Entries Tagged as 'Travel'
October 28th, 2008 by { Arvinder Kang } · No Comments · Travel
I am back from a trip to Toronto, Canada after attending Spinning Wheel Film Festival. I was there on the invitation of Mr T. Sher Singh of SWFF International.
I first got aquatinted with Mr T Sher Singh, when I submitted one of my post-debate articles to SikhChic.com.
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September 23rd, 2008 by { Arvinder Kang } · No Comments · Travel
It has been a while that I did a post.
Last month I travelled to San Jose, California to see my younger brother. California is beautiful. Went around the Silicon Valley campuses, enjoyed the California beaches,
drove around San Francisco,
saw the famous Golden Gate Bridge,
went for a game of beach-ball at Half Moon bay,
and went on [...]
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July 4th, 2008 by { Arvinder Kang } · No Comments · Travel
July 4th and I’m heading to Canada to see my siblings. I haven’t seen my eldest sister and her family in years.
The day is sunny and beautiful. At the moment, we are flying over Tennessee.
At Memphis airport while checking in, I was asked by the security officer that I needed to step out for additional [...]
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June 2nd, 2008 by { Arvinder Kang } · 1 Comment · Travel
As I was checking out, I met Chad Fowler, the author of “My Job went to India“. As I said hello, he asked “Are you a Punjabi?”
So the conference came to an end.
I liked the city, the people, the weather.
And the food. (Unlike Mississippi, where everything has to be meat, or creamy, or [...]
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June 1st, 2008 by { Arvinder Kang } · No Comments · Travel
Today was the last day of Rails Conference. I attended a session on active record and another on what not to do in rails.
The main event of the day was keynotes by the core team. DHH got standing ovation from the crowd before he left early to catch his plane.
This has been one of the [...]
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May 31st, 2008 by { Arvinder Kang } · No Comments · Travel
Sessions today were pretty interesting. Went to Optimizing Rails by Michael Koziarski, a talk on integration testing, and a talk on Mongrel by Philippe Hanrigou.
The demand for Ruby jobs seemed to be posted everywhere. There were parties hosted in the evening, kept by companies to woo Ruby hackers.
Ajay and I went to party hosted by [...]
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May 30th, 2008 by { Arvinder Kang } · No Comments · Travel
Woke up at 7am and ran to the Yoga session. Portland seemed to be more beautiful in the morning twilight, and sun rays falling on the sleeping hills.
Joel Spolsky’s keynote presentation, if nothing else, was weird, informative and interesting.
Joel has been critical of the Rails at times, and it was very bold of the conference [...]
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May 29th, 2008 by { Arvinder Kang } · No Comments · Travel
I attended Design for Developers - a Hands-On Workshop by Bryan Hogan. The most interesting thing I learnt was the use of Adobe Kuler in deciding colors.
Met a lot of interesting people at lunch, including Doug Hall and Jason Cavines. Doug is from Alabama.
Jason has lived in Portland for a while, so we used the [...]
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May 28th, 2008 by { Arvinder Kang } · No Comments · Travel
So here we are. Just arrived in Portland. Its little chilly and its green all around. The transportation system is excellent. For $2.05, I boarded the Max light rail and it dropped me right in front of my hotel.
So far, I like the city; especially the view of downtown and Columbia river from my room’s [...]
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May 28th, 2008 by { Arvinder Kang } · No Comments · Travel
On the way from Denver to Portland, we flew atop Cascade mountain range. Caught this picture on my camera.
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