Category: Technology

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Educating Millions – Story of Indan EdTech NPTEL

Table of Contents1 Reach and Offerings2 Certification3 Team and Community4 Industry Association and Internships5 Content License6 Technology7 Footnotes I started with NPTEL in Jan 2015. It was still very early. They were gearing up towards the launching many courses. I was introduced to NPTEL by my manager as the platform that to educate...

Street Name Signs in India is usually dual language. The English part is a transliterated version. 0

Project – Nammooral techu

Nammooral techu (ನಮ್ಮೂರಲ್ ಟೆಕ್ಕು) is the new project I am involved with. Idea is to translate technology jargons to Kannada, build vocabulary etc. In a way start discussions around it in Kannada. From the about page ಇದು ಟೆಕ್ (ಐಸಿಟಿ, ಡೇಟ ಇತ್ಯಾದಿ)ಗೆ ಸಂಬಂಧಿಸಿದ ಕನ್ನಡ ಪದಗಳನ್ನು ಶಬ್ದಕೋಶಕ್ಕೆ ಸೇರಿಸುವ ನಮ್ಮ ಪ್ರಯತ್ನ. ಸದ್ಯಕ್ಕೆ, ಟೆಕ್ ಪದದ ಕನ್ನಡ ಅನುವಾದದೊಂದಿಗೆ...

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Building an Alexa Skill using OpenWhisk and CouchDB

Smart Speakers are becoming popular these days. I see Alexa or Google home everywhere, Voice is an interesting technology and I think it’s going to become very popular amongst younger and elderly community. Here in this tutorial we will create a simple Alexa Skill using OpenWhisk as our serverless platform and CouchDB as our database.

Attaching the notebook to passport holder is easy using an elastic band. 0

Custom Notebooks

I love notebooks. Since school days I have been fan of pocket-able notebooks. The one’s that reporters use. When I was in school I used carry empty prescription pads of my dad 1. I loved them because they used to fit well in my pocket. When I started working I moved to bigger...

Using Netatmo and Pushover API to get weather alerts. 1

How to setup and run Node-Red

Table of Contents1 Install and setup2 Setup your flow3 API Access4 End Note Node-Red is IBM open source project for wiring things on internet. It was started by IBM’s Emerging Technology Services team and now is part of JS Foundation, For anyone who has been a fan of Yahoo Pipes the interface and...

Screenfrab from Google Walkout: Employees Stage Protest Over Handling of Sexual Harassment Video. 0

Google Walkouts

One of the early cases of sexual harassment that I remember reading about is that of Phaneesh Murthy in 2002. When I joined Infosys in 2003 it was hot topic. There were discussions about how Infosys fired him; unhappiness about the compensation Infosys had to pay etc. I was mostly disgusted by the...