Effective Software and Team Work
The following paragraph is a book excerpt taken from the really cool C++ in Action by Bartosz Milewski and I think I like what he says 
"There is a popular unflattering stereotype of a programmer as a socially challenged nerd. Somebody who would work alone at night, subsist on Twinkies, avoid direct eye contact and care very little about personal hygiene. I've known programmers like that, and I'm sure there are still some around. However most of the specimens of this old culture are becoming extinct, and for a good reason. Progress in hardware and software makes it impossible to produce any reasonably useful and reliable program while working in isolation. Teamwork is the essential part of software development."
I have to say, Milewski's book is one of the rare few books that are actually free from any marketing deep shit and feels very much like a friendly and common sense conversation between the author and the reader. Most books go through extensive editing I believe (to try and make it more sellable and pricey, which is rhetorical), but this one's not and I love it for that reason! Go read it and have a good doze of fun and knowledge! 
Emotions vs Logic!
I had a loooong chat with Munir, a travelling geek from some (almost) boys only university 
We "discussed" about the situations when we have the option to select either of the two: emotions or logic. Look at the way I enclosed the word 'dicussed' in quotation marks; that means it was an interesting discussion ;P
I was in for logic and Munir was in favour of emotions. We kept putting up examples in favour of our beloved items and we ended up without agreeing to each other.
In between we discussed about why we should not work at Axact and how to go about toont toont tooooooont! when we're upset.
It was a nice gup shup, he gave me a nice couple of things to help me unfold the thing called life. We talked about Apple Mecca and how some people interpret the same things differently.
I am still in favour of not favouring the emotions but the rest of you might have different ideas!
Super Sunday despite being robbed! ;)
I had another super sunday. I went places and had a lot of fun.
Sunday morning, I was sitting on my computer doing assignments and whatnot. Afternoon, went to sleeep and woke up at 3:30 something.
Then I kept awake and had khana.. then we went to the singer Haroon for he had some website work needed to be done. My friend Ansar had asked me to go with him. I had done a good amount of work for Haroon's site earlier. He wanted more features in the CMS I did for him. I did not meet him the first time I worked for him, it was all communicated through Ansar. This time, Ansi told me to deal in direct terms. I met him (Haroon) and he is a really nice and humble person. He is a cool guy, he gave me his latest album's CD "Haroon Ka Nasha".
Once I was done with the meeting with Haroon, I had to reach Park Towers where we (my office crew) were supposed to have a good khapa in the food court. Heck we didn't realize it was Sunday and Park Towers is 'for families only' on Sundays. We went to Bar-B-Q Tonight and had a nice (but expensive) meal there. I am quoting expensive as it was me who had to pay the bill =[ for I was the qurbani ka bakra this time, having received my first salary over here at Centric Source.
It was a fun day and once I reached home, I went straight to "bister"!
Headlines!!
- Internet is acting weird, thanks to the cable fault. As a result, we are suffering!
- Aitezaz Ahsan, one of my favorite personalities, is still under house arrest. Shame on our government.
- We won! We got the first prize in project exhibition for our SE project. It wasn't too much of work, but still, we won!
- Our CG course is really exciting. I need to think of a project. Ideas welcome!
- Network Programming brings back Data Communication course memories.... OSI, TCP/IP, WINS, boo!
- I'm thinking of taking some certification exams, especially those of Sun and Zend.
- I've got an OpenID!
Take cares,
Kami!
Bill Gates : Last day at the office! (Funny)
Now this is funny. I loved watching it. Bill Gates spending his last day at office! Just watch this link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HA4lSUhlbw
I'm sure you're gonna love it!