Journey of the Journeyman

Jeff Atwood, in his blog mentions this concept.
Perhaps what we need is a model of software accretion. Start
with a tiny fragment of code that does almost nothing. Look on the
bright side — code that does nothing can’t have many bugs! Test it,
and check it in. Add one more small feature. Test that feature, and
check it […]

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Over the weekend, I was writing some code in Ruby — cracking some programming puzzles to keep my brain working. One puzzle was to write to a program that displays LCD style numbers at adjustable sizes.
Sunday morning, it took me about an hour and a half to write a solution and it was 1469 bytes. Then […]

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A nice, purposeful blog, this captures very interesting interviews with people well-seeped in the art of this trade.
In one interview, Mark Osborne, Chief Architect of the Microsoft’s Developer Division (responsible for Visual Studio) talks about the problems every almost company faces.
But at the end of the day, there’s this kind of tension between needing to […]

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DevCamp Bangalore is happening on Feb 9th. I plan to be there but I think I also need to go and see the Disney show.

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I was going through a thread on an ACPI issue with nForce4 on the kernel list. An interesting set of bits from Linus Torvalds hurled at Rafael Wysocki.
You seem to put a lot of trust in a piece of documentation.
Do you realize how those pieces of paper are written? They are written by people who […]

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24 hours of continuous hacking on Friday and Saturday and won.  So this post is embarrassingly looooong. Inertia of Euphoria, I guess. Naseer, Vijay, Arun (who had to unfortunately leave very early on) cobbled together a collaborative medical image viewer using the Yahoo! Widget Platform.
It’ kind of sounds too much politically correct to say that everyone was […]

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Surfing by Google Labs, came to know of two interesting features. The timeline and map view for Google Search. Given a search topic, google parses the results for key dates and locations and plots them on a timeline or on a (google) map.
Type the following into google: indian freedom movement view:timeline

You can drill-down into the […]

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