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Visual Thinking
Visual Thinking is a communication method that uses pictures to show ideas, concepts, people, places, things and connects them via process flows and relationships. It is…
Notes from the software world
Ideas worth sharing.
On building better software, leading with context, and making innovation work for everyone.
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Design Thinking
I have written about Design Thinking for GyanQuest.org and how it could be applied in schools. Here is another video on it.
Software
Big Lie of Small Business
Software
CricMain – Aggregated and Summarized Cricket News
Check out https://CricMain.com It is built on a machine learning platform to summarize cricket news and uses Azure Functions for serverless programming.
Software
GyanQuest apps
Proud of creating GyanQuest apps for kids. Safety and Fun were the number 1 features. Our apps are designed for our kids. Safety was the first goal. Ads, Popups to…
Management
Marketing is about values
Software
Firebase – A real time database
Firebase is an interesting database. Here is a talk from Google IO
Management
Interview Process
Let me say that the Tech Interview process that most major companies use is screwed up. When your company recruiter has to send your candidate a book on how to interview,…
Education / Software
Women in Computer Science
In my CS college in India, the ratio of women to men was 40:60. In the US, the ratio is lower which is more puzzling. It is a difficult problem to solve and here is why.…
Software
Intro to Scrum in Under 10 Minutes
Short video on Scrum because some managers have trouble understanding it.
Education
Reminder- Posting Educational thoughts at GyanQuest.org
Reminder- Posting Educational thoughts at http://GyanQuest.org
Management
The single biggest reason why start-ups succeed
As an Entrepreneur, I completely agree with Bill Gross, Timing is everything – in Sports, Life and Business. Sometimes the market is not there or customers are not ready.…
Software
Technical Project Manager
I get asked this question – What is the role of a Technical Project Manager This video does a good job explaining it.
Software
Hololens and the future of Augmented Reality
I personally believe that Augmented Reality has a great future and Hololens has a great future for specialized applications but I don’t see a mass appeal. Google Glass did…
Software
Don’t be a jerk – Empathy is important
Empathy is the awareness of the feelings and emotions of other people. Recently, my daughter told me about the Platinum rule – “Treat others the way they would like to be…
Management / Software
Proof of Concept projects
Most of the time, your developers will be working on legacy code, some of which may be out of date and boring to work on. They will push for moving to the latest release…
Education / General
Science is not optional
One issue I have with this entire debate on Climate change is that Science seems to have be regarded as an option. We love when science and technology creates iPhone and…
Education / General
You can learn anything if you are good at filtering things
When I was growing up in India, access to knowledge was very limited. No public libraries. You had to rely on school libraries, which were not very good, in my case. With…
Software
Engineer to Manager
If you promote an Engineer to a Manager, make sure you send them for Management training. Management is a different job compared to an Individual contributor. If you don’t…
Education
Launching GyanQuest.org – A Curated Educational Resource for Parents
As Parents, we have struggled to find high quality information. So we are launching GyanQuest.org a site that help you find Learning to Learn resources. Some of the…
Software
What is machine learning?
Android Authority has a good video on a introduction to Machine Learning and how it is different from AI. More details here.
Management
What is Situational Leadership
I first heard of Situational Leadership during Intel’s training for Managers. It is about adjusting your style of management according to the Situation. I will let Matt’s…
Management / Software
Building a great product – Start with an Empowered Product Owner
A Camel is a horse designed by a committee! One reason bigger companies fail to innovate is there is no ONE Empowered Product Owner (or product manager, program manager,…
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Microsoft Build 2014 thoughts
Thanks to Microsoft’s Channel 9 for the live keynote and recording of sessions, it feels like I was there 🙂 It was great to see Scott Guthrie talk on Azure advances in…
Education / General / Management
Fortune favors the brave
As someone who is interested in American football, it is always puzzling to see coaches punt or kick a field goal when their team is 4 and short. Sometimes there are valid…
General / Management
Managing People
Some time back a new manager asked me what is the secret for managing people. As a technical guy, he felt that managing his team created nothing but headaches. His new…
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Healthcare.gov issues and fixes
Every technical person and people who think they know technology have an opinion on how to fix ACA or Obama care’s Insurance exchanges. A better solution would be let…
General / Software
Taking SVFounders to the next level
SVFounders is now 230+ members and I wanted to explore ideas to take it to the next level to help founders. It looks like many of our Founders are on the way to an MVP and…
Software
Cloud apps with REST APIs using Windows Azure, Asp.NET, ServiceStack and AngularJS
Had a great time presenting at Bay.NET http://www.meetup.com/BayNET/events/114504982/ The presentation embedded in the original article is unavailable. Will post the code…
General / Software
Creating a new Meetup – Silicon Valley Founders
Silicon Valley Founders http://www.meetup.com/svfounders About Let’s get together to discuss startup issues from incubating ideas, founding companies and scaling them.…
Software
Creating iOS and Android Apps with Visual Studio and C#
Use Visual Studio and your C#/.NET skills to get your Windows apps into iOS and Android App stores. This was given at Bay.NET meetup…
Software
EastBay.NET – Introduction to MonoTouch
It’s easy to give a great presentation on a great piece of software The presentation embedded in the original article is unavailable. Thanks to the EastBay.NET group for…
Software
Introduction to MonoTouch and ServiceStack at Silicon valley code camp 2012
Here are the presentations for my sessions at SVCC on MonoTouch and ServiceStack. Some good questions from the attendees. I had setup my Sony Nexus 5 to record these…
General
Added some old posts to Notes section
Thanks to the Internet Archive, I added some old posts to the Notes section. Send comments to @SoftwareWeaver
Software
Style, Multimedia, Relationships and HTML
Style, Multimedia, Relationships and HTML -Ash on Jan 18 1998 1. Abstract This article starts with : how adding style standards preserved the difference between structural…
Software
A tale of two languages: Dynamic HTML vs. Java
A tale of two languages: Dynamic HTML vs. Java – Ash on Feb 11 1998 1. Abstract When Microsoft was releasing IE4, the trade press was abuzz with rumors on how Microsoft…
Software
HTMLX – An Universal Container
HTMLX – An Universal Container – Ash on Jan 11, 1998 1. Where is HTML4 now? HTML has come as long way since it was first invented. All the new languages, document formats,…
Software
Would you like fries with that Standard ?
Would you like fries with that Standard ? – Ash on 19 June 1998 1. Standards Standards have got a bad rap with jokes like: The nice thing about standards is that there are…
Software
Great User Experience = Invisible and Emotional connection
Great User Experience = Invisible and Emotional connection By ash on Tuesday, August 08, 2006 6:58 AM The above title seems to make no sense at all. How it possible for an…
Software
Surely, you are joking Mr. Fenyman
I read Fenyman’s book in high school and it should be a must read for students and folks like Rick Perry. Feynman explains what science is and what a scientific experiment…
General
Welcome Again
Welcome again to another of my efforts to create a blog. This is probably the sixth or seventh effort and to be honest, I am hoping that this works better than the last…
Software
My Idea is worth more than yours OR My secret is bigger than yours
My Idea is worth more than yours OR My secret is bigger than yours By ashvil on 6/20/2006 8:35 AM One of the hard lessons of my startup experience was that ideas are worth…
General
Controlled failures – Letting someone fall of the bike
Sometimes the best way to convince someone that their way will not work is letting them fail early without any major impacts.In my first job in the early 90s, Microsoft…
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Why create i3Connect?
The Entrepreneur role was the most challenging one and I learnt what it meant to run your own Software start-up. So, why did I do it – I had an idea that would make a…