The wipers stay up…

It’s been snowing quite frequently now in New Jersey. Yesterday there was a snowstorm. It took me some time to dig my car out of the snow from home and almost ended up falling on my rear in the process. When I reached Vonage, I noticed something peculiar about a Toyota Siena parked in the [...]

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Legacy junk code

Sometimes you get handed over some code that is just plain junk, and you have to support it because it serves some purpose.  These kind of codes are very easy to identify, bad spacing, hard coding of values instead of using parameters, very little comments …if any at all, and most importantly huge chunks of [...]

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The written word: Why is Blogging so popular ?

If there is one tool that will make your office much more productive at minimal cost, it will be this: the white-board. Simply because any idea that is sitting in your head doesn’t become useful or actionable unless you put it down and then start thinking about it. The white-board facilitates this, [...]

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Connexions

Another great website that I was introduced to, while viewing the TED videos. Connexions is similar to Wikipedia, organized very well for sharing knowledge. There are a wide spectrum of subjects that you can read about, from Semiconductor physics to music, programming, chemistry etc. “Connexions is a place to view and share educational material made [...]

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TED: Ideas worth spreading

Here’s a fabulous site that I came across the other day while browsing. Haven’t been able to get away from it ever since then. Great people, great ideas, worth my time.

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