Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Top 20 replies by Programmers
Top 20 replies by Programmers to Testers when their programs don't work:
20. "That's weird..."
19. "It's never done that before."
18. "It worked yesterday."
17. "How is that possible?"
16. "It must be a hardware problem."
15. "What did you type in wrong to get it to crash?"
14. "There is something funky in your data."
13. "I haven't touched that module in weeks!"
12. "You must have the wrong version."
11. "It's just some unlucky coincidence."
10. "I can't test everything!"
9. "THIS can't be the source of THAT."
8. "It works, but it hasn't been tested."
7. "Somebody must have changed my code."
6. "Did you check for a virus on your system?"
5. "Even though it doesn't work, how does it feel?
4. "You can't use that version on your system."
3. "Why do you want to do it that way?"
2. "Where were you when the program blew up?"
And the Number One Reply by Programmers when their programs don't work:
Guess.............
Guess.............
Come on, even u say it .........
Guess.............
"It works on my machine"
Posted by Pravin Kumar at 2:08 AM 0 comments
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Tuesday, August 16, 2005
when i asked god !!
When I Asked God for Strength
He Gave Me Difficult Situations to Face
When I Asked God for Brain & Brown
He Gave Me Puzzles in Life to Solve
When I Asked God for Happiness
He Showed Me Some Unhappy People
When I Asked God for Wealth
He Showed Me How to Work Hard
When I Asked God for Favors
He Showed Me Opportunities to Work Hard
When I Asked God for Peace
He Showed Me How to Help Others
God Gave Me Nothing I Wanted
He Gave Me Everything I Needed
- Swami Vivekananda
Posted by Pravin Kumar at 10:21 PM 4 comments
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Thursday, August 11, 2005
It Happens Only in India
Can you guess... which festival it is ??
You might have said: Krishna Janmastmi. Wrong..
It is "RAKSHA BHANDHAN ;) "
Posted by Pravin Kumar at 11:14 PM 0 comments
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8th and 9th August 2005.
I have attended two nice seminars on 8th and 9th August 2005. On 8th of August I have attended IBM developer works Live venue was Taj Residency MG Road, Bangalore. It stated as per agenda discussed about the application server WebSphere mainly. Other than this they have discussed about SOA, mail clients, Lotus Notes. They are mainly focused on comparison b/w .NET, Solution by BEA weblogic, SAP and Solution they are providing, which I didn’t like at all, it will be better if they were focused on their own products and lets developers decide which is better suits his/her requirement. Any way the way they presented, was good! Lastly we had nice lunch. And at end they have given one table watch along with evaluation CDs.
On 9th of august, I went to Sun PCQuest developer summit. I liked this summit because it is very well covered the topics which I like to learn. The topics they covered are Java 5.0 features, JAVA EE Persistence trends, Java platform performance tuning, SAP introduction, Develop Java Server Faces, Programming using Java ME, JDIC (JDesktop Integration Component). Especially the topics covered by Dr. Doris Chen from Sun Microsystems was too good (java performance and JSF). I got the t-shirt and cd. I was one of appx 20 people who got t-shirt, because we have to catch t-shirt while they were throwing it.
Posted by Pravin Kumar at 4:33 AM 1 comments
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Wednesday, August 10, 2005
Change Your Point of View --- Joe Gracia
Change Your Point of View --- Joe Gracia
Imagine you're in London's Heathrow Airport. While you're waiting for your flight, you notice a kiosk selling shortbread cookies. You buy a box, put them in your traveling bag and then you patiently search for an available seat so you can sit down and enjoy your cookies.Finally you find a seat next to a gentleman. You reach down into your traveling bag and pull out your box of shortbread cookies.
As you do so, you notice that the gentleman starts watching you intensely. He stares as you open the box and his eyes follow your hand as you pick up the cookie and bring it to your mouth. Just then he reaches over and takes one of your cookies from the box, and eats it! You're more than a little surprised at this. Actually, you're at a loss for words. Not only does he take one cookie, but he alternates with you. For every one cookie you take, he takes one.
Now, what's your immediate impression of this guy? Crazy? Greedy? He's got some nerve?! Can you imagine the words you might use to describe this man to your associates back at the office? Meanwhile, you both continue eating the cookies until there's just one left. To your surprise, the man reaches over and takes it. But then he does something unexpected. He breaks it in half, and gives half to you. After he's finished with his half he gets up, and without a word, he leaves.
You think to yourself, "Did this really happen?" You're left sitting there dumbfounded and still hungry. So you go back to the kiosk and buy another box of cookies. You then return to your seat and begin opening your new box of cookies when you glance down into your traveling bag. Sitting there in your bag is your original box of ookies -- still unopened.
Only then do you realize that when you reached down earlier, you had reached into the other man's bag, and grabbed his box of cookies by mistake. Now what do you think of the man? Generous? Tolerant? You've just experienced a profound paradigm shift. You're seeing things from a new point of view.
Is it time to change your point of view?
Now, think of this story as it relates to your life . Seeing things from a new point of view can be very enlightening. Think outside the box. Don't settle for the status quo. Be open to suggestions. Things may not be what they seem. :- )
Posted by Pravin Kumar at 9:01 PM 0 comments
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