I’ve come across a lot of fellow software engineers who seem to be really scared to ever admit that they don’t know anything. At different points in time, I’ve been in situations where I’ve failed to understand something that I needed to, or have ended up with colleagues whom I have to rely upon but…
We spend so many hours at work everyday – maybe at office or maybe at home, depending on our circumstances. I’d like to make a note here of many useful links that I’ve come across over the years… which I’ve tried to implement with varying degrees of success…
Relevant only if you work with XML… This is a pretty neat free XML Editor from Microsoft that I’ve used for quite a few years… as lightweight as Notepad. We can just draw XML and drag and drop nodes, and then view source to copy the XML source. XML Notepad offers an intuitive and simple…
Some general things based on noticing the indiscriminate carnage of trees (indirectly) whenever I collect a printout from the printer in office. Three very simple things…. * Don’t “print and forget” – dont *forget* to collect your printout! * Set your Default Printer Preferences to print on both sides of the paper. * Please think…
Yesterday evening, being ಯà³à²—ಾದಿ (Ugadi ), there was a question on RadioCity FM 91 on what bevu bella means. For a change I actually keyed in the answer and, very unexpectedly, got a call by Sunayna saying that I’d be on air in a minute, to get away from the radio, and stay on the…
I guess these are not really contradictions but just different possibile directions that the industry can take… Software sadness Techies, we have a problem Indian engineers good only at theory: Microsoft But on the other hand… …the Bill Gates of India India grooms next gen high-tech entrepreneurs (also the first comment for this one is…
One can see this statue called the Laughing Buddha in almost any gift shop in Malleswaram/Bangalore… a statue of a man with a huge hearty smile carrying a bag on his shoulder. Here’s his story…
Haven’t watched this movie, but it seems to be a nice one – atleast based on this dialogue I came across today – which by itself alone says a lot: John Hobbes: You take any cop on the force, cream or no, ninety-nine percent of the time they’re doing their job, aren’t they? Jonesy: Ninety-nine…
This is how he’d introduced himself to Kichu and everyone else in the room in 1998 – and to anyone and everyone he’d ever met since he’d started working a year ago. And Kichu had remarked “No you are not.
Sometimes freshers come with ambitions of, as Jigar says, “writing an entire operating system” right from day one, but have to be confronted with ground reality of doing something less ambitous like reading up some documents.
