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Leap of Faith: Migrating from Windows to Mac

Published by in Arjun Roychowdhury, general technology, osx on September 23rd, 2010

(image credit: snow leopard from openclipart.org) The Journey from Windows to OS-X I’ve been a windows user for over 15+ years. Very recently, I had the need to simultaneously program on Android as well as iPhone. While it was pretty simple to get an Android development environment up and running on my laptop, iPhone development mandatorily requires a mac. Having to maintain two laptops and switch between them is a pain, so I thought this was the right time to fully migrate to a Mac laptop and take the leap of faith. So off I bounced to the Apple Store and asked a rep “I need a laptop so I can write programs for iPhone”. I felt incredibly stupid saying this. It sounded like I was an antique way out of his league. The sales guy promptly flashed out a spanking new mac-book pro and told me this is all I needed to get started. The specs looked fine – 2.4 Ghz core 2 duo, 4 gig RAM, Wireless-N, 250GB Harddisk et al, so I knew it was a good configuration, hardware wise. Having never used the OS, I had no clue on how it would perform, but what the

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My interview at the SmartGrid Summit: South Miami, 2010

Published by in Arjun Roychowdhury, general technology on January 24th, 2010

Live from TMCnet ITEXPO 2010 (Miami, Florida) Interviews with Arjun Roychowdhury, Asst. Vice President at Hughes Systique Corp (HSC). HSC is a HUGHES company, an industry leader in IP and communications technology. (recorded at 2010-01-21 12:04:39) click HERE if the video below does not show up.

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More tweeting, less blogging

Published by in Arjun Roychowdhury, general technology, offbeat, world 2.0 on September 24th, 2009

I finally get why people tweet. It lets you speak your mind the way it is, without requiring you to make a paragraph out of it. When I blog, I think, then form, then rehearse then post. When I tweet, I think and tweet. The link between my thoughts and the tweets is more direct. And of course, very often, I don’t have paragraphs to talk about, but still experience exciting new things that can be written in 3 lines. So now I understand the subtle difference of tweeting vs blogging. I’ve wiped the dust off my twitter account. I will use that more often now. I will still occasionally post, but only if I have lots to say. Follow on at http://twitter.com/arjunrc

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Chrome OS: A Web OS ?

Published by in Arjun Roychowdhury, general technology, world 2.0 on July 13th, 2009

There has been a lot of posts and flutter on Google’s new purported Chrome OS and how it will be a great battle with Microsoft, how it will confuse and/or kill Android etc. And also, of course, taking off from the Google Blog on Chrome OS “For application developers, the web is the platform. All web-based applications will automatically work and new applications can be written using your favorite web technologies” people are also throwing in “Web OS” everywhere. I thought I’d write a post detailing my thoughts (technical) on this entire issue.

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Google Chrome OS: Vaporware and really, let

Published by in Arjun Roychowdhury, general technology on July 9th, 2009

So yesterday, Google finally announced it is getting into the “OS” business with Chrome OS. Similar to Google Wave, this one is also just an announcement (gee, it doesn’t even have a front page yet  ) But anyway, here are my predictions on where this will go: The core OS will continue to be Linux based, with a Webkit layer built into the kernel, or, more likely, a priviledged layer (thus making “reaching to the web quicker” as google suggests) [okay, my bad, I did not need to predict this - I re-read their post - they already state "Google Chrome running within a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel"...] Even though Google says this is different from the Android initiative, and choice is good, from my perspective, Android is an SDK, while Chrome OS is an “OS”. The former can, and will, eventually ride on top of Chrome OS (in other words, Android SDK will be ported to Chrome OS, which itself will be based on linux) – thereby making Android apps more ubiqutous Android will be just one SDK on top of Chrome. Others will be available for environments where Android may not be ready yet (again, the

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