Android App - To test the phones hardware

Check this out - https://market.android.com/details?id=com.bestbuy.geeksquad.techcheck

Androidify

Cool way to kill time and display ur love for the android...

SC-MAD

SC - MAD, that says it all. Not 'mad' as in non-functional brain cells, but thats what Sun calls -mobile applications developer- .

Took a while to grasp the content, but since it derives its roots from Java, it was ok to an extent. Got to understand the fuss of JTWI, MIDP, CLDC & the rest of the jargon.

Compared to what is being developed in the mobile spectrum today, this exam far lacks the ability to test or give a developer insight into those things.

Hence, this exam surely needs an upgrade; at least to include

• Bluetooth api (JSR-82)
• Location based programming (JSR-293)
• Web-services (JSR-172)
• More concepts on UI; esp touch related screen programming (dunno if there is a JSR for that as yet).
• Mobile service architecture 2 (JSR-249)

Spinning code in the cloud

Well, the initiative from Mozilla labs to start coding in the cloud is not a new idea, given the fact that we have encountered child-computing ;) (i mean html coding) using web editors for quite some time now. 

The normal claims of

 - Compelling user experience

 - using open standards

 - extensible frameworks

 - etc.

for a cloud based IDE - like environment where I must 'upload' - 'write' - & - then 'download' to export it to my dev/production server ??? umm .. i think i may skip this one.

BUT - that being said, this is a great initiative to learn how the Mozilla guys are using HTML 5 (proclaim ably the next big thing in the web .. ask google !!) So worth joining the band wagon to see where things are headed in the not too distant future. 

Checkout - http://labs.mozilla.com/projects/bespin/

Certified in web services .... finally !

Well this was something that was long over due (if i believe myself well ... since 2005) the web services certification exam !

I finally managed to complete it - (bcoz my voucher was about to expire .... sshhhh !!)

But, now that I look back it was worth the effort and quite exhaustive in nature given the sheer breadth of the objectives. I think I should start an alternative blog which I can devote towards core tech articles as I have realized its better to categorize from scratch, something I did not manage to do with this blog.

Anyways, hopefully I should do that soon, but for the moment ... planning for a few more certifications

Browser's Chrome'd

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YASE (Yet Another Search Engine......)

Cuil (pronounced COOL) launched on 28th Jul '08 provides organized and relevant results based on Web page content analysis. It derives its name from an old Irish word for knowledge (co-founder and CEO, Tom Costello is from Drogheda, Ireland)

The company is led by husband-and-wife team Tom Costello and Anna Patterson.

Costello researched and developed search engines at Stanford University and IBM while Anna Patterson is best known for her work at Google, where she was the architect of the company’s large search index and led a Web page ranking team.

Cuil gives users a richer display of results and offers organizing features, such as tabs to clarify subjects (google .. we need this !!), images to identify topics and search refining suggestions to help guide users to the results they seek.

Some of the claims made by the Cuil Team:
1.] Cuil has indexed 120 billion Web pages
2.] Cuil ranks results by the content on each page, not its popularity (..will be worth looking at this algo !)

Worth a look, but google replacement ??? ...i'm guessin not !!