Lots of Action

The previous month was full of action. From conducting Interviews to taking training sessions. I always thought of myself as a person who could find answers and gives them. NOT a person whom you would come to and who would give prompt answers (I admire people like that). Chetan is one of them by the way. The training sessions gave me an opportunity to analyze myself. These days I don't browse and explore as I did when I joined this company. That has certainly deteriorated my skills I suppose (anything that was there I should say). I made mistakes here and there and even though I knew the concepts, they just confused me. Lack of preparation really showed and for a brief period I was down. But overall I thought I did a pretty good job. The guys were awesome. Great dynamism is what I saw along with debating.

I have always thought that to learn effectively, a healthy debate is essential. The debate will only get better if the conductor is really talented to avert the unnecessary questions and give prominence to the worthy questions. I was trying to play that role by making the guys involved fully and their co-operation was praise worthy. I could not do justice to the topic fully (could not complete the required stuff), but I brushed through all what I knew.

The interviews were not that great. I was yet to find a great communicator (I do not claim that I am one). Someone who would gives answers to the questions. Think and then act. I came across some simple and calm ones, but no one with absolute skills. I still do not understand how these recruiters evaluate a person if he does not perform. The body language ? The speed of answers ? Yet to find !!

With regard to the development, work is still haunting me. Lots of work to do and so less time to do it (and look at what I am doing now !!! ). But God helps me tremendously in these matters by striking a balance and fixing issues. Its in Him that I trust.

Its ciao for now !!!

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A small note

Its been 28 days since I had last posted. I DO NOT have anything to share through words but through a video.



All credits to Cyberthing for this video. Please do not sue me !! :)

'Open' ness

'Openness is a philosophy that is being used as the basis of how various groups and organizations operate. It is a relatively new term to describe this general way of doing things. It is typified by communal management, and open access to the information or material resources needed for projects; openness to contributions from a diverse range of users/producers/contributors, flat hierarchies and a fluid organisational structure.' - Wikipedia

I was quite taken aback when the IT department here asked me to uninstall a trial version of Adobe Flex Builder which had about 60 days more of evaluation time. My intension was to learn Flex and try to build an AIR application using this great IDE. I don't quite understand why the trial version, which by the way expires itself, was causing a problem. It will expire anyway!

This brings us to the thought I have always had. Why is software made for the public, not publically made free !? Even if 'free' does not mean 'free' in FSF ways, it could at least mean 'free to use'. I understand that the code written has expenses and they have to be funded from somewhere. The Limewire style of have a 'pro' product along with the free version is a great way to go. Adverstise, minimally, in the product and that seems perfectly fine to me. But locking it up and opening it up to an elite set of people seems absurd and preposterous to me.

I as a developer find it great to share knowledge. I believe that sharing increases visibility and gives a two way development. When you bottle it up it is bound to burst some day. Open the code up and see how good your program is. How better you could get by people criticizing it. Could you handle criticism? Could you handle better programmers viewing your code ?
Food for thought.