We live in a world with many technologies, gone or the days when development would be in just handful of languages. Computer languages have evolved and devised have been replaced. The work is more on the mobile devices. Every successful engineer needs to update his skills with time. So lets see what are the Top 10 IT Skills for 2013.

The top 10 tech skills for 2013, as per CyberCoders are listed below:

1. Mobile development (iOS, Android)
2. Cloud computing (AWS, Azure)
3. Front end development (HTML5, CSS3, Javascript)
4. UX/UI design
5. Big Data (Hadoop, MongoDB, NoSQL)
6. C#
7. Ruby on rails
8. Java
9. PHP
10. Linux

“A common theme among these technology skills is the need for open source, mobile, cloud or big data technologies, like iOS, Azure and Hadoop,” said Matt Miller, CTO of CyberCoders.

So Year 2011, is about to end. The year I came Mumbai, switched my job, few of my best friends got married or engaged, memorable trips, winters with no cold, etc etc..

Timeline :

01.01.2011 – A special New year Celebration with friends in Noida, Sector – 61.

22.01.2011 – Wedding : Punit @Banaras

31.01.2011 – Wedding : Neha Dixit @Delhi

08.01.2011 – First Visit to Taj Mahal

08.01.2011 – Wedding : Neha Ma’am @Agra

10.01.2011 – Self Cooked Dinner @ KD’s place

12.02.2011 – Jim Corbett Trip with HCL Colleagues

05.03.2011 – Farewell @ Real Saver – DEN, Gurgaon

11.03.2011 – My last working day in HCL Technologies

13.03.2011 – A Small DPS V Get Together & Farewell

15.03.2011 – Land Mumbai, left Noida

16.03.2011 – Joined STPI Mumbai

19.05.2011 – My first IPL/Cricket Match in a Stadium @ DY Patil, Mumbai

19.06.2011 – My Dad comes Mumbai, visit Visit to Mumbai on Office Tour

15.08.2011 – Mahabaleshwar Trip @ Independence Day

07.10.2011 – My Sis got engaged this day

26.10.2011 – My first Diwali in Mumbai

31.10.2011 – My first Visit to Bangalore @Official Tour (STPI Bangalore)

07.11.2011 – Engagement : Deepak & Anu

18.11.2011 – My 100th Blog Post

03.12.2011 – At home on my birthday with parents after 8 years

04.12.2011 – Wedding : Vipul & Sumita @Agra

05.12.2011 – Met with all close friends in just 24 hours and being awake 2 nite continuous

10.12.2011 – Twitter Handle changed from @rahul_ssg to @askrahul

15.12.2011 – Cleared Ist Sem – MS (Software Systems) BITS Pilani – 8.27 CGPA

While an amazing year ends, all I ask for new year that next year 2012 I am back in Noida with my friends to celebrate the new year 2013

I’m a big fan of the Hubble telescope. Beyond its obvious scientific merit, its photos simply have a lot of aesthetic and entertainment value. A nice place to browse through Hubble photos is HubbleSite.org.

So, I was excited to hear that NASA officials announced that the Webb Space Telescope (Hubble’s successor) is on track to launch in 2013. As reported by Reuters:

"Edward Weiler, head of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, said after cost overruns a couple of years ago, the project has met every technical, cost, and schedule milestone for the past 20 months. During the earlier stages of development, the telescope's launch date slipped from the originally scheduled 2011 to 2013.

The Webb telescope is envisioned as the first of a new generation of space observatories, set to orbit nearly a million miles from Earth to allow scientists to look further into the universe than ever before in five decades of space exploration."

Here are two NASA illustrations that show what the Webb Space Telescope will look like and how it compares to Hubble:

This should give us a glimpse farther into space than we’ve ever seen before. Sound exciting to you?