I thought of giving break to my journey and put some software life reltaed stuff. By this way I could be more frequeny in updating the blog.
Here is one which I received from one of my friend. I am not sure who wrote it but it is surely not by me. I really appreciate the feeling put by person who wrote it and please feel free to drop me a mail if you don't want it to appear here.
This poem is about a software engineer, spending a late night in office and feeling sad with how life is going. Nothing is much interesting but still he keeps living it like a machine. Today he is trying to think about past why when he had nothing he was happy, but now when he has much more, still he feel empty. Why?
Here I am sitting in my office @ night…
Thinking hard about life
How it changed from a maverick collage life to strict professional life…...
How tiny pocket money changed to monthly paychecks
but then why it gives lesss happiness….
How a few local denim jeans changed to new branded wardrobe
but then why there are less people to use them
How a single plate of samosa changed to a full Pizza or burger
But then why there is less hunger…..
Here i am sitting in my office @ night…
Thinking hard about life
How it changed…..
How a bike always in reserve changed to bike always on
but then why there are less places to go on……
How a small coffee shop changed to cafe coffee day
but then why its feels like shop is far away…..
How a limited prepaid card changed to postpaid package
but then why there are less calls & more messages……
Here i am sitting in my office @ night…
Thinking hard about life
How it changed…..
How a general class journey changed to Flight journey
But then why there are less vacations for enjoyment….
How a old assembled desktop changed to new branded laptop
but then why there is less time to put it on……….
How a small bunch of friends changed to office mate
but then why after 8'o Clock it always feel like getting late….
Here i am sitting in my office @ night…
Thinking hard about life
How it changed….. how it changed……..
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
To Bangalore and Back to Pune
May 2003 - Training is finished and everyone is asked to fill their 3 top choice of location where they want to relocate for Job. Many of us wanted to stay in Pune (I forgot to mention in my previous post that location was Pune), reason - belongs to a nearby city, have relatives in city or just don't want a hassle to go to a new city and settle again. I was also in one of these category and requested Pune as a location. Didn't get it for my choice so tried to take the matter with HR. It sometime just seem unfair how these matters are handles but at same time we don't have any idea about why it is done so. Reasons gives are always so tangible that it always seems not right to not change it. Anyway after few attempts I gave up and accepted my given location - Bangalore.
Many of us were together in our 18 hour journey by bus to Bangalore. We were give a hotel accommodation near Majestic for one week. In that time period, we need to search for our own accommodation. It seemed like a hell of a job to find accommodation where 10 month of rent to be given as deposit. For a north Indian, it was a totally different culture and turf. With 4-5 people, we might be able to get a flat and collect deposit money. Ultimately one of my friend and myself found one arrangement to settle with few other people (in same company) in their rooms. It was a breather. At least it gave us time to make a good choice. Later we shifted to a different place with two other friends where we stayed till we left Bangalore. Most of the time eating will happen in company or outside in a hotel or any tiffin place. It is quite an interesting name given to a place where one could get idli, dosa and other south Indian dishes with self service option.
Being in first production software project was exciting. I joined a project where people were selected by taking interview. 8 of us got selected out of 18. It was even more exciting thinking that project might be good if they need to conduct another round of interview after company training. Then came the shock of another training (Induction) for project. As there was not enough seating space and plan was to shift project to new building, we were given a cubical (seats 4 people) with 2 PC in it. As we were not going to work on project soon, we were attending classes half of the time and later spending time reading mails and studying project documentation. It felt like Greek and Latin to go through those documents at that time. Even whatever classes, we were attending to see production screens, were not making any sense at all and everything was out of mind as soon as the day end. There I learn my another lesson of software life. Whenever starting new, just give it a shot. You might not understand even a bit, but that would make a base for you and when you get a starting point which you can understand properly, you would be able to link other details to it. It is enough if you are able to do that in your starting time. This works even now after my 8 year of job experience.
Did I tell you that my stream was mainframe? Sorry missed that as well. Anyway being mainframe it was hard in project to get us access when we are not working on project. So we just get to see it while getting training classes. After some time I and one of my colleague decided to do something. We came to know about few VB (visual basic) application which can be developed to help project processes. Why not to give it a shot. We might learn a language with more familiar name than COBOL (for mainframe). We expresses our interest for it. And soon we were given seat in project for work. No, No, No... it was not VB work. We were given project (mainframe) work. It might be our interest to work or our luck that we didn't get to learn VB. Whatever is the case, we were happy that we would be given our own seat and PC.
For rest of people who joined project with us, there was some talk about temporary relocation to Pune for QA work. What Pune? I was cursing my luck that why did I get a PC as I could have been one of them to get this chance. But I was not that unlucky either. Nobody was agreeing to it and so I get to show my keen interest on going to Pune. Manager agreed for it and we were packing our bags to go back to Pune. So another lesson that you never know if things are turning right for you or can actually stop you from being exposed to other opportunities. You just need to be optimistic and satisfied with what you got. It happened multiple times with me in my years to come which will prove this again and again.
In End I was happy that I am going back to Pune. I was optimistic that my short trip, could possibly turn into a permanent location for me and I would get what I was desiring 2 month ago. Happy for time being :)...
Many of us were together in our 18 hour journey by bus to Bangalore. We were give a hotel accommodation near Majestic for one week. In that time period, we need to search for our own accommodation. It seemed like a hell of a job to find accommodation where 10 month of rent to be given as deposit. For a north Indian, it was a totally different culture and turf. With 4-5 people, we might be able to get a flat and collect deposit money. Ultimately one of my friend and myself found one arrangement to settle with few other people (in same company) in their rooms. It was a breather. At least it gave us time to make a good choice. Later we shifted to a different place with two other friends where we stayed till we left Bangalore. Most of the time eating will happen in company or outside in a hotel or any tiffin place. It is quite an interesting name given to a place where one could get idli, dosa and other south Indian dishes with self service option.
Being in first production software project was exciting. I joined a project where people were selected by taking interview. 8 of us got selected out of 18. It was even more exciting thinking that project might be good if they need to conduct another round of interview after company training. Then came the shock of another training (Induction) for project. As there was not enough seating space and plan was to shift project to new building, we were given a cubical (seats 4 people) with 2 PC in it. As we were not going to work on project soon, we were attending classes half of the time and later spending time reading mails and studying project documentation. It felt like Greek and Latin to go through those documents at that time. Even whatever classes, we were attending to see production screens, were not making any sense at all and everything was out of mind as soon as the day end. There I learn my another lesson of software life. Whenever starting new, just give it a shot. You might not understand even a bit, but that would make a base for you and when you get a starting point which you can understand properly, you would be able to link other details to it. It is enough if you are able to do that in your starting time. This works even now after my 8 year of job experience.
Did I tell you that my stream was mainframe? Sorry missed that as well. Anyway being mainframe it was hard in project to get us access when we are not working on project. So we just get to see it while getting training classes. After some time I and one of my colleague decided to do something. We came to know about few VB (visual basic) application which can be developed to help project processes. Why not to give it a shot. We might learn a language with more familiar name than COBOL (for mainframe). We expresses our interest for it. And soon we were given seat in project for work. No, No, No... it was not VB work. We were given project (mainframe) work. It might be our interest to work or our luck that we didn't get to learn VB. Whatever is the case, we were happy that we would be given our own seat and PC.
For rest of people who joined project with us, there was some talk about temporary relocation to Pune for QA work. What Pune? I was cursing my luck that why did I get a PC as I could have been one of them to get this chance. But I was not that unlucky either. Nobody was agreeing to it and so I get to show my keen interest on going to Pune. Manager agreed for it and we were packing our bags to go back to Pune. So another lesson that you never know if things are turning right for you or can actually stop you from being exposed to other opportunities. You just need to be optimistic and satisfied with what you got. It happened multiple times with me in my years to come which will prove this again and again.
In End I was happy that I am going back to Pune. I was optimistic that my short trip, could possibly turn into a permanent location for me and I would get what I was desiring 2 month ago. Happy for time being :)...
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Training in a Sofware Giant
Jan 2003 - I joined my dream company in software industry. Very excited and a lot of plans to work on for future.
First attack came in form of another training in which you need to again study for few months. It was important, required and very useful but still..studying again.. Ok.. go over with it. It was quite fun as luckily it was not a whole day classroom sessions type and there was much hands on a real PC, so I actually get to do what I really wanted. Also it gave everyone a chance to look into different perspectives as you would be working as a group and so team work was also being mixed with our behaviour without any explicit effort. Getting some sessions from real programmers was very helpful in directly relating training to a practical scenario.
I learnt a very good lesson that the basics of programming is the only thing one need to know and picking up syntax can be done in a short span and you can become good in any programming language. Still for making an impact like an expert will take time as you then need to go into intricacies of that particular programming language and see how actually it works at memory label. For this again you need to be good and clear about how a computer machine works to produce output from your program. All part of our job..so it is just not 1 and 0, it has a hell lot of other things.
One should not just try to become expert in syntax using which he can understand already written program fast and code fast. But one should also try to see how actually it can be done in a different way and what are the differences in doing in each way. That is how a programmer will go into performance and non-functional part of programming which is many times missed by a typical programmer. It is just not the system which should take care of non-functional features, but also the way how program is written will decide and create an impression for a programmer. So future coders.. keep this in mind while coding next time :).
Also I learnt a very good lesson in my final test. Even if you know how to write a code, you are not as good as a programmer who knows from where to copy/paste. It sound funny and I know many of you will be against me, but in this industry what actually matters? Output, right? So if a person knows from where to copy/paste he already know what piece of code is required. And by knowing the location from where to pick it only speeds up his work. So producing a similar code and in faster time is always better. That's why Copy/Paste is a accepted mantra for software development. No shame about it and it is actually a progress as you can dramatically increase your productivity if you get expert in this capability. Keeping a good repository of generic code snippet also helps in this quality of yours while increasing your knowledge level. Try it, it is worth much more that you think :):).
First attack came in form of another training in which you need to again study for few months. It was important, required and very useful but still..studying again.. Ok.. go over with it. It was quite fun as luckily it was not a whole day classroom sessions type and there was much hands on a real PC, so I actually get to do what I really wanted. Also it gave everyone a chance to look into different perspectives as you would be working as a group and so team work was also being mixed with our behaviour without any explicit effort. Getting some sessions from real programmers was very helpful in directly relating training to a practical scenario.
I learnt a very good lesson that the basics of programming is the only thing one need to know and picking up syntax can be done in a short span and you can become good in any programming language. Still for making an impact like an expert will take time as you then need to go into intricacies of that particular programming language and see how actually it works at memory label. For this again you need to be good and clear about how a computer machine works to produce output from your program. All part of our job..so it is just not 1 and 0, it has a hell lot of other things.
One should not just try to become expert in syntax using which he can understand already written program fast and code fast. But one should also try to see how actually it can be done in a different way and what are the differences in doing in each way. That is how a programmer will go into performance and non-functional part of programming which is many times missed by a typical programmer. It is just not the system which should take care of non-functional features, but also the way how program is written will decide and create an impression for a programmer. So future coders.. keep this in mind while coding next time :).
Also I learnt a very good lesson in my final test. Even if you know how to write a code, you are not as good as a programmer who knows from where to copy/paste. It sound funny and I know many of you will be against me, but in this industry what actually matters? Output, right? So if a person knows from where to copy/paste he already know what piece of code is required. And by knowing the location from where to pick it only speeds up his work. So producing a similar code and in faster time is always better. That's why Copy/Paste is a accepted mantra for software development. No shame about it and it is actually a progress as you can dramatically increase your productivity if you get expert in this capability. Keeping a good repository of generic code snippet also helps in this quality of yours while increasing your knowledge level. Try it, it is worth much more that you think :):).
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