Archive for November, 2007

its fun learning Kannada!

Monday, November 26th, 2007

Learn Kannada online at Sampada…

quote on relationships

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

Nowadays with the increasing popularity of live-in relationships compared to marriages, maybe this makes a lot of sense… Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time. – John Donne Loyalty is a precious quality that we have almost lost sight of today. Instead of loyalty, […]

unforgettable words of a dying old lady

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

Like one of those sales during the holiday season, I got some extra nice items free along with my wife – her interesting family members. For example, a 100+ year old active maternal grandmother-in-law, a wonderfully gentle and sensitive, yet tough and practical mother-in-law, really cool brothers and sisters in law. This is the story […]

maybe still in honeymoon phase

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

There are several discoveries I wanted to share a short while after I got married. But whenever I started speaking about it, I would get classified as a typical infatuated man who’s lost his mind in the blissful honeymoon phase. Feeling that might well be true, I ignored them. But now with more than a […]

the future of work has arrived

Saturday, November 17th, 2007

A hotel is not just a place where travellers sleep, but a United Nations in miniature. ~ Theodore Zeldin’s muse on The Future Of Work I’ve found the same applies to a software company as well, and I’ve found it more in my own company nowadays – this happens to be one of the key […]

don't let this happen to you…

Monday, November 12th, 2007

There is a thin line between just being lazy relaxing chilling out, and becoming complacent rusting away! 😈 For those readers who have no time or inclination for meditation (i.e. for yourself) still this post may be of value to you in any other field like your profession or any hobby, etc 🙂 When everything […]

software architecture revisited

Monday, November 12th, 2007

This is a very old writeup from a few years ago from my older website, which I came across recently again, and am reposting here… Now I have a lot more to say about this topic… but just putting in the old one for now… — Once in a way, I feel software might be […]

learning to crawl

Sunday, November 11th, 2007

My son left on his own, first cried a bit trying to get anyone’s attention, and then tried moving around by himself. It seems like such a miracle how hard it is to for us to learn just to move one little inch forward! He was quite persistent for a while, gradually frustration and helplessness […]

agile development links

Saturday, November 10th, 2007

Having worked mostly in the waterfall software development cycle and just venturing into the agile world – these were quite interesting links… Refactoring database Agile Model Driven Development (AMDD): The Key to Scaling Agile Software Development

FW: India can buy virtually 7 developing nations.– Intersting facts

Saturday, November 10th, 2007

This is from a forwarded email that’s been doing its rounds for quite a few years… —— PROUD TO BE AN INDIAN Shock for the Nation !!! (Believe it or not) Do you know that India is the richest country in the world! Right now, India is the richest country in the world! Wondering how? […]