Do you want to be a better programmer?

I have been thinking about this for about three months now. One of the major problems in software industry these days is to find good programmers. (retention comes after hiring 😉 It’s easy to find people, but extremely difficult to find good people. It becomes important then, to groom candidates to become better programmers. So […]

You Get Something When Someone Else Lets It Go

I was reading the serial novel in Chitralekha magazine this morning. The Author – Kajal Oza Vaidya has a unique writing style. She expresses feelings of various characters in the story profusely – delivering on the twists and excitement of a weekly episode at the same time. One of the characters of the story – […]

Ego and Engineers

Excerpts from The Dilbert Principle by Scott Adams Ego-wise, two things are important to engineers: a) how smart they are, b) how many cool devices they own. The fastest way to get an engineer to solve a problem is to declare that the problem is unsolvable. No engineer can walk away from an unsolvable problem […]