Internet will change again

If you remember those days, when one has to wait for an email to open, then for sure you know that its changed now. Not only fast internet, but the central delivery system, has changed from one server to cloud servers. And that is perfect for the problem in hand. Now all the data is residing in someone’s server(ok, cloud server). In the beginning, it felt perfect as it syncs to all the devices and one seamless experience for the user. With this, comes the security breach and that has already showed its effect in last year.
Fortunately, world is a better place. Individuals and startups have already acted upon this. There are so many cool products and services being tried last year that we may start to see the fruits starting from this year.
The philosophy has changed from “mobile first app” to “offline first app”, from “connected app” to “noBackend app”, its a revolution again.
The very chances are the experience may remain the same for the user, but the underlaying data and functionality of the applications are going to change again as it changed first from single server to cloud servers, now it would be single again, but only for your own data (So, it would be Re-Decentralizing).

redecentralize : taking back the net

Well, exciting beginning for the year. Below is the list of, some of the many initiatives, which will change the internet again.

arkos.io : Your data, your rules.
sovereign : build and maintain your own personal cloud
Ansible : Ansible is the simplest way to automate IT.
mailpile : A modern, fast web-mail client
Lima : Lima unifies the memory of your devices so they can act as one. Just for you.
owncloud : self-controlled free and open source cloud.
cozycloud : your personal cloud
Cozy: A personal Cloud you can host, hack and delete

Redecentralize ยท taking back the net

offlinefirst
nobackend

Backendless
deployd, THE SIMPLEST WAY TO BUILD AN API.
Firebase
Hoodie, VERY FAST WEB APP DEVELOPMENT
Kinvey
Parse
remotestorage, An open protocol for per-user storage
sockethub
unhosted : freedom from web 2.0′s monopoly platforms

This interview with Mailpile founder seems a nice start if you are wondering whats coming in near future.

Happy new year,
Cheers

Hello 2014

Happy new year 2014.

Wishing all you a very happy, healthy and prosperous new year.

Its one of those times, when one looks back before moving towards future.
Well 2013,the year that was.

It started with shifting gears officially for me. Working partly with Javascript for a long time now, but this time its official and officially I started working on Javascript projects in my current organisation. So a full year of Javascript and everything Javascript. Yeah, a lot ground covered. So the Javascript based, Phonegap (cordova) was for me in the beginning, officially for a project for iOS and finally got approved and available in AppStore. There was a time when Phonegap based plugin for Push Notification did not work on iOS, so updated the Phonegap Push Notification Plugin for iOS and push it to Github. And to my surprise, people actually forked it and made it better ! Awesome experience to give back, learn and grow.
On my personal work, added my phonegap based Mobile projects in GooglePlay store for Android.

Apart from mobile and Phonegap, for browser based application, I used NodeJS, MongoDB and BackboneJS. Learnt how to host in Heroku and Github for NodeJS based applications. Well, on serverside frameworks, I picked up Express for NodeJS and an application is pushed to Heroku.

At one point, I was evaluating Dart-lang, CoffeeScript and TypeScript for projects. So a lot of learning there and made simple projects with Dart-lang. Its a sweet language, I must say.

On BDD, I used Jasmine for my application. For build process, I started using GruntJS. The complete Javascript based environments kept me busy learning and at the same time gave me a lot of happiness and excitement in doing so.

On later part of the year 2013, I was mentoring a fellow developer in iOS for a native ObjectiveC based iOS project. I am so happy to see his progress and that made me confident that I can do more than just doing ObjectiveC projects.

Personally, I was working on HAXE and LIME (OpenFL) all through out the year. That made me push my app to Tizen AppStore appart from iOS AppStore and Google PlayStore. It is such a nice experience to make cross-platform development fun.

I put together all my project links at one page to refer.

2013 was another eventful year for me, I got the sweet gift of my life. Me and wife are blessed with a baby boy “Dibyamshu”.

So this year, 2014 starts with a bang. While all these technologies maturing and me having real experience on these, it feels a lot is possible. On the other side, I really hope that 2014 would be the beginning of the playful years to come, making me busy with Dibyamshu.

Cheers.

First anniversary, thanking my beloved wife for everything.

I was thinking to write this post for past some months, but anyway, today I made sure to put it down.
In this busy world, when I decided to get married, I was not sure how it will al end up. Now after one year, I must say, from the beginning only my beloved wife made sure that the experience I get out of life, must be filled with life. I could not thank her for all the experiences we had together through the year.
When we left home to come to my work place (which are two different towns far enough), she made me confident that everything will out, though she was coming out for the first time.
I could not stop thinking the horrible driver and his horrifying driving on our way back from Goa. It was as if we(me and my beloved wife) were kidnapped. We started around 10AM in the morning. The driver never stopped, even if we told him several times. But when he stopped, it was midnight and at the middle of a hill. It was raining heavily and dark everywhere. The forest was dense, and the driver stopped the car. Then the driver went ahead to meet some of his friends, leaving us sitting in the car. There were no phone networks at that place. Fortunately we returned with the same driver and reached around 3AM in the next day morning. I could see deep fear in the eyes of my wife but then she made it clear that we are going to make it. And that belief made me less panic. This was just after somedays of locating in the town of my workplace.
Not very long after, when my mother was in bed counting her last breath, it was my wife, who insisted on going back alone, to home own and take care of her mother in-law. Finally, when my mom died and the rituals were done, I was surprised to see my wife, taking everything on her shoulders and doing it with absolute interest.
Theses just some incidents out of the happening last year. Apart from the all these there were so many things happening everyday that I almost fall in love with the learning to look at life from a different perspective.
I could not have continued doing the things I love, without her support and encouragement. Food was always ready and it is almost always delicious. And now, I just do not want to have outside food.It reminds of my mom and grand mom, everytime I eat food cooked by my beloved wife.
The most notable and important thing that she taught me by here actions and thoughts is, life is now or never. I was almost in a path of counting numbers, but she gave me back the life I was missing. I learned to love the small things, which absolutely give life to our lives. Smiling and being happy always is just here nature and I hope I will catch up to her someday.
I would say, it was not easy but the experience is priceless.
There are lot, but would conclude the post here saying, “Thank you for being there and giving me the year long priceless experience. I love you and happy anniversary”.

Hello 2013

Happy new year and its already started. As you can see the post is a little late, for the year is started for me, in a busy mode, which is always a positive sign.

Time for a retrospect of the last year. The year 2012 was a very happening year for me after my college days.
1. I got into a startup in Jan 2012 ( pixykids and now renamed to Kazaana )
2. Met a friend and her family from Swizerland ( Stephanie Booth http://climbtothestars.org/ )
3. Attended first Tweet-meetup for Pune in Pune
4. Took interviews for senior flex developer from all around India for the start-up I joined
5. A lot of learning and research and development happened for multi-user application development. Finally demoed and implemented Union Platform for the product I was working on the start-up.
6. Got Married.
7. Looking the product I was working on being released in staging server, alpha version and public beta.
8. And finally towards the end of the year, I lost my mom, may her soul rest in peace.

So the eventful year of highs and lows came to an end and given a chance to look at things in new perspective.

Happy new year 2012

A very happy new year to all of you.

As you can see I am posting this late, its not intentional but the new year really brought on a lot of energy, surprises and happenings with it from day one. While the year 2011 ended with a big surprise as, meeting a long time online friend Stephanie along with her parents in person. The new year started with a travel to other part of the country and back. My first flight of the year is on the 1st morning. The travel started right in the very early morning. Where there is generally no chance of getting a rickshaw to the airport, I got it right across the lonely road in the middle of the night, a welcoming new year gesture of 2012 I hope. Then the very next day, got some pending money back from my old employer! ahh, nothing like it. Met some old friends and spent quite a quality time. All in all it is a good beginning. Hope it will go on like this for me and for you all.

Cut down the negativity and move on with all your positive spirits, things are bound to happen.

With that wishing you all a very happy and prosperous new year ahead.