The "What's up!" blog

What's up? Innovation to fortification, that's what's up!

2011-08-10T22:58:00.000-07:00

It's been a long time since my last blog, for you blog lovers out there. There's been allot of action in the innovation arena, and I've been busy keep on top of it all and giving what I have to the development of it. A privilege, no doubt, but hard work, and price to pay (from time to personal relationships and time).

A few questions that Engineers and Entrepreneurs have, that I'd like to clarify and demystify with a few mouthful of words. From keeping my nose in the grindstone, people (engineers,developers,innovators) are all wondering what's the best way to go forward with it all. There are so many programming paradigms to choose from (object oriented programming, functional, procedural), and so many Engineering models (agile, waterfall, etc). What's the best one engineering model? Which is the best programming paradigm to choose from? Which will ensure a start up companies success in a innovative, ever changing climate? How do you hit a moving target? Which will ensure a company who's no longer in innovation mode however in the process of battling the ever growing competition?

For innovative companies out there that are chasing a new idea, the best way to hit the moving target is to keep it simple, keep it usable, and keep it testable. The best method to go forward with their development is a choose a language with development speed, competitive market value for skills involved in implementation, and purely functional programming. What this does is give you speed (speed over power always wins, according to martial arts discipline), low volume in labor, and frugal budgeting for your fast running out investment almighty dollars/yen/pounds/currency.

For companies out there who have already hit the moving target, got to the market first, it's time to think scalability. What does scalabality mean in the context that it is used here? (In electronics (including hardware, communication and software) scalability is the ability of a system, network, or process, to handle growing amounts of work in a graceful manner or its ability to be enlarged to accommodate that growth from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalability). This means fortification of the business, and switching from functional programming paradigm by re-factoring the existing code into re-useable classes, unit tests that cover the rigorous documented test cases, and in turn allow for a well layered application. This scalability can be reached at several layers: software, hardware, architecture.

I look forward in getting your views from business/academia on what your thoughts on bridging the two.

Bloggin with Integrity. That's what's up!

2009-08-02T12:45:00.000-07:00

For all the marketing blogs out there, here's a site that is a intermediate step on differentiating authentic genuine blogs vs bloggers who are getting sponsored and having their subjective opinions emotionally persuaded in order to dismay the honesty of their blogs.

The name of the site is http://blogwithintegrity.com and their mission is to express a code of conduct for blogger. For all the authentic non-corporate sponsored blogger out there you can sign the pledge here http://blogwithintegrity.com/pledge.php get the cool badge to stick on your blogs and view the list of the pledge here http://www.blogwithintegrity.com/list-pledges.php.

I'm now following Blog With Integrity on Twitter

2009 - the year I became Facebook friends with Vint Cerf

2009-01-02T09:09:00.001-08:00

Vint Cerf on Facebook, that's what's up! I've always been a fan of Vint Cerf (if you already don't know all about him read here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vint_Cerf) and watched youtube videos covering interviews with the man. But only a few sleepless nights ago, I wondered to myself if Vint Cerf is on Facebook. I searched, and poof! There he was. I sent a request to become his Facebook friend and magically here is my new Facebook friend - Vint Cerf.

"OMG" ! That's what's up!

2008-06-25T11:45:00.000-07:00

So the other day I was taking lunch with my girlfriend on Beverly Drive off of Charleville in Beverly Hills and she pointed out to me the conversation these two approximately 6 year old kids were having. The older sister was telling the younger brother "Maybe instead of 'o my god' we should use 'OMG'". Now I know we are the home growers of trend setters here in Los Angeles, but this goes to show the impact of the Internet (social networking / dating / entertainment) on us. Vint Cert (founder of the Internet's TCP/IP) who holds the position of Internet Evangelist at Google pointed out during his conference on Tracking the Internet into the 21st Century that the next generation of Internet users will be introduced to the Internet via mobile devices. While Googooling around "the future of social networking" I eventually got led to Danah Boyd's blog and found this interesting article on Why Youth (Heart) Social Network Sites:
The Role of Networked Publics in Teenage
Social Life where she points out a quote on teenagers not existing for their friends if they don't have a Myspace.

Cisco On-Stage Telepresence Holographic Video Conferencing

2008-06-06T10:25:00.000-07:00

I was reading up on Kehles' blog about Cisco's TelePresence product. The Cisco TelePresence product is a collaboration between Musion and Cisco. Watch the demo on their site here.

Bardia Afshin Facebook is up. Add me and hit me up.

2008-05-28T14:43:00.000-07:00

If you want to add me to your Facebook friends list, you can by clicking here Bardia Afshin

Check yourself before you wreck yourself! PlanetEureka.com is up!

2008-05-11T16:00:00.000-07:00

Eureka from Planet Euraka is up! I just read this article on Planet Eureka. What is it about? It's about connecting INNOVATORS of all ages and education backgrounds with Corporations/Businesses of small to large sizes in plain English (no confusing jargon). I've signed up for their news updates, I'll keep you updated with what the word is on the street. In the meantime, if you're interested for more information you can read about on About.com and Tuscal news or better yet Google it for yourself

Cluster Map is on! - Bardia Afshin's Blog

2008-05-09T17:58:00.001-07:00

I wanted to keep track of who's visiting my blog (besides moi). Check it out for yourself and give it a try from over here Cluster Map

Burma is up! with Eric Szmanda & Jjorja Fox

2008-05-07T13:54:00.000-07:00

Eric Szmanda & Jjorja Fox are featured in today's video for the Burma awareness campaign.

You can donate directly to for the Burma / Myanmar disaster relief.

You can also donate 10% of your entertainment purchases by joining www.Fanista.com where you can read, review and purchase from variety of movies, games, and albums.

Programmer humour.

2008-05-06T09:28:00.000-07:00

I was reading this article Satan, Britney Spears Top Paris Hilton In OSS References on SlashDot.org which mentions Programmers Obsessed with Satan, Britney Spears, so I decided to run my own search on krugle.org for Satan . I looked at a demo at Krugle.com for commercial enterprise uses it may have and it's nothing you can't do by piping with sed / grep / awk on linux/unix or cygwin on Windows. Check it out for yourself and let me know what you think.

Burma is up!

2008-05-05T14:47:00.001-07:00

Burma / Myanmar has been hit with cyclone. 4,000 are dead, 3,000 are missing, and 100,000 people are homeless. You can read all about it here. The timing of the launch of the "Burma: It can't Wait" awareness program is more then ever just right. Support the cause by checking out BurmaItCantWait.org. Review, discover, and purchase... up to 10% of your purchases will be donated to support Burma awareness program.

Support "Burma: It Can't Wait"

2008-05-01T16:48:00.000-07:00

I'm proud to announce the launch of "Burma: it can't wait" on Fanista.com

Burma: It can't wait

You can support the cause of bringing awareness to Burma by registering on Fanista.com with Burma as your uplink.

Fanista.com - user review purchase recommendation site

2008-05-01T16:31:00.000-07:00

Check out my Fanista profile, get to know my taste in music, movies, and games. Here you can share your taste in entertainment with others, see what others have to say about your taste and your opinions, and shop for music/movies/games while your at it.