Sony: The unfortunate undoing — A retrospective

Leaving Sony after 8 years of service was a bittersweet departure. My story is probably similar to many who left Sony before me. I wanted to be part of a brand that produced products that changed many lives — the walkmans, the TVs, the…

Trick JavaScript Interview questions

We were asked some tricky JavaScript questions that Alex(the lead) used in interviews for the internship position. Here are some of them:

Question 1:

//What is i?
var i=0;
var add = function(){
 ++i;
    return…

First PD(Pure Data) patch in 6 years

Just downloaded PD again after many years of deserting it. The motivation is to write a performance patch. I hope I will follow through with it.

This is nothing useful yet. It’s just capturing the audio, multiplying the signal and output…

Sony Entertainment Network Video Unlimited Preview on PS3

This app I’ve been working on is released. I can hear sighs of relief from everyone around this office. They’ve worked on this for a very long time. Check it out now if you have PS Plus. Otherwise it will be available for the…

[Site Launch] The new face of Sony — a responsive website

After years of hard work, I’m happy that our project has *finally* launched. Sony is the first electronics giant to launch a global multi-lingual fully responsive website. This launch covers all of Europe, Turkey and Russia/CIS…

Updates for “less-watch-compiler” — A utility that watches and auto-compiles LESS CSS files

I wrote a small nodejs utility 2 years ago. It basically watches a folder of LESS files and auto-compiles them into CSS files when changes are made. Since I posted this…

My side project: DIY acoustic panels.

After my brother moved out and remodeling the house, I got an extra room for music recording. I’ve moved everything from the living room into the new music room. My friends would also cramp in there when we practice. One problem with a small space is room…

My thoughts on web design and development “obsessions”

I wanted to write down my thoughts on the web today. The web industry is full of trends. Sometimes these trends get way too popular and people blindly follow them without the right reasons. Here is my list of them as of today: