The success story behind Instagram engine - What powers Instagram

There is a story of Instagram wrote on their blog. The power of Instagram engine - very fast with dozen technologies here. Meanwhile Instagram succeed in iOSs, moreover, they also have launched Android version, which Instagram needs to service much more than a million new users , with acceptable performance. Their story about keeping Instagram up for a million new users is here.

Windows 8 Shortcuts

Take a look at this link: http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/windows-8-keyboard-shortcuts-with-screenshots/. It provides you many shortcuts for Windows 8. Windows 8 has a major changes form Windows 7, so, basically the shortcuts are changed a lot. I have been confused until now =__=".

How to change Windows 7 Logon theme

To change Windows 7 logon screen, it can be done with 2 ways: download tweak programs, and do it manually.

To use tweak program in order to change the screen, you can download Tweaks.com Logon Changer for Windows 7.

For another method, you can change it by yourself in the registry by follow the instructions on http://www.techspot.com/guides/224-change-logon-screen-windows7/ if you don't want to install add-on similar programs.

Android Design

Google has published the website that provide the principles for Android 4.0 to make it more standardize. Look at this site: http://developer.android.com/design/index.html.

Moreover, I also found another website http://www.androidpatterns.com/ which provide UI design principles too. It guide you and explain each design style in details. 

How to create .apk file from Eclipse and publish app to Android Market (TH)

Look at this link: http://www.unzeen.com/article/1096/ขั้นตอนการสร้างไฟล์-apk-จาก-eclipse-และนำขึ้นสู่-android-market.

Windows Phone 7 Development for Absolute Beginners

There is a Microsoft channel provide us many tutorial series like a workshop called Windows Phone 7 Development for Absolute Beginners. This channel will guide you from the beginning to ground your knowledge then you can continue on your own.

Here it is Windows Phone 7 Development for Absolute Beginners.

Recommended books for Natural Language Processing course

According to the online course of Stanford University, they suggest the following books to be used in NLP class:

• SPEECH and LANGUAGE PROCESSING
• Introduction to Information Retrieval
• Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing
• Natural Language Processing with Python

It's now live, you can learn for free, the Standford Online course of Natural Language Processing!!!

Access AWS via Putty and SSH for newbie

Look at http://clouddb.info/2009/05/17/a-quick-overview-of-putty-and-ssh-for-aws-newbies/, this website will be talking about how to access AWS via Putty and SSH in Windows because Putty can't read .key file directly.

Microsoft Thailand open the course for Windows 8 Application Development

In recent days, Microsoft has launched Windows 8 Consumer Preview. This version of Windows is the combination between old fashion Windows (PC) and Mobile (Windows Phone 7) to be used in all platforms, and expand their market to tablets. As you know, Windows Phone 7 uses Metro Style for its applications. In the same ways, Windows 8 has included Metro Style mode to allow developers implement Metro applications. 

We can write Metro style apps using familiar technologies like HTML5, JavaScript, and Cascading Style Sheets, Level 3 (CSS3), or XAML, with C++, C#, or Microsoft Visual Basic code-behind. Then, Microsoft Cooperation has raised the roadshow for Windows 8 around the World. Fortunately that Thailand is one of them. They corporate with famous universities in Thailand i.e. ChiangMai University, Kasetsart University, Assumption University. You can register at here on the bottom of the page to participate this event and see the information about time for the course.

Information from:  http://www.blognone.com/node/30587

Software Engineering for Software as a Service is now open

Few weeks ago, Berkeley open the course Software Engineering for Software as a Service as an online course, which is anyone can join it here. This course is mainly focus on agile development process, cloud computing, and high productive frameworks & tools.