The Spoken Word

For about a year now I have been developing product using the scrum methodology. Scrum is an iterative, incremental process for developing any product or managing any work. At the end of every iteration we have a potentially shippable set of functionality.

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In the last couple of months I met lots of people. Most of them were normal and average, except for a couple of them. These guys were interesting, amazing, versatile and crazy.

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Some time around October 2004 I wrote a post explaining how regionalism was on rise in India. Today, I am seeing that the situation is even worse. Couple of months back some Biharis were beaten up in Assam. Today Mr. Raj Thackrey is openly claiming that Mumbai is only for Maharastrians. If I am not wrong, there was some agitation for not including a player from Kerala (I am not sure about the state) in the Indian cricket team.

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Unix

Every team member brings one piece of this car along when they come to the circuit. They all go out on the pit and put the car together piece by piece, arguing non-stop about what kind of car they are supposed to be building.

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Look at this

Last week was Diwali - the festival of lights. For those who don’t know what diwali is, it’s like Christmas of India. It is one of the major festivals celebrated grandly in India. Therefore, Google decided to send Diwali greetings and some really pathetic gift to its adwords users.

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These practices apply to almost all Object Oriented Languages and should be followed by almost every developer (or programmer or whatever you call). These are simple rules that can save considerable amount of time( and money) but are not followed by most of the developers. Whatever is your background, these rules can help you write better programs in less time and with fewer headaches. So lets begin…

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DOT-COM BOOM refers to the late 1990s during which countless Internet companies were riding an enormous wave of enthusiasm that pushed their stock valuations into the stratosphere even though they never made a penny. Billions in venture capital were given to entrepreneurs with little or no experience to fund ideas that were ludicrous. It was a crazy time, and people were very excited. With all of the nonsense, many dot-coms did survive, and countless concepts and techniques were developed that continue today. That was the first version of Web and people did not call it web 1.0.
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About a couple of years ago google made a big news when it entered the e-mail market with its service called gmail. The news was considerably big because it was offering its user something that no one would have ever dared to even think of. Google offered 1GB of storage space to its users. Bigs guys like Hotmail and Yahoo were offering less than 10MB of space. There were even speculations that hotmail might die soon.
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One of my colleague got so inspired by a mac zealot that she ultimately decided to switch to mac. Here are the pics of how switched to mac.

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