30. May 2013

Google Summer of Code 2013 - Mobilize Wikidata

It‘s with great excitement that I announce that I’ve been accepted into Google Summer of Code 2013. I'm going to be working with the Wikimedia foundation on a project entitled “Mobilize Wikidata”.

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29. March 2013

Suck, Squeeze, Bang, Blow.

Throughout my years of engineering, I've thought about this question a countless number of times. “Why did I decide to study engineering?” In part, it could have been because of all the promises of riches and glory that the life of an engineer brings, that we were told as kids in this country. How ironic it is to have such a multitude of engineers in a place so annoyingly under-engineered! I digress, sorry. That topic in itself deserves to be expounded upon in a series of articles.

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27. January 2013

Skadool - Flexible scheduling powered by Plivo

Plivo is a great cloud platform that allows you to build powerful telephony apps in a breeze. Now I'm not much of a developer, but when I was asked to use it and build an app, I decided to give it a spin! It was a little intimidating at first, but fortunately Plivo has very well documented code and a fantastic set of helper functions that made my job so much easier.

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