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AlBaha….Signing off..

Amit — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:49:42 +0000

AlBaha Last couple of days, I have been at AlBaha, the hill station in the desert! It literally is. The temperature during the day is about 30 degrees and during the night, it becomes really cool. Before coming down, I had read about the place and got an impression of it being a tourist place. I [...]

How I tracked my passport!

Amit — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:12:43 +0000

Continuing from where I had left the last post, the taxi had to be tracked somehow. But how? How could we track down the taxi without having any clue about it? Suddenly my friends got reminded of something magical. On our way to the hotel from the airport, the entire journey was captured as a [...]

When I lost my passport!

Amit — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 11:25:43 +0000

We reached Madinah airport in the evening. Small airport. Walked out and took a taxi to the hotel. The ride was long, but pleasant. Madinah does not feel like a desert surprisingly. I will possibly describe Madinah in another post. When the receptionist at the hotel asked me for my passport while checking-in at the [...]

Social Networking #

Amit — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 22:26:12 +0000

Looks funny now. But could be a reality soon!

Riyadh again…

Amit — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 18:25:49 +0000

My last post was from Riyadh about 3 months ago. And I am here again. Looks like my blogging is stuck with Riyadh! Well this time it looks more familiar. Looks like I am beginning to understand this place better. Know where to get the right food. Know what to do and what not to do. [...]

Riyadh – The first impressions

Amit — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:14:53 +0000

I decided to celebrate this Holi in Riyadh. Well, not really. But that is how it is. I somehow landed up here. So what did I expect to see here? Actually no expectations. I did not realize that I am headed off to a desert until the plane touched the King Khalid International Airport @ Riyadh. [...]

Documentation can make or break a product!

Amit — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 09:32:31 +0000

Never ever I have realized the importance of proper documentation until I decided to try out Shibboleth, an open source web single sin-on solution. Shibboleth is supposedly the best open source alternative to achieve web single sign-on across applications, against more established enterprise offerings such as IBM’s Tivoli (TIM and TAM). While I do not intend [...]

The BIG demo!

Amit — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:12:34 +0000

I usually do not post my work related stuff. However, this one deserves a post! Over the last couple of weeks, I got an opportunity to be a part of a demo, whose scale dwarfs all the projects I’ve been so far associated with (barring one during the early stage of my career). And the client was none [...]

Google’s answer to Apple…

Amit — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:16:19 +0000

Google Voice Dialer (courtesy TechCrunch) Google and Apple certainly fall on the opposite ends of the spectrum when it comes to the business philosophies. Google is more of an open book while Apple is a closed one. With ‘Google Voice‘ being released last year, Google had created an iphone app for the same. However, Apple hadrejected it citing [...]

Read this and win a free Reebok wrist watch!

Amit — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 06:39:33 +0000

The Free Reebok Watch! Yes you read it right! Read this post all along and I will give you a free Reebok watch worth Rs. 2499/ 2599/ 2999. Almost every other company is offering a free Reebok watch with their products/ services. It has been over a year now, and this has shown no signs of abatement. [...]