Essays, Publications & Talks

Essays

1. That the government needs to exit the software ecosystem
2. Group Buying for the Masses
3. Google Plus gets a +1
4. Elements of a High Performance Work Culture

Publications

1. Gathani, D.S., “APDIP e-Note 18 on Standards for Electronic Documents”, UNDP Asia-Pacific Development     Information Programme, 2007.
2. Gathani, D.S., “Software Patents: Background, Discussion and Illustration of Harm”, In Patent Regime andthe Software Industry, IFCA, 2006.
3. Gathani, D.S., “Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act”, Written for Third World Network,2006.
4. Gathani, D.S., “Web Development With PHP”, In MyOSS Magazine, 2005
5. Gathani, D.S., “A Review Of Implementation Issues in Distributed Crawling Architectures”, International Conference on Informatics, University Malaya, 2004.

Presentations

1. “Mobile on  the Web – Engineering for Speed, Functionality and Usability” – presented at Google DevFest KL 2012
2. “The Need for Speed: How Fast Websites Increase Revenue” – presented at Geekcamp 2011
3. “The Javascript Programming Language” – presented at Geekcamp 2012
4. “Social Networking Platforms” – presented at MyGOSSCON (2010)
5. “HTML5” – presented at WebCamp KL(2010)
6. “Telephony Fundamentals” – presented at geekcamp.my (2009)
7. “The Malaysian Free Software Community” – presented at MyGOSSCON (2008), FOSS.MY (2008), barcamp.my (2008)
8. “Open Source Telephony” – presented at MyGOSSCON (2008)
9. “Relaxing with CouchDB” – presented at MyOSS Meetup (2008)
10. “The Malaysian Open Source Community” – presented at AsiaOSS (2006)
11. “OpenOffice.org Programmatic Document Templating” – presented at Linux Conference
12. Australia OpenOffice Miniconf (2005)
13. “The LAMP Strategy” – presented at Novell Open Source Developers Conference (2005)
14. “FOSS Application Development” – presented at University Malaya (2005)
15. “An Introduction to OpenOffice” – presented at International Islamic University Malaysia (2005)
16. “Asterisk: An Open Source PBX System” – presented at MyOSS Meetup & International Islamic University Malaysia (2005)
17. “Compilers: Theory and Implementation” – presented at MyOSS Meetup (2005)
18. “LAMP Workshop” – Novell OSS Workshop (2005)