Presenting at Citrix User Group, London 2018

Delighted to be taking up my first session at the Citrix User Group, London conference on legacy app migration based on my blog  on MSIX "Promise of a new world to migrants (apps)".

Title           : Promise of a new world to the migrants (apps)

Date/Time : 18th Dec @ 14:00

Duration   : 45 mins

Venue        : Societe Generale, 41 Tower Hill, London

MSIX - The Newly Crowned King [Part2]

This is the second and final part of the series "MSIX - The New Land Registry System". Let's continue our journey from where we left in Part1; covering rest of the story 

• Starting with a short introduction to AppX
• Touch base on AppX, UWP and Windows Store issues
• Move on to The Rebellion phase;
• The negotiations phase where authorities had to relax strict rules to satisfy rebel's demands; 
• The Cops (or rather "The Secret Agents" as they kept changing their name Project C / Centennial / Desktop Bridge / Desktop App Converter), 
• Find out where did the cops fail 
• Finally, The Rise of MSIX

We will end this blog with my forecast on the newly crowned King - MSIX. 

There are lots of things to cover in this part so the blog will be a little lengthy. But I'll try to keep it as short as possible (yeah, I don't like lengthy blogs either). For those who want to read these topics in detail, I'll provide relevant links to Microsoft's website. Right, so let's get started with AppX first.

What's Next.. "Cosmopolitan OS"?

A disclaimer first; this is a debatable blog as I am penning down my views on what I see is needed in future operating systems. These are my thoughts on the capabilities an OS should have and is inspired by Microsoft's WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) feature. I am open to differing views, so feel free to share your opinion on this.

Let's start with an analogy (I am sure you might have guessed it by looking at the title). Just like a cosmopolitan city is the one where people coming from different cultures and countries live and work together; we aren't far from the time when an operating system will be able to accommodate applications coming from different operating systems (i.e. built for other OS). An operating system where all the applications can live and run on the same kernel. I termed it as a "Cosmopolitan OS".

What's Next? (A blog series)

What spreads faster than a wild fire? Costs nothing but time? Has the power of changing the world? Is the root of all inventions?

A thought!

Some say that thoughts travel faster than light (well, that's debatable). But for sure they travel fast enough for us to think of ideas within blink of an eye. It's the world of infinite ideas! 

Virtualizing The Containerization King - Docker itself!!

 
                                

Oh yes, I hear you! Its a totally crazy thought to attempt something like virtualizing Docker components. There are many articles saying how Docker's containerization is challenging the virtualization technology. So why on earth did I get this thought of making a virtual docker client? Its simply an engineer's curiosity, stuff which fascinates me. I don't know if something useful will come out of my experiments, but that's the unknown I want to explore. Here is how I set myself upon this new adventure.