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Architecture and design is neither a process nor delivery related work that can be put into a manual, instead it tends to be deeply involved work from a conceptual and technical perspective. Doing architecture is in reality a problem solving exercise – it is not a [...]
When something needs to be analyzed concretely and consciously and at the same time an attempt is being made to synthesize it subconsciously, it is (at least to me) an indication that an aesthetic encounter is about to take place and eventually an insight will emerge from that churning. An insight that will in due course of time becomes a basis that cohesively binds many layers of perception together.
God is undefined in theology and philosophy, nature of knowledge is the secret yet to be unveiled by metaphysics, consciousness is alluded to but doesn’t lend itself to fit into the framework of psychology whereas currency and money – true to their nature – seem to run away from Economics and Finance. Poets can only make a song and dance about love and life, but they don’t seem to have a clue of what they mean. Meaning is a mystery in linguistics, semantics and languages, information is not defined in computing and finally Logic does not concern itself with what “truth” is.
I wonder whether humanity knows anything at all!
This month IEEE Internet Computing published a paper we wrote entitled “Agropedia – Humanization of Agricultural Knowledge”. Thankfully, IEEE has agreed to make this paper available free in their digital library. So, you can download it when ever you want. In this paper, we proposed the role of folklore in creating and disseminating knowledge and its crucial function in the formation of communities. We demonstrated how the idea of “folklore” can be incorporated in the modern semantic and collaborative applications otherwise known as social networking, semantic Web and Collaborative Computing
This is a short article on the Community Created Content and the problems associated with the ownership and modeling of such content.
In the real world, children survive their parents – but, in computing, everything is conter-intuitive. Parents are supposed to outlive their “children” in computer science (remember all those tree data structures, and forking unix processes, orphaned processes and so on). This is the problem when it comes to the content. How do we deal with “orphaned” content – meaning, if the software (problem-two), or the user (in the problem-one) who created some data+content no longer exists, what happens to that content? I think this is an important content management challenge that we have to solve quickly in the coming years.
In this post, I examine a possible solution to the Peak Oil question, and use this as a basis to evaluate the current economic models.
In order to investigate the current predicament of mankind, we have to first examine what is the real progress we achieved from an evolutionary stand point, and what are some [...]
In these series of articles on Creativity and Design, my intention is to explore if there is a formal model of creativity. I am not interested in the psychological aspects of creativity, how it works and so on. The Psychology of discovery and invention is wonderfully described by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in his classic book called [...]
In this article, I describe the process of problem solving and the heuristic method that is involved using Music as an analogy. The relationship between Music and Sound is very similar to the relationship between creative problem solving and construction of an artifact that conforms to strict rules of physics and engineering.
In the last post, [...]
This article is a short guide on how to survive as a freelancer.It is not easy to be a freelancer. Most freelancers want work, not a job which makes it tough for them in the long run. They want freedom, they value competency, they think they bring real expertise to the table and want to continue to enjoy the challenge of work.
In this article, We describe some personal experiences in Freelancing and a particular culture influences our human relationships. Knowing this would help us avoid some general pitfalls and unnecessary heartaches.
This article is about the privacy and security issues in the emerging collaborative and semantic web. Being a perspective essay – it describes the nature of web2.0, social computing, the evolving semantic web and what it means from a security and privacy of individuals. The major difference between the first generation Web and the third generation web is in the way objects are connected together – as an example, in many social networking sites, we not only advertise about ourselves, but also tell the world who our friends are. In a semantic web, we go one step further – we not only tell who our friends are, but we also describe how we came to know them.
First my apologies to all the regular visitors of my blog. Last two weeks have been very hectic. I made a promise to myself that I would upload at least two articles every week. Promises are like spoilt children as soon as you make a promise – somehow, it brings along situations with [...]
A mentor must wait for the right time to strike. It always presents itself one way or the other. In the course of the three years, three such incidents happened, which over a period of years guided much of my practice in developing good systems on time.
This Article describes the nature of enterprise applications from one management point of view, and it describes the issues and challenges that need to be considered when designing an enterprise application management framework.
True is the old adage that education and health care are two businesses that do not go out of fashion. India has certainly become a sought after destination for medical tourism, even while health care accessibility is still a challenge for the common man if India. Education the industry we are focusing on [...]
First in the series of articles on Semantics of Software Architecture. We describe Architecture as a problem solving process and the chief problem is to find a transformation to convert a domain problem into a computing problem. In these series of articles, I try and describe a technique to represent such body of knowledge – not as a methodology, but as an interpretative metaphor of problem solving.
Language interfaces is not at all un-common in software systems. In fact, the power of the digital computer is its interface a programming language. Because of language is the primary interface to the machine, we are able to build successive layers of abstraction on top of the primitive computing elements of the machine and offer very rich modeling power and configurability. In this paper, we examine some architectural techniques to design embeddable little languages as primary interfaces of large distributed systems.
Continuing the series on design techniques, we look at refining response time of software applications. An important principle is to pre-compute as much as possible by building indexes, using caches and pre-generating aggregates and reports.
With the acceptance of the new C++ specification – code named C++0x, a slew of new programming techniques have become available to the programmers. One such technique – Variadic Templates is probably one of the most awaited features of the language. This post presents a solution to the problem of dealing with heterogeneous type collections without using Variadic templates – by using a technique known as Type Erasure as an alternate design technique, at least till such time as the support for Variadic Templates becomes more commonplace.
The problem presented in this post deals with OMG DDS specification, creating a multi-topic reader using a collection of topic specific data readers in C++, the problems therein and how Type Erasure can be used to overcome these problems. The technique is not limited to DDS and can be applied across other scenarios as well, such as game programming.
This is the first in a series of posts that describe design techniques we have put together over several years. In this post I focus on techniques to get desired performance – specifically throughput – in a software system.
When something needs to be analyzed concretely and consciously and at the same time an attempt is being made to synthesize it subconsciously, it is (at least to me) an indication that an aesthetic encounter is about to take place and eventually an insight will emerge from that churning. An insight that will in due course of time becomes a basis that cohesively binds many layers of perception together.
God is undefined in theology and philosophy, nature of knowledge is the secret yet to be unveiled by metaphysics, consciousness is alluded to but doesn’t lend itself to fit into the framework of psychology whereas currency and money – true to their nature – seem to run away from Economics and Finance. Poets can only make a song and dance about love and life, but they don’t seem to have a clue of what they mean. Meaning is a mystery in linguistics, semantics and languages, information is not defined in computing and finally Logic does not concern itself with what “truth” is.
I wonder whether humanity knows anything at all!
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