Zaid Pirwani

an all-round Engineering and Technology Geek, founder EjaadTech and Pop Up Learning – currently, IT Manager at FESF

Month: November 2011

  • Neil Tyson & Stephen Colbert [Video]

    Neil Tyson & Stephen Colbert [Video]

    [Skip to the 6th minute where the interview actually starts] A one hour+ video in which Stephen Colbert (from Comedy Central) interviews Neil DeGrasse Tyson (an Astrophysicist) about science, society and the universe as a whole. (Interview from 2010) Neil DeGrasse Tyson: Wikipedia Page http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/tyson/ (Official Website)

  • Codecademy – Learn to Code, Literally

    Codecademy – Learn to Code, Literally

    If you wish to learn how to program, the Internet is full of useful information, you can find books that teach you how to program, some even claim to do that in 24 hours however doubtful that may be, almost all the ways that you have tried uptill now take a sort of similar approach.…

  • National Academy of Young Scientists

    National Academy of Young Scientists

    Today I got a friend request on Facebook from a Mr. Rahib Hussain, although I usually don’t accept friend requests from people I don’t know but after checking his profile I found out that we had a few mutual friends, he is studying at Iqra University and he is IT Co-ordinator for some organization named…

  • FB Comments – Sacrificing Old for New

    FB Comments – Sacrificing Old for New

    Facebook introduced a new commenting system this year (a few months back) that lets website developers to put a Facebook comment box right on their website [Facebook Comments Plugin]. Now why would a developer want to do that, cause there are now more active people on facebook than the population of North America and letting…

  • 3D Printers – Printing Each ‘n’ Everything

    3D Printers – Printing Each ‘n’ Everything

    Imagine having a printer that prints actual 3d objects, now imagine having it at your university/institute, imagine the possibility of having it at home – now see the price tag: See the PRICE. Now you have probably lost any hope of even imagining about getting in this life-time. BUT some 3D printer projects are here to get…