One Man Hacking

Dave Hoover maintains a list of what he calls Apprenticeship Patterns , which are essentially heuristics that help you navigate the transit...

Updated to include an opinion on Google India Joel Spolsky has written an excellent article where he explains why it makes no sense to hir...

I looked for this book both online and offline,but couldn't find a copy.Basically the book is "a six volume work ..of major archiva...

Yesterday one of my friends called me with a simple question "What do i put on my (to be started) blog" ? It is sometimes possib...

The last post turned out be quite popular and more than 20 people requested me to add a "comment facility " . The choice was betwe...

It all started very innocently . A manager at one of the many software companies in Bangalore announces a scheme to "tax" Indians...

Dear Java, These days I program mostly in Lisp and Ruby (with a smidgen of Erlang and a dollop of C ). Coming back to you from such incr...

(Edited on Feb 4 2011), This entry is correct but is now obsolete.I rewrote this with more detail here . Please use that instead. Concret...

Thanks to problems setting up the laptop I missed Brett 's presentation. I listened to Mridul's talk on "Kernel Programming + ...

I attended (and spoke at) the Agile India Conference . My speech about applying XP to a large AI classifier system I am working on was well ...

Today morning , I was at the Centre of Artificial Intelligence Research staring rather stupidly at a page covered with strange squiggles a...

I came across Run Away Screaming so.... having nothing better to do .. i wrote When they sell you as cheap Indians Then tell you "y...

Sergei Dmitriev wrote an article on his blog about what he calls Language Oriented Programming. Sergei claims "It is time to begin th...

How hard is the software you write ? Most "business" software is more a matter of repeating endlessly minor variations on a fairl...

One of my friends said " You thoughtworkers , (conveniently ignoring the fact that I am no longer a Thoughtworker) always point at M...

The last few days saw me in the grip of a flu/fever/cough infection that drew my temperature up and enthusiasm down. So the moment i showed...

I am beginning to despair of serious design level software development work ever coming to India. The (profit = number of bodies * x $$) pa...

I was reading Edward de Bono 's Serious Creativity yesterday. The key insight that occured to me is that deBono discusses "think...

Just a mental exercise to distinguish multiple "levels" of programmers. Some of the observations are India and Bangalore specifi...

I think this is a question every programmer needs to ask himself. Suppose for a moment that you got hit by a cosmic ray that removed the ...