Adnan Masood, a Machine Learning Phd's musings on Life, Technology, Research & Development
If you are trying to decipher web 2.0 related terms, acronyms and buzzwords, you are definitely not alone. It is hard to quantify what exactly a web 2.0 design entails; “I know it when I see it” does not help explaining the characteristic features of modern web architecture including design patterns, core models, reference architectures…
One of the great benefits of speaking to a group of peer developers and engineers is the valuable feedback and learning. In my yesterday's session on Practical AppFabric Caching, there were various great questions from audience pertaining to app fabric development, deployment and configuration in the wild. The questions were about use of local cache, appfabric security…
Based on popular blog movement, one of my new year resolutions is to read 52 non-technology related books in 52 weeks. I realize that being techies, we naturally tend to focus on technology books leaving other genres unattended. To accommodate for this deficiency in literary well-roundness, the books I've selected for this task are on wide variety…
I recently have joined Project Euler, introduced through a friend an co-worker Linh Vu. A simpler, more mathematics oriented top coder (for the TC fans out there), Project Euler is defined as "a series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems that will require more than just mathematical insights to solve." The problems increase in the level of complexity…
A shot out to te MicroConf 2012: The Conference for Self-Funded Startups and Single Founders to be held April 30 / May 1 at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas, NV and Hosted by Rob Walling and Mike Taber The Speakers Include Peldi from Balsamiq, Hiten Shah of KISSmetrics and CrazyEgg, Rob Walling, author of Start Small, Stay Small, Patrick McKenzie of Bingo Card Creator, Mike Taber of Single Founder and many others… Anyone launching a startup with…
About six years ago, Rob Walling and I started San Gabriel Valley .NET Developers Group to facilitate the needs of developers and IT professionals of the San Gabriel Valley area. We quickly joined INETA and had been a member ever since. I recently receive this recognition certificate from INETA on completion of our six years of membership. Time does fly! I…
SoCal codecamp Jan 28th - 29th is only couple of weeks away. Like always, there is a great list of sessions and speakers. I’ll be presenting on AppFabric; Being a technical editor for an upcoming book on AppFabric, it’s a great opportunity for me to test out the specific interests around this area. Following is the…
Venturing in the Privacy Tug-Of War: Opportunities in Controlling Personal Data Great event tomorrow morning @ Caltech. Details below. Saturday, January 14, 2012 at California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Registration and Continental Breakfast: 8:00 a.m. Baxter Lecture Hall Program: 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. at Baxter Lecture Hall Networking: 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at Baxter Lecture http://entforum.caltech.edu/
Abstract: Essential multithreading guidance on using .NET parallel features. We will explore the what, why and especially HOW to use the newly available parallel and multithreaded features of the .NET framework. Whether you are writing server code, website code, Silverlight or desktop apps. About the Presenters: Nuri Halperin: Principal for +N Consulting Inc (Santa Monica, CA), Nuri…