Thejesh GN Blog

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The Year that was 2014

So we are at the end of 2014. It’s an interesting year from both personal and professional life PoV. It was a year of some great travels, food, some memorable conversations with friends, great teammates to work with and interesting problems to solve. I must say it was also one of the busiest...

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Open 10K at Bangalore Mid Night Marathon

This one is my fourth run and third 10K this year. I am quite happy with the results. I think its my fastest 10K. Next year I want to do it within 60 minutes.

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Review of Mobile One Service by GoK – 2 – Security and Privacy

Mobile One is an useful utility. To get the most of it user has to provide personal information like Full Name, DOB, Address etc. Also to use some of the features you need to give your PAN no, Car registration no etc. With so much of personal data and transaction store at MobileOne,...

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Detailed Review of Mobile One Service by GoK – Part 1

Karnataka MobileOne service was launched by The Government of Karnataka recently. According to them around 4500 services are available on it. Thats a lot of services to put into a mobile app. I didnt find any detailed reviews online and hence I explored the application myself. All my tests were done on android...

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HTW 7: SQLCipher for Encrypted SQLite Database

I have been using SQLite as a format to distribute open data for a while. I also use it to share private data. I do encrypt before sending the private data. Its mostly by putting the sqlite file inside an encrypted container (GPG, TrueCrypt or 7zip encrypted archive). It works as a simple...

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Beautiful Bellagio and Lake Como

Earlier this year I spent a week at Bellagio Center of Rockefeller Foundation for CodeCamp. It’s probably one of the best destinations for codecamp. Its meant for long walks and long coding sessions. I did code some interesting piece but I walked on some of the best paths and tried to capture some...