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Vasant Vyakhanmala (Spring-time Lecture Series), Pune, India – Since 1875!!!

Harshad Oak — Tue, 11 May 2010 05:44:29 +0000

Vasant Vyakhanmala (Spring time Lecture series) is a most remarkable undertaking. It’s an annual event that was first held in 1875 in Pune by social reformer Justice Ranade and is being held every year since. Many of India’s top leaders & visionaries have spoken at the event and I am told that it was especially [...]

How To Write / Email / Blog In Marathi? मराठीत टाइप / इमेल / ब्लॉग कस करायच?

Harshad Oak — Mon, 10 May 2010 03:31:44 +0000

नमस्कार. हा माझा मराठीतला पहिला ब्लॉग आहे. मी मराठी शेवटच शाळेत लिहिल आणि आता १५+ वर्षांनंतर परत प्रयत्न करतो आहे. अवघड जातय पण मजा पण येतेय. पहिला मराठी ब्लॉग कशा वर लिहू असा विचार करत होतो. मग म्हटल मराठीत टाईप / ब्लॉग / इमेल कस करायच तेच लिहुया. मराठी टायपिंग बघितल तर मराठी टायपिंग करता [...]

Notes & Speeches From Andhashraddha Nirmulan Samiti (Anti Superstition) Founder Dr Dabholkar’s Book Release

Harshad Oak — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 07:27:21 +0000

Yesterday I attended the book release of ‘Timiratuni Tejakadey’ by Dr Narendra Dabholkar, founder of Anti Superstition movement in Maharashtra, Andhashraddha Nirmulan Samiti. My notes & recordings from the event. I appreciate that the tweets / notes are currently in fairly raw form, hope to edit into more readable paras when I have some more [...]

Trends In Software Development For The Java Platform

Harshad Oak — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 10:47:53 +0000

I recently gave a 15 min presentation followed by Q&A on “Trends In Software Development On The Java platform” at the Computer Society of India, (CSI Pune) InCSIghts conference. Slides below. The trends I touched upon 1) Power To Choose 2) Java Platform & not the Java language Is Java’s primary identify going forward 3) [...]

Internet For Business Development, Internet Entrepreneurship & IT Security & Compliance Courses – By IndicThreads Education

Harshad Oak — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:50:18 +0000

From the IndicThreads Education Press Release. You are welcome to link – share >> IndicThreads, a technology media pioneer, creators of the IndicThreads.com software developer portal & the IndicThreads Technology Conferences, announces the launch of ‘IndicThreads Education‘ a novel initiative in business & technology education. The courses are path-breaking in their content & way ahead [...]

An impatient’s guide to Knee Surgery – Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) Reconstruction and Meniscus Tear

Harshad Oak — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 05:05:38 +0000

The story begins many years back, on a beautiful sunny morning in 1997. I was playing cricket in the inter division cricket tournament in my college. I had bowled my quota of overs and we had kept the opposition down to a modest score. Later while batting we were within reach of the target with [...]

My Interview About IndicThreads, Java Today, Java Community In India…

Harshad Oak — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 08:42:12 +0000

Arun Gupta from Sun Microsystems interviewed me at the 4th IndicThreads.com Conference On Java about Java today, IndicThreads, the IndicThreads Conferences & the software developer communities in India. src- Arun Gupta’s Blog Arun

Pune Marathon Runner Report

Harshad Oak — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 03:33:15 +0000

I ran the Pune Marathon 09 (10 kms category) and finished in 1 hour 26 minutes which was more or less as per my expectation. I think I could have shaved off 5-10 minutes from the time, but with few distance markers along the way, I couldn’t pace my run properly so left my final [...]