Can there be a mobile app which could change individual minds and make the world a better place ?Well, if the answer is a Yes, it will have to be a step by step journey... a marathon not a sprint! (although one will have to make certain specific laps a lot quicker!) We have taken the first step and it ...

Finally, the gaming site is online and free for all!It comes with 3 board and puzzle titles for a start and a forth one would be added soon with more to follow.Current games include the award winning (IESL - Cruncher 2011) Elephant Trap. Enjoy playing with freinds, chat while playing, get yourself ranked...Give it a try! (choose 'Play Now' from Araaya site)

Well, not quite. I have an unfinished business to settle down first, so please bare with us. Apologies for failing to post anything for some time now...However, we have not wasted time doing entirely nothing in last month or so. For one, we are doing not too badly at the Google AI competition .Current ranking page is in here.Secondly, our ...

Google AI challenge is back! (well, at least about to. Beta server is there and folks are already slugging it out!) Can feel the competition heat is already building up!Last year competition (Planet Wars) was a tremendous success for this competition to catapult it into arguably the worlds best programming contest. My experience, misfortune and the way ...

We all were using Windows about 5 years ago. My office desktop was also Windows, even though I was enjoying OS X in my MacBook. As we began to develop enterprise applications at ITF (IT Front), slowly and one by one desktops began to get converted into Linux. Ubuntu was the winner. By about 2-3 ...

Thought of publishing a new post with links to some of our earlier posts to help the users who have joined us from syndicate sites we have recently got listed into.BTW, all algorithms, some code we produce, analysis in solving some gaming puzzles etc are in the coding blog which is iq-games Our starting puzzle Towers of ...

Positive influence of meditation in emotional well being, mental faculties and general mental/physical health is well known and well supported by research too. Therefore, one might think meditation will greatly help software engineers to develop their mental skills which are related to programming skills. However, as far as I know not much research is done ...

News of the day (oh well, may be yesterday) is that the newest upcoming programming language to take on Java's enterprise market share could be Ceylon. A big thank to my good friend Damith for putting me on this news.Yep, you heard it right. (Check the date of this post if you don't believe me. See, it's ...

We are developing an online gaming site!People could challenge others and play games online, keep records, play and organize tournaments, play matches with selected opponents, replay their past games, pass their university exams, complete their office work etc. It would be so much fun! (except for last 2 items in the previous sentence).To make it even more ...

When the words Microsoft and humor both appear in the same sentence, it is usually at the expense of Vista, IE, Windows Mobile, Zune or some other Microsoft adventure.So it is nice to see this little piece of code inside a Microsoft code. I saw this at reddit today. Original source of the image can be found in here. (Hint ...

Applications which run on web browsers are getting expanded by the day. Some are things which (just few years ago) we didn't even believe was possible to have on a web browser. Anyway, the purpose of this article is not to debate the life time of desktop applications. May be some other day... but not today.For the ...

Welcome all!We started this blog to share our experiance in game development (both technical and business) and related programming challenges with you all.Hopefully this will grow into a forum where lot of useful discussions and arguments happen on game development, artificial intelligence and programming in general. If you have an interest in any one of those categories or if you ...