tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99579112024-03-07T22:44:04.442-08:00Bohemian Rants<b>dentrassi</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11897583635818659807noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9957911.post-20462361518600047322009-08-13T19:08:00.001-07:002009-08-13T19:12:37.886-07:00Blogger to WordpressJust moved to Wordpress and am finding it more intuitive and interesting OR may be it is just the initial new tool excitement which will wear off soon.<div><br /></div><div>Catch me on wordpress : <a href="http://criticalchain.wordpress.com">http://criticalchain.wordpress.com</a></div><b>dentrassi</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11897583635818659807noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9957911.post-48247649669144583462009-01-07T20:07:00.000-08:002009-01-07T20:16:03.152-08:00Indian IT Shake-out2008 has been a historic year for a host of events including some of the more unfortunate ones. The biggest ones that impact the Indian IT industry have been the Economic Crisis and to an extent the recent 'Satyam' fiasco.<br />My bet is that 2009 will be the year of shake-out and alignment for the Indian IT industry as it is forced to adopt creatively to the global economic conditions and the closer governance scrutiny that will be the fall-out of Satyam.<br />By the end of the year we will see a lot of companies closing down or being merged to form a more viable entity. It is likely that we see a new entrant in the top 7 IT firms. I will try publishing a entry list of companies as of the beginning of the year so that we can compare with what is left at the end of the year.<br /><br />The present list and predictions to follow. Stay tuned<b>dentrassi</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11897583635818659807noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9957911.post-17374749363006231572009-01-07T19:50:00.000-08:002009-01-07T20:07:15.351-08:00Satyam - Hey Ram !Over 2 weeks have passed since i vowed to myself about blogging regularly. It takes a while to fall back into the habit I guess. But then at least I was more "Satyam" than the Satyam which has kept Indian and international investors entertained by its less than Satyam act.<br />But it is not a unique case of corporate fraud, the examples of which are littered through Corporate history. Nor is it unique to India or IT industry.<br />Having said that I dont think it can be generalized to apply to all IT companies in India. However, it does invite closer scrutiny of other IT companies. Especially in focus would be family managed firms that went public and essentially forayed into this field at a time when Indian Stock Market made IPOs go over-subscribed just for the mention of word tech in the company. That was also a time many non-IT companies also kept their names as 'Tech' or 'Sys' to take benefit of the market frenzy.<b>dentrassi</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11897583635818659807noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9957911.post-33165675653709552932008-12-24T20:48:00.000-08:002008-12-24T21:03:58.227-08:00Return of the Prodigal Blogger (The Sequel)After being away from blogging for nearly two years now, today signifies the sequel to the first attempt at blogging. Hopefully I am able to maintain a more regular presence in the blog world this time around.<br /><br />A lot has changed in last 2 years infact the world has changed dramatically in the last 6 months thus there is enough impetus to blog again. On personal front, have moved base to Toronto during very turbulent times which makes you think if it was a wise decision in hindsight.<br /><br />The current interests which will appear as theme of my blogs in near future are:<br /><br />- Start up culture and landscape in Toronto<br />- Financial Markets Meltdown and its consequences for Software Service Vendors. Every crisis also brings out opportunities .. the key is ability to find and tap it.<br />- Workflow & Process Engines and business process modeling<br />- Digital Rights Management and associated workflows<br />- Positioning ideas for Software Service Vendors<br /><br />hope I keep up with this in the new year as well<b>dentrassi</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11897583635818659807noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9957911.post-64468478206611955232007-01-21T13:58:00.000-08:002008-05-12T19:24:32.402-07:00EPICHere's a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPIC_2014">great thought and vision</a> by <a href="http://www.robinsloan.com/">Robin Sloan</a> describing the effects of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0">Web 2.0</a> and related phenomena like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogging">blogging</a>, social networking, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcasting">podcasting</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_aggregators">aggregation</a> on the society at large. While the future may hold players other than the ones mentioned in the movie, the thing to appreciate and understand is that the effect all these technologies are going to have over time will be profound!<br /><br /><object height="350" width="425"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/-auoYsPJ014" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"></embed></object>I found it while researching on impact of Web 2.0 on Public Relations ! Apparently it has given rise to a new sub industry called <a href="http://www.briansolis.com/">PR 2.0</a> focused on exploring and exploiting the social media<br /><br />update: the video on youtube was taken off so please use the following links<object height="350" width="425">:<br /></object><ul><li><a href="http://idorosen.com/mirrors/robinsloan.com/epic/ols-master.html">Original Video</a></li><li><a href="http://epic.makingithappen.co.uk/new-master1.html">updated 2015 version</a><br /></li></ul><object height="350" width="425"><br /></object><b>dentrassi</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11897583635818659807noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9957911.post-1149599050736064962006-06-06T05:49:00.000-07:002007-01-03T01:19:17.913-08:00Kyunki SaaS ab HOT hai !!translated literally it would be: Because SaaS is <span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51); font-weight: bold;">HOT</span> now !!<br /><br />& before the Indian channel surfers & Ekta-logy lovers <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0278212/">interpret it differently</a>, let me clarify I am only refering to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SaaS">Software as a Service</a>, the flavor of the season with the IT industry. Infact the word seems to be hotter than <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0">Web 2.0 </a>these days.<br /><br />So the blog is not about explaining the concept of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SaaS">SaaS</a> or 'On Demand Software' but to ofcourse rant about the typical IT Services Companies take on it. The interesting question is how should a services company capitalize on SaaS, given that it does not want to go creative and launch its own product offering, which will ofcourse require a bigger investment with the associated risk.<br /><br />The SaaS phenomenon has been brewing for last couple of years, the Services industry has only got tuned to it since <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates">Bill Gates</a> issued a <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Gates_memo_Brace_for_services_wave_/0,2000061733,39221704,00.htm">memo</a> last October acknowledging the Disruptive power of the On Demand Software and its possible impact on traditional software business. In fact Microsoft <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1862918,00.asp?rsDis=Microsoft_Realigns_Units,_Focus-Page001-160902">realigning</a> itself with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Ozzie">Ray Ozzie</a> as its CTO has been essentially to be able to leverage this concept and not be left behind. Infact Larry Ellison had recognized the <a href="http://www.destinationcrm.com/articles/default.asp?ArticleID=5607">power earlier</a> and thus angel funded SaaS startups like <a href="http://www.netsuite.com/portal/home.shtml">Netsuite</a>, <a href="http://www.salesforce.com/">SalesForce</a><br /><br />So how does a Services company leverage SaaS? IMO there are 2 very simple approaches. One obviously is to hone, build and showcase expertise in technologies involved in any SaaS application.<br />The second & an interesting approach is to grow expertise in taking SaaS to the end client. This would mean partnering with the SaaS providers in educating end clients, implementing - configuring & customizing it for their use, integrating it with other end client apps & processes. This obviously requires a Services company to go in as Consultant who can help redefine the end client processes, application portfolio in order to leverage On Demand Softwares.<br />To get into SaaS based Consulting we will need to be thought leaders in SaaS which definitely will be a tall claim for any services company. So the other entry criteria is being a reliable business consultant experienced in process and portfolio reengineering who is very well aware of SaaS options available to solve a particular problem. Lot of my previous blogs mention various SaaS apps available in different domains particularly useful for any startup. A good place to look at new and established on demand players and offerings is <a href="http://saassightings.blogspot.com/">this</a>.<b>dentrassi</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11897583635818659807noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9957911.post-1140773311258240242006-02-24T01:12:00.000-08:002007-01-03T01:21:17.405-08:00Bar Camp Anyone ?A <a href="http://barcamp.org/BarCampDelhi">bar camp</a> is being organized in Noida. When I first heard about it, it souded more like a <a href="http://martinfowler.com/bliki/OpenSpace.html">self organizing conference</a> that <a href="http://martinfowler.com/">Martin Fowler</a> talks about. Also it happens to be on Web 2.0 and similar cool stuff. Though i am not qualified enough on either <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html">web 2.0</a> or <a href="http://martinfowler.com/bliki/OpenSpace.html">open spaces</a>, I am keen to attend this one & hopefully it turns out to be as exciting & vibrant as it sounds.<br /><br />Also hoping to learn a lot, meet like minded great people and figure out how these concepts can be levaraged in my organization. Will update on how it went.<b>dentrassi</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11897583635818659807noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9957911.post-1140762849699946042006-02-23T21:41:00.000-08:002007-01-03T01:22:00.871-08:00Beyond Bullet PointsOne thing I have realized over the past few years is that creating an wonderful technical design - architecture is fun & important for a successful techie project but more important & tricky is to be able to present it to not so geeky management people and get them excited about it.<br /><br />This is where all of us end up working & cursing powerpoints: the necessary evil. & <a href="http://www.typepad.com/t/trackback/3517253">unfortunately </a>create it like Gates does instead of adopting the Jobs style. Read <a href="http://www.typepad.com/t/trackback/3517253">this blog</a> to figure out who are you closer to atleast in presentation styles. after reading it, i certainly need to re-visit my presentations & think <a href="http://www.beyondbullets.com/">beyond bullets</a> !!<b>dentrassi</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11897583635818659807noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9957911.post-1138878217539335412006-02-02T02:31:00.000-08:002007-01-03T01:22:45.935-08:00Starting a Start-up - III (Software Infrastructure)Continuing from my previous post on why we are seeing more and more start-ups these days, I mentioned the fact that lower entry barriers are also due to host of software infrastructure needs that can be addressed by open source or very economical but mature options.<br /><br />So here is my list of softwares (mostly collaboration ones) that any start-up should consider:<br /><br />PBX:<br /><ul><li><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.asterisk.org/">asterisk</a>: complete telephony solutions including conferencing, call queuing etc</li></ul>Voip:<br /><ul><li style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.skype.com/">skype</a></li><li style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.babble.net/">babble</a></li><li><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://teleo.msn.com/">teleo</a> of course is now part of <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/">microsoft</a> empire (the kind of <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2005/mar05/03-10GrooveQA.mspx">acquisitions</a> they have made recently makes me excited about what their vista will have to offer</li></ul>Document Sharing:<br /><ul><li><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.instacoll.com/">instalcoll</a>: <a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1319584,0003.htm">sabeer bhatias</a> latest brainchild</li><li><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.writeboard.com/">writeboard</a> & <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.writely.com/">writely</a>: more like collaborative writing offering <span style="font-style: italic;">"software as service"</span><br /></li><li><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.shinkuro.com/">shinkuro</a> & <a href="http://www.dropload.com/">dropload</a></li></ul><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki">Wiki</a>:<br /><ul><li>loads of <a href="http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiEngines">wiki engines</a> are available but no wiki talk is complete without mentioning <a href="http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/">confluence</a> & <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://jotspot.com/">jotspot</a> (2 of my favorites.... <a href="http://jotspot.com/">jot</a> being more like a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki_farm">wiki farm</a>)</li></ul>Full Collaboration:<br /><ul><li>different teams & cos have different collaboration needs but if one is looking for a suite .. then one should look at <a href="http://www.zimbra.com/">zimbra</a> and <a href="http://www.qnext.com/">qnext</a> and of course erstwhile <a href="http://www.groove.net/">groove</a><br /></li></ul>Let me know what kind os softwares you find useful in a startup.<b>dentrassi</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11897583635818659807noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9957911.post-1138779062899328302006-01-31T23:25:00.000-08:002006-01-31T23:31:02.910-08:00DreambookJust adding <a href="http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/">this</a> little work of art to my <a href="http://froogle.google.com/shoppinglist?a=SWL&id=ee9f4779f2bf9a483cd71e79df8e5eeac2ebee">wishlist</a> would not have done justice to it !!!<b>dentrassi</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11897583635818659807noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9957911.post-1137592685388799902006-01-18T05:24:00.000-08:002006-01-18T05:58:05.406-08:00Indian Services Companies and Open SourceAn interesting <a href="http://www.venturewoods.org/index.php/2006/01/13/why-do-indian-outsourcing-majors-not-pursue-open-source/">thought </a>on Why Indian Services companies do not seem excited or interested in investing in open-source? IMO this is due to the following reasons:<br /><ul><li>Being services companies, they have always been reacting to customer demands and industry trends, rather than proactively being thought leaders. (This is specifically about technology trends & thought leaders, rather than outsourcing leadership). This is also a reason why the services companies are not hugely succesful in Technology Consulting and traditionally focused just on Application Development.<br /></li><li>Indian services companies usually have no clue about product management, and creating innovative products. After-all how many Indian software products do you see in the market. The entrepreneurship skill and courage is usually not encouraged or cultivated in Indian services companies esp at the techonology developer level, and that skill is definitely required to be able to bring a product idea to life. If Indian services cannot come up with commercial products, why should we expect them to come up with open source ones</li></ul>while these are the core reasons, there will be host of other reasons especially the fact that very minuscule percentage of technology thought leaders in the world today are from India inspite of India being Software development workshop of the world for quite some time now.<b>dentrassi</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11897583635818659807noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9957911.post-1137068114740097622006-01-12T03:33:00.000-08:002006-01-12T05:37:06.913-08:00Design : Changing DefinitionsWhen I started working, software design used to be a phase where all senior ppl in team worked on trying to define what needs to be coded. The idea of this phase was to create an artifact which detailed the design to such a level that it could be given to the developer, who in turn would just code as per the design and everything will be great.<br />This process & steps are exactly how things would happen in any other engineering domain like construction, electrical engineering with the architects and engineers deciding on the design & workers creating the product from the blueprint.<br /><span style="font-size:130%;">BUT</span> <span style="font-size:100%;">what promoters of such design phase and distinction forgot was that software industry is <span style="font-weight: bold;">different</span>. Here we dont have dumb workers in software, infact this distinction is not necessary as all are knowledge workers. Thus came the problems of changing design or code being different than the design. Secondly what the above approach forgets is that software development is <span style="font-weight: bold;">not</span> yet a <span style="font-weight: bold;">defined</span> or a <span style="font-weight: bold;">predictive process </span>but rather an empirical one and thus cannot be approached in the same way.<br /><br />What I feel is that design should be evolutionary rather than planned and thus should be taken as part of coding and refactoring phase done by the developers. I am not totally declaring the design as a dead and redundant phase.. but only trying to change its definition and scope. As a phase, there should be design in each iteration where we identify the contracts (UI, interfaces with external applications, Business Interfaces) with their Api and its behavior. Also we should have robust coding and architecture guidelines specific to the project besides the generic ones.<br /><br />The contract - behavior information along with project specific development guidelines are sufficient for the developer to create a code-base meeting the needs and infact there are high chances that they will discover a new Api or a need to modify one to address the needs better. That is the time they should help evolve the design in consultation with the design authority rather than avoiding following the design which is the usual stance. Infact the design should be expected to evolve over time & iterations and the code-base expected to become more robust with refactorings during the iterations. Also the development guidelines should keep getting evolved.<br /><br />Infact one of the better ways to ensure a living development guideline is having it on the wiki instead of word document :). Infact same holds true for the design also ... it should be an artifact which is available in developers IDE itself allowing him to evolve it rather than as a separate UML diagram :)<br /><br />If this appears greek mumbo-jumbo .. some of my thoughts are better explained by <a href="http://martinfowler.com">Martin Fowler</a> in his article - <a href="http://martinfowler.com/articles/designDead.html">Is Design Dead?</a><br /><br /></span></span></span><b>dentrassi</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11897583635818659807noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9957911.post-1136461557095827752006-01-05T03:40:00.000-08:002006-01-05T04:35:19.190-08:00Software Entrepreneurs<a href="http://www.jot.com/index.php">Jotspot</a>'s Joe Kraus <a href="http://bnoopy.typepad.com/bnoopy/2005/06/its_a_great_tim.html">blogs</a> about why everyone is so excited about being an Entrepreneur these days and why do we see so many new Start-ups. So my blogging series about Starting an start-up in India seems to be very nicely timed. Sometime I plan to blog about the Infrastructure Software that is now available Open Source and can form the basis of any Start-up<b>dentrassi</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11897583635818659807noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9957911.post-1135335580572558042005-12-23T02:47:00.000-08:002005-12-23T03:11:18.853-08:00The CIO visionaryafter reading his <a href="http://comment.silicon.com/andymccue/0,3800002580,39151187,00.htm">interview</a> i feel J.P. Rangaswamy - the CIO of <a href="http://www.drkw.com/">DrKW</a> must be one the very few people at such position who actually understand the disruptive force of open source and actually adopts it to his organizations advantage. The interview is littered with quotable gems:<br /><br /><blockquote>"Now no-one gets fired for using Linux or for having Apache or using Tomcat. But this has happened over a relatively short space of time and we have been aggressive in recognising that trend and becoming contributors to the open source movement rather than consumers"</blockquote><blockquote>"Much of what I see sent offshore is commoditised stuff where the value should have been in coming together as an industry and saying we'll build utilities that all banks and financial houses can use. The concept of some of our commodity activities being considered differentiating just is not sustainable any more"<br /><br />"The open source movement is where we're heading."<br /></blockquote>Definitely worth a read.<b>dentrassi</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11897583635818659807noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9957911.post-1135333394575760152005-12-23T01:31:00.000-08:002005-12-23T03:10:06.116-08:00Indian Services Companies and AgilityWith most of the software world agreeing and adopting <a href="http://www.agilealliance.org:8080/home#documentContent">Agile</a> as among the better and more collaborative ways of doing software development, it is amazing to see the indian services companies are still far away from adopting it widely. Infact there are just a handful of indian services companies who claim to have development methodologies in agile fashion.<br /><br />I think it is just a matter of time, when the clients will start demanding Agile as the way to do development and it is only then that the services companies will react.<br /><br />Fortunately, most of the new start-ups and indian companies focussing on Products use it quite agressively and successfully.<b>dentrassi</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11897583635818659807noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9957911.post-1135068723779087292005-12-20T00:40:00.000-08:002005-12-20T00:52:03.796-08:00Starting a Start-up - IIFinding the funds for starting on the path of turning ones ideas into business reality is one of the most enlightening and tricky step in the start-up journey. Few places one can get attention of the few venture capitalists in india are <a href="http://www.tienewdelhi.org/">TiE</a> and <a href="http://www.venturewoods.org/">venturewoods</a> also in news for their indian version of <a href="http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2005/12/15/stories/2005121502160300.htm">Band of Angels</a><br /><br />If you are aware of more such forums, do let me know and i will update the blog<b>dentrassi</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11897583635818659807noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9957911.post-1134965743587118782005-12-18T19:59:00.000-08:002005-12-18T21:16:59.330-08:00Starting a Start-up - IIf one has an interesting business idea and plans to startup a new independent operation in India, here are a few ideas one can use:<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Been there .. done that</span><br />It helps to listen and take advice from people who have started out on their own over the last couple of years. Here's a partial list of such admirable people who also haapen to maintain their own blogs: (If you know of more such people, let me know and i will update this list)<br /><ul> <li><a href="http://www.newdelhitimes.org/">Gaurav Bhatnagar</a> & <a href="http://www.latestinindia.com/">Ashish Kumar</a><br /></li><li><a href="http://www.tarunupadhyay.com/">Tarun</a></li><li><a href="http://www.amitranjan.com/">Amit Ranjan</a></li> </ul>It also helps to be an active member of Entrepreneur group like <a href="http://www.tienewdelhi.org/">TiE</a> which in my opinion is lot more useful to start-ups and upcoming entrepreneurs than say <a href="http://nasscom.org/">Nasscom</a><br /><br />The other aspects i plan to cover in my future blogs are:<br /><ul> <br /><li>Money</li><br /><li>People</li><br /><li>Space</li><br /><li>Network</li><br /><li>Communications</li><br /><li>Corporate Portal</li><br /><li>Project Management</li><br /><li>Sales</li><br /></ul><br /><br />ps: hopefully i will keep building the list as and when things come to my mind.<b>dentrassi</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11897583635818659807noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9957911.post-1115475635734143432005-05-07T07:15:00.000-07:002005-05-07T07:20:35.740-07:00Opening a Software IDCFor any multinational company thinking of opening a dev center in India, <a href="http://sramanamitra.com/">Sramana Mitra</a> gives <a href="http://sramanamitra.com/blog/58">sound advice.</a><br />Having worked in Delhi, Hyderabad in software, i can see the importance of software companies need to understand and levarage India's cultural and ethnic diversity to its advantage.<b>dentrassi</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11897583635818659807noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9957911.post-1112972014027168272005-04-08T07:32:00.000-07:002005-04-11T23:18:05.420-07:00My Number<table width=300 align=center border=1 bordercolor=black cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2><br /><tr><td bgcolor=#66CCFF align=center><br /><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" style='color:black; font-size: 14pt;'><br /><b>You Are the Individualist</b></font></td></tr><br /><tr><td align=center bgcolor=#FFFFFF><br /><center><br /> <font color="#0000CC" size="+5"><br /> 4<br /> </font><br /></center><br /><font color="#000000"><br />You are sensitive and intuitive, with others and yourself.<br />You are creative and dreamy... plus dramatic and unpredictable.<br />You're emotionally honest, real, and easily hurt.<br />Totally expressive, others always know exactly how you feel.<br /></font></td></tr></table><br /><div align="center"><br /><a href="http://www.blogthings.com/numberquiz.html">What number are you?</a><br /></div><b>dentrassi</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11897583635818659807noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9957911.post-1108620554612389372005-02-16T22:03:00.000-08:002005-02-16T22:12:01.660-08:00Open Your Minds and KISSi meant keep it simple, stupid! couple of blogs i read recently, which makes you stop and think<br /><a href="http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/sriram/archive/2004/11/18/32707.aspx">tyranny of the geeks</a> <a href="http://www.adambosworth.net/archives/000031.html">kiss</a><b>dentrassi</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11897583635818659807noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9957911.post-1107152865180453582005-01-30T22:21:00.000-08:002005-01-30T23:25:21.030-08:00STR (r.i.p) UTSthough i have been using <a href="http://struts.apache.org/">Struts</a> for over a year now, i have never been able to graduate to being its stauch supporter and believer. And this <a href="http://www.apachenews.org/archives/000552.html">news</a> (Struts being offically allowed to R.I.P with its new JSF based avataar taking over) just proves, there are a lot of people within Struts dev team who share the feeling.
<br />The bigger Q now is how much sense does it make for new projects to commit themselves to Struts classic, which may not have a clear dev roadmap ahead.
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<br /><b>dentrassi</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11897583635818659807noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9957911.post-1105706071630442242005-01-14T04:26:00.001-08:002005-01-16T00:09:36.793-08:00Optionsso what does a software developer do in what little time he gets. The purpose being doing something for the community at large.
<br />i have been podering over this for a while now and am unable to find any great alternatives. this is of course besides what every-body tells me (donations). i am talking abt using whtever skills i have for betterment of community at large.
<br />Are there not govt agencies, NGOs, communities which require volunteers to consult them, help them with anything to do with technology, software, internet ??? Can somone point me to them or them to me
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<br /><b>dentrassi</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11897583635818659807noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9957911.post-1104911065643082892005-01-04T23:39:00.000-08:002005-12-18T00:01:21.643-08:00Coke & SoftwareEventually, all the software product companies will function the way <a href="http://www2.coca-cola.com/ourcompany/bottlingtoday.html">coca-cola</a> does the world over. The difference currently is in ownership. Coke rarely owns a bottling plant and instead just owns the brands and the formulae if you will. It also has stringent quality norms and processes to ensure the bottlers are maintaining the desired quality.<br />In contrast, most software product companies have sizeable investment in their own dev centers, even off-shore development is usually under owned IDC. What these companies should be doing instead is : focus on creating a brand / product and owning its architecture, then have processes to ensure quality product deliveries.<br />while GE and likes get their software development in this manner but its a long way for the real software product companies.<b>dentrassi</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11897583635818659807noreply@blogger.com0