Category Archives: technology

MacBook Air – My take on it.

Posted on January 27, 2008 by sureshkrishna

MacBook Air is out in the market and as usual with a huge hype in the AIR. I am impressed by the ad in which take out the Air from a post cover. Thats awesome and it looks great as … Continue reading →

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Mystery with MysterySpot

Posted on December 9, 2007 by sureshkrishna

We have just comeback from the MysteryHouse. This is near Santa Cruz and from Fremont, it took 45 minutes. The drive is little rugged with lots of turns and narrow roads. Its better to drive with a experienced driver so … Continue reading →

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Web Interactive Design patterns

Posted on November 21, 2007 by sureshkrishna

Most of us are familiar with the Design Patterns on the Desktop and Multi-tire type of applications. With the recent Web 2.0 kind of applications its very important to understand the User Interaction Design Patterns. I got this site from … Continue reading →

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Apple releasing SDK for iPhone

Posted on October 19, 2007 by sureshkrishna

After few months of iPhone in the market, Apple announced the release of native-cocoa based SDK. This would enable all the enthusiasts to build the native applications on iPhone. I guess releasing the SDK is much better for Apple than … Continue reading →

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XML vs JSON !!! Dont compare.

Posted on October 13, 2007 by sureshkrishna

Java Script Object Notation (JSON) has become quite famous since 2006 and it has gone into the major companies application frameworks. JackBe, Google and Yahooare some of the companies that have adopted the JSON in their products. JSON is the response format for … Continue reading →

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Top 10 technologies for 2008 from Gartner

Posted on October 11, 2007 by sureshkrishna

I have been always interested to see the future predictions of technologies and how they shape up the technologists and business that adopt them. Gartner has released the top 10 technologies for 2008. Surprisingly there are no surprises. 2005, 2006 … Continue reading →

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“DimDim” OpenSource Web Conferencing

Posted on October 2, 2007 by sureshkrishna

I do lot of web conferencing in our company. Typically these will be demos and presentations between engineering team, product management, QA team and Customer Teams. Till now i have been using the WebEx and/or GoToMeeting as the only way … Continue reading →

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Is SEI-CMM L5 better than Agile Methodologies ?

Posted on September 15, 2007 by sureshkrishna

I was working with a company which moved to CMM L5 and spent lot of $ on going for appraisal. I saw how the quality department and some of the (unlucky) project managers had to run around for the CMM … Continue reading →

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Eclipse + CVS + JIRA is all i need for my development team.

Posted on September 11, 2007 by sureshkrishna

I have been in different sorts of organizations working in Technology Startups to huge IT Organizations. I see a kind of huge differences with the kind of infrastructure that developers normally work with. In the end everyone is trying to get … Continue reading →

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Quality vs Process in Software Industry

Posted on December 12, 2006 by sureshkrishna

I am trying to understand the difference between the Quality and Process, which we very often use in an interchangeable manner. After few years of my experience in different roles of Project Leader and Technical manager, now i am in … Continue reading →

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