I have been a BIG follower of Steve’s writings for the past 2 years. He was instrumental in my choosing to go for CS or CE Masters. Since we only get to see his writings and not his coding prowess (although one can deduce this by reading the depth and topics of his writings), its always a mystery what Steve is working on at Google.

Now that mystery is put to bed..[via] John Lam, I found that Steve presented on porting Ruby on Rails to Javascript at the recently held FOO Camp. Steve, you have reached new levels in my book..Thanks for the motivation and your recent writing..keep it coming…

I have been a big follower of MONO - the .Net implementation on Linux from whizkid Miguel de Icaza. He is of GNOME fame and is a colorful character. I met him several times since 1999 at various conferences and use group events and love his talks.

In the typical “open-source hacker” fashion, the Mono team has delivered the implementation of SilverLight, termed Moonlight, in 21 DAYS..All I can say is WOW! They got slashdotted and am sure will get many press.. I can only wonder how many programmer years and $$ did it take MSFT to deliver Sliverlight.

This video will explain why…for those interested in making of this video, see this

Love these SMASHING Mathematicians - Math is sexy!

I am sure you would have read the famous book - Games People Play by Eric Berne..but in this short post I outline an observation of a game played by Microsoft.

Disclaimer- I am unbiased towards Microsoft and even considered taking a job with them..So please take this post as an observation and not a rant..

APP - Atom publishing (and syndicating) protocol grew organically to solve challenges of RSS and the read/write Web. It was initiated by Joe G and is seconded by all big XML/REST Names. Its final draft is under review to become a specification under IETF…There has been a lot of work on this and in typical open fashion, the whole APP spec is under public purview, for the length of its lifecycle.
So about few weeks ago I started hearing rumblings on blogs about inadequacy of APP and issues with it. Its champion was Dare (from MSFT). This time it was not just APP that was under attack, but Google’s GDATA that chose to implement APP. As the blog world started to reverberate with the mini-quake around Dare’s epicenter, it became immediately clear that Dare had other motives..For one- why did he wait till this last minute to make his opinions on an public draft of the protocol..So I knew there was a gun somewhere for all this smoke..

Sure enough, we have a new SPEC PROPOSAL by Microsoft called Web3S, which is a RESTful way to implement a CRUD web.. I guess at the end of the day its still all politics even when its pure technology as “people” are involved in it..

I will look at Web3S before I comment on its technical [de]merit. This post was just meant to record my observation in my logbook for today.

Many of my cohorts and customers have asked why not do an MBA or MIS instead of MS in CS/CE…The short answer is - I dont want to turn up into a Scott.

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My sister, Krith is a bright (much smarter than I) vibrant young lady. She is pursuing her PhD at Temple in bio-tech field. There was very little to talk academically between us for the last few years, as my bio was weak her interests in computers were nil..But after my recent datamining class at UT, this has changed.

I am contemplating on collaborating with her on writing a paper on some of her PhD work she is doing. The whole field of dataminig (thanks to Dr.Ghosh) has taken a new meaning in my life and I am exploring various opportunities in employing my new found skills to put to good use. She will be visiting TX this month and I am looking forward to seeing if we can jam on bio topics to see if there would be any collaboration options.

It would be cool to see if we can get significant enough results by conducting clustering experiments on her data….