Software Product Development

Software Product Development

Tarun Upadhyay   //  Tarun is still just flatly amazed by the power of the Internet, its ability to level the field and help the little guy compete with the biggest organizations.

Those little guy success stories are what drags him to work every morning and he lives a small part of that little guy's dream working for hCentive.

Prior to co-founding hCentive, Tarun served as a co-founder and CTO for GlobalLogic - an outsourcing service provider for large, complex products and software - which grew from 0 to 400 engineers while he was the CTO.

Prior to Globallogic, he was co-founder and CTO of Pinelabs - an India-based provider of Loyalty and Payment solutions using Smart Cards. While Tarun was CTO, Pinelabs grew from a drawing board idea to a suite of successful products running at many fortune 500 companies handling millions of credit card transactions per day.

Tarun holds an M.S in Mathematics and Computer Applications from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India.

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Mar 29 / 3:50pm

What should I buy if I do not want a Mac (or the best business travel laptop)

by tarun upadhyay
If after reading our purchase list for using Mac in a corporate environment - you realize its too expensive; then we have the perfect Windows Laptop for you - Asus EeePC 1000- HE Here is what it has going for it:
  • claims 9.5 hours of battery life (real life numbers, IMHO, end up being half of claims)
  • weighs only 3.2 lbs (just a tiny bit more than 3.0 lbs macbook air)
  • a 10 inch widescreen which is great for airplanes and makes this thing fit in a women's purse
  • Screen is LED backlit which makes it easier on the eyes.
  • price with RAM upgrade and a nice light-weight bag is $437 shipped !!
  • a huge 160GB harddisk
  • It has a faster processor and bus - compared to most other netbooks out there
  • fastest 802.11n wireless networking built-in
Of course, you want to move to upgrade to Windows XP Professional (instead of Home that comes) or Windows 7 beta. (no, you do not want Windows Vista to "spoil" this machine) and you will need an extra 1 GB of RAM
Filed under  //  best laptop   business travel   Mac   netbook   Productivity & Tools   Startup & Entrepreneurship   travel   windows  

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Mar 23 / 7:47pm

A purchase list for a corporate executive / manager to move from Windows to Mac

by tarun upadhyay
I recently moved from Windows to Mac and am posting a full list of all you need to buy to make yourself as productive on Mac as you were on Windows. Hopefully, this will allow you to make a more informed call on if you want to make the change. Also, you will avoid the pain and confusion I went thru when I  moved from Windows to Mac. The list is in the order of perceived severity of what you will need. In other words, things at top of this list are required more than things at the bottom. Here goes:
  1. Apple MacBook
    or Apple MacBook Air . Macbook Air is much lighter and more sexy looking but more expensive.
  2. I also highly recommend reading thru the short book:- Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual. This book has a nice listing where you can just lookup by Windows action (for example, copy text) and find its mac equivalent. Please do skim thru this book. It will save you many hours later.
  3. If you give presentations or use an external monitor,  you will also need a Mini DisplayPort to VGA Adapter. This is required because Apple laptops do not come with a way to connect with standard VGA.
  4. If you end communicate with a lot of other people who use Windows, then you will also need Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac. This is also required if you have an Exchange-shared calendar or contact list etc. Built-in apple alternatives (iCal etc) will probably not cut it for you.
  5. One big concern for all users is how to move their current mail, addressbook and calendering information from Windows to the new Mac. This little company makes an excellent $10 utility that saved many frustrated hours for me (and, since then, for my friends). [Of course, if all your data is inside Exchange - and not on your local machine - then you may be okay]
  6. You should also continue to use your current laptop mouse with your new macbook. Not having a "normal" multi-button mouse is a big source of confusion in many new migrations.
  7. If you use Outlook tasks a lot, and you are looking for a powerful Mac alternative, you might consider Things or Omnifocus.
  8. You might also need Parallels Desktop, if you want to continue runinng Windows for certain applications.
This is pretty much you should need to get started.
Filed under  //  exchange   Mac   macbook   macbook air   migration   Omnifocus   parallels   Productivity & Tools   switch   things   windows  

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