https://ashvil.net/Software, experience, and leadership. Writing by Ashvil DCosta.en-ushttps://ashvil.net/visual-thinking/https://ashvil.net/visual-thinking/Thu, 20 Sep 2018 12:00:00 GMTVisual 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…https://ashvil.net/design-thinking/https://ashvil.net/design-thinking/Sun, 12 Aug 2018 12:00:00 GMTI have written about Design Thinking for GyanQuest.org and how it could be applied in schools. Here is another video on it.https://ashvil.net/big-lie-of-small-business/https://ashvil.net/big-lie-of-small-business/Mon, 04 Jun 2018 12:00:00 GMThttps://ashvil.net/cricmain-aggregated-and-summarized-cricket-news/https://ashvil.net/cricmain-aggregated-and-summarized-cricket-news/Thu, 19 Apr 2018 12:00:00 GMTCheck out https://CricMain.com It is built on a machine learning platform to summarize cricket news and uses Azure Functions for serverless programming.https://ashvil.net/gyanquest-apps/https://ashvil.net/gyanquest-apps/Fri, 02 Feb 2018 12:00:00 GMTProud 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…https://ashvil.net/marketing-is-about-values/https://ashvil.net/marketing-is-about-values/Thu, 18 Jan 2018 12:00:00 GMThttps://ashvil.net/firebase-a-real-time-database/https://ashvil.net/firebase-a-real-time-database/Tue, 14 Nov 2017 12:00:00 GMTFirebase is an interesting database. Here is a talk from Google IOhttps://ashvil.net/teaching-computers-to-understand-pictures/https://ashvil.net/teaching-computers-to-understand-pictures/Mon, 14 Aug 2017 12:00:00 GMThttps://ashvil.net/interview-process/https://ashvil.net/interview-process/Tue, 30 May 2017 12:00:00 GMTLet 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,…https://ashvil.net/women-in-computer-science/https://ashvil.net/women-in-computer-science/Wed, 01 Mar 2017 12:00:00 GMTIn 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.…https://ashvil.net/interested-in-learning-computer-science-without-spending-money/https://ashvil.net/interested-in-learning-computer-science-without-spending-money/Sun, 15 Jan 2017 12:00:00 GMTGreat CS Course from Harvardhttps://ashvil.net/the-expert/https://ashvil.net/the-expert/Sun, 20 Nov 2016 12:00:00 GMTThis is funny and true 🙁https://ashvil.net/intro-to-scrum-in-under-10-minutes/https://ashvil.net/intro-to-scrum-in-under-10-minutes/Sat, 15 Oct 2016 12:00:00 GMTShort video on Scrum because some managers have trouble understanding it.https://ashvil.net/reminder-posting-educational-thoughts-at-gyanquest-org/https://ashvil.net/reminder-posting-educational-thoughts-at-gyanquest-org/Mon, 30 May 2016 12:00:00 GMTReminder- Posting Educational thoughts at http://GyanQuest.orghttps://ashvil.net/the-single-biggest-reason-why-start-ups-succeed/https://ashvil.net/the-single-biggest-reason-why-start-ups-succeed/Fri, 18 Mar 2016 12:00:00 GMTAs 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.…https://ashvil.net/technical-project-manager/https://ashvil.net/technical-project-manager/Sat, 05 Mar 2016 12:00:00 GMTI get asked this question – What is the role of a Technical Project Manager This video does a good job explaining it.https://ashvil.net/hololens/https://ashvil.net/hololens/Sat, 27 Feb 2016 12:00:00 GMTI 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…https://ashvil.net/crucial-conversations/https://ashvil.net/crucial-conversations/Tue, 05 Jan 2016 12:00:00 GMTA short video on Crucial Conversationshttps://ashvil.net/dont-be-a-jerk-empathy-is-important/https://ashvil.net/dont-be-a-jerk-empathy-is-important/Sun, 20 Dec 2015 12:00:00 GMTEmpathy 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…https://ashvil.net/proof-of-concept-projects/https://ashvil.net/proof-of-concept-projects/Thu, 19 Nov 2015 12:00:00 GMTMost 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…https://ashvil.net/science-is-not-optional/https://ashvil.net/science-is-not-optional/Sat, 03 Oct 2015 12:00:00 GMTOne 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…https://ashvil.net/you-can-learn-anything-if-you-are-good-at-filtering-things/https://ashvil.net/you-can-learn-anything-if-you-are-good-at-filtering-things/Thu, 10 Sep 2015 12:00:00 GMTWhen 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…https://ashvil.net/the-joys-of-engineering-leadership/https://ashvil.net/the-joys-of-engineering-leadership/Thu, 27 Aug 2015 12:00:00 GMTFound another old video on Engineering Management…https://ashvil.net/engineer-to-manager/https://ashvil.net/engineer-to-manager/Mon, 24 Aug 2015 12:00:00 GMTIf 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…https://ashvil.net/launching-gyanquest-org-a-curated-educational-resource-for-parents/https://ashvil.net/launching-gyanquest-org-a-curated-educational-resource-for-parents/Tue, 04 Aug 2015 12:00:00 GMTAs 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…https://ashvil.net/what-is-machine-learning/https://ashvil.net/what-is-machine-learning/Thu, 09 Jul 2015 12:00:00 GMTAndroid Authority has a good video on a introduction to Machine Learning and how it is different from AI. More details here.https://ashvil.net/what-is-situational-leadership/https://ashvil.net/what-is-situational-leadership/Thu, 14 May 2015 12:00:00 GMTI 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…https://ashvil.net/building-a-great-product-start-with-an-empowered-product-owner/https://ashvil.net/building-a-great-product-start-with-an-empowered-product-owner/Tue, 03 Mar 2015 12:00:00 GMTA 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,…https://ashvil.net/microsoft-build-2014-thoughts/https://ashvil.net/microsoft-build-2014-thoughts/Mon, 07 Apr 2014 12:00:00 GMTThanks 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…https://ashvil.net/fortune-favors-the-brave/https://ashvil.net/fortune-favors-the-brave/Tue, 21 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMTAs 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…https://ashvil.net/managing-people/https://ashvil.net/managing-people/Fri, 17 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMTSome 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…https://ashvil.net/healthcare-gov-issues-and-fixes/https://ashvil.net/healthcare-gov-issues-and-fixes/Wed, 23 Oct 2013 12:00:00 GMTEvery 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…https://ashvil.net/taking-svfounders-to-the-next-level/https://ashvil.net/taking-svfounders-to-the-next-level/Fri, 13 Sep 2013 12:00:00 GMTSVFounders 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…https://ashvil.net/cloud-apps-with-rest-apis/https://ashvil.net/cloud-apps-with-rest-apis/Thu, 16 May 2013 12:00:00 GMTHad 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…https://ashvil.net/creating-a-new-meetup-silicon-valley-founders/https://ashvil.net/creating-a-new-meetup-silicon-valley-founders/Wed, 15 May 2013 12:00:00 GMTSilicon Valley Founders http://www.meetup.com/svfounders About Let’s get together to discuss startup issues from incubating ideas, founding companies and scaling them.…https://ashvil.net/creating-ios-and-android-apps-with-visual-studio-and-c/https://ashvil.net/creating-ios-and-android-apps-with-visual-studio-and-c/Wed, 15 May 2013 12:00:00 GMTUse 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…https://ashvil.net/eastbay-net-introduction-to-monotouch/https://ashvil.net/eastbay-net-introduction-to-monotouch/Fri, 14 Dec 2012 12:00:00 GMTIt’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…https://ashvil.net/introduction-to-monotouch-and-servicestack-at-silicon-valley-code-camp-2012/https://ashvil.net/introduction-to-monotouch-and-servicestack-at-silicon-valley-code-camp-2012/Mon, 08 Oct 2012 12:00:00 GMTHere 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…https://ashvil.net/added-some-old-posts-to-notes-section/https://ashvil.net/added-some-old-posts-to-notes-section/Thu, 30 Aug 2012 12:00:00 GMTThanks to the Internet Archive, I added some old posts to the Notes section. Send comments to @SoftwareWeaverhttps://ashvil.net/style-multimedia-relationships-and-html/https://ashvil.net/style-multimedia-relationships-and-html/Thu, 30 Aug 2012 12:00:00 GMTStyle, Multimedia, Relationships and HTML -Ash on Jan 18 1998 1. Abstract This article starts with : how adding style standards preserved the difference between structural…https://ashvil.net/a-tale-of-two-languages-dynamic-html-vs-java/https://ashvil.net/a-tale-of-two-languages-dynamic-html-vs-java/Thu, 30 Aug 2012 12:00:00 GMTA 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…https://ashvil.net/htmlx-an-universal-container/https://ashvil.net/htmlx-an-universal-container/Thu, 30 Aug 2012 12:00:00 GMTHTMLX – 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,…https://ashvil.net/would-you-like-fries-with-that-standard/https://ashvil.net/would-you-like-fries-with-that-standard/Thu, 30 Aug 2012 12:00:00 GMTWould 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…https://ashvil.net/great-user-experience-invisible-and-emotional-connection/https://ashvil.net/great-user-experience-invisible-and-emotional-connection/Thu, 30 Aug 2012 12:00:00 GMTGreat 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…https://ashvil.net/surely-you-are-joking-mr-fenyman/https://ashvil.net/surely-you-are-joking-mr-fenyman/Mon, 12 Dec 2011 12:00:00 GMTI 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…https://ashvil.net/welcome-again/https://ashvil.net/welcome-again/Sun, 04 Dec 2011 12:00:00 GMTWelcome 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…https://ashvil.net/my-idea-is-worth-more-than-yours-or-my-secret-is-bigger-than-yours/https://ashvil.net/my-idea-is-worth-more-than-yours-or-my-secret-is-bigger-than-yours/Sun, 06 Aug 2006 12:00:00 GMTMy 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…https://ashvil.net/controlled-failures-letting-someone-fall-of-the-bike/https://ashvil.net/controlled-failures-letting-someone-fall-of-the-bike/Sun, 04 Jun 2006 12:00:00 GMTSometimes 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…https://ashvil.net/why-create-i3connect/https://ashvil.net/why-create-i3connect/Thu, 30 Oct 2003 12:00:00 GMTThe 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…