After a very long time I played football again yesterday. It felt really good to be back playing the
game I love the most. I didn't play well though. I made real bad fumble, couldn't tackle the ball
long enough, and almost all didn't hit any worthy shot that I can take back excepting a side kick pass that eventually landed in a goal.
It is in the player's physche I guess to judge how he/she has played. I remember how Jash used to complain during those BasketBall times how bad his rythm was, how he was missing the baskets one after the another while on other hand as spectator I thought he had played excellently that day and it was funny to see him crib. I was rushing all at once not organizing players around me or having none to follow up. On top of all this when my mind was furiously telling me 'Your game is pathetic' over and over again like a mantra they decided to make me a goalie. That phase was the worst. I felt like a fall guy among all the eleven players. All the people there being from different Ole's, Sub Ole's and Projects and in a simpler terms unknown to me I couldn't really command anyone else to take up the job.
Luckily enough Ganesh's IDPP mate was there to swap the place. Well we played the game on and on for an hour and a half and it felt great. Two injuries beset me as I write this one a swollen ankle, two a painful arm. 'Reebok' - a brand I thought is one of the best out there ditched me and the result of which I am suffering every step I take. They are too tight around the ankle and the uneven ground were the perfect conditions for the sprain and the oppurtunity was seized upon by innocuosly aloof Mother Earth...:)
Am I making too much of a fuss writing about a game?? ( yes, yes....) Apparently not...
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Sunday, May 20, 2007
Another Dose of Ten Minutes
Well from the first time I realized ten minutes ain't a small amount of time. It is large enough to caputer a day's event.
Well for starters this is the first time I would be blogging on a laptop. Went to office today and spent lot of unnecessary time getting the gui done rather than concentrating on the fate of the web page i.e. the functionality. What I thought would be a cakewalk turned out to be a herculean task
in itself. This is not the first time this has happened. A few days ago I thought I would surprise
both Julie, Usha and all my team members by doing add/delete/edit functionalities in one go. I
guess I need more patience and understanding and the need to take decisions step by step.
As Paresh rightly said I think too much ahead than about the task at hand and trying to delve into multiple things at the same time is wasting too much of my productivity and thinking. Well I should make it a point to note down on the notepad what is it that I am going to do
and what are the targets.
The future ain't looking bright as Paresh, the only source of knowledge would not be as much
involved as he is now. And top of that the DB design has drastically changed. I wonder how the
business logic is going to be now. The tool is not going to be of much help and we will be left fending for ourselves. So the first thing to do would be to know how the Business Classes are generated, and start writing classes and procedures of our own.
Well putting things in perspective, I see no fault of Julie at all in the way she acts. She makes us
crazy with all those unnecessary things like Excel Sheet, Time progress sheet, her intervention in every aspect of the project. Though initially I was freaking irritated when she asked me to pump in at least five rows in all the 10 tables and another 9 Lookup tables doing that I realized how messed up the DataBase really was. I was practically chaning each and every database invovled and their relationships. A very valuable lesson for the future indeed.
This project immaterial of the fate (looks like this is going to scrapped again) has made me realize the real power of C#.Net and the sophistication involved in every aspect of designing. I guess without Paresh's help these things would have taken at least a year and a half to learn. Experience, as Bhav says, is all what we need. Even after so many days of trying to get grips and learn new things I am not able to progress beyond and any amount of R&D done in getting a problem is solved is going waste. Something should be done and I should make it a point to keep track of every new thing learnt....
Well... i guess i exceeeded the ten minute mark by at least another ten minutes...
next time i will stick to the timings....
Well for starters this is the first time I would be blogging on a laptop. Went to office today and spent lot of unnecessary time getting the gui done rather than concentrating on the fate of the web page i.e. the functionality. What I thought would be a cakewalk turned out to be a herculean task
in itself. This is not the first time this has happened. A few days ago I thought I would surprise
both Julie, Usha and all my team members by doing add/delete/edit functionalities in one go. I
guess I need more patience and understanding and the need to take decisions step by step.
As Paresh rightly said I think too much ahead than about the task at hand and trying to delve into multiple things at the same time is wasting too much of my productivity and thinking. Well I should make it a point to note down on the notepad what is it that I am going to do
and what are the targets.
The future ain't looking bright as Paresh, the only source of knowledge would not be as much
involved as he is now. And top of that the DB design has drastically changed. I wonder how the
business logic is going to be now. The tool is not going to be of much help and we will be left fending for ourselves. So the first thing to do would be to know how the Business Classes are generated, and start writing classes and procedures of our own.
Well putting things in perspective, I see no fault of Julie at all in the way she acts. She makes us
crazy with all those unnecessary things like Excel Sheet, Time progress sheet, her intervention in every aspect of the project. Though initially I was freaking irritated when she asked me to pump in at least five rows in all the 10 tables and another 9 Lookup tables doing that I realized how messed up the DataBase really was. I was practically chaning each and every database invovled and their relationships. A very valuable lesson for the future indeed.
This project immaterial of the fate (looks like this is going to scrapped again) has made me realize the real power of C#.Net and the sophistication involved in every aspect of designing. I guess without Paresh's help these things would have taken at least a year and a half to learn. Experience, as Bhav says, is all what we need. Even after so many days of trying to get grips and learn new things I am not able to progress beyond and any amount of R&D done in getting a problem is solved is going waste. Something should be done and I should make it a point to keep track of every new thing learnt....
Well... i guess i exceeeded the ten minute mark by at least another ten minutes...
next time i will stick to the timings....
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
10 Minutes of Anguish PART I
On 15th i.e after 2 weeks of thinking and making up my mind to blog I finally get to blog. I thought I will test myself
Time is ticking... i got ten minutes exactly now...
Well to start with I should have seen the signs much earlier. The cracks have appeared and they don't seem to erase anywhere near the future. Well before my life becomes invaluable and worthless it's better I do what I think I can do the best. Chitti did tell me long ago to capitalize on my writing.
In days to come this blog is going to be my lifline. After a agonizing 1 month of BENCH where all I did was while away my time at the office doing net and nothing else I have entered an altogether different life where I find it difficult to find time to while away. What an irony??
The work is excellent and the challenges it throws upon are immense. It is only now I realize whatever was taught at Hebbal was only 1% of .Net universe.
We started off first by creating a dummy website required for the PEOPLE working for EA. Ranjit and me were initiallly assigned to reporting services (another whole branch of technology to deal with). We had an amazing time doing R&D to get simple things sorted out. With help of Roop Ranjan , we were able to sort out many issues and that is when I realized how much I lacked behind in SQL Syntaxes for quiries. I was in the background for a while.
The task was preliminarily assigned to Prachi and Ranjit but I volunteered myself for it helping Ranjit out in his task. It has proved to be a very decisive move as it has landed in a place where excitement, fear and yearning for learning are all mixed and am having a ball of time with such a mixture. Just when I thought I could brush up on my skills on the basics we were bailed out and put into data pumping job ( which I came to know little later was what Amit & Co. were assigned to initially).
Praneet, a TeraData Expert, and another guy Rahul both were there to make life simpler for us by knowing some simple tweak formulae for the pumping. That being done we moved on to the website from where Sari (the bride-to-be left for marriage) left her innumerabl traces. It was haphazard and it reminded me of the way we developed the dummy websites under Raghvendra guidance. We took care of it and did so many things (which are better left to part II blog of the series)
Well at the end of the day what we developed is not they wanted and we were left to lick our own
wounds.
Not bad 10 minutes is too much of time for a blog.....
Time is ticking... i got ten minutes exactly now...
Well to start with I should have seen the signs much earlier. The cracks have appeared and they don't seem to erase anywhere near the future. Well before my life becomes invaluable and worthless it's better I do what I think I can do the best. Chitti did tell me long ago to capitalize on my writing.
In days to come this blog is going to be my lifline. After a agonizing 1 month of BENCH where all I did was while away my time at the office doing net and nothing else I have entered an altogether different life where I find it difficult to find time to while away. What an irony??
The work is excellent and the challenges it throws upon are immense. It is only now I realize whatever was taught at Hebbal was only 1% of .Net universe.
We started off first by creating a dummy website required for the PEOPLE working for EA. Ranjit and me were initiallly assigned to reporting services (another whole branch of technology to deal with). We had an amazing time doing R&D to get simple things sorted out. With help of Roop Ranjan , we were able to sort out many issues and that is when I realized how much I lacked behind in SQL Syntaxes for quiries. I was in the background for a while.
The task was preliminarily assigned to Prachi and Ranjit but I volunteered myself for it helping Ranjit out in his task. It has proved to be a very decisive move as it has landed in a place where excitement, fear and yearning for learning are all mixed and am having a ball of time with such a mixture. Just when I thought I could brush up on my skills on the basics we were bailed out and put into data pumping job ( which I came to know little later was what Amit & Co. were assigned to initially).
Praneet, a TeraData Expert, and another guy Rahul both were there to make life simpler for us by knowing some simple tweak formulae for the pumping. That being done we moved on to the website from where Sari (the bride-to-be left for marriage) left her innumerabl traces. It was haphazard and it reminded me of the way we developed the dummy websites under Raghvendra guidance. We took care of it and did so many things (which are better left to part II blog of the series)
Well at the end of the day what we developed is not they wanted and we were left to lick our own
wounds.
Not bad 10 minutes is too much of time for a blog.....
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