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Losing My Virginity By Richard Branson – Reading Experience
Oh, screw it, let’s do it. That’s the philosophy of Richard Branson that has allowed him to start ventures in markets that no one dared to enter and even considered ludicrous to try. Losing my virginity is the most unusual biography you will ever get to read. It looks like you are reading a biography…
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Practice Shapes : Android App To Learn Shapes
Only way to learn something is to learn it by yourself. Recently I have been playing with Canvas in android and it has been fun! đ As they say knowledge is knowing tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in vegetable basket. And best way to persist new gained “wisdom” is to put…
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Outliers: The Story of Success : Reading Review
My 6th book of the year was a handpicked one “Outliers: The Story of Success”. This book was actually recommended to me by my cousin as a “must read”. And actually I was amazed how great this book is. It takes your intellectual thinking to a roller coaster ride. As the book description says…
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How Mobile Devices Can Change the Educational Technology and Education?
Educational technology is growing rapidly and thus is catching everyone’s attention. At the same time mobile devices are part of are lives from a long time now. Students and teachers are increasingly embracing tablets and e-book readers in their personal lives. Accessibility of educational technology is one of the biggest barrier that we are facing.…
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Rails Number Helper Port to Android
A polyglot developer will understand, there is always something you like about one language and you wish was available for another language too. So, recently I started learning rails and found number_helper API very cool and fun to use. It gives you easy API to convert numbers into many formats like number_to_human which will convert 20000 to 20 Thousands or…
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Making GCM client in Android and Application server in Ruby on Rails
It is always fun to play with new APIs and tools. GCM is not something I was getting my hands on for the first time but it changed completely since last time I did a project using this. But the good news is it has changed for good. New service classes makes it easier to…
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Paint App in Android
Recently I was learning about Canvas and Custom views in Android and to put the theory in practice I made a pretty simple Paint App. Source code of the app can be found https://github.com/priyankvex/Paint-App-Android. The App is pretty simple with features 1.  Create Drawings (Obvious one :P). 2.  Select different brush sizes. 3.  Eraser with…
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Rafa : Reading Experience
Here it is. 4th book of the year Rafa by Rafael Nadal and John Carlin. Being arguably the biggest Rafa fan on this planet this book was in my reading bucket list from a long time. Finally got the opportunity to read this. This is great in both sense, it gives you a more closer look…
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Making an OCR app for Android using Tesseract.
Star on GitHub Recently I was playing with OCR library by google called as “Tesseract” (cool name for a library!). It was a fun experience. This post shows how you can make a simple OCR app in Android using Tesseract. We will be using Tess-Two a fork of Tesseract…
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Priyank Verma 