Here are the Tech Stories for the week:

• Windows & Terrible Battery Life: While this article is great, I think we all complain about battery life from all our gadgets. This is one aspect that is currently not satisfactory from any vendor.
• Google’s Iron Grip on Android: An article that goes into depths on how Google controls things. And why am I not surprised?
• Winning in the API Economy: A free eBook on why the API Economy matters and what you should be concentrating on.
• Google Calendar Booking App: A great tutorial on using some of the hottest technologies out there. Tutorial includes MongoDB, Node.js, Express and Angular JS.
• Concentration Puzzle Game: Take a look at one of the popular Game Development Frameworks out there: Corona.

Have a great week !

Check out the entire series of “Tech Stories To Read This Week”.

Here are the Tech Stories for the week:

• Tried to save Nokia: This is how a Helsinki based journalist tried to save Nokia.
• The Raspberry PI revolution continues: Raspberry, the low cost PC circuit continues to gain steam and it is well deserved.
• What super storm Sandy taught us about protecting IT Infrastructure: Disasters are a good thing at times. They teach us lessons, which we would have actually just bypassed.
• 10 Common Mistakes Java Developers makes about SQL: It pays to know best practices to write better applications.
• The Mobile Device war: As iPhone 5C fails to take off, the article says that Android and FirefoxOS are the main players who will battle it out in the price sensitive markets. I sort of agree but am surprised that they seem to ignore the Chinese device makers completely.

Have a great week !

Check out the entire series of “Tech Stories To Read This Week”.

Here are the Tech Stories for the week:

• Node.js and the new web front-end: A good article that explains the sweet spot of Node.js in my opinion.
• PuzzleScript: An Open Source HTML5 Puzzle Engine.
• The Joy of Redis: A great set of points on what makes Redis interesting to work with.
• How APIs will evolve: The author makes a good case of an API Hub.
• Buyers for Blackberry Assets: It is not surprising to note that a lot of companies would like to own various Blackberry software, patents and much more.

Have a great week !

Check out the entire series of “Tech Stories To Read This Week”.

Here are the 5 Tech Stories for the week (shifting to a shorter version from this week):

• JavaScript Memory Profiling: A great article on detecting leaks in your JavaScript Apps, all via the Google Chrome Tools.
• iOS 7: Mobile Tuts has started a section dedicated to iOS 7 development. You might want to bookmark it.
• Things I learned working on the Twitter Platform: Ryan Sarver, who works on the Twitter platform is poised to write down a lot of lessons learnt at Twitter. He plans to keep writing on various topics. Currently one topic is up: What is a platform?
• Google Web Designer: Time to say bye bye to Flash for most people, if this is widely accepted.
• A Call To Tablet Developers: This article urges Tablet Developers to look at Enterprise Apps instead of just Games.

Have a great week !

Check out the entire series of “10 Tech Stories To Read This Week”.

Here are the 10 Tech Stories for the week:

• Bootstrap Introduction : Twitter Bootstrap, a Responsive Web Framework is now powering thousands of web applications. Here is a good introduction if you are yet to start on it.
• The Programmer’s Dilemma : You must have noticed this while interviewing top candidates for a position in your firm.
• 7 things about working in IT that you don’t learn in school: A great post by Mozilla evangelist Christian Heilmann, in a lecture to the students. This should be made essential reading for all those aspiring for a career in IT and should I say to even those who are working in IT.
• Firefox Developer Tools: The Developers Tools inside of a browser are getting more and more powerful. I won’t be surprised if soon they are an IDE itself.
• 7 Tips for Node.js Beginners: A great set of tips that will save you hours while getting your feet wet with Node.
• The Magic of Webhooks: This is one of the most important among web technologies out there. Get going on it.
• The Great Shift in Search: Search continues to evolve and it will remain the centre piece of action as more people get on to the web.
• Forketing: One of the best pieces that I have read in recent times. It gives a complete meaning to how to build Social Capital outside of your immediate expertise.
• 7 Habits of Highly Effective Media Queries: The title says it all.
• Fully featured IDE in your browser: Not sure where these experiments might lead to but interesting to see the way people are pushing the limits.

Have a great week !

Check out the entire series of “10 Tech Stories To Read This Week”.

Here are the 10 Tech Stories for the week:

• Grand Theft Auto : The latest version of the game rakes in $1B in sales. Games continue to be the market that is most lucrative – which console or device (mobile, desktop) you look at.
• How Paypal & Reddit faked their way to traction: I am not really surprised here and you shouldn’t be either.
• Microsoft should just give it away: Sam Ramji makes a very valid point. In fact the strategy is working well for Microsoft in many other areas of Open Source, so why shouldn’t it here?
• Calico : Google launches a firm to address human health and possibly make us live longer quality lives. I am all for it. Anything that lets us be in better health as we age is something that I strongly support.
• CyanogenMod gets funding: This could possibly lead to a fork that is not exactly fun for developers. The fragmentation is serious enough already and this could compound it further.
• Firefox OS Book: A nifty guide to get you started with Firefox OS.
• Top Linux Contributors: A list of top 15 organisations contributing to Linux. I heard not heard of a few of them till now.
• Box Takes a shot: Box wants to carve out a space for itself when it comes to creating Documents. It wants to eat the pie of Microsoft and Google. Why not.
• Appirio buys TopCoder: This merged entity now represents the largest qualified pool of designers and programmers put together. They have a good shot at disrupting the IT Services model by a few percentage points.
• Frameworkless JavaScript: I like articles like these where the team does a pragmatic evaluation of frameworks and takes a decision that none of them fit their bill.

Have a great week !

Check out the entire series of “10 Tech Stories To Read This Week”.

Here are the 10 Tech Stories for the week:

• Google Coder for Raspberry Pi : The Raspberry Pi is a great device and greater still for introducing kids to building their own computer and learning to program. Google Coder helps turn your Pi into a Web Dev. Environment and a Web Server that hosts the code.
• Favicon Reloaded : The humble favicon in your web page can do amazing things – I seriously never imagined this.
• Twitter buys MoPub : I am sure that in some years, we will not be able to fathom what business’ Twitter might manage.
• Google Cloud Developer Challenge: If you are familiar with the Google Cloud Platform, you should participate in this great challenge with a serious bunch of prizes on offer and potential marketing of your application.
• PhoneGap 3.0 : A great set of points on what you should know about Phonegap 3.0, the cross platform mobile dev. framework.
• A couple of HTML5 APIs: A set of nice introductory articles on HTML5 Geolocation and HTML5 IndexedDB. Even if you know about them, good to get them revised once in a while.
• How To Blog About Code: A great set of points on how to go about blogging about code. Some serious advice in there.
• Firefox OS Tools & Web APIs: Frederic Harper gives us some excellent presentations of Firefox OS. Very useful if you are trying to talk about Firefox OS to a group.
• Spring & Redis : A good introductory articles on understanding what Redis is about and how to use the Spring Data API that abstracts it.
• MySQL to MariaDB: Google says it is moving stuff from MySQL to MariaDB. Surprise, Surprise that the creator of both MySQL and MariaDB is the same person.

Have a great week !

Check out the entire series of “10 Tech Stories To Read This Week”.