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    Tribute to a legendary software engineering guru

    19th November 2022 /

    As a tribute to the ‘legendary’ Frederick P Brooks Jr., who passed away on the 17th of November 2022, I have started re-reading his classic “The Mythical Man-Month”. The book amazes me every time I read it and I keep learning new things. #SoftwareEngineering #projectmanagement

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    13th December 2011

    Neither here Nor there

    7th February 2007

    Five Point Someone

    29th December 2007
  • Apps,  Technology

    Ten things not to learn from Big Tech on customer support

    1st August 2022 /

    TEN things every #SaaS founder should NOT be learning from the #BigTech & other popular apps. The bigger firms have great tech stacks and scale, but their DNA was never created for supporting individual consumers – they may have a good heart, but their size makes it impossible for them to care for a single consumer. #saasboomi #not_to_be_learned 1️⃣ Don’t publish contact details, no phone numbers & definitely no email. 2️⃣ Have support forums answered by the community. Give them stars (save $$$). No usable Search, better a broken one. The genuinely interested can use Quora and Reddit, with no liability to the product owners for the accuracy of the…

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    14th August 2006

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    24th January 2004

    Unlocker

    27th November 2007
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    The future for Software Engineers by 2040

    29th October 2021 /

    How latest trends will impact software engineering by 2040 and how developers can thrive. For the next three days, Azure Community Conference is happening online. With over 200+ talks across ten tracks, speakers from around the world, this is one of the largest technology conferences organized by Microsoft community enthusiasts. I was invited to deliver a talk on the future trends that are under way in the software industry. Titled “The future for Software Developers by 2040” I presented on four topics: First, the current job market, immediate changes expected post pandemic and long-term trends. Second, the changes that have in the last eighteen months around the practice “Work from…

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    Vista DualBoot woes

    20th November 2006

    How to execute a .NET 1.1 Application with .NET 1.0 framework?

    14th August 2004

    Virtual Earth for India

    7th March 2006
  • Apps

    Using Windows Sticky notes in iPhone & iPad

    8th October 2021 /

    I found a neat tip for #iPhone & #iPad if you are also using the OneNote/Sticky Notes app in Windows. Add #Outlook or #Hotmail in the iOS accounts & enable Notes. Now, you can use the Apple #Notes app to access the same notes that you have in Windows and Outlook.com.

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    How to jot down in your mobile, notes and items to remember?

    28th September 2022

    Encoded URL Decoder

    25th January 2004

    What are FaceBookUpdate & GoogleUpdate?

    18th October 2011
  • Coding,  Flashback,  Homepage,  Rostrum

    The software programming course in 1989 that changed my life for good

    16th July 2021 /

    Today, I found an old certificate from 1989, and that set up a train of thoughts & recalling of old memories. It was the first computer programming certification given to me thirty-two years ago for completing a course on BASIC, Word-Processing & Database management. Below is a summary of my early years with IBM PC & MS-DOS. My first contact with a computing device was probably in 1986 when my uncle gifted me an Atari 2600 gaming console. I used to spend every waking hour on the device, playing games and creating quiz presentations (a question popped up on screen and an inbuilt delay before the answer was shown) and…

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    17th October 2008

    VS 2005 – Auto Save

    15th January 2006

    Online Payment options in India

    31st March 2016
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    Engineers and Documentation – Random thought

    28th May 2021 /

    Today I had this thought and I am penning it down immediately here. Later, I will try and expand on this. Thanks. Fact:  #Engineers don’t like to write #documentation. Probable reasons: No one reads them or gives a ‘like’ for a good one. Only the code matters (it runs) & brings $$$. Today, source #code have become self-explanatory (?). Possible Solution: #ArtificalIntelligence to analyse & generate tutorial videos :-)

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    5th May 2011

    Indic Rendering problem of my blog with Mozilla and FireFox – Fixed

    9th May 2004

    Font Embedding in Windows Forms

    30th August 2007
  • Technology

    Move from Android to iOS and transfer WhatsApp from Samsung Phone to iPhone

    16th January 2021 /

    With the public backlash against WhatsApp with their privacy policy revision, this may not be the best time for this post, but still here it is. I recently got a new iPhone. I am coming to an iPhone after exactly a decade, my last was iPhone 4 in 2010 and now it is iPhone 12 Pro. While waiting for the new phone, I made a check list of all the items and apps that needed to be moved from the Android phone (Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite) and where their data resided: Contacts – Google Contacts Calendar – Google Calendar Mail – Microsoft Outlook and GMail Notes – Evernote and Google…

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    Software design, little has changed in the last 70 years

    21st April 2016
    Hacking

    Be aware of online data breaches

    5th June 2019

    My Nephew’s team in IIT Madras wins GE Award

    9th November 2009
  • Technology

    Auto backup files and photos to Google Drive in Android

    13th January 2021 /

    Google Photos pretty much solved the problem of backing up precious photos we take on our smartphone to the cloud. This eliminated the fear of losing the pictures when you upgrade your phone or the unfortunate event of losing/breaking it. I backup all my photos and videos in the full format to an external hard-drive and to Dropbox, even then I keep a copy in Google Photos in lower resolution as it is convenient and fast to search and retrieve photos.  For the last many years whenever I set up a phone for a friend or relative, next to Gmail I install and configure Google Photos and Google Keep. Even…

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    Career Opportunities in Artificial Intelligence during the pandemic

    3rd April 2021

    Windows XP 64 – Love at first sight!

    9th May 2005
    The Tech Whisperer by Jaspreet Bindra

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    3rd April 2020
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