Adnan Masood, a Machine Learning Phd's musings on Life, Technology, Research & Development
Today was a definitely a lucky day; I barely made it for the flight from Ontario airport and even though my baggage was tagged “late check-in”, it still arrived with me to Vegas. Rob Walling and I got to Mandalay Bay around 8:45 and after a smooth registration, we were all set for our pre-conference…
This is the title of Robert Anderson and Daniel Ciruli’s article in November’s Dr. Dobbs Journal which explores the other dimension of loosely coupled systems being distributed across the grid. They have discussed topics like scalability in terms of CPU load, network load balancing and mainly how service oriented architecture can be leveraged by a…
I attended DevConnections last year and found it to be quite informative developer educational event. The program includes simultaneously running conferences on ASP.NET, Visual Studio.NET, SQL Server, Office and Mobile development. With well recognized and renowned speakers like Scott Guthrie, Michelle Bustamante, Juval Löwy, Dino Esposito and lots of more to mention, it’s a must…
Vista Code Master Challenge $125,000 in prizes... From Code Master Challenge's website "We're looking for Code Masters - people to create ruthlessly inventive, brutally brilliant apps. What does it take to be a Code Master? The creative moves, courage and steely concentration of a Kung Fu superstar. The computing and coding know-how of an über…
San Gabriel Valley.NET Developers Group’s 3 rd Meeting on “Continuous Integration using NANT, NUnit, Cruise Control and Visual Studio Team System” with Jeremy Cunningham was a highly technical and nicely delivered educational event. It was our user group’s largest turnout since the launch meeting and participants enjoyed Jeremy’s interactive presentation with lots and lots of…
Following are the details of February's San Gabriel Valley .NET Developers group monthly meeting. San Gabriel Valley .Net Developers Group Monthly Meeting Wednesday, 15th Feb 2006 Best Practices with the .NET Event/Delegate Framework This session will start with the basics: we’ll create and handle unique events with custom event args, and then dive into the…
Michael Kennedy's session in SoCal codecamp, "Five Fundamental Object Oriented Design Principles for Agile Development" discussed the following postulates of class design mentioned in several Fowler’s Refactoring with examples. Single Responsibility Principle (SRP) Classes should not have more than one focus of responsibility. Open/Closed Principle (OCP) Class should be open for extending, but closed for modification.…
[Monday 7:03 AM] It's all about reappraisal! The Crisis Management Event was interesting; vague but interesting. Pulitzer Prize winner Dr. Jared Diamond discussed details of how general people cope with crisis and why it is so important to reappraise your lifestyle and re-evaluate things which "aren't working". He discussed the American ways of consumption, isolationism and individual…
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The Tournament of Roses Parade is over now. It was 55°F outside, heavy rain and chilling wind SE at 20 mph and I've just come back from the 117th Rose parade "It's Magical". It was awesome! kudos to all the participants and spectators who performed, stood and cheered as the parade continued it's journey. My…