It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything related to the Mono project [http://www.mono-project.com/], the open source (and cross-platform) implementation of Microsoft’s .NET. But something really interesting came up today. Mono has been ported to the iPhone [http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2008/Mar-10.…
As I’ve been using C# 3.0 with VS.NET 2008 at work on a production project, I thought it would make sense to mention the great tutorials [http://michaelsync.net/2008/02/29/c-30-tutorials-with-visual-studio-2008-for-beginners] posted by Michael Sync on the subject. One of the most appealing aspects of…
A recent article at Forbes titled “The Coming Death Of Indian Outsourcing [http://www.forbes.com/home/enterprisetech/2008/02/29/mitra-india-outsourcing-tech-enter-cx_sm_0229outsource.html] ” reads: > Information technology and IT-enabled services will employ 4 million people in 2008 and account for 7% of gross domestic product and 33% of…
Vishal Sharma announced a carnival event for Aussie startups [http://startups.sharmavishal.com/2008/02/why-this-startups-carnival.html] a few weeks ago. Unfortunately the registration is closed by the time I’m writing about it, but more information about the event (including the participating startups and sponsors) is available on Vishal’…
Would it be fair to say that more wealth makes us less spiritual. The “Wealth and Religiosity” graph [http://www.theatlantic.com/images/issues/200803/secular-graph.gif] seems to depict so. With the spread of freethought, scientific skepticism, and criticism of religion; secular theology has gathered a more specific meaning.…
Chris Anderson has written a great article on the future of business [http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/16-03/ff_free?currentPage=all] — moving to freeconomics, a freemium [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freemium_business_model] business model. A must read! > The rise of “freeconomics” is being driven…
Mark Twain once said “it was a pity that the best part of life came at the beginning and the worst part at the end.” He sure had something more to convey than what the casual eye might gather. I often wonder why do we all fancy success? I don’…
He was the creator [http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/1761] of Yahoo Store, the first web-based application. Paul Graham [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Graham], who now runs YCombinator – a seed funding for tech startups, released [http://www.paulgraham.com/arc0.html] the Arc programming language [http://arclanguage.…