The Quiz Up Android app was released a couple of months back and has been a viral hit. A few of my friends invited me to try it out. With questions spread over 500+ topics, they really have a huge database of Q&A. You can either play with a random opponent or your friends either […]
Programming
PyCon 2014
Ever since I landed in the US for my graduate school, I was looking forward to attending PyCon, the largest gathering of Python developers. Having worked with Python and Django for quite a few years now, I felt I was ready to start being an active member of the community and all things pointed to […]
UB Hacking 2014
Earlier this month University at Buffalo’s ACM Chapter hosted a 24-hour hackathon. With a project deadline looming at the same time, we were in a dilemma as to whether we should participate in it or not. When we saw that the registrations were still open, we quickly went to Davis Hall and registered ourselves, albeit […]
Future of Programming
A few days ago, I finally got around to watching some of the session videos of DBX 2013, Dropbox’s Developer Conference that happened earlier this year. (The videos are available in the DBX Channel on Vimeo). There are some interesting talks that include the keynote address by Drew Houston and Introduction to the Dropbox API by Guido van Rossum, the author and BDFL of Python […]
Going Mobile
I spent sometime in the past week working on the creating wireframes for one of my pet-projects using wireframe.cc. This tool gives the option of designing for desktop, mobile and tablets. My focus was on the mobile design. As a software developer who has spent close to three years building user interfaces for multiple web-based products, one […]