Marriage Invite- |t says all........

New Job

I started my new job at TWM (an AEGON Group of Companies) in LittleRock, AR Today.

Trip: St.Louis@2008

Fun continues....

Gateway Arch Riverfront!... wow... no words to express.... happy to be there.

I will visit this place again...!...
Wanna to know some facts....
http://www.gatewayarch.com/Arch/info/arch.fact.aspx

Chicago@2008

Trails... to become a 'family' man!...

I enjoyed another long drive (along wiht my friend's and their families)...

Chicago....

It is really fun..... still going on...

Tell you more about it later....

New Job

Change is the only thing consistant in this world!...

I am thinking about taking a permanant offer from my present workplace.Finance and Insurance domain!.... I started loving the same.

I beleive I learnd a lot in the past 7 years and the the experience i gained by working in differnt business domains added a lot of values to my resume.

Network Security, Web B 2 B, Telecom, Finance, Project Management(?),Personal Systems, Operating Systems.. now into Insurance and Finance.....list is growing....

New Job!...existed??? a bit....

Same wine... but in a new bottle....


I love Arkansas now...

Vacation @Miami

Finally I got a chance to spend a couple of days in Miami with my gal friend.(Its after 9 months!... Still she loves me!... haha)

Life is changing....

Cooking (Indian Food), Parties, long drives(Keywest!..) it was really fun!...


now...

Back to work....

Change in life

A new chapter is going to start soon!...

Yes.... is it a new project? or another phase of the same project??

Some peopel say.... it is a new project that has to be developed using a new SDLC cycle!...

am talking about Marriage....

I am there now!....

Busy Schedules.....

Life is going on....

Work work work.... looking forward for my next vacation!....

Happy..... things are getting stabilised now....

www.agileboard.org

Hello Friends,

I just created one site+forum called www.agileboard.org. It can act as a common platform for professionals who work in Microsoft's .net and related technologies and follows Agile development methodologies. Here one can learn and share their knowledge through AgileBoard's discussion forums.

The mission of AgileBoard.org is to help professionals to learn more and share their technical knowhow.

Please do register and see whether it worth a try in posting/discussing about various subjects related to Agile development and also related Microsoft technologies.

If you think it worth a try, I am happy!..... (I am getting some good feed backs already and I am happy about it.!..)

Enjoy....

Pain Driven Developement

Pain Driven Development (PDD)!....

Yet another term!.... that is what my first thought/impression when I saw Jeff''s Blog Post on the same. I couldn't agree more to Jeff''s views on considering pain reduction as an ROI.

More from Jeff's blog,

"The point of this post is to think of pain reduction as ROI. In business, we might spend money on software for some expected return on investment. While working with the software, we also have returns on investment, but in the form of productivity. Pain kills productivity. Over time, we might learn to live with pain through parts of the process by taking a constant does of , but that only hides the pain. It doesn't cure it.

Pain-driven development is a mindset where developers react intensely to pain and solve it so that it goes away once and for all. PDD practitioners don't just cover up the pain. We eradicate it. PDD leads to a completely frictionless software process that is a joy to experience."

Perfectly agree to you Jeff.

I can't even count the number of times I took pain killers to resolve(it is not resolving, just hiding) the bottlenecks. Most of them related to design flaws, SCM issues and off course all impacted on the quality. Most of the time, a marginal developer(an ALT.NET terminology) will try to get his business ( software development process) to break even... not worried about ROI and profit. It is the same same place, this pain kills most of us, and in turn calls the need of better thoughts/mid set to overcome these bottlenecks.

Note: In real life am allergic to pain killers!... (Let me recall the first 911 experience because of the same here.)

Let's more people realistically think and propose some common scenarios and solutions/ways to avoid pain killers in software industry.

Nice starting Jeff. Thanks a lot.

Jeff''s complete blog post can be found here: http://codebetter.com/blogs/jeffrey.palermo/archive/2008/02/11/pain-driven-development-uncovering-the-motivation.aspx

MIX Registration Started

Friends,

Microsoft started 'Mix' Conference Registration .....

FYI: MIX is a Microsoft web development conference happening in Las Vegas each year. They have discussions/session on cutting edge technologies and is going to be a fun.

Sessions on,

IE 8

IIS 7.0

ASP.NET (including ASP.NET 3.5, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, and ASP.NET Dynamic Data)

VS 2008 and Expression Studio

WPF

Silverlight 2

And much more..

Admission Fee:
Full Conference Registration - $1295 USD

more here....http://visitmix.com/2008/registration.aspx

Thoughts of the Day

What will fill happiness into all the human minds across the world??

We can get an answer to this question by answering another question...

End of the day, what you want to acheive?

Money ??- No...
Power??---No...

Some one said, Happiness.... kind of right eh??

question ansered... everyone want happiness... and happiness resides in what??

Can I say, only do things which you love to do....

no....

am not able to get the answer...

what about you ??

are you really there??........

OpenSource .net FrameWork!.....

Microsoft announced the release of .net framework source code. Developers are going to enjoy this.
more from Scott,

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/01/16/net-framework-library-source-code-now-available.aspx

Thanks Scott and Team....

My Homework items for Y2008

I am going to learn some new things this year ( As usual, new year resolutions!...)
Let me have this list of technology items/tools/languages that i can think of now......

MVC patterns ( new MVC Framework from Microsoft )
Windsor Containers
Ruby and IronRuby
LINQ to SQL/ NHibernate and other OR Mappers
nVelocity
WCF/WPF in detail
DSL
TDD/BDD/DDD
More on Pragmatic Agile!.......

List has to grow.........

Vacation over.... Back in Action...

Wonderful days.... just passed.....

I took some time off from this technology world (not completely). I was locked inside my own cocoon in the past one month.

What i did in the last one month?...

1. My usual consulting works with my client.
2. Enjoying most of the time with my new 42 inch/1080 pix. LCD. I watched all those old 'Golden' movies (with lot of actions/graphics etc..)again.
3. spent more time on the phone with my galfriend (family planning- I will update you all with a happy news soon.)
4. Making plans for the future (wanna to be a 'Big Guy' eh!....?)

and...

Sitting idle, looking into the future through the closed windows! etc....

am back........

Happy New year to All......

Hi All,

Happy new year.....

Let's grow together again!....... Let's change the world!..... Let's help others.......

May God Bless us all.....


Regards,

Unni