Author Archives: Humair

Helping the poorest of the poor fight disease

Posted on December 20, 2009 by Humair

Imagine living day to day in a place plagued by constant poverty and unimaginable disease. AIDS, African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness), dracunculiasis (guinea worm disease), malaria, nodding syndrome, and onchocerciasis (river blindness) are some of the most common diseases the people … Continue reading →

Posted in BioTech/Pharma, Business | Tagged African trypanosomiasis, AIDS, Ascaris lumbricoides, dracunculiasis, Ebola, Eflornithine, guinea worm disease, hookworm, malaria, Melarsoprol, nodding syndrome, onchocerciasis, parasites, Pentamidine, river blindness, roundworm, sleeping sickness, Sudan, Suramin, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, The Carter Center, Trypanosoma brucei, trypanosome, whipworm | 1 Comment

Pharmacogenetics – The future of “Personalized Medicine”

Posted on November 1, 2009 by Humair

European Americans are ten to forty times more likely than African Americans to get a very aggressive type of skin cancer called Melanoma. People of Asian descent are more likely to have the inability to process alcohol efficiently – exposing … Continue reading →

Posted in BioTech/Pharma, Business | Tagged BiDil, Biotech, NitroMed, Personalized Medicine, Pharma, Pharmaceuticals, Pharmacogenetics, Targeted Medicine | Leave a comment

UC Berkeley Java Certification

Posted on September 23, 2009 by Humair

I just finished up my last class to get the UC Berkeley Java Certificate. The program is offered by UC Berkeley Extension, an arm of UC Berkeley. The program consists of taking and passing three Java programming courses spanning 90 … Continue reading →

Posted in Programming Languages, Technology | Tagged J2EE, Java, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, UC Berkeley, UC Berkeley Extension, UC Berkeley Java Certificate | Leave a comment

Pharma Mega-Mergers: When you can’t innovate, merge

Posted on June 22, 2009 by Humair

In April of 2009, Pfizer agreed to buyout Wyeth for $68 billion; Pfizer’s market cap at that time was just around $100 billion. The following month Merck trumped the Pfizer deal with a $41 billion merger with Schering-Plough. What was … Continue reading →

Posted in BioTech/Pharma, Business | Tagged Biotech, Cozaar, Genentech, Lipitor, Mega-Mergers, Merck, Pfizer, Pharma, Pharmaceuticial, Roche, Schering-Plough, Singulair, Wall Street | Leave a comment

Google App Engine goes Java

Posted on April 9, 2009 by Humair

At a Google Technology User Group meet-up last night, I listened to a presentation by a Google App Engine Engineer, Jeff Scudder. This past Sunday night Google announced the support for Java on there App Engine service. Previously, the only … Continue reading →

Posted in Development Tools, Google App Engine, Technology | Tagged Buddypoke, Eclipse Plug-in, Google App Engine, Google Web Toolkit, GWT, Java, Silicon Valley Google Technology User Group | 2 Comments

Linux with Windows Apps

Posted on March 29, 2009 by Humair

In terms of using Ubuntu Linux as my laptop operating system, I have often been put in the predicament of needing to use applications that either I only have for Windows or applications that are not available for Linux. In … Continue reading →

Posted in Applications, Linux, Operating Systems, Technology, Tips & Tricks | Tagged linux, ubuntu, VirtualBox, virtualization, vmware, windows, Wine | Leave a comment

IPv6 Presentation at Sun Microsystems

Posted on February 23, 2009 by Humair

On January 31st, 2009, at Sun Microsystems, I gave a presentation on IPv6 and the Hurricane Electric (HE) Tunnelbroker. The speech was given during the SupperHappyDevHouse 30 event and you can download the presentation slides here. The event attracted a … Continue reading →

Posted in Personal Presentations, Protocols, Tech Events, Technology | Tagged Hurricane Electric, IPv4, IPv6, SHDH, SHDH 30, SHDH30, Sun Microsystems, SuperHappyDevHouse, SuperHappyDevHouse 30, Tunnelbroker | Leave a comment

Run Windows & Linux on the same PC at the same time!

Posted on January 1, 2009 by Humair

I’m currently writing this blog from a 1 GB Lenovo NetBook running Ubuntu Linux 8.10 inside virtualization software installed on Windows XP Home Edition. I have been experimenting with different hosted virtualization software to compare and contrast – I have … Continue reading →

Posted in Applications, Linux, Operating Systems, Technology, Tips & Tricks | Tagged freebsd, linux, open source, operating system, parallels, suse, ubuntu, virtualization, virtualization software, vmware, windows | Leave a comment

Blogging from my G1 Phone

Posted on December 12, 2008 by Humair

Using a cool little app called wpToGo I am writing my first blog from my G1 Google phone. It’s pretty cool that I can post to my blog from my G1 without having to visit my website.

Posted in Android, Applications, Cell Phones, Operating Systems, Technology | Tagged blog, cell phone, G1, G1 phone, Google, Roundhill Labs, rpcxml, T-Mobile, WordPress, wpToGo | Leave a comment

SuperHappyDevHouse 28

Posted on November 16, 2008 by Humair

SuperHappyDevHouse 28 was today. I just returned, and I had a blast. So many events I go to are focused heavily on the tech side, which I like, but it was nice to finally go to an event like SuperHappyDevHouse … Continue reading →

Posted in SupperHappyDevHouse, Tech Events, Technology | Tagged hacking, SuperHappyDevHouse, SuperHappyDevHouse 28, tech event | Leave a comment