Memories

As I read Rajesh's blog,I was flooded by memories of me growing over the years. Starting from KG to Main School, the unending bouts of laughter.Days at JV were always fun.Right from KG I was blessed with two wonderful Latha and Kameswari.Kudos to them for tolerating all the mischief ( From those days I have a reputation for getting into trouble ) I forever used to be caught outside classroom playing or disturbing others in my own class.

And then moving onto primary where I was among the goody-goody ones in class (Till Second) My notes used to cited as examples for others lesser blessed souls.Then came the transformation, I decided to leave all goodness and evolved into a poriki.Witness and help to this transformation were Sathish,Siddharth,Kanakadhara,Karthikeyan,Sivabalan,Nikhil.

From then onwards I was one among the renowned (for all wrong reasons) ones in class.We used to have Nagasundari Ma'am for Social in fourth.She used to make all her classes so lively and interesting.I realised the difficulty in handling a class successfully only when I reached Main School and got exposed to teachers who guaranteed instant sleep in ten minutes.And I also would not forget Jayanthi Ma'am who believed my talents were in the field of Maths.She convinced my parents that I would excel at it.I remember once she also suggested that I would make a good critic.Up to date I have no clue what might have prompted her to such a decision.Thanks to me and my bunch of friends(those eye-openers I ve mentioned above) we managed to get our class a pretty bad name.

Till this point in my life my language capabilities revolved solely on English and Tamil.I was also into Hindi but my talents in it were pretty useless.I still cant get the hang of it.Though I find it quite sufficient for RGV,KJ and MR movies.Out of blue they announced we could opt for French from sixth standard.Caught unawares I declared that I had a fascination for it(One of dreams still revolves around being a linguist). Surprised by this revelation my parents enquired about the future implications of switching over from Tamil to French and decided in my favor.

Here was I standing in the quadrangle of Main School getting sorted in the various sections based on language.Most of mates were continuing with Tamil and I got to be among the blessed few of 6D.New campus,new people,new teachers.All of sudden I realised I had to grow up.In quick time,I learned about groupism,racism, and my vocabulary also improved in double quick time.Tamil may not be my language of learning but I learnt so many synonyms for day to day words.

Keeping in pace with requirements,I grew up.Of course with quite a lot of hindrances.I fought,I cried,I failed,I won and I learnt.I think it was Britannia they used to sponsor these badges called Star Champs for the best students in every class.When I happened to receive one of them I was quite surprised.Well guess I had managed to strike a balance between academics and fun.I used to enjoy most classes from a corner fighting for some reason or the other with Sathish and Giridara.In fact I used to do more of the fighting and they always played victims. ;-)

And this new French learning did not do me a world of good.My marks dropped.Contrary to my parents calculations I was faring pretty badly in it.
I moved on to seventh learning a lot about world,people and the masks the tend to wear.I met one among the few teachers I respect Kanchana Ma'am.She used to handle Social for us.Her words and opinions have made me think and understand things happening around a lot.Hers was among the few classes were I was on my well behaved and actually listening.Others sitting around me could enjoy bliss and peace then.Later in seventh,I met the teacher I most adore and love and revere,Divya Ma'am.Almost everybody in my class still holds her in high esteem.When she first entered class I thought she was a parent and could not accept the fact that she would be handling French.Under her I overgrew mu superficial love for French and actually started liking it.I used to compete with Giri to finish the exercises the day she took the lesson.Childish though it seems,I ended up putting my effort more and more into the subject and it reflected on my marks.

To be continued!!!

Another one!!

So here I am hooked onto the idea of blogging and sharing. I finally decided to keep technology away from this blog and moved it onto Strictly Technology.

As of now I have posted on concept phones since I seem to be reading a lot about them on the net everyday. I am still wondering whether I should diverge into talking about software there. And most hopefully I will.

Even at the end of all this my Saturday time at office is not yet done. Most colleagues have already left for lunch.I have still loads to do before I can call it quits.

My initial plans were to come in early (as in around 9) and leave for the dog show.Not to my surprise, I slept on till 10 only to catch all my room-mates wide awake and prepared for a weekend out.With loads of hesitation,I managed to drag myself to office.

On second thoughts, I think I will carry over this work to Monday.I just now got reminded that a visit to the bank is pending(Good thing my mom called up otherwise next week would have been filled with self-cooked meals!!). Now I also remember I have a report to prepare for my college guide. It has been due since last week and it would be better to do it soon.

So off I go to catch up on my tasks...

Dog show bangalore

Dear owners of dogs,

Here is a golden chance to celebrate your dog ,and and appreciate
their companionship.Doggies Day out-2 (Dog show)is scheduled on
12th of July 2008 Bangalore open for all breeds including the
Indian breeds,so come join with us to continue the celebration of
laughter and loyalty.

Venue:Sullivan Grounds

Contact for more details on venue and entry
santosh2413@gmail.com.

Service Oriented Architecture

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an style of IT architecture that transforms your business into a set of connected services that can be accessed when needed over a network. This may be a local network or the Internet.

In simpler terms combining services in New York, London, and Hong Kong as though they were all installed on your local desktop. These services can combine to accomplish a specific business task, enabling your business to quickly adapt to changing conditions and requirements of your users.

The aim is a loose coupling of services with operating systems, programming languages and other technologies which underlie applications.SOA concepts are often seen as built upon, and evolving from older concepts of distributed computing and modular programming.

In order to efficiently use an SOA, one must meet the following requirements:

• Interoperability between different systems and programming languages provides the basis for integration between applications on different platforms through a communication protocol
• Create a warehouse of resources.

Services
To clearly understand SOA first you have to understand service. A service is a function that is well-defined, self-contained, and does not depend on the context or state of other services.

The technology of Web Services is most likely to be used as connection technology.


For books on SOA,

• Service Oriented Architecture For Dummies
  
• Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA): Concepts, Technology, and Design
  

21 Laws of Computer Programming

As any experienced computer programmer knows, there are unwritten laws that govern software development. However there are no penalties for breaking these laws; rather, there is often a reward. Following are 21 Laws of Computer Programming:

1. Any given program, once deployed, is already obsolete.
2. It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
3. If a program is useful, it will have to be changed.
4. If a program is useless, it will have to be documented.
5. Only ten percent of the code in any given program will ever execute.
6. Software expands to consume all available resources.
7. Any non-trivial program contains at least one error.
8. The probability of a flawless demo is inversely proportional to the number of people watching, raised to the power of the amount of money involved.
9. Not until a program has been in production for at least six months will its most harmful error be discovered.
10. Undetectable errors are infinite in variety, in contrast to detectable errors, which by definition are limited.
11. The effort required to correct an error increases exponentially with time.
12. Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capabilities of the programmer who must maintain it.
13. Any code of your own that you haven't looked at in months might as well have been written by someone else.
14. Inside every small program is a large program struggling to get out.
15. The sooner you start coding a program, the longer it will take.
16. A carelessly planned project takes three times longer to complete than expected; a carefully planned project takes only twice as long.
17. Adding programmers to a late project makes it later.
18. A program is never less than 90% complete, and never more than 95% complete.
19. If you automate a mess, you get an automated mess.
20. Build a program that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.
21. Users truly don't know what they want in a program until they use it.

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My favorites!!

Some of the quotes I love, adore and believe in

• It's better to do something and then regret it than regret not doing it.
• Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love
  
• If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.
• You can't expect to win unless you know why you lose.
• Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
• I believe in God,only I spell it Nature
• It does not matter how many years you add to your life,It matters how you add life to your years.
• Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
  
• Painting is silent poetry and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.
  
• Men are not prisoners of fate but only of their own minds.
  
• If you are not criticized you may not be doing much.
  
• You see things and say "Why?" But I dream things that never were and I say "Why not?"
  
• Experience is not what happens to a man,It is what a man does with what happens to him.
  

Introduction: First Blog Entry

Hello World!!! Honestly speaking this is not my first attempt at blogging.I have been here before with a couple of posts on some things that interested me. Here is my second attempt at blogging. I was inspired to write this blog looking at my friend Rajesh sincere attempts and interesting posts.

So what will this blog be about? I have no idea myself. I am just going to go with the flow. All said and done I am planning to hopefully write about everything I come across on a day-to-day basis and wish to share.So all that comes to my mind will be down here.Considering my extreme interests that would include nature, politics, animals, food, languages, software development, music, tennis, painting, books, poetry, traveling, history, cooking, gardening and lots more..

And speaking about myself... I am a maverick bent on learning by experience than through others' advice. On second thoughts,I am quite a rational thinker most of the times.I have my own rules and limits.Zodicially(Is there a word like that!!) I am a Piscesean and true to that I am a dreamer drowned in my own make-believe world.I am deeply attached to my friends though at times I prefer solitude.Most people associate me with the word chatter-box so that should pretty much explain how unpredictable I can get.Speaking of unpredictability, I hate routines and rules.If something is forbidden that is what is my calling ;-)

I am currently doing a six month internship as a part of my college curriculum in Bangalore and still have 2 years to go before I graduate.

So please stay tuned.Leave comments about my current scribbles and doodles.