Blogs by Mahesh Chand

I just went to monotouch.net and noticed, it is a Xamarin website. Good stuff.

I am redesigning new Mindcracker and I use both, Adobe Fireworks CS5 and Expression Blend 4. In this blog, I am not going to talk about how great Expression Blend 4 is, from a developer point of view but just to give you an example of, how efficient Expression Blend is.

Good news for Gmail users who are interested in joining Google+ and I think this is how Google can win.

Alright, in this new series of Smart Coding, I am going to point out exact problems and how smart coders should code it. Here is the first example.

Recently, everybody is buzzing about Google+ and people are talking about how new circles, cubes and squares are so cool. The real question remains, will Google+ fail or succeed?

Besides social media, cloud computing, smartphones, and tables buzz around the industry, there is one more technology is that is going to play a major role in very near future – Microsoft surface. When I saw surface preview in the year 2005, it was kind of very new at that point but needs are here now. Surface needs are knocking the door.

When I wrote article iOS vs. Android vs. Windows Phone and Is Google Winning Smart Phones War, I wasn’t expecting that big a change. In a recent report published by comScore, Google’s Android devices are capturing market at a faster pace than expected. In last 3 months, from Feb 11 to May 11, Android has grown 5.1% and Apple has gained on 1.4%. RIM’s Blackberry has lost 4.5% and Microsoft Windows Phone has lost 1.9%.

I have seen many questions floating around on C# Corner and other forums developers asking about Access database or SQL Server Express database to provide embedded database support for small applications. My answer is simple, SQL Server Compact 4.0. Forget MS-Access and forget SQL Server Express, check out SQL Server Compact 4.0.

I was just doing a search in Google Chrome and just notice, voice enable option. Not bad.

Google has been working on this secret social project called Google+. Google+ website has it is a real-life sharing rethought for the web.

In the smartphone market, 47.5 percent of iPhone traffic occurred over WiFi networks compared to 21.7 percent of Android phones. With respect to tablets, an overwhelming 91.9 percent of iPad traffic occurred over WiFi networks compared to 65.2 percent among Android tablets.

Are these projects closed already? I just went to these websites and it looks like projects and related information is removed.

Apple's iCloud service is scheduled to take over its current mobileme paid service. Good news for mobileme users. They will get almost all features for free now.