Shiok, the gastronomic MECCA

If you're in Bangalore, please visit Madhu's new restaurant, Shiok Far-eastern Cuisine that serves good Thai, Malaysian, Indonesian, and Singaporean food. The restaurant is on CMH Road, Indiranagar, Bangalore.

This is where you would find us on a friday evening enjoying great food with our weekly dose of the magic portion.No prizes for guessing that one.
This is one place you don't miss if you love food. Don't bother about the directions, I would love to take you there and share the hospitality we are blessed with for being regular.

My Current Obsession

As always an opportunity presents itself in the form of the Global LBS Challenge
I am really upbeat about the prospects of pulling of a victory considering last years winner. The timing is perfect.
We are nearing our release dates, OCT 2nd and Nov 1st on XMS. I hope we could come up with a killer Location based application which would ignite the whole Location based Industry.

Wishful thinking, but who cares? I would still love the journey.
Its not everyday you get to do something which ignites your passion.
This is the perfect opportunity to blend product ideas, design, software architecture, technology, and HCI to brew an application. This might not make sense, but that how excited i am about it that i let my inner voice do the talking.

WHAT ARE WE WAITING FOR?

I would Love to integrateJINI, JXTA , OSGI and the tuple spaces found in Javaspaces to come up with this product.Peer to Peer , Location ,Plug and play. Does it mean anything? Not yet but going forward i am sure it would culminate into something COOL!!!
A though about using this for regulating Traffic is taking shape . Sounds promising but needs some research
Cloudscape would make a good database. Since its lightweight and can be run updated. Need to start looking into the Location based services of ESRI
January 2005 deadline seems to be reasonable time to put our ideas together and make this happen.
I will be blogging my progress through this Epic Journey

Shanghai F1 race weekend

The shanghai track look great. The first section dishes out the slow corners. Not good for my BMW with their williams chassis.
The faster corner's on the second section of the track is a compromise between speed and good aerodynamics for conering speed.

The section i love , is the third section where you are cornering at around 330 kmph . This is where you get to see the superiority of the BMW horses making up on lost time.

Kimi's Maclaren seems to be doing the Job and i believe he would overtake Rubensi over the first couple of Laps. Watch him straight line the curves on the 3rd section.

Ralf and Jack are back and rocking. I would love to see Jack start of the grid on a Renault . Its will be great to see Schumi start from the back of the grid. I hope Montoya does not get caught up in the traffic.

My Dream JOB

My Dream JOB

My dream Job would be to develop software for cars, especially for the Ultimate driving machine, BMW. This would marry my passion for cars with software. I just stumbled upon an article, which is a step in the right direction towards making my dream a reality. I have included a link to the article and also pasted a clip from the article just in case it’s taken off. I would love to have a platform where third party developers could develop applications with integrate the net with a car.

I know its already there and called Telematics .You need to have an emulation platform to test this out for starters. And how about Siemens VDO publishing their Top Level Architecture on the net.
Java On a BMW Car

Deep under the hood of BMW's iDrive system is a Java engine that allows the car's programming to be continually kept up to date

NEW FLEXIBILITY. Several new lines of BMWs are shipping with built-in software called iDrive. Found in BMW's 7 Series, 6 Series, and 5 Series cars, iDrive controls a car's audio system, navigation, and things like the cabin's temperature. The stylish display panel allows drivers to manipulate all those systems from a single knob, rather than a dashboard full of buttons.

Slick stuff, no doubt. Though early versions of iDrive received mixed reviews from BMW buyers, it's what's inside the system that has techies excited. iDrive contains a programming architecture for car systems called Top Level Architecture. It was designed by another German company, Siemens VDO Automotive. Siemens (SI ), in turn, based its TLA on Sun's Java programming platform.

Siemens executives say its TLA could reduce the cost of s