Ajay Mungara's shared items

Tuesday, January 25, 2005

Internet access over power lines gains momentum - Jan. 19, 2005

Internet access over power lines gains momentum - Jan. 19, 2005

WOW!! this is really impressive. BPL technology has been on the works for sometime, but it is starting to see its way out of the research labs into practical implementations. Although, they still some key issues to work out before it can be adopted on a wider scale and they have to compete with the wireless technologies, which is getting better and cheaper.

Clues may point to Google browser | CNET News.com

Clues may point to Google browser | CNET News.com

I really see that in the next couple of years Google will start getting into the Microsoft Turf like Operating Systems, Databases (search based) and Office products. All this may be really good for the consumer because we may start seeing some innovation sparking up and the technology that shall meets the end-user's expectations.

Sunday, January 16, 2005

To Software Architects: Serve End Users, Not Your Egos

To Software Architects: Serve End Users, Not Your Egos

Dave is dead-on, absolutely right. Software architect has to ensure the documentation or the artifacts he delivers is actually usable. The documentation should be designed to suite the needs of the consumers or architectural stake holders (Business, Engineering, Dev, Quality, support, Data teams, etc.) and it is not meant to be compliant to some industry buzz which will be totally obsure to the actual consumers. Architects should thrive to communicate the most complex probelms is the most simplistic terms.

Wednesday, January 12, 2005

TheServerSide.NET - Predictions for 2005... Straight from the Magic 8-Ball

TheServerSide.NET - Predictions for 2005... Straight from the Magic 8-Ball

I really liked this prediction ....

Development Driven QA
Test Driven Development will continue to gain popularity amongst developers as more and more of them take to writing unit test scripts. In an interesting twist, QA engineers will determine that the best way to test these scripts is to write the actual components starting a new movement called Development Driven QA.

Friday, January 07, 2005

Anti-Spyware from Microsoft

Finally Microsoft is trying to do something to curb this problem.

I installed the AntiSpyware software-Beta directly from the Microsoft.com website
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx

After using the anti spyware, I noticed that it detected some spyware on my PC which the SpyBlot software was unable to detect. The speed has increased and I can surf internet faster.

They could have done a better job with the tool UI.