I recently read the “It Happened in India” book. It is the story of Kishore Biyani, the man who created Pantaloons, Big Bazaar, Bangalore/Hyderabad Central, EZone, and much much more – effectively, the one person who made retailing a roaring success in India and who had envisioned it much before anyone else dared to evenContinue reading “Big Bazaar, India Central, Future Dreams”
Monthly Archives: June 2007
Mumbai Family Trip
It was a crazy 4 day trip. Crazy because it was 8 related families going together, that’s a total of 23 people. 23. It should be easy to imagine the cacophony that followed… The highlights of the trip was something like this: sultry mumbai atmosphere, hare krishna mandir, watching dabbawallas, mouth watering vada pav, fantasticContinue reading “Mumbai Family Trip”
Moxie . AdvancedDataGrid . OutInTheWild()
Flex 3 beta 1 is out, and along with it something that I’ve been part of – the AdvancedDataGrid component. An example built using the AdvancedDataGrid is embedded below (it is a SWF file, requires Flash Player 9 for viewing): Notice the tree view within a grid – that alone is a feature not foundContinue reading “Moxie . AdvancedDataGrid . OutInTheWild()”
Why iCon
I read the iCon book recently and have been wondering what makes people (like me) so fascinated about Steve Jobs? He didn’t create any great technology or product, it was people who worked with him who did all that, for example, Steve Wozniak and John Lasseter. He was a leader, a manager, that was hisContinue reading “Why iCon”
Look out for the new RadioVeRVe
Shreyas, Gaurav and the gang have relaunched RadioVeRVe and it now rocks even more than before! Things they haven’t changed: They play music by independent bands from India. That’s right, these are all Indian bands. Things I liked: The new look feels good and is intuitive. How’d he do that? Hats off to Ganesh Rao.Continue reading “Look out for the new RadioVeRVe”