I’d rather fish with Dad than make a million — Cricketer Clarke sacrifices lucrative IPL for his ailing father

That was a little bottom-side news on a local news paper but enough to shock me: Australian cricketer Michael Clarke left a potential deal with IPL that may earn a million dollar or more for him. The major reason behind was that he wanted to give more time to his father who is suffering from [...]

Is Microsoft Stepping back from Mobile Web Development?

Many people feel that Microsoft is stepping back from mobile web development tooling. This feeling has got fuel from the stunning fact that Microsoft has taken off the designer support from its new Visual Studio 2008. The MSDN documentation for .Net 3.5/Visual Studio 2008 (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/b73×06dt.aspx ) asks to create mobile web project in Visual Studio [...]

Occasionally Connected Computing – Best of Both Worlds! May Be!

These days I’m previewing OCC — Occasionally Connected Computing Architectures. This is an architecture where client application may continue working even when off-line (though the functionality or data freshness may degrade within a given limit under which user may continue his work). As the traditional online applications are too much dependent on the network health [...]

LinkedIn Set to Become Financial Research Broker

The professional social network is getting into the expert advice game, joining Gerson Lehrman, Yahoo and Google.
Looking to leverage its base of millions of professionals, LinkedIn this year will launch a primary research service to help financial services employees tap experts for advice on the social site’s network of 18 million-plus users. More…

UI Patterns

Though architects and geeks give less priority to UI as compared to other layers like domain, data and services as these are the layers which are more important for the right functionality of the system. But UI layer has a great business value. The user and the senior business people look and evaluate the product [...]