One Man Hacking

Update: Analytical Score updated. I wrote the GRE a few days ago. Scores - quant- 790/800 verbal 800/800 (heh!) Analytical Writing -...

Steve Yegge's blog post titled "Good Agile, Bad Agile" seems to have ignited one of those periodic feeding frenzies in the ...

This is a true story. Names have been changed to protect the innocent (and the guilty). Once upon a time,long long ago, in a faraway land,...

I've been notcing that people who never get anything done seem to follow a few (anti-)patterns when they start off their projects. The m...

The compiler project has kicked off and I have zero free time. I am spending all my time coding and reading.So .... I am totally unavailab...

Read this and this . Whether one agrees with the author's (admittedly zany) ideas, these articles are a good counterweight to the hyper...

Martin Fowler writes about Customer Affinity, a factor he believes distinguishes a good enterprise developer from a bad one. So far,so goo...

I like to think I am "centrist" when it comes to politics and that the world has shades of grey and is not all black and white. ...

For some strange reason, some comments did not make it through to my mail account and were piling up in the blogger bin. Some of them were e...

In my last post, I wrote "Aaargh! someone give me a job in the USA (or even better, an admission into a good PhD program) please! I g...

because some f##$$$%%^ ing bureaucrat in the Indian Government has mandated that ISPs block access to blogspot . If I wanted to live unde...

My upcoming "write a compiler" project is about writing a industrial strength compiler. The good news is that it is wonderful to b...

A few hours ago my blog began to turn up with an empty page! No content visible(but the posta re still visible form the admin interface). Ho...

I just switched the Thinkpad over to Ubuntu Linux. I am generally not prone to waxing lyrical about Linux distros, but Ubuntu is really a...

One advantage of blogging is that it enables you to articulate your vague inchoate thoughts more coherently and more importantly, it enables...

In Joel Spolsky's article , there is one sentence that wish I had written The cult of the MBA likes to believe that you can run organi...

so please don't "add me as a friend" in Y360 :-) I get 2 or 3 mails everyday saying that "Mr/Ms X has requested that you...

I was talking to a friend yesterday about the upcoming compiler project when he asked me a question "Will you be coding the compiler in...

I generally use a wiki ( moinmoin in case anyone is interested) on my laptop to keep notes on various projects I work on. However the wiki ...

I am still internet challenged and will be offline for the next month or so, but this is worth commenting on. My friend Yogi has launched ...