We all owe big to Dennis Ritchie

Oct 142011

I just came back from IIT Guwahati and discovered that Dennis Ritchie has passed away Most people would know of Dennis Ritchie as the person who invented C and Unix. What most folks do not realize is how profound C and Unix were when they were created and what amazing impact they have had on [...]

Распространённая ошибка — считать, что домашняя еда обязательно означает плиту, кастрюли и полчаса времени. Доставка домашней еды как раз это опровергает: привозят привычные блюда по домашним рецептам, но без вашей суеты. Остаётся разогреть тарелку и накрыть стол.

The True Legacy of Steve Jobs

Oct 062011

Steve Jobs passed away today – I woke up and read the news on my iPhone, like much of the world. I never thought I would be so affected by the passing away of someone I never knew personally. But if you are in the world of tech and developing consumer products, it is not [...]

Если рабочий график не оставляет времени на магазины и плиту, готовая еда с доставкой на дом в Москве помогает заранее закрыть обеды и ужины. Остаётся выбрать подходящее меню, проверить состав блюд, интервал курьера и освободить место в холодильнике.

Deciphering Complex C Declarations

Mar 172011

As I have mentioned in earlier posts, we are building a x-platform mobile chat client. One of the platforms is iPhone and that means that the team is having to learn Objective C, and therefore C. Last couple of days, I have been spending time  helping my team understand and appreciate C better. Yesterday, we [...]

Mobile Platforms - Part 2 - Blackberry

Mar 122011
Mobile Platforms - Part 2 - Blackberry

As I mentioned on my previous post, we are building a x-platform native mobile chat client for Android, iPhone and Blackberry. The earlier post was about the Android platform, this one is on Blackberry. After having gone thru the Android documentation and videos from Google IO, I found the documentation on Blackberry to be somewhat [...]

Mobile Platforms - Part 1 - Android

Mar 072011
Mobile Platforms - Part 1 - Android

One of the products we are building at Directi is a x-platform mobile chat client. Developing it has been arduous – we experimented with Phonegap and then Titanium and found both lacking (see this Quora thread for details). So now we are building this as three native apps, targeting iPhone, Android and Blackberry. In this [...]

How Browsers Work - Part 1 - Architecture

Nov 082010
How Browsers Work - Part 1 - Architecture

The web-browser is not an easy platform to program against. I realized this in Dec 2008 when we decided to change the architecture of one of our products at Directi to a pure JavaScript client talking to a REST API, and even more so in Apr 2009 when we decided to build our desktop product [...]

PDC 2010 Announcements

Nov 022010

The PDC 2010 got over last weekend and there seems to be some interesting stuff that has come out of Redmond. While most of the big changes are on the Cloud side, the roadmap on the web and mobile platform is much clearer now with some important changes in strategy. Cloud Ok, I’m gonna stick [...]

Facebook is the new Microsoft

Oct 302010

Facebook these days reminds me a lot of Microsoft of yore. For one, they are taking a platform approach exactly like Microsoft –  Facebook Connect is the most powerful and widely used identity platform on the Internet today – as enticing to developers and businesses as Windows was in its heydays. They have succeeded where [...]

Moved to Wordpress

Oct 302010

Last year, when I moved to Blogger, my decision was influenced by: Staying with a cloud provider for the blog service Ability to install plugins Now WordPress.com does not allow you to install plugins unless you are really big, and therefore Blogger made sense. However, I have found Blogger to be very limiting and every time [...]

NoSql Databases – Part 1 - Landscape

Jan 052010

At Directi, we are taking a hard look at the way our applications need to store and retrieve data, and whether we really need to use a traditional RDBMS for all scenarios. This does not mean that we will eschew relational systems altogether. What it means is that we will use the best tool for [...]

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