Ritesh on Oct 19th, 2011Google Nexus S – My Experience
I ordered my first Android phone, the Google Nexus S about a 4 months ago. Part of my phone was paid for using the prize money I won for building our Augmented Reality Android application. This is my first smart phone and I thought I should share my experiences around my phone. I live in [...]
Ritesh on Mar 6th, 2011On the importance of Legacy and being open minded
“You never know where you are going, until you know where you’ve been” There is a big message in that quote. The message being, never underestimate the historical context behind a certain field of study. Take any occupation, a student starts out learning the history behind the field and understands why certain things are done [...]
Ritesh on Aug 7th, 2009Whats common between Free online ads and Open source
Disclaimer: I am not an Open Source hater. In fact, I am quite the opposite. I believe that for a innovative software marketplace to exist, there must be an equal mix of open and closed source softwares. This also borders on a project that I did on multiagent systems. There are claims that Open Source [...]
Ritesh on Jul 24th, 2009One Decade of Programming
Sometime around July 1999 was the time I wrote my first “Hello World” program. Yes, its been 10 years since I started programming, and I dont mean L R L T of Logo. In fact, I wrote some BASIC code as early as 1995-96, but I will skip that for reasons beyond the scope of [...]
Ritesh on Jan 14th, 2009New Programming Paradigms
Over the last two or three years, I have seen introduction of many new psuedo programming languages(if I can call it that) that help users build applications over the web. Most of these languages are built to work with or as a service. I shall wildly switch between a web service and also the langauge [...]
