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20050717 Sunday July 17, 2005

 Valued @1000.00 - not bad!

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20050715 Friday July 15, 2005

 There was this leech...

So in a dark dense forest, on a pig's body there lived a leech. Over a period of time the leech got bigger and thicker by sucking the blood of the pig and started thinking as if he was a snake. One day the pig was bitten by a snake and died. A gang of Hyenas came and ate its' body. The leech got a chance and stuck to the Hyenas' body. The new blood gave him a fresh lease of life and strengthened his believes.

I am not sure what the motto of the story is, but surely is very funny.


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20050713 Wednesday July 13, 2005

 Three philosophies of success

I think I have already blogged about it a while ago, or may be not. But there are three philosophies of success for any software design : Simplicity, Simplicity and Simplicity. I know "Simple" is a very relative term. E = mc2 was simple for Einstein, not for everybody else. Vis-a-vis software designs, how two systems interact should be simple. Like, forts can be very complex inside but how it interacts with the world remains simple - Just by few gates. Yes! Gates have a protocol, some standards to follow but atleast it is simple. Why do we think as human beings we have been so successful for over 8000 years, among all other living beings? Because, our basic datastructure of communication is Strings. One reason why XML changed the world? It is simple and can be moved around as Strings. I hate applications when they end up getting proprietory objects after remote calls. Why Why Why? The same object heirarchy can also be converted to an XML representation and then passed around. And lest not forget one reason of the success of Java... Its all Strings at the core!

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20050707 Thursday July 07, 2005

 Madness of extreme proportion

I don't understand what does some people gain to see innocent people cry? My heart is with people of London and the rest of the civilized world, the victims of the madness of terrorism. One thing which historically have always defeated the terror and that is the unity. We just need to hold our hands and hold it stronger than ever!

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20050705 Tuesday July 05, 2005

 Is blogging a disease?

Tell me its not a psychological disease, or an invisible drug giving immense ecstasy.. It can't be, but I feel like it. Visiting my blogs atleast 10 times a day just to see any comments. Or the sheer joy of seeing increasing hit counts (damn those Shift-Reloads!). Feeling of an invisible connection to the people who comment on my blogs, or have mentioned me in theirs' or have bookmarked me. The unhealthy but increasing tacit agreeements on "the other" topics with the people who discuss my thoughts. And the worse, feeling negative for the people I personally know, who left me out from their bookmarks. Hmm! Is it me or is it the blogging? It can't be me! I am perfect! And why will it be the blogging, Its just a channel - The incubator of thoughts? Then it must be this community. The new civilization of the bloggers where I just want myself to be heard and read.

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20050702 Saturday July 02, 2005

 Good start to Ashes

What an end to the Natwest cricket tournament. A tie of English and Australians and that too at a low score. You can't get a better display of pace bowling. Hats off to Flintoff, Harmison, Brett Lee and the evergreen McGrath. If there was any heat left in the Ashes anymore, this final has re-ignited it.

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20050630 Thursday June 30, 2005

 Ekla Chalo Re...

I found the english translation of the poem written by Nobel laureate Dr. Rabindra Nath Tagore. The essence of this poem is, even if nobody helps you and nobody answers your call even then don't relinquish the path you are taking. "Ekla chalo re.." meaning just walk alone... So here you go :
    If they answer not to thy call walk alone,
    If they are afraid and cower mutely facing the wall,

    O thou of evil luck,
    open thy mind and speak out alone.

    If they turn away, and desert you when crossing the wilderness,
    O thou of evil luck,
    trample the thorns under thy tread,
    and along the blood-lined track travel alone.
    If they do not hold up the light when the night is troubled with storm,
    O thou of evil luck,
    with the thunder flame of pain ignite thy own heart
    and let it burn alone. 
What a soothing poem it is!

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20050628 Tuesday June 28, 2005

 Why would Gosling need a process?

By using the word "Gosling" I meant a genius who produces innovation with quality. Over a cup of coffee today, I gathered a couple of my manager friends and started chatting about having the need of a process? The essence of those half hour was that we need a process to minimize the risk of having a bad product. Any process doesn't guarantee a high quality product, it just minimizes the risks of having one. So, does James Gosling need a process, I said? The software industry is moving fast! Innovation needs the fast responses. What if Mr Gosling comes up with an idea and we need to get a product out of door fast? Would a well known process which delivers a high quality product in 6 months be of any help? Sure it will help if a team of an average capacity is producing it. Does process hinders innovation then? Or is the process only for average people? Was the innovation responsible for the dot-com explosion? Or, the lack of process for its' demise? Is process only for sustaining products and innovation for launching it? And why do I get confused at this hour of the day?

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20050626 Sunday June 26, 2005

 Customer is your best friend

It has been written so many times and in so many ways the importance of an open communication with your customer. This blog is nothing new but emanating from the realization of the truthness of this fact. On all the successful projects I have worked on, one common thing was the openness of my customers to be challanged, share views, exploring new ideas, corrections and suggestions. No wonder of all the "I am not happy" projects the common factor was that the customer doors were shut on us. My own practical experience have been that most of the times who the applications we build for were not sure how exactly the app should have been. It takes a lot of patience and a lot of expertise to listen and to come up with an agreed upon deliverable. And aboveall did I miss the word trust here? You don't buy trust off the shelf.. you build it and you earn it.

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20050624 Friday June 24, 2005

 Fast fourier transformation and me

I get tons of funny dreams but this one crossed the extra mile. A day before, I saw that my professor asked me what is the FFT and how to implement it? No wonder everyone in the class knew it but me. It shook me really, and it shook me bad! Being a night hawker, waking up by this dream early and that too at 5:45AM was no fun. After so long I was at work at 8:46AM that day. BTW, I still didn't get a chance to look into how to implement it :-(

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20050617 Friday June 17, 2005

 Charging a customer

There was a textile factory busy completing a huge order for some big brand. To complete the project in time, the factory ordered an imported machine which happened to have no local support. One day, the machine stopped working and someone assessed a cost of $25000 and a few weeks to bring someone in and get it fixed. Everyone was shocked. Suddenly a local lad who was a mechanic too came up, looked around, did some tests, took a hammer and hit it near the shaft. Voila! the machine started! The president of the factory asked him how much would he charge? $5000 - the lad said. 5000? Is it not too much for just hitting a hammer - screamed the president. "Its just $10 for hitting the hammer Sir! The rest is for the knowledge of where to hit it" responded the lad with a grin face.

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20050616 Thursday June 16, 2005

 Missing my Mecca again

So this year too it looks like I won't be able to make it to the JavaONE conference. Not enough money in my pockets and neither any sponsorships. I had to go to atleast three booths. Two which I have contributed to and one for a seminar. Alas, that feeling of a lesser being!

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20050615 Wednesday June 15, 2005

 Burned my fingers with gcc's attitude

I always loved gcc and still do. The problem is - Its newer releases compiles pretty much anything and then behaves in an awkward way. The following code :

int fi = ...;
int li = ...;

int length = fi - li + 1;

char abc [length];

got compiled with gcc with no errors and even ran it but failed during stress loading. The error was also missed by the watchmalloc and I wasted almost a week tracking down the problem. Sun's C-compiler asks for a constant literal and would not even have compiled it. Thanks to Cyrille Moureaux for keeping a quick eye, I got the code fixed. Is relief the right word?

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20050614 Tuesday June 14, 2005

 I won't share my bed withany one, nomore!

I always loved your music Mike! You are the best - a kind of an icon in the music world. You have showed the rest of your fans a path of Nirvana! For now on I have decided too - I won't share "my" bed with anyone nomore. First it takes a lot more time to make it and it just simply gets ruined. And hated those morning disturbances, those undesired kisses and jumping all over me... Dammit! I am talking about my old beloved dog!

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20050612 Sunday June 12, 2005

 Wrong advise for referral money

I admit, am gullible and have bad habit of believing people what they say. Recently got sucked into an idea (or help as he might say so) which sounded so perfect. From its start I was somehow not comfortable though. Now have an inkling that there was some referral money involved and the "that person" succeeded in convincing me. No damages done but its not good! Did I say I am looking for a mentor?

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