Why?
shashi @ June 26, 2007 # One Comment
As usual, J.D. “Illiad” Frazer is right on top. But why ?
Sampada (ಸಂಪದ) Love Day!
shashi @ June 24, 2007 # One Comment
“Giving love to projects” is a concept innovated by the GNOME Project. The idea is simple. You identify an open source project which you’re likely to give more attention to and work on it. You love your work, the work automatically gets done.
Today, I’d a similar opportunity to give love to. The project called [...]
Truly Plural!
shashi @ June 22, 2007 # One Comment
I was working on a small shell script to generate stubs for a project we’re working on. After arriving at a rough design and deciding on the class names, method names to be generated, I started generating the stubs (scaffolding?). And came across an amusing non technical issue. getBench() was fine, but getBenchs() wasn’t. [...]
Of starting up blues
shashi @ June 19, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Though technically not a startup, we’ve been in a startup mode from quite sometime - say seven years. Oops! In seven years, history gets changed by companies younger than that. So, what does it take to build a startup and be successful while at it ?
Marc Andreessen has addressed some points in his blog, [...]
Parable of a MS Word document
shashi @ June 16, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Inspired by Mark Shuttleworth’s latest post
A friend of mine is pretty tech savvy and also very organised. He backs up all his files once a month, copied it to floppies earlier, onto CDs later and now to DVDs. He carefully catalogs those disks and stores it away. Who knows, what might be required at [...]
Fortune 100!!
shashi @ June 14, 2007 # No Comment Yet
In unix, fortune has been around from a long time and it’s as popular and a favourite now, as it was way back in time.
Some nuggets:
Don’t worry so loud, your roommate can’t think.—-You will wish you hadn’t.—-Don’t tell any big lies today. Small ones can be just as effective.—-You’ve been leading a dog’s [...]
Corporate Responsibility!?
shashi @ June 12, 2007 # One Comment
Our honorable Prime Minister has called upon our corporate honchos to cut on their drawings and increase their commitment towards social responsibility. As several writers have already talked about it already, that’s a very timely suggestion and it’s about time too. Or is it ?
Indian corporates have always been humble over the years. They’ve [...]
Theory of Relative "Product"ivity!
shashi @ June 7, 2007 # One Comment
A few weeks ago, Userfriendly ran this series:
So ? Google betas their products almost always, to enable people experience cutting edge technology without waiting endlessly for the product to pass all kinds of QA tests. In the process, the users are helping Google harness their resources much better and test the application while at it. [...]
Free Operating Systems. Next"enta" ?
shashi @ June 6, 2007 # No Comment Yet
enta (ಎಂತ) in Kannada slang translates to “whither” as in “whither are we wandering ?“.
Over the past couple of months huge strides have been made in the development and deployments of several new free operating systems. While tracking their progress and goals, I’m writing down a couple of points for myself to revisit some [...]
Hedging life !!??
shashi @ June 5, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Today, I’d been to a session where I was educated about the importance of hedging against the Dollar falling again against the Rupee. The gist was this, “you buy Futures the bank’s gonna profit through margin money. You buy Options, the bank’ll debit your fees”. “You may lose some money but it’s all about [...]
