Read this article of a woman in tech where she explains the harassment she faces in this industry. Have these men forgotten that programming was primarily considered a women’s profession at one point? Have they forgotten that Ada Lovelace is usually cited as the first programmer? And above all, have they forgotten their decency? I [...]
I have an Android app called CallHelp (Call Help). It is a simple application where you have a one large button which supposedly calls 911 (emergency number). Intention of the app is to have a quick way to call 911 by pressing the button and keeping it pressed till the time they do not want [...]
Recently, when I logged-on to Facebook.com, I was given an info box on the top saying that the way Facebook deals with security has changed (yet again!). I saw a couple of malfunctions and a lot of BS hence, wanted to document it. I believe FB has made my account more open and public. I [...]
I finally got to play with Android and I tried to make it useful enough. This application is not a big break-through or something 2.0-ish. Its a very simple call app but I am under this assumption that this will prove to be useful (at least it will be for me if I had an [...]
There are many things I like about a desktop email client instead of a Web based application e.g. More and better filters, easy backup etc. but I hate Outlook and Mail (have not tried this in Thunderbird) for one reason – If I hit Reply to a sent message in my Sent folder to an [...]
Being a Web/Internet Engineer, I just had to share this on my blog. The url for the talk on TED is: http://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_zittrain_the_web_is_a_random_act_of_kindness.html You’ve got to think about this very eloquent presentation by Jonathan Zittrain (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Zittrain).
I read this awesome post Ted Murphy about how the world would look like in 2012 with Twitter. My first reaction was to find out if those Twitter accounts actually exist. Well turns out a lot of those do exist. Pretty much every twitter account mentioned there exists except the Parking Meters of SF. I [...]
If you’re a geek, you know by now that there was a Gmail outage around 1 AM on 24th Feb (supposedly today) EST. And if you are a geek-ier person, then you know Gmail runs or uses already established Cloud of Google. Cloud, wait a second, can applications running on Cloud Computing architecture fail? Can [...]