Cavill looked like Tom Welling (Clark […]
I Love It by Icona Pop is the song that features in an ad commercial of the newly launched Samsung Galaxy S4. From the ad, you may be compelled to believe that the name of the song is “I Don’t Care”, but it actually is “I Love It”. It’s a nice, lively song. 🙂
A couple of days back, I got myself a new puppy. Nope, not the dog sort. It’s a variant of Puppy Linux, and comes with LXDE. The most wonderful aspect of Lxpup is that it is a perfect fusion of an ultra-lightweight feel (of Puppy) and a more usable (and beautiful looking) desktop environment (LXDE). […]
OpenMandriva, an association formed to create a community-based Linux distro sponsored by Mandriva SA and ROSA, is now a registered non-profit organization in France. The progress over at OM is going pretty well, and now they need a logo for the association. Yesterday a logo contest was launched by OM, which will accept user-submitted designs […]
I was so impressed with the latest iteration of my oldest favorite mini distro, especially its KDE implementation, that I immediately wanted to make Granular’s next release look like and as fast as Slax. Slax 7 comes loaded with all the bare essentials that actually make sense. Plus its ability to run from a USB […]
Just a small random poem I scribbled during my last journey to home. Out I went under the starry sky, unaware of the full moon shining bright. So beautiful as was the view; so much to see, so much to love. I had only drunk half a glass of its glory when my eyes turned […]
I have been developing mobile web apps since quite some time now, mostly using popular JavaScript frameworks, like Sencha Touch, which give a native look & feel to the app. Web apps have their merits, but using a platform’s SDK in order to develop a true native app is is inevitable in cases where you […]
Making reactive and real-time web applications is in fashion these days. Among popular real-time programming frameworks are meteor.js, knockout.js and signalr. Both Knockout and SignalR are developed by Microsoft employees, and integrate seamlessly with Microsoft products. Meteor, on the other hand, is though based on the cross-platform node.js, it is more Linux / Mac-centric than […]
I wrote this micro-story as my second entry for a short story writing contest at Accenture. My first story was Mihir Learns to Golf. In this second story, I made use of all the six pictures in the collage (above). And yes, this one has a moral as well — team spirit. Once upon a […]