Adnan Masood, a Machine Learning Phd's musings on Life, Technology, Research & Development
San Gabriel Valley .NET Developers group's next meeting is Wed Feb 15th. Please swing by to learn more about Command Query Responsibility Segregation and Mercurial source control usage in a team environment. See details below or on the sgv.net user group website Abstract: Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) is an approach, a mindset to reduce complexities…
One of the few unit tests one would write for a simple arithmetic operation such as addition is a check for overflow i.e. if the resulting value is of the operand type and therefore does not cause overflow error. More often than not, programmers mistakenly consider this issue to be GC's responsibility in case of…
WHAT:The Developer’s Contest hosted by the Entrepreneur Association @ the UCLA Anderson School of Management HOW IT WORKS:You and a team (up to three people) develop a business idea from scratch over a single weekend to win cash prizes. WHEN:February 24 - February 26 WHY: Develop a business idea from inception Show off your programming…
Gone are the days of inpage; now writing Urdu universally in unicode is rather easy on both mac and PC (and Linux). Yesterday I was asked by a friend regarding how to tweet in Urdu. Here is a short 3 step guide without reinventing the wheel. 1. If you are not familiar with Urdu phonetic…
Last night I presented on appfabric at Southern California .NET Developers Group in Buena Park. This talk was an expanded version of my earlier talk in the code camp talk last weekend. I get a chance to talk a little more about network topology and enterprise load balancing scenarios where appfabric caching and session management really…
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…