Blog by A Digital Evangelist and a Computer Engineer
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Trusted Option For an Engineer, the most reliable and trusted fallback option when doing anything is called Restart. This was an awesome innovation. Here are few examples and scenarios confirming the same. The Trigger point I believe you had the opportunity to see the computers of last couple of decades especially early 1990. You … Read more How restart is the solution to most of our problems
Reading Time: 11 minutesThe Admission It was then, when I passed out from my Engineering in June – July, 2007. I was searching out for job. My Grandfather always used to say, to get Employment you must make yourself Employable. So, the process to make me more employable started and in the same process my father got to … Read more How I cleared SAP ABAP Certification Exam twice
Reading Time: 2 minutesFavorite National Question The favourite question of our nation “Ram Mandir Kab Banega” has been answered by the supreme court today morning 10.30. I guess it was only second to “Bahubali ko Katappa ne kyun mara” If not first. Everyone’s Food for Talk Finally this will save a lot of nation’s time. Everyone was anxious … Read more Ayodhya Verdict, awaited since long on Babari Masjid / Ram Mandir given by the Supreme Court of India
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf there is one word which traditionally we as engineers hate, it has to be meetings. We are by nature not so human friendly. Our relationship works best with machines. Humans are so dynamic it almost feels like they are a different species. Machines also doesn’t understand us as engineers. However it’s still better to … Read more Meetings, why on earth you exist, world would be so beautiful without you
Reading Time: < 1 minuteDeadlines or timelines or Estimates or a little complex story points or even more complex EPICs. These are not just jargons these are those words which gives you motivation and goals to do different tasks and achieve them on time. These act as enablers when we want to decide where to stop on a feature, … Read more Deadlines acts as both enabler and disabler for us engineers
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWeekend, yes, this is the word which seems to solve all our worries. At least for that week. It seems like all our hard grinding through out the week gets rewarded with 2 days of Binge Rest. This weekend is However very short lived. It does gets over quickly and next week starts giving us … Read more Weekend love, its a most cherished and awaited moment in engineer’s life
Reading Time: < 1 minuteBinge Coding The word Binge means a period of excessive indulgence in an activity. By Google We love to do Binge coding. We need deep concentration while create our masterpieces. We take pride in our coding. However, its a different thing that code needs to be maintainable, readable & follow certain practices. But what about … Read more What happens when Binge Coding, Binge Eating, Binge Watching and Binge Drinking is combined?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteRelease is a favorite part of our engineering life. Whenever we send any release to production, it gives a sense of achievement and satisfaction. It’s like giving birth to a baby. We grind ourselves and work hard to ensure that everything goes right and in place. But Murphy’s Law is good old foe and a … Read more We Engineers Love and Enjoy doing Release
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMigration of data in any form plays role of devil in the engineer’s life. Migration usually creates havoc when we have to migrate lots and lots of data. We need to Move the data from one live entity to other. Here comes all the complexities or risks. What about the source and target structure of … Read more Migration : The devil in an engineer’s life
Reading Time: < 1 minuteEvery industry or country or era have been associated with some kind of Resource curse. We as Engineers also face a Resource curse. Ironically we are only responsible for this. It gets really overwhelming when we get so much of information on a particular topic or programming languages like PHP / MySQL / JAVA. We … Read more Resource curse for an Engineer : Overwhelming resources available on the internet