Akhil's Passion

Android Wear  Notifications done for android apps will automatically come to the AndroidWear without any extra coding. Main UI Stacks  Pages - Multiple Glancable Pages Replies - Via Voice Commands etc Development Option Make Apps Specifically For AndroidWear Most apps will have a companion app in wear and main app in phone. SOLID - Principles of OOP Robert C. Martin ( Uncle Bob) Agile Software Development: Principle, Patterns and Practices objectmentor.com/omTeam/martin_r.html Google compute engine  There was a over view of less heard about technology - Docker. This is massively helpful for sys admins to spin up vm's and deploy quickly. Rapidly reduces the total turn around time.  Resources Docker.io Blogs mentioned to read Wired.com

Overview  Started (by +Arun Shanker Prasad  ) with a slight intro and kicked-off with an overview of a data science application that was built by the Qburst (Company) team. And then moved over to Web Components and Polymer. Parser Combinators for Event Detection Presenter :   +Navin Philip  ,  Associate Architect, Qburst A beautiful project data-crunching app that utilises the Theory of Computation to verify and quantify different hypothesis and give useful results. Had a quick demo. d Web Components webcomponents.org Presenter : Shyam, Qburst Why Web Components? You could import/export encapsulated custom components. There are 4 main technologies in web components. Eg:  Make a Facebook like button without importing javascript. Include maps in a page.  googlewebcomponents.github.io customelmeents.io Polymer , X-tags( (Mozzila), Bosonic (Independent)  Templating New templating tags in html. ...

Samsung Galaxy S4 The Samsung Galaxy S4 is launched with terrific features that exceeds the features in any other smartphone or may be even tablets available in market today. I'd say, they've focused more on the software side of the device this time and brought in several intutive features to make life fun n simple. Some of the interesting ones are:  Instantly preview and speeddial your contacts Preview videos by hovering finger above the screen.  Instantly preview and speeddial your contacts (even when you hover on top of the dial pad without touching the screen). Recognize your eye movement to know when to pause and play the video. Recognize information from images. This is one feature I always want and believed to be the future of computing. It helps recognize the information in newspapers, visiting cards etc. Touch and use even with gloves. Use multiple phones as speaker . No cellular data, Wi-Fi access point or bluetooth required! ...

Installing Google Plugin for Eclipse Juno in Ubuntu I have been using the Eclipse Indigo in Ubuntu for a long time. Recently, I decided to start with the all new Eclipse Juno. It's faster than the previous Eclipse Indigo and the UI is much much improved. I do most of my developments with Google products like Google App Engine and Android platforms. The following steps could be followed if you want to install the entire Google Plugins for Eclipse Juno in Ubuntu. To avoid the whole mess of downloading and installing together, we'll do all the possible downloading part beforehand and then go ahead with the installation part. Download Eclipse Juno for Linux . Download the Android sdk for Linux  and extract it.  Download the latest archive of Google Plugins of Eclipse . Just download and unzip it, don't proceed to installation. Download the App Engine SDK for Java .  We are done with all the offline downloads possible. Now we move on to the installation part. It'...

Now you can buy Samsung Galaxy S3 in India too.The official price of Samsung Galaxy S3 in India is Rs 43,180. But you can get it for a cheaper price from some of the online stores. The lowest prices of Samsung Galaxy S3 is so far Rs 38,900  as offered by infibeam.com. At the time of writing this, Saholic.com (a spice group venture) offers an additional  Rs 1000 money back when you write a reivew for this product after purchase. Sites like zoomin.com, yebhi.com and sulkha.com are also offering it for Rs 38,900. Exclusive features of Samsung Galaxy S3 Samsung Galaxy S3 Price For : Rs 38,900 The smart-phone that rivals iPhone is loaded with tons of features and have the best in class available hardware. Many of the features are not found in most of the other smart phones. The Samsung Galaxy S3 has full HD front camera (supports a range of video playback), Voice recognition as good as the iPhone Siri, amazing features like eye-tracking to keep the screen on, buddy photo sh...

I’ve been using the Blackberry Playbook for quite few months now and I should say its an remarkably versatile device for anyone who love multitasking. Getting an external bluetooth keyboard for the Blackberry Playbook just enabled me use it like an amazing laptop with touchscreen. Fortunately, the (pseudo) brand market competition forced Blackberry to bring down the price for Blackberry up to 30% less than its initial price. Now, we’ve got a tablet with HD screen, 7 hours battery backup and an App Store with plenty of HD Games and Apps for cheap price, all with the Blackberry Playbook that cost around $200 now. I did plenty of research about the best keyboards for Blackberry Playbook, most of the keyboard reviews where out-dated. The initial OS of Playbook didn’t support a lot of bluetooth keyboards but from OS 2.0 updates ( which is a mandatory update for all the Playbooks) things changed and a lot more devices were supported. There weren't much reviews about the...

Finally, Sony - one of the electronic gadget leaders, also made their mark in the Tablet world. Releasing two Sony tablet pc's S and P this September 2011 Sony have placed their bid to win the tide. Sony has always won the hearts of millions with PSP , Playstation, Vaio Laptops and Bravia Televisions. Now their late entry into the tablet industry signifies two things. They have taken the time to focus on quality: The Sony tablet is the only one company currently able to challenge the quality and style of iPad. Quality is what made Apple iPad to stand against the numerous tablets released every month by almost all electronic companies. It's sure that Sony tablets are the only models that can win some iPad users to Android. The Tablet era has only begun: Although many companies have released their own tablet versions. It's not pretty much finished yet, in fact not even started. The tablet industry has a lot to grow. It has a long and bright future. Recently, Govt. of Ind...