Category Archives: inspiration
StartUp : Geek Mentors
It’s very exciting to see these people at geek mentors doing a nice job porting angrybirds to a local version.
Flash is not always about flashplayer, its much more than that if we really follow the philosophy of Flash community. These guys at this startup began their career in Flash, but as of any cool dude in Flash, they always tried to push the technology and dove into new platforms for the learning and broadening the horizon. They are hungry for technology and fun, both at once.
The momentum is always there for fun and learn new things all the time. The work never seem to be complete but then they never seem to rest 
that does not mean they are working under pressure, that means simply they keep on working for what they love. Apart from developing games for Apple appstore, there is a quality mentoring option for people who want to learn things the fun way by doing it. The best part is there is no project manager to manage you, come to work and do it by how you want to do.
There is a heavy investment on new technology learnings. When the world was fighting for whether to Html5 or Flash, this new startup solely concentrate on GameSalad. A solid platform for publishing your games to IPhone, iPad and even HTML5. The point is if there is a tool which can produce quality applications, why fight over how many lines of code one need to write in a particular platform!
GameSalad link for Angry Anna : http://www.angryanna.com/
The content below is kind of an interview with the company
Introduction of the team :
Mohd Shah Nawaz : Co-Founder,
Mohd Faisal: Co-Founder,
Himanshu Himthani: Art Director,
Abhishek Chawla: Production Lead.
Ajay Joshi: Educational Advisor
Experience till now : Don’t know what to write…..
Vision : At Geek Mentors Studios, our vision is to be the best company in the world–in the eyes of our customers, shareholders, communities, Employees and people.
Wishing the team all the best.
Let go. It always works.
I generally tend to hold it for a long long time. And finally when I let it go, the solution is right in front. Yes, I always got to the solution but not with holding things, but with let go!
It is generally said that, do not get too serious with life else you will not get out of it. It took a long time for me to realise that. First of all its people arround. Those who themselves are not happy, want you to stay worried and they will do all possible logic calculating how to make you that. So be aware not to fall in trap. It will not help. Believe in your own self and make a choice to be happy. Leave everything behind and just be happy now. Once you do that, things will unfold.
Once you let go, the situaion itself knows that you are not trying to fight it with logic but intuition and that’s powerful. Once you do that you will find solution in front , will come from somewhere you have never ever imagined. That works for me and may be you try that.
Belive in self and let go things will do wonders, while logic can solve mechanic problems, life is not mechanical at all. Happy living.
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Some places to get yourself back
While its very easy to forget oneself in this world and life, where media and opinion of others are not only heard but also forced upon you, there are places where you can get back your true self or awake to the real self, forgetting the race you are doing to waste your precious gift; the life.
Below are a list of some such places,
http://www.pickthebrain.com
http://lateralaction.com
http://www.ratracetrap.com
http://thinksimplenow.com
http://www.elephantjournal.com
Have a happy life 
Quality learning for free : Khan Academy
iOS5 with ARC ( Automatic Reference Counting )
With iOS5 comes the most important feature for me as a developer, Automatic Reference Counting.
This is may not feel a large announcement from an user’s perspective but as a developer, this is the feature. Well, what does that mean and how it affects me as an iOS application developer? This means no retain and release, yeeeaaaahhooooo. If you are developing for iOS devices till now, the pain of maintaining the reference count of an object is always there till it goes to the appstore. With the ARC, one can now forget those. In other words we can say finally garbage collection is here with iOS5, though its not that from a technical perspective, but from a developers perspective its kind of that.
Here is the official description about all the features of iOS5.
Whatever the announcement is for others, but for a developer it is the most significant release of the iOS till now.
Architectural inspiration from Apple
Architectural visualisation with Blender
The complete project details are here.
Some more details about the project.
The 3D software used is Blender.
Some more community news about the project.
Architecture that senses and responds
Got my first iOS device.
This is been a while since I was thinking of getting an iOS device. Finally I got one and this is ipod touch with retina display. That makes me excited again as to keep my developer shoes on.
First of all, I must say Apple keeps an eye for a lot of detail into account while it comes to its products, any product. It has got some awesome products, but then it does not stop there. Till the product is delivered to the customer and its use, each one is specially taken care of.
In my case, opening of the cover itself gave me a sense of satisfaction. The way things are packed, each thing is tightly bundled yet very easy to open up. I am completely surprised to see the small arrow mark on the stickers, which are just used for packing purpose.
This gives an user satisfaction as in details in small things. Probably that’s why Apple is the best in UX ( user experience ). Once I opened my ipod touch, its amazing to see that I can straight away use the product, no charge for 6hrs before use, kind of thing. Another UX win. The samething had impressed me before also, when I got my macbook pro. After all these, the retina display and camera swing funtionality is just some nice, exciting feeling. Overall, I am impressed and thank you Apple for keep innovating and making my life pleasurable.
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