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Last night when I had to return from my office by the public transport , I was shocked to see the bus conductor pull out a thermal printer out of his bag.

He asked for my destination and gave me a printed ticket see poor quality picture below

Android is the latest mobile development platform from Google

I have been trying to get my hands on the SDK since the launch

I managed to do a simple Hello World inside the SDK

There is a lot to learn and explore. But whos got the time ?

The Android Platform looks impressive. For a person who is a novice in the Java side of things – Android was really fast to setup and use.

Links

Download Android SDK

You also need the Eclipse IDE

Bala tried this as soon as the SDK was released

Let’s take a look at the Indian mobile internet scene.

GPRS charges are high but still cheap compared to other markets.

Admob who just completed serving 10 billion ads has released a report which shows really big numbers from India.

Also Russell Beattie told me that Mowser gets major traffic from India.

Derek Silvers writes in this post that he quit Rails and switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails.

I spent two years trying to make Rails do something it wasn’t meant to do, then realized my old abandoned language (PHP, in my case) would do just fine if approached with my new Rails-gained wisdom.

So my question is does Rails give any wisdom ?

I threw away 2 years of Rails code, and opened a new empty Subversion repository.

What ? Are you kidding ?

I know CakePHP is inspired by Ruby but I have not had the time to try out Ruby. Should I try out Ruby to get the Wisdom?

Now here’s the article

Quoting Rajeev Motwani who was a mentor to the Larry, Sergey duo @ Stanford

Meanwhile the World Wide Web was coming around at that time and I just got sucked into that. Sergey Brin and Larry Page were running a searchengine out of Stanford. These 21-year-olds would come in and make demands on me – we need more disk space because we are crawling the Web and its getting bigger, we need to buy more disk… I’d give them more  money and they’d go buy more disks.

At some point these guys said, we want to go do a company. Everybody said you must be out of your minds.There are like 37 search engines out there and what are you guys going to do? And how are you going to raise money, how will you build a company, and these two guys said, we’ll just do it and they went off and did it.And there are some big names who supported the company in its early stages. And then they took over the world. And right now, you know,other search engines do not even compare. It is just amazing.

Just felt like sharing something I just read

Some hot news for Microsoft Fans and Developers using the .Net platform. Microsoft is open sourcing .NET framework libraries.

We’ll begin by offering the source code (with source file comments included) for the .NET Base Class Libraries (System, System.IO, System.Collections, System.Configuration, System.Threading, System.Net, System.Security, System.Runtime, System.Text, etc), ASP.NET (System.Web), Windows Forms (System.Windows.Forms), ADO.NET (System.Data), XML (System.Xml), and WPF (System.Windows).  We’ll then be adding more libraries in the months ahead (including WCF, Workflow, and LINQ).  The source code will be released under the Microsoft Reference License (MS-RL).

You’ll be able to download the .NET Framework source libraries via a standalone install (allowing you to use any text editor to browse it locally).  We will also provide integrated debugging support of it within VS 2008.

When you debug a .NET application and hit a breakpoint in your code, you’ll now be able to see a debugger call stack that contains detailed file and line number information for the .NET Framework classes and methods in your application:

Sounds interesting.? Are we nearing the day in which we understand completely what the Exceptions mean

 

 

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/10/03/releasing-the-source-code-for-the-net-framework-libraries.aspx

I took my bike out this Sunday afternoon for a short drive. I just felt like going for a long drive. It was Sunday afternoon and I could feel the cool air against my face. Was thinking what to do. So went straight to the petrol bunk got the bike ready for the drive and hit ECR.

The roads were virtually empty. I was extra careful and never went too fast unnecessarily.

On one stretch , I decided to step up the gas and put the bike on full throttle.

It was an awesome feeling . The bike wont go past 101 kmph or at least I cant control it. I saw some vehicle coming in the opposite direction and I had to stop my adventure to avoid any kind of risk. Slowed down and coasted to Mahabs. Spent some time there and headed back home.

It was so crowded during the return journey. No different than driving inside the city. I was shocked when I came to a screeching halt after I saw a pile of dust in front ( It was some vehicle flying )

A major accident due to reckless driving. Nearly 3 cars and a van were seen in a bad shape.

I have been hearing a lot about Facebook these days. It has become really popular amongst the developer community after Facebook launched its API for public use. I was interested to explore FB after Ram @ Photon worked on  a Facebook App project.

I have still not got hands dirty on the Facebook API. Don’t find the time so far. But I managed to browse the site.

Now why is Facebook better then Orkut.

1.Great and Simple UI

The nice shades of blue mixed with other colors make it really pleasing for the user.

2.More Real Users

Facebook comes with an User Verification feature which lets you verify yourself by supplying your phone no. Orkut is full of spammers and idiots these days.

3.Plenty of features

Since Facebook is was initially targeted at the Student and Professional Community its comes with a lot of features. Groups, Events, Photos , Notes

4.Mark Zuckerberg – 23yr Old Founder

Really admire this guy for making a site real big in no time. FB was founded in just Aug 2005.Started the site while still in college ( Some what similar to my story. Actually I started mine in March and still trying to figure out what I want to do with the website).
This guy has redefined the meaning of Social Networking at least in the Business Context.

5. Developer API

In August 2006, It was the first major social network to give access to its API. Its limited to 100,000 requests per day though.

6. Its built on PHP

I am a PHP fan and Facebook is a brilliant example of what you can do with PHP and prove that its nothing inferior to ASP.Net (Orkut)

I got this cute doll as a gift from one of our clients. It feels so good when clients are this sweet, You feel you have to deliver and perform better than before.

Gmail will face some serious competition now as Yahoo has almost acquired Satish Dharmaraj’s Zimbra which has become an industry leader in web mail (at least for the enterprises)

via [techcrunch]

offical announcement