For quite a long time, Sony Ericsson has daunted the mobile giants Nokia, Samsung, et all, yet somehow always falling at the last hurdle. It was a story of the underdog putting up a brave fight, but always failing to upset the champion. Faced with rapidly falling sales, and a lineup that didn’t offer anything different or exciting, SE had to comeup with something radical to stay afloat. Their recent refresh in Q4 2009 offers something for everyone, with a variety of devices aimed at different segments and price points. But will it be enough to save the company and turn it around? This article tries to explore.
I don’t know how many of you out there are avid cricket fans and follow the progress of your favorite team ball-by-ball no matter how much pressure your delivery manager imposes on you or even during the toughest times of your work. Yes! Cricket fans like me by now would have guessed what I am talking all about. Cricinfo.com, one of the biggest sports websites in the world, logs in almost 10 million unique visitors on a monthly basis.
It all started when Simon King, an English graduate working at an American University was fed up with not knowing how his team was doing. What began as a network of fans over Chat instantaneously grew about to become the world’s largest cricket website.
I’ve spent the last few days fruitfully, searching and comparing the most popular and promising of PHP frameworks. Before I get started, I know the automatic follow up will be PHP bashing, and hailing RoR as the savior of the world. This post isn’t about a rails vs PHP comparison, though I intend to write on that shortly.
Working on a project of considerable size will change one’s perception about coding. I happened to work on a tiny PHP/MySQL project with a team of 4 for a relatively short duration of 6 months. Before that, even though I personally followed sound programming conventions for my own convenience, I hadn’t a clue as to how important it is in a sizable project. Now that its over, I chanced to read up a little on programming conventions prescribed for various languages/projects here, here and here.
As an Indian, I don’t consider IT to be a savior of the country. Just don’t. Sure it THE fastest growing sector, and booming along with mobile and internet penetration in the country, but its known as a place for cheap labor, and not otherwise. India probably needed such a boom for its economic revival, but at what cost? The companies hire in thousands, dumping the freshers right out of college in one of their many development sheds, where they code as zombies all day, day after day. And the sad part is, they don’t mind it!