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UBCx: Marketing1x Introduction to Marketing : Course Experience
Marketing is no longer about the stuff that you make, but about the stories that you tell. In today’s world everyone in some way or another is trying to market themselves to the world. This becomes even more prominent if you are trying to attract customers to earn your living. Preping to become an entrepreneur, I…
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Couchbase : CB020 and CB140 Experience
Last week in one of my project I wanted to store data of a form having more than 100 fields. I knew storing this much scattered info on relational DBs would be tough. Platform being mobile, just made things more complicated. Indications were to use a NoSql DB. For what I found, Couchbase lite is…
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Contagious : Why Things Catch On : Reading Experience
We all have heard of the hilarious Panda Cheese commercial in which a panda screws everyone who says no to panda products. People loved the ad so much that the brand enjoyed world wide recognition. On the other hand commercials by GoldenPalace.com was a complete miss, it just failed to persist their brand name in customer’s mind by…
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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! 😀 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…