Random Thoughts on Computing

Stand up to Cancer

Sujay Ghosh — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 14:24:07 +0000

I have recently installed the Socialvibe widget , to help out the cancer victims. It does not require any contribution from anyone’s part , all it needs is a mouse click . Lets help in raising funds for cancer treatment , simply by clicking on the Social Vibe widget on the right . Posted in General Tagged: [...]

Architecture Patterns and Design Patterns

Sujay Ghosh — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:59:04 +0000

Architecture Pattern – It expresses a fundamental structural organization or schema for software systems. It provides a set of predefined subsystems, specifies their responsibilities, and includes rules and guidelines for organizing the relationships between them. Examples : Architectural framewoks like Zachman, ( ZIFA ) provide the user with a pattern for the designing the enterprise. The [...]

First WP Post with LiveWriter

Sujay Ghosh — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 20:20:41 +0000

Normally I have been posting using the WP web editor or Scribefire. Today I thought why not give Live Writer a try. Let me see how this post comes out. Posted in General Tagged: LiveWriter

Microsoft Surface computing SDK – no international rollout yet

Sujay Ghosh — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 09:06:42 +0000

In my earlier post I had discussed how surface computing can revolutionize the retail industry. I had also illustrated the same with some examples. Both of the examples have turned out to be real , the Microsoft / Sheration tie up . Recently I had contacted the Microsoft Surface computing desk for the SDK and found [...]

Why WordPress blogs – an afterthought

Sujay Ghosh — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:06:31 +0000

I am a Google fan, and I love GReader, GMaps, GMail, Gdocs, mobile Gmail. I dont remember the last time I was not using Google for search ; in fact that is the only toolbar I have in my browser . That also let me going with Blogger for more than 3 years. [...]

My blog gets listed in Microsoft Tech Ed 2008 Blogs

Sujay Ghosh — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 08:54:05 +0000

My blog has been listed in the Microsoft Tech Ed 2008 Technical In Depth category. I searched for “Sujay Ghosh” ( without the quotes ) and clicking on the link takes me to this blog. Posted in General Tagged: Blog, http://sujayghosh.wordpress.com, Microsoft, Microsoft Tech Ed, Random Thoughts on Computing, Tech Ed 2008, TechEd [...]

Dipity – twitter with a new look and source

Sujay Ghosh — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:31:27 +0000

I have been using Twitter for quite some time, and I find it pretty useful. Twitter is simple to use, has lot of clients, my favourite being Twhirl . I feel that if the mashup interface could have been made more friendly, it would help us a lot more. There are more mashup comparisons in [...]

Moving from blogger to wordpress

Sujay Ghosh — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:09:02 +0000

I have recently moved from my previous blog to this wordpress blog. I have not imported from my earlier blog, as I want it to stay as it is. It was my first blog, it helped me in letting me know that a blog is not about writing posts, lots of things go behind making a [...]

Location Based Networking – making it work for you

Sujay Ghosh — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 13:12:05 +0000

Social networking has become more than a past time , if seen seriously it looks like it has still more challenges to cross, but barring the challenges it has brought in a lot of change , in the way we look today. But, there is a drawback here, if you need to find a people from [...]

Microsoft Azure – cloud computing platform from Microsoft

Sujay Ghosh — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:52:45 +0000

With big players and enterprises looking up at cloud computing and with salesforce.com taking the lead for on demand applications, can Microsoft be far behind. At the recently concluded PDC 2008 , MS launched Microsoft Azure ; a host of on demand services. In fact not in the true sense of cloud computing, Microsoft had started the [...]