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Mobile Subscriber figures: are they real?
Recently I overheard a conversation where my friends was suggesting taking a new mobile number to a person. The reason was: a new SIM gives you a talkime of 90 INR when you pay 45 INR. In comparison to this, …
Facebook email is coming
Holding my breath to see what facebook email has in store for me.
I hope to see another good email service, which should be worth a try. If it is a service without requiring a facebook social networking account, would …
Another Rural innovation.. impressive one this time
Gaon ki Awaaz, an initiative by The International Media Institute of India has been in news lately. It is yet another innovative communication based initiative in rural India. This particular initiative is impressive because the motive seems to be …
Scrum Retrospective FAQs
This presentation tries to answer some basic questions on Agile Scrum retrospectives. I hope to make some more refinements to it in some time.
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AWS cloud computing conference
The Amazon Web Services‘ Cloud Computing Conference was held at Hyatt Regency, New Delhi on 19th October. I was impressed by the organizing agencies’ skills because they personally tracked each and every registrant throughout registration process, and ensured a …
Posted in current affairs, miscellaneous, tech, web
Tagged AWS, cloud computing, map reduce, RDS, S3
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WebP: who gains?
Google announced open sourcing its so called revolutionary image format on their chrome blog.
The image format looks promising, as it claims to cut down the image size by 40% on average. Google have tested this image format …
Posted in current affairs, tech, web
Tagged caffeine, GPEG, hadoop, jpeg, map reduce, page speed, webp
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Scrum: Product Owner FAQ
1. Should the product owner guide the team during sprint execution?
Simple and plain NO.
Many times, when teams are just starting their journey towards agile, this can be an option; but remember, Agile is all about empowered and hyper …
a weekend spent well- day 2
Day 2 started with a presentation on “Cultural Issues Faced while Adopting Agile”. It was a nice case presentation that demonstrated how the transition from waterfall to Agile happened for a product. Discussion on “issues” was there …
a weekend spent well- day 1
I like waking up late on a Sunday morning and learning that I just broke my last record of waking up late by a few more minutes! This adventure was waiting to be repeated this weekend too, but some Agile …
a noble effort
ReactOS team has a noble cause at hand – liberating the world from Windows.
Sort of relief for the guys who are tired of windows, but still dependent on a plethora of applications that are only available on Windows.
ReactOS …
