Last week’s Comcast Lab Week gave me another opportunity to dig deeper into Blockchains. In my previous writeup on CodeCoin, I had used Ethereum to create a bounty system for Github issues. However under the hood, we had cloud servers managing various wallets belonging to the different issues. Smart Contracts offer a better way to … Continue reading “Building Smart Contracts on the Ethereum Blockchain”
If you know me, there is a good chance that you know how 👍 I am about Blockchain and Decentralized apps. I have given a few talks on it but till recently these were mostly either focused on Bitcoin or on the academics of Blockchain technology. At a recent Comcast Labweek, I was finally able to … Continue reading “Building CodeCoin: A Blockchain DApp prototype”
I recently gave a talk to the Comcast T&P Engineering group on the current state of Blockchain technology and where its going. The deck from the talk is shared below
As some of you may know I have been very interested in Bitcoin and blockchains for the past couple of years and have been digging into it even more lately as part of my day job. However, blockchains have been in the news a lot lately to the point where it often feels like its … Continue reading “Do you need a Blockchain?”
🙃 Can’t believe 2019 is over. Fun was had, life was lived. So let’s talk about it Tech Most of my work in 2019 was split between conversational technologies (bots and such), Flutter, some Machine Learning and finally some Blockchain stuff. So here is a quick recap of the year: 🤖 Chatbots I spent a … Continue reading “2019 Retrospective Post”
For the last few years I have been thinking quite a bit about how we enable more people to learn programming. As an industry, we need more programmers universally and there seems to be a huge number of people who would want to come in. Unfortunately though we can’t seem to connect the 2 sides … Continue reading “Learning Curves”
I am a little behind on my 2018 review, seeing that its almost mid Jan already. But better late than never, so here goes VR 2018 continued to be a year of tremendous education professionally. For a big part of the year I continued to work in the VR space, specifically using A-Frame and WebVR. … Continue reading “A Quick 2018 Retrospective”
2017 was an intense year of learning for me. A change of charter for the labs group I work in late last year meant we focused deeper on core technology which was exciting as a technologist. This year that list included Unity, WebVR, Blender, React, React Native, Ruby on Rails and Blockchains (specifically Ethereum). Phew! … Continue reading “2017 Retrospective”
Another year passes by. Here is a quick summary of my professional and academic 2016. Work It was a year of a lot of change at work. The make up of the team I work in changed dramatically as we rethought how a corporate labs group should operate. I worked on 2 big projects this year, … Continue reading “2016 Retrospective”
Every couple of months I meet a few friends over lunch to geek out over the latest in the world of Bitcoin, Blockchains and Crypocurrencies in general. Just so that I dont forget them, here is a list of things we discussed today 🙂 InterPlanetary File System The Decentralized Web Summit Etherium’s fork and the ETC … Continue reading “Bitcoin Pow Wow 2 notes”
