Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Just like many others, I spend almost 70% of my time in front of my computer – coding. I got used with listening to music while I am at it. It helps me a lot by preventing any external distractions especially when I am doing tasks which are repetitive, not involving much of any thinking process. A friend of mine once gave me a bunch of S.Ve Shekar and Crazy Mohan drama’s in mp3 format and I seriously...
Posted by Karthik Padmanabhan in A.P. Nagarajan, Comedy, iPod, Muthuraman, Nagesh, office, Sivaji, tamil mp3, Thiruvilayadal, work
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
I was googling about my previous company for hunting down an ex-colleague of mine. Though I could not actually find him on the results, I found the following within the first 50 results:Job Seekers say:http://www.indianjobreviews.com/showcompanyreviews.php?CompanyID=35Client’s say:http://www.flixya.com/post/reinalliance/807662/Perils_of_Outsourcing_Web_Design_Photon_Infotechhttps://post.complaints.com/post.php?followup=6&original_id=165836General...
Thursday, December 18, 2008
I don’t know if it is just me who feels this way, but I hate it when people at work peep into your monitor especially when you are reading your emails. I think it is unethical and just portrays a person’s ill manners.It is fine if I invite someone to see something, but I just can’t stand people staring at my desktop, seeing what I am typing. It is each one’s private space. Please don’t freaking invade...
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
A few years back, I happened to hear a glorified programmer advising his self-proclaimed sidekick how important it is to ask lesser questions to technical stakeholders/business users about the project or technology that they are working on.I couldn’t disagree more! He was arguing that one should ask “smart” questions and should never let the other person think we do not know anything about the business.There...
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Two days back, my teammate had to release to production a minor code change he made to one of the web modules. Since we both were new to the release process followed by the client, we were given a small briefing about it.We first have to release the change to a common dev environment, where it will reside till the peer review and internal testing is completed. Then we had 3 documents to be meticulously...
Posted by Karthik Padmanabhan in app code, binaries, deployment, documentation, issues, Release Process, SDLC
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Quite often when I get bored with new music, I delve into my collection of old mp3 songs. Quite common for people to do so, nowadays, with almost all the mobiles coming with an mp3 player - you have complete access to any music you want.Yet, there are times when you would want to hear a particualr song from a particular movie, which, unfortunately, not many would have even heard of. One such movie...
Posted by Karthik Padmanabhan in Anne Anne, Ilayaraaja, Janaki, Malaysia Vasudevan, Mouli, SPB, tamil mp3
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