Persistence of Illusion
A sequence of reality frames (16 per second?) formed by momentary flashes of consciousness (or cognition by a mind) that work in apparent continuity with a time stream of “physical” existence – that is...
View ArticleCommon Goal
The goal of humans, it seems, is that to work for a greater cause. That cause can be personal, social, religious, nationalistic or ethical. But it is one of them. The cause for the humanity is the...
View ArticleSympathy or Empathy
Well, life is weird. It was 1999; I went to Hyderabad to attend my cousin’s marriage. I was there wandering and enjoying every part of it. It was as usual an extravagant Hindu marriage. We have this...
View ArticleThoughtWorker
It feels good to be back after finally graduating and getting a job at ThoughtWorks. But still busy with preparing myself to leave for India for 6 weeks training at ThoughtWorks University. Lots to...
View ArticlePresent Project
Due to official reason I cannot name the project I worked as an intern at Alliance Technologies during Summer and Fall 2007. We are using Drupal, a PHP based content management system. It was a very...
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On My Bookshelf
Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change (2nd Edition) (The XP Series) by Kent Beck and Cynthia Andres Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor E FranklSCJP by Katherine Sierra and Bert Bates
View ArticleThoughtWorks University
Finally, everything went smoothly and I am in Bangalore. My first week at ThoughtWorks University ended today. It was an amazing week and everyday we had four cool sessions. The first week was mainly...
View ArticleTest Driven Development and Pair Programming
Finally, we started today on introduction to development. It was a simple session but still at this time I cannot forget the learning from one and a half hour session. I have done some TDD but today it...
View ArticleBehavior Driven Development
Today we were introduced to Behavior Driven Development (BDD). So what is BDD. Think of the Tetris game.A piece is falling in the well with some garbage at the bottom. Depending upon the orientation of...
View ArticleBoston
It is good to be writing again. Things changed again and now I am in Boston on a project.My training in Bangalore was fantastic. Made the best of friends and went home (Lucknow, India) for a week after...
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On My Bookshelf
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared DiamondThe Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard MlodinowRefactoring: Improving The Design Of Existing Code by Martin...
View ArticlePart of History!
Done with my first project in Boston and I am very proud so say that I was a part of change that happened on Nov 4th in USA. Who would have guessed that my first project at ThoughtWorks will be of such...
View ArticleMySQL ALTER TABLE
Here is something interesting that causes a lot of confusion overtime while changing the structure of a database table or adding index. Problem arises when a query is extremely slow due to insufficient...
View ArticleRails Deployment: Capistrano + GitHub + Amazon EC2
I have been working on my personal stamp project for a few days now and got some basic application running. As till now, I am able to create entries for stamp and have a cart like application. Since...
View ArticleSoocial.com
I was reading AWS blog and saw an article on soocial.com using EC2.Soocial is a free one address synchronization solution that includes Macs, Gmail, mobile phones and others. The site is built on Ruby...
View ArticleSoftware Development Trends for 2008
Here is an article in SDTimes that sums up the trend that was in software development during 2008. Here is the link
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Google IO Conference
I am attending Google IO Conference this year and will be in San Francisco on May 27th and 28th.Really excited about this conference as I am really interested in new app engine for java sessions. Also...
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Godel Escher Bach: Craziness for life?
Just finished reading Godel Escher Bach by Douglas Hofstadter. It is a classic book which won Pulitzer Award.The essence of the book is how meaning can arise from meaningless symbols that creates a...
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