Github 101 for hackathons
This blog post is a HOWTO guide for using github while collaborating during hackathons. It does not cover git in detail.
Mac OS X Primer: Migrating from GNU/Linux to Mac for software engineers
This blog post contains a collection of small tips for engineers migrating from GNU/Linux to Mac OS X for software development. Note: In another post, I wrote about why there is a dearth of a good GNU/Linux laptop.
Android Security related tools
A lot of work is happening in academia and industry on tools to perform dynamic analysis, static analysis, and reverse engineering of android apps. An updated list of the tools can be seen at https://github.com/ashishb/android-security-awesome.
Book Summary: The Start-Up of You
The book tries to reflect on an individual’s professional growth in the contemporary era of fickle employment guarantees. The best part about the book is that it tries to offer pragmatic, as opposed to principled advice, regarding career development and […]
Vivek Wadhwa: “The next Trillion Dollar Opportunities”
(Opinions expressed here are my understanding of Vivek Wadhwa’s opinion) “The next Trillion Dollar Opportunities” (in this decade) China’s manufacturing and India’s call center business are saturated. The PC industry is dead, Laptop is flat, and mobile is going up. […]
Book Review: The Tangled web
Just completed reading “The Tangled web: A guide to securing modern applications” by Michael Zalewski. The book is surprisingly small given the amount of information it covers about the interaction of web browsers, websites, and client-side web technologies. The book […]
Book Summary: In the Plex by Steven Levy
An amazing book which describes Google’s journey right from its beginning in the Stanford dorm. The author interviewed several top echelons of Google and presented several interesting insider anecdotes and stories of Google. The book provides details of major projects […]
Is there any USP of Toyota Prius?
Let us say an average American drives 15, 000 miles per year; The exact average being 16550 miles.
Towards a broken future of Internet
Internet, which initially started as a DARPA experiment is [still] under the indirect control of USA government through ICANN despite several objections from Europe as well as IBSA. This worked when most users were from the western world with the notable exception […]
A fundamental problem with Aakash (Indian Government tablet initiative)
This blog post is not about how good or bad the product technically is or how indigenous it is; it’s about a fundamental problem with tablets. It amazes me to see that even a journalist like T. Friedman missed it. Anyone who […]