My Thoughts !

நம்ம மேட்டர் எல்லாம் ட்விட்டர்ல அப்டேட் பண்ணறதுனால ப்ளாக் பக்கம் வரதேயில்ல (வால்க டமிள்). நேத்தைக்கு "காணாமல் போனவர்கள் பற்றிய அறிவிப்பு" அங்க போஸ்ட் பண்ண போக நண்பு ஒருத்தன், நான் ப்ளாக்ல காணாம போயிட்டதா மெயில் அணுப்பிச்சுட்டான். அதுக்கெல்லாம் அசந்திடுவமா? இதோ வந்துட்டேன்னு சொல்லி ஒரு ப்ளாக் என்ட்ரி: (Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V  தான்)


பூப்போட்ட லுங்கி;கழுத்தில் கட்டம் போட்ட கர்சீப்;மொழங்கை வரை மடிச்சி விட்ட சட்டை;மெட்றாஸ் டமில்;பேட்டை ரவுடி-கபாலி #LostInTamilMovie

காட்டன் சேலை; ஒரு கைல குடையும்; ஒரு கைல பொட்டி; கூலிங்கிளாசு; கிராமத்துக்கு வரும் டீச்சரம்மா.பேரே டீச்சர் தான் #LostInTamilMovie

கண்ணாடி போட்டுட்டு,கொஞ்சம் கலரா,பணக்காரனா ஹீரோக்கு ஒரு பெரெண்ட்.நல்லவரோ கெட்டவரோ இது நம்ம சரத்பாபு தான் #LostInTamilMovie

35 வயசாகியும் கல்யாணம் ஆகாம இருக்கும் அக்கா, 25 வயசிலயே விதவையான ஒரு தங்கச்சி. இந்த கவலையோட டூயட் பாடும் ஹீரோ #LostInTamilMovie

இவங்களை எல்லாம் கண்டுபிடிச்சி தமிழ்த்திரைக்கு மீண்டும் தரப்போற புது டைரக்டர்களுக்கு பரிசா, Dr. விஜய் நடிச்சா எல்லா படங்களோட டீவீடீகளும் cam qualityல அனுப்பப்படும்.

Its been a while since we went out. Last month I decided to go out somewhere for a weekend in May. At first thought I called up some places in Coonoor, as my mom is currently working there, but couldn't find any good place. Since its summer vacation all of them were full. The next option was the default option where I went last year. My daughter loved that place more than me and it was luckily available. For a change, from the Bungalow, we went out to visit a Dam. Otherwise it was a perfect laze away.

Photos:

A view of Aliyar Dam:




The Waterfalls Estate Bungalow:


It Rains!




Flower after the Shower:






Walk in the Tea Gardens:


Bored? What to do?


Lets try some magic:



Ka! Boom! ...


 ... and I've a banana


One more time, Ka! Boom! ...


 ... and I'm invisible now


How cool is that trick?


Lets pose for a picture:


And one more:


Enough of this, I'm going to pose for some ads.


 First is for a deodorant:


then for a tooth paste ...


then the backpain reliever Moov cream


and then for the dress ...


Enough of your photographic experiments. One last snap, I'll be going out for playing


So the last snap:


Green, Green, Green all over:
















And some flowers also:

Teacher: Can you count till 10?
Kid: Zero, One, Two, Three, ...

Just a test post from ScribeFire :-)

When I got the offer from IBM, I asked whether I can get a Mac as my official laptop. My manager said ThinkPads are the defacto ones and thats what I would get. But after joining IBM, I searched intranet and found a way to get Mac as an official laptop. First my team needs adequate funding and then I've convince my manager with *real* business reasons, and he has to convince his manager, and he in turn has to convince his manager and he inturn ... The chain goes all the way up to the heaven and ultimately He say 'Go on' and the approval comes down. The entire process took months, but then its worth of it.

Now I got a shiny new 2.4 GHz MacBook. I managed to have all my apps running native, so I didn't even install any Virtualization software or use BootCamp. Good bye Windows and Hello Mac - again :-)

I should say the new ones are absolutely gorgeous. Light weight, better battery backup, multi-touch trackpad etc. Few things I noticed is that the apps are not compatible to 10.4. So when I try to connect to my older personal Mac, I can't load the photos here, unless, they are converted to the new format. But converting to the new format means that I can't use them on the older one. So the solution is to upgrade the OS in my older Mac or don't use official laptop to view/edit the photos. I prefer to the second option. Another annoying thing is that the screen is glossy and the reflection is very high. I haven't noticed it in my MacBook or the earlier MacBook Pro. I had to change the direction of my office table to cope up with this. Very minor annoyances and I can definitely live with that for the Mac :-)

Two days back, I got an email from someone called Shakuntala ([email protected]) for the details about their Top 25 Emerging Technology Companies program. The mail said:

Dear Sir.,

Greetings from TheSmarttechie - Silicon India.

Hope your doing good.

The May 2009 edition of The SmartTechie will be on the Top 25 Emerging technology companies. We are looking at what exciting technologies companies are working for and prodigy of leadership team and investors of private companies. A few of these companies will be profiled in the magazine. We are talking to several startups to see who are the Best 25 we can feature in the magazine. A panel of analysts, Venture Capitalists and our editorial team will select the companies.

It will be good idea to be part of this issue along with the 25 Emerging Companies.  We are offering you to advertise in this Special issue and will be part of great branding and visibility among the  95000 readers and subscribers.

Option 1 : Only Advertisement.

Amount : 20,000/-.

   1. One Page Advertisment in the issue of Top 25 Emerging Technology Companies.
   2. Online banner ad on :  www.thesmarttechie.com/magazine

Option 2 : To be listed Among Top 25 StartUps.

Amount : Rs.30,000/-

        1.     Inclusion in the Top 25 Emerging Technology Companies list.
        2.     One page of Company Profile along with the pic of the concern person
        3.     One full page ad in the SmartTechie.
       4.     The company Profile will be displayed on the online magazine page too:  www.thesmarttechie.com/magazine

Please do let me know how we can take this forward. It will be nice to close this loop asap so that we get things rolling.

We can look at a mutual relationship so that your company gets more visibility. Let me know what you think.

If you have anything else on your mind, I shall be open for ideas.

Thanks

Shakuntala
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Shakuntala
Manager-Marketing
siliconindia
The Smart Techie
Ph: 91.80. 43402004
C: 9916972235

http://www.siliconindia.com
http://www.thesmarttechie.com/
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I was surprised. First I didn't get what they meant by Option 2. Is it that if I pay 30k, my company will be in the Top 25 list? Or is it an entry fees for the program? I sent my questions and the answer was clear:

Its only 25 participants & only 25 rankings not more than that currently we
have 19 clinets confirmed clients till now.

 Ah! Great. But isn't 30k too much for getting awarded as the Top 25 Emerging Technology Companies in the country? I know I also get a full page age, interview, website ad etc, but still, my company is so small you see?

Sure We shall offer you 25k for the same.

Excellent. So looks like the entire event is just a bullshit. Last year there were hoardings all over Bangalore about this. I thought it was a genuine program and the companies were "awarded" through the program and not "bought" that. Now I know the truth. So if you see the list of companies this year, you should be knowing that they are not really the Top 25 emerging companies, but the 25 companies that opted to pay 30k (minus whatever discount they got) Considering it would be the average monthly salary of a developer, its a good thing for a company to pay for it. And these guys get more than 6 Lakhs. So its a win-win situation for both the companies and the magazine. Only we think its all genuine and get fooled :-)

Back at Fiorano, I started as the lead of the IDE team. The IDE was on Netbeans platform and my task was to design and develop an Eclipse based IDE. Months after, I got assigned with additional responsibility of leading the Server team as well. Managing both the team had one advantage. If I want anything to be done for the IDE, it was much easier :-) In that way, I've pushed in new features (with fancy names like EPLCM) coupled with a nice interface. Features like Dynamic Message Injection from an IDE to a server running in production is not something that you can achieve with other ESBs.  If that is not enough, I threw away the old webconsole and revamped it using ExtGWT. The result was a totally new looking product - a new Eclipse based IDE, Ajax Console and feature rich server. Now after months of beta, the product is released to the public. Kudos to my guys there for their really hard work. Hope the customers like it :-)

Its been in the news all over. While the primary motive might be in the server space, I'm thinking of what it means to Eclipse and Java as a whole. Thinking of the possibilities:

• Netbeans platform to be deprecated (read: gone)
• Eclipse is bundled with JDK
• JDK uses Eclipse Compiler. Only downside I see is that the Eclipse Compiler is a pure Java application and needs a JRE, but hey a JDK ships with the JRE right?
• Every JRE ships with a latest version of SWT
• No more worries for interoperability of JSR 277 with OSGi - as OSGi will be pushed into Java Platform as a standard

Wow! The possibilities are promising. Let me see how many of these come true