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Fixing data in WooCommerce Analytics
If your WooCommerce Analytics data is wrong or not being refreshed automatically, most-likely Pending actions are to blame. Here I tell you how to fix the WooCommerce Analytics in such situations.
Overhauling IT Education in India
I feel that level of IT education is really pathetic in our country (except in maybe top 20% colleges like IITs and NITs). It may seem funny coming from a non-graduate like me, but running my own software company for over 10 years gave me enough exposure and interaction with programmers coming out of colleges and also teachers teaching…
Hello Swift
I was thinking about learning Swift someday, but what really made me take the plunge was this article on Wired. This article has one of the best opening I have read, it goes something like this: Chris Lattner spent a year and a half creating a new programming language — a new way of designing, building, and running…
2 UX Tips to Bubbly
Bubbly is a voice based social network so instead of typing on your phone, you can record your voice and post it to share with rest of the world. Interestingly celebrities like Amitabh Bacchan, Priyanka Chopra, Salman Khan etc are using it so fans now have a great option to connect with them on a more…
Wanted Hackers
https://www.slideshare.net/palewar/wanted-hackers I gave a talk to MCA (Master of Computer Applications) students of GHRCE yesterday. Topic of my talk was ‘Wanted Hackers’ and objective was to inspire students to adopt hacker culture so that they can become better programmers and do great things in future. At the outset I emphasised that Hacking is not actually what media…
2 Shopping Tips for LinkedIn
I wrote a blog post some days back praising LinkedIn iPhone App’s use of smartphone capabilities, however there is one thing clearly missing in the App and that is, support for location sharing. I see immense use of using location in the App. What if you can automatically come to know about one of your LinkedIn connections…
What can an App Developer learn from LinkedIn iOS App?
LinkedIn’s iPhone App is great, but I will come straight to the feature which impressed me most and that is it’s integration with native Calendar app on iPhone. When you access the menu by tapping the icon on Top-Left (Pretty common UI element these days), you see an option to view Calendar and you can see…
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Programmers and Small Things
So often we are so fixated on big things that we don’t pay attention to supposedly small things. We realise it too late that those small things have hold us back all these years. I will talk about some of such small things in this post. Typing Nobody says it better than Jeff in his Coding…
Mobile Software Development Spectrum
http://vimeo.com/8764480 A seminar by Sachin Palewar, on various mobile software platforms and development choices for them. This seminar was held in Raisoni Engineering College Nagpur in Sept 2009.
PhoneBook 3G
I have been toying with idea of developing a phonebook application for sometime now. Here is what I think: Location/Time-Zone Aware PhoneBook: Whenever I travel, I try to connect with people I know from that city. Contacts/PhoneBook app on my phone has address field as well, but there is no way to search contacts by…
Do you need a START button on Windows Mobile?
Windows Mobile 6.1 is just released and it has some nice interface tweaks and supposed to be more stable and faster than windows mobile 6. Its a great mobile OS due to its familiarity and compatibility with Windows for desktop. However Microsoft has never given much thought to user experience I guess.I understand that windows mobile…
Has Microsoft got it’s Mobile strategy wrong???
We are a Microsoft shop primarily and we do mobile applications targeting Windows Mobile OS, and we may continue to be a Microsoft technologies company in future too owing to mass popularity Microsoft manages to acquire due to various reasons. However I simply hate the fact that MS keeps adding layers and layers of complication…
Scrum and Gandhigiri
It was interesting to know about discussions Pete Deemer had with would be CSMs in his recent certification class. It was both inspiring and matter of feeling proud as he beautifully described how relevant Gandhism (Gandhigiri in lighter sense) is to the role of ScrumMaster.Below text is what Pete posted in scrumdevelopment yahoogroup: For those who weren’t in the class,…
Necessary But Not Sufficient
I just finished reading ‘Necessary But Not Sufficient’ by Eli Goldratt. Its basically a Theory of Constraints (TOC) novel for IT. I am thankful to my good old friend Arun Sahlam for lending me this great book. It establishes a novel concept which says that technology is necessary but it’s not sufficient. It basically means that if we don’t…
The Goal
I just finished reading a book called ‘The Goal’ by Eli Goldratt. Its a novel but has become best selling management book. Its a story about one Alex Rogo, who is a plant manger for a manufacturing company. His plant is making losses and going to be closed down if he does not turn it…