User:AnkurSV

Ankur Surendra Verma
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Employer:	CTO at Envision Inc.
Nationality:	Indian
Country:	India
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This user is a WikiNeighbour for WikiEducator. en This user is a native speaker of English. This user contributes using Ubuntu GNU/Linux.

Profile

My name is Ankur Verma. I have over a decade of experience in IT consultancy. I've authored a few books in this time as well.

I have experience in providing social IT solutions, IT consultancy in governance and administration domains.

As an aside, I'm an art collector, a painter, an investor, and an independent movies enthusiast.

Activities

• A new technologies evangelist and author
• Experienced in Publishing Industry Automation
• Proponent of application of IT industry's problem solving techniques in social, legal and administrative realms
• Proponent of predictive approach to IT, so as to stay prepared for social trends that DO catch up

Contacts

• Gmail/Gtalk/Yahoo: ankur.verma

My work

I co-authored the following books. The first one was real fun as I was 20 when I wrote it. Both published by Wiley Publishing Inc.

Peer to Peer Application Development

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Embedded System Development

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I tech-reviewed PC Magazine Wireless Solutions, published by Wiley Publishing Inc.

PC Magazine Wireless Solutions

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I contributed a discussion on IP-Telephony and a POC app to to VoiceXML 2.0 Developer's Guide published by McGraw-Hill Professional.

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I was also one of the first moderators and experts on p2p.wrox.com, after Wrox was acquired by John Wiley & Sons. I was an expert for C++,OOPs, COM/DCOM/.NET, Assemblies, VC++ etc. there during forum's formative years post acquisition.

Interest

Professional

• IT
  • Multi-platform development
  • Cloud Computing
  • Administrative and Social IT solutions
• Media
  • Movie/Books projects of social relevance
  • Media projects that provide inspiring and actionable solutions to the masses

Personal

• Chess
• Photography
• Oil Painting
• Movies
• Governance
• Renewable Energy
• Education

WikiEducator

This section provides you an insight to my all activities at WikiEducator, some of the question i tried to answer here and WHY, HOW and WHEN of my journey of WikiEducator.

Resources

Here is a list of books, mags, blogs and sites, which i am using for my learning purpose from many many years, i hope this will benefit evenyone, will extend this list frequently..

Print

Books

• CSS
  • CSS: The Missing Manual
  • CSS: The Definitive Guide
• JavaScript
  • JavaScript: The Definitive Guide
• Frameworks
  • Beginning CakePHP: From Novice to Professional
• PHP
  • Programming PHP
  • PHP and MySQL Web Development

Web

Web Sites

Web Resources

Media

Webcast

How to Install Ubuntu Version 8.10 on X86 architecture

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