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Engineering Collaboration via Negotiation is a socio-technical group decision making activity.

The term ‘Socio-technical’ signifies mutual consideration of true integration / synergy between the social (teamwork) and the technical (task work) aspects of engineering activities. – Alistair Cockburn

Collaborative Engineering is a socially mediated technical activity.

Negotiation activity is best carried out by a co-construction process.

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21 December 2009 at 11:11 - Comments

Android vs iPhone : Front End Dev

On Android phones, to set the initial page zoom level and disable the user controlled zoom, add the following code.

meta name=”viewport” content=”width=device-width; initial-scale=1.3; minimum-scale=1.3; maximum-scale=1.3;”/. Ensure that the scale have a min value of 1.3

For iPhone, add this code
meta name=”viewport” content=”width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;”/

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3 December 2009 at 01:12 - Comments
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7 December 09 at 04:51
Hi Muthu, hows Android.. ? and how do you see its effectiveness in india ?
9 December 09 at 04:37

Welcome Email from Android

Just received this nicely crafted email from the Android Team. I liked the way, the getting started video thumbnails were in-lined/embedded along with learn more and Android playlist on youTube.com links, within this email. Only issue was that, this Email came 2 days late.

Welcome to Android!

Your new Android-powered phone has many cool and useful features. Learn more by clicking on the links to watch brief YouTube videos directly on your phone.

Once the video has started playing, press your phone’s menu key, select “More,” and then select “Watch in high quality” to view the video in higher resolution:

* Customize your Home Screen. Learn more.
* Use shortcuts, widgets, and folders. Learn more.
* Run multiple applications at the same time. Learn more.
* Use long press to quickly access more features. Learn more.
* Experience the web on your browser. Learn more.
* Search the web and your phone with Quick Search Box. Learn more.
* Keep in touch with friends and family with Contacts. Learn more.
* Get cool applications and games on Android Market. Learn more.

You can find all these videos and more on the Android 2.0 playlist at youtube.com/androidtips.

Enjoy!
The Android Team at Google

Google, Inc.
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043
We sent you this one-time welcome message because you recently purchased an Android-powered phone

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2 December 2009 at 20:44 - Comments
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7 December 09 at 04:52

Smartphone OS web requests in Oct 2009

Sounds like at iPhone and Android will be the leading mobile web platforms going forward.

October Worldwide Smartphone OS web requests:

iPhone 50% (43% in April)

Symbian 25% (36% “)

Android 11% ( 3% “)

RIM 7% ( 9% “)

Windows Mobile 3% ( 5% “)

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25 November 2009 at 02:58 - Comments

Karaikkal Ammaiyar (Tamil: காரைக்கால் அம்மையார்)

Kairaikal Ammaiyar

Kairaikal Ammaiyar

காரைக்கால் அம்மையார், is one amongst the sixty three Nayanmars, is one of the greatest figures of early Tamil literature. She was born at Karaikkal, South India, and lived during the 6th century.

Listen to K.B Sundaraambal’s rendition of Karaikal Ammaiyar’s ஓடுங்கள் Odi உள்ளம் song . Caution: This is a really old number and may not make sense if you don’t know தமிழ்.

See other 12th Century Statue photos

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