Posts by Atul Chitnis
Product Development in India [Video]
In February 2012, I gave a talk at the Agile India 2012 conference. The topic was “Product Development in India”. I use my experiences from the the 1980s till today to give people a guided tour of what it was (and is) like to develop products in India. This talk is a wee bit more [...]
A question of ethics
If you involve me in a process that I find out to be of questionable quality, repeatedly object, recuse myself immediately after, and ask you not to use my name to rubber stamp your questionable results, but you still do, what does that say about you? (To be continued) p.s. Am currently keeping comments on [...]
eBooks & Educational Institutions
Too many people look at ebooks as some new, technological miracle that requires some completely new way of thinking. That’s rather weird to someone like me, who has been using eBooks since the late 1990s. It is also completely wrong – ebooks are essentially just books, as we have known them from times before Gutenberg. [...]
On inviting me to give a talk at your event
Every year, I face the same problem. Come February, and I get flooded with invitations to speak at some event or the other. And I have to turn them down, because they are all in my “unavailable” period of mid to end-February (for various personal reasons, including my birthday, my wedding anniversary, etc.).
Technology is about Benefits, not Devices
Note: This article was originally written in late 2011. If you found this post useful you may also want to read this post about eBooks I am often asked by some very confused people – “Should I buy an eBook reader, or a tablet?” The answer lies in what your primary use is going to [...]
The Real Problem With SOPA & PIPA…
…is not that you wouldn’t be able to access material on the web anymore if these acts pass. It is that there wouldn’t be any material to access. Because if the publishing of almost any form of creative work can be arbitrarily (and even retrospectively) criminalised using SOPA & PIPA, people will eventually stop publishing [...]
Happy New Year 2012
Not everything goes as planned…
TL;DR Version: PRODUCTISE.IN isn’t happening in January 2012, will now happen in our regular event slot in December 2012. The long version: For the past 10 years or so, I have had things mostly work as planned for my projects. In 2001, I had to scrap the original Linux Bangalore event plans when things didn’t [...]
20 Tips For Your First Job
Six months ago, I tweeted a list of 20 tips for people starting their first job that day (June 1st). The list was partly or fully re-posted all across the web, but people keep asking me for a link to the tips. So I guess I should post them here on my own blog as [...]
PRODUCTISE.IN: The Successor to FOSS.IN…
Update: Please see this post for updated information about this event This is possibly the fastest that Team FOSS.IN has ever put together an event. As promised in my last post, here is some information about the new event series that we are putting together. And with your support, it will be every bit as [...]