Category Archives: Techonology

Sim swap alert

SIM SWAP ALERT: Airtel never calls you to do a SIM Swap by sending an SMS ‘SIM <20 digit number> to 121’ WITHOUT having a NEW SIM. Beware of such calls as it may lead to banking or financial fraud/misuse of your mobile number. Got the above mentioned message, today morning. Think about it, people… Read More »

The Vanishing act

In any major magic show, the vanishing act is given a lot of importance. Most magicians pride themselves if they pull this one-off. Its the scenario where an object or person is made to disappear ( or they are shown to disappear ) at the command of the magician and the audience is left with… Read More »

Youtube video conversion using vlc

In VLC, head to Media > Open Network Stream. Paste the YouTube link in the box and click Play. Under Tools, click Codec Information. In the box that says Location, right-click the block of text and click Select All. Copy this text to your clipboard. Go back to your browser and paste the link in… Read More »

Hunting for text editors

Looking for a component that could input formatted text and give out HTML text. As you know, normal textbox within html, does not support formatted text, like bold, italics and so on. Typical applications : Formatted text while sending email, a cooking recipe application which accepts formatted text and so on After a bit of… Read More »

Building powerful salable websites using the cloud

Understanding the power of cloud architecture Introduction The world has moved forward so much, in the last several years and new technologies keep coming that makes development easier and faster. Cloud technology is one such aspect, that has revolutionized the way developers and testers could think of the software development cycle. Yes, now you might, ask,… Read More »

Golden gems ( books ) on Software Engineering

Found this on ./ I teach CS 428 (“Software Engineering”) at BYU. The three texts my students read are: — The Mythical Man-Month, Fred Brooks (originally published in 1975, anniversary edition in 1995) — Peopleware by DeMarco and Lister (first published in 1987, currently in its 3rd edition) — Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering by Robert Glass (published in… Read More »