Monster

Finally, I found the monitor which i was looking for my office. Wow!!! isn't its great. just imagine yourself working on this setup....

A Curate's Egg....

I was just reading an article and in meantime I got a call from one of my colleague installing my fixes at customer site. He told me "My fixes works....but not fully....fixes have spoiled existing working configuration" .
Same sentence can also be expressed as "Somewhat of a curate's egg, I'm afraid; the fixes was working, but with full of exceptions in it."

What I want to say is: there is a expression in english "a curate's egg" which is used for the above mentioned scenario.

I checked in wikipedia and found following description:

Expression "a curate's egg" means something that is partly good and partly bad, but as a result is entirely spoiled.There were many pepole who doesn't know this word and there are many peole who use this.

Just like the word "A curate egg"....

Design Rules....

As as programmer I always struggled on design document. Sometimes the document are mixed with languages and sometimes the whole story has been cut-paste.

#1. Talent is one-third of the success equation...Hardwork and luck is also needed
#2. 95% of any creative profession is shit work ...rest 5% is fun
#3. If everything is equally important, then nothing is very important.
#4. Don’t over-think a problem.
#5. Start with what you know; then remove the unknowns...Draw what you know.
#6. Don’t forget your goal...
#7. When you throw your weight around, you usually fall off balance.
#8. It all comes down to output and the rest of the world counts.
#9. Its not a novel its a document somebody gonna read it.

This is very well applies in software design...I don't know if it make sense in other field ?

Happiness....Let' search...can we

I think happiness and satisfaction are synonyms of each other.
I just had a discussion with one of my support colleagues and I told him "You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of
"Actually, Success is not the key to Happiness, Happiness is the key to success.
I had a colleague, He is happy working on "C", because its a new challenge. Me as a programmer not happy working on technologies like "unifAce" and I have a Colleague, he accepted recently an offer to work in "unifAce". The point is if you love what you are doing, you will be successful, satisfied and happy.
There is also a perception to copy a happiness. I guarantee you....You will never win.
One of my colleague told me "Action is the happiness". "Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action".

Wow....Look so different way to be happy. Look at the picture....Perfect example of happiness

I think, there is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. ...That's the one which is very real and everybody wants more of it....

Tell me what u think ?

Geeks and Nerds Need To Work Happily

There are many reasons to let geeks work the way they want to work. Today they work in every industry. They are the knowledge base, blood and sweat equity of many businesses. They work harder than most. They work longer than most.
Geeks work almost every moment they are awake. They are online before they go to the office. They are home working after the office closes. They work weekends. They are even sometimes working in their dreams.
#1. Let them work when they want
#2. Let them work where they want
#3. Let them control their lighting
#4. Let them wear Headphones
#5. Do not expect them to wear a suit
#6. Do not make them participate in company events (!= geek-friendly)
#7.Do not hold a lot of meetings that could have otherwise been handled through email
#8. Do not make them do anything other than work
#9. Do not force them to do something

"A person often of an intellectual bent who is disliked"---Its a Geek

"In a meeting full of pepole talking about release plan or business policy and you see a person writing algorithm, drawing diagram, writing mathematics theorem or solving sudoko"... I tell you the guy is a geeky.

I hope you understand the world of geeks and how to identify them , and how to keep them happy in my words....

Tell me what you think ?

Beauty lies in the eyes of Beer - Holder

Programmer vs. Developer ...

Somebody once asked me what the difference was between a programmer and a software Developer. Is there any difference ?...I answered following:

Programmer: A biological machine designed to convert caffeine into code.

• Is someone who does nothing but code new features or fixing bugs
• Someone who, if given a complete functional design, task, can code huge systems and do it extremely well.
• They don't write specifications.
• They don't write automated test cases.

Developer: A person who develops working systems by writing and using software.

• People who will contribute in multiple ways to make the product successful
• A developer is the complete package.

To be more clear....I am a programmer and my wife is a developer.

six Wonderful Google Games To Keep You Entertained

Warning: Google Games mentioned here may be highly addictive.

Google is not just a search engine...Did you ever click on more button

1. Guess the Place - You are shown a picture and need to find out which country, state or city is being shown by looking at parts of Google Maps, or Flickr images of the place
2. Google Mirror - elgoog - This site is like a mirror reflection of Google.
3. Gwigle - What Am I Googling? - A very addictive game where you are shown the Google search results page and you then have to reverse guess the search query.
4. Googlewhack - A Googlewhack is a Google search query consisting of two words - both in the dictionary, and without quotation marks - that returns a single result. The search will list 'Results 1-1 of 1'.
5. World War on Google Maps - Online players (2-25) randomly receive a set of countries with troop hitpoints based on real world population data. To play: attack neutral and enemy countries in an effort to try to take over the world.
   
6. Google Maps Flight Simulator - Nothing so advanced as the Microsoft Flight simulator, but this Googel computer game lets you fly a small farmer plane over any landscape created from a compilation of Google Maps images.
   

Cricket is Killing...

I am deeply hurt about yesterday match and cannot tell you how it is going to affect me. As a cricket fan from india....I felt so pitty about indian team and at last about late "Bob woolmer"

Isn't cricket killing ?

Help yourself

There are some interesting articles about body language. I've recently read and they center around "self help".

like the "Eye contact"...

I love reading about have eye contact ---"have eye contact, but don't stare" । But once you get it down - you start doing it without thinking.I do that.

excellent points there...

Artemus Ward once wrote...

Just remembering...
"It ain't so much the things we don't know that get us into trouble। It's the things you know that just ain't so।"

read on internet...

Some things I’ve learned from TV

• Cars and trucks that crash almost always burst into flames.
  
• When you wake up from a nightmare, you will always sit bolt upright, in a sweat, and breath heavy.
  
• Creepy music coming from a graveyard always mandates investigation
• When you are outnumbered in a martial arts fight – your enemies will always wait patiently to attack you one by one (waiting for you to knock out their predecessor of course)
• Having a job of any sort will cause all fathers to forget their son’s/daughter’s birthday.
• All bombs have very large, red LED display so you know exactly when they will go off
• When they are alone, all foreigners prefer to speak English to each other
  

Thank's Tom for all input's