I have used several tools mind mapping before ( freemind, xmind, vym and their likes), but vim is my favorite editor and wanted to do everything from vim itself. To do mind mapping in vim, my solution is to use the DrawIt!  plugin.

My brief notes on concurrent programming facilities available in android. I will update it i find something interesting, do comment if you think that I missed something.

• Threads :- Plain old java threads! and synchronization primitives , classes in java.util.concurrent , java monitor objects –  http://developer.android.com/reference/java/util/concurrent/package-summary.html
• Andorid Services – – http://developer.android.com/guide/components/services.html
• Loopers and Handlers :-  http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/Handler.html  , http://www.vogella.com/tutorials/AndroidBackgroundProcessing/article.html.  http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/Looper.html
• Async Tasks :- http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/AsyncTask.html
• IPC using Broadcast Receivers : http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/BroadcastReceiver.html
• Alarm Manager  :- http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/AlarmManager.html

I just finished reading the book the passionate programmer by Chad Fowler ( No! , he is not related to Martin Fowler!) .  Although i do not necessarily agree with all his views. Here are the few take away points for me.

• Try to understand business domain which you are working for ! – I am a typical techie who considered business meetings to be a complete waste of time, from now on i will at least make an effort to understand it better
• Do not stagnate keep learning something new everyday!
• “Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much.” – Even if the job is boring and trivial try to do a good job instead of avoiding  or procrastinating.  I was very immature at my first job at Microsoft – this is a key thing!.   Employers do not want a super hero, but some one who can execute well and is pleasant to others.
• Take some more risks! 
  

This my answer to quora query. I thought it is good to archive it here.

I learned about this African musical instrument ( from Mali ) from udemy

GNU plot is very helpful for plotting data and quite powerful too. After some searching I found the book GNU plot in action.

I fount this website very useful for surface plots :

http://lowrank.net/gnuplot/plot3d2-e.html

This is another useful reference :

http://www.phyast.pitt.edu/~zov1/gnuplot/html/intro.html

This always helps : http://www.gnuplot.info/.

Hint:  I think its a good idea to use awk to combine different columns. etc

I learned to do cut out animations in Synfig. I am all set to make animations using Synfig.

I will finally make the series – The Sandman Chronicles. The idea is simple just like any Indian movie the main story remains the same – the trick is the come up with interesting variations. The world is tormented by a mega cruel villain, all the the super heros in the world put together could not save world. Finally it’s upto Sandman ( the last super hero to save the world), Sandman does something really silly and saves the world.

This is a long pending “to do item” of mine.  Having a blog is a good way to keep notes of what i have learned. I plan to read each and every computer science graduate course from MIT and write notes about what I have understood. May be even about my own ramblings of the course. Hopefully I gain additional knowledge. It may not be perfect. But I am hoping that It does help me in reviewing my material later. I prefer reading than actually watching videos.  I will read as much as possible and post summary here. Hopefully it is helpful to me and others.