This was one of the really cool tips from Steven’s presentation. I used to play this game in my childhood when my cousin sister had gifted us this from the US. Now I am sometimes apalled when I see developer’s struggling to find simple problems in any code, and was wondering how I could help…
Steven may not have been a rock star but his presentation on PL/SQL Best Practices definitely ROCKED! Its been the most entertaining, informative and positively INSPIRING tech talk I’ve ever attended (and believe me, with 10+ years in the IT industry I’ve attended quite a few and given some of my own as well) 🙂…
A very simple idea with many implications that I came across today… felt it was so amazing… thought of sharing it with you… 🙂 “If you throw a rock at a flower nothing will happen to the rock, the flower will be gone. But still you cannot say that the rock is more powerful than…
Here are some excerpts from this site http://www.giveemthepickle.com/ which I came across from Kalyan’s Doughnut Blog… Your business is not what you sell, it’s who you serve. So… Give ’em the PICKLE! PICKLES are those special or extra things you do to make people happy. It’s a hand written thank you note with every order shipped. It’s…
The below are excerpts from a couple of websites… ——– We all know the drill: Don’t reinvent the wheel. Re-use code. Rely on libraries of pre-built code. And yet so few of us do it. One way to avoid “deja code”, that feeling you’d written this algorithm before, is to generate code rather than write…
Sanjay went to this store for some shopping for some groceries. As his wife went around putting things in the cart… he trailed behind and found a little girl looking bored while tailing her mother buying some vegetables. He started juggling a couple of lemons and found her suddenly watching with avid interest – who…
One of my friends commented that he never contacted me on google chat as he’d see I seemed to be perpetually busy downloading something or the other as per my status message. I asked him to read my full status message. It was… downloading air one breath at a time
We must note that there is a thin but important line between having apathy and indifference feeling ‘we have to die anyway’, and understanding death and knowing about the real value for life. This post hopes to be in the latter realm! The whole root cause of all the misery we associate with death is…
There is a story I vaguely recall from one of Alfred Hitchcock‘s collections… this is a murderously summarised version of an excellent murder story… but I can’t remember the reference to the original as I’d read it probably more than a decade ago. —— There was a guy who really hated his boss, having lots…
