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Book Review: Mobile Design and Development

Completed reading the book last week. Here is a book review in form of bullet points
a) Good for people who don’t know a thing about mobile development,
b) Starts with giving us a piece of history on mobile application development history, fragmentation, ecosystem, operators etc,
c) Focuses on Design and context in which we run the application. [...]

June 4th, 2010 · Tags Books | No Comments »

Persepolis and Asterios Polyp Review

Persepolis
“Persepolis is a French-language autobiographical graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi depicting her childhood up to her early adult years in Iran during and after the Islamic revolution. The title is a reference to the historical town of Persepolis.”
The illustration is nice, I liked the auto-bio-graphical story of Marjane Satrapi. I was 16 when I left [...]

January 2nd, 2010 · Tags Books | No Comments »

Don’t Make Me Think

Don’t make me think is a brilliant book on web usability. Not that it will make you a web usability expert after reading it, but it will definitely make you understand and appreciate the though process behind user interfaces. It’s a very lite read, most of it is common sense thou. What I like about [...]

August 26th, 2009 · Tags Books | No Comments »

The Martian Chronicles

Just completed reading The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury. It one of those subtle book, you keep down while reading wonder why your brain is hurting and what the author is trying to say.

June 28th, 2009 · Tags Books | No Comments »

Indian Graphic Novels

Graphic Novels are quick read. I enjoyed reading “The Buddha series“.  I promise to read all Indian Graphic novels since the article mentions a total of seven. Graphic novels are good timepass. 

December 14th, 2008 · Tags Books | No Comments »

Love the Business of Technology? Then Read these.

Crowdsourcing – By Jeff

Startups that work – By Joel

The Long Tail – By Chris

Also try Eric Sink’s – The Business of Software , It a book written for a programmer by a programmer who has build and sold a successful business.  I would rate Startups that work – By [...]

November 1st, 2008 · Tags Books, Business | 2 Comments »

committed non-committal

My new year resolutions was to sleep early (11.00 PM to 11.30 PM) and wake up early like 7.00 AM to 8 AM.
And how am I doing.
On average I sleep at 1.00 PM. Why ? Was watching Season One of Prison break and loads of movies.
Health has going for a toss. Down with cough and [...]

January 16th, 2008 · Tags Books, personal, rant | Comments Off

The Business of Sofware

Eric Sink on The Business of Software  can be downloaded from [PDF] here. Will be reading it.

September 26th, 2007 · Tags Books, software | Comments Off

Surinder’s Recommendations

Das Boot,
Seven Samurai,
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle maintenance.

All I need now is a copy of Seven Samurai. Watching Das Boot tonight.

September 21st, 2007 · Tags Books, Random Stuff, movie | Comments Off

todo and books

I started maintaining this todo list on my cell. Whenever I get time and opportunity I complete the task and add more to the list. I am personally impressed coz I doing decent progress on weekly basis.
Yesterday I read my first graphic novel Manga, Buddha by Osamu_Tezuka. Manga Graphic Novels are quick read, like an [...]

August 31st, 2007 · Tags Books, Random Stuff | Comments Off