Balu Gandhi

2006-12-13T14:39:00.000-08:00

Test POST from Word 2007

2006-08-25T17:09:00.000-07:00

Rahul Sood's Weblog - Is Dell going to survive? Read this post.

2006-07-29T18:03:00.000-07:00

blogswara.com I don't know what to call this site "Open Music", "future recording industry".

Kudos guys!

2006-07-29T17:50:00.000-07:00

Read this twice before you go to war.

A Just Cause, Not a Just War: "Terrorism and war have something in common. They both involve the killing of innocent people to achieve what the killers believe is a good end. I can see an immediate objection to this equation: They (the terrorists) deliberately kill innocent people; we (the war makers) aim at 'military targets,' and civilians are killed by accident, as 'collateral damage.'

2006-04-17T00:29:00.000-07:00

Creating Passionate Users: Manager 2.0: "Manager 2.0"

2006-02-02T15:33:00.000-08:00

The Joel on Software Discussion Group - Why I Hate Frameworks - worth reading

2005-12-24T11:35:00.000-08:00

Must Read:Seven Habits of Highly Effective Programmers

2004-10-22T16:48:00.000-07:00

Couple of years ago, I canceled my MSJ->MSDN magazine subscripton even stop reading online. Joel explains in his essay, WHY?.

The other camp is what I'm going to call the MSDN Magazine camp, which I will name after the developer's magazine full of exciting articles about all the different ways you can shoot yourself in the foot by using esoteric combinations of Microsoft products in your own software. The MSDN Magazine Camp is always trying to convince you to use new and complicated external technology like COM+, MSMQ, MSDE, Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer and its components, MSXML, DirectX (the very latest version, please), Windows Media Player, and Sharepoint... Sharepoint! which nobody has; a veritable panoply of external dependencies each one of which is going to be a huge headache when you ship your application to a paying customer and it doesn't work right. The technical name for this is DLL Hell. It works here: why doesn't it work there?

and this Q&A
A Q&A With Joel on (Microsoft) Software

2004-08-09T10:46:00.000-07:00

Nice piece about software patents.

ongoing Patents and Linux: "In software, assume that everything is already patented. You can't build anything, no matter how new it is, without infringing someone's patent".

2004-05-07T14:37:00.000-07:00

CNN.com - Rumsfeld�tells Congress of his�'failure' - May 7, 2004

I was listening to his testimony, at one point he said, "We were handling 31000 prisoners and It is a huge task for us".

According to Rumsfeld, "the war is simple task and handling prisoners is a huge task".

2004-05-07T13:38:00.000-07:00

This is my exact opinion about Patents. (copied from this discussion)

I agree that patents are neccesary, but there was publicity a while ago about the microsoft word-processing-documents-stored-as-xml patent. Let's compare two possible patents:

A machine that can lift and support more than 50 people, 1000 metres above the ground and with no contact with the ground.

A computer program that arranges it's data storage in terms of elements and children of elements.

Is it really right that the same level of protection should be offered to both? Patent's are about inventions. The first would definitely qualify - the Wright brothers creation of the aeroplane is inarguably a case of invention. In the second case, though, is it really invention? I think it's not, and for the prospect of considering it an invention to even be countenanced is absurd, and so I cannot believe the patent system to be anything more than a farce.

If you want to claim that it's about innovation rather than invention, you're welcome to. I'll just note here that, roughly, innovation + creation = invention. Looking at one side rather than the other doesn't make a difference to this argument.

2004-02-06T10:54:00.000-08:00

Worth Reading this column

Finance for Geeks

2003-09-30T16:45:00.000-07:00

Buying "Gated Source" software is Capitalism.
Buying "Open Source" software is Communism.

Proprietary software--banned in Boston? | CNET News.com

2003-09-16T15:53:00.000-07:00

Zen and the Art of Funk Capitalism

I worked with Karun Philip at Imagine Technology for very short period. I left his company to pursue my carrier in USA.

One of his famous quote "The design has to come from you not from the tools".

His book Zen and the Art of Funk Capitalism, must read one.

2003-09-12T14:03:00.000-07:00

My friend, Anupriyo maintains Patterns page here,
anu(e)scape

We worked in different projects at Meca Software and Arthur Andersen. He helped to setup my apartment in Bridgeport-CT and Sarasota-FL.

2003-09-11T15:51:00.000-07:00

Design Patterns

Patterns

2003-09-09T17:28:00.000-07:00

from - Mystic Microsoft

I’ve never personally been satisfied with smallness of purpose. No matter what I’m engaged in my mind has always asked “why?” and “where is all this going?”

I do have the same feeling for the past couple of years. Does it mean, I'm going to be spiritual?