I haven't read any of Dan Brown's books, but I kinda liked the first one. The second one was so predictable & boring. People who have read the book, said the book was far better. As always very few adaptations come close to the book, most miserably fail. Angels & Demons for sure is in the miserable movie (adaptation) category.
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Angels & Demons
If you haven't watched this one yet, don't even bother. This is the worst of the summer movies so far. X-Men is way better.
Saturday, May 09, 2009
Star Trek definitely not this year's Iron Man
Wanted to watch it on IMAX, but got delayed. So decided we go for another movie. We even got the tickets for the another movie (which I shall not name here), but in the last minute exchanged it for Star Trek.
Got the tickets and the seats w/o any hassle. I had imagined a lot of people will show up, but that wasn't the case. Dark Knight was packed and we had to sit in the front rows to watch it - that is after we reached the theatre an hour before the show. This time reached 1/2 hour before and still got to sit at the very last row in the theatre (near the projector) and didn't even have to stand in line to get to the seats. Also a bunch of people walked out of the movie while it was playing. I guess they were die-hard fans who didn't like this version.
The reviews are good for the movie and someone even called it 'this year's iron man'. It's not. It's a decent movie but IMO cannot be compared to Iron Man. Although I will end by saying it is better than X-Men Origins Wolverine.
I just hope the other summer movies - Angels & Demons, Terminator, Transformers, G.I Joe live up to expectations...
Thursday, May 07, 2009
Working on Seam these days
Currently working on a new product to enable migration/deployment of configuration data. Sounds simple, doesn't it. Trust me, it's not. I am primarily working on the data model, and User Interface.
Seam is being used with JSF, RichFaces, and AJAX4JSF (a4j). More thoughts on Seam and my struggles soon...
Tough times
Tough times right now. The company has already laid off twice. If we don't do well this time, they will likely do it again when they announce the 2nd quarter results. So it's like working in a contract position where the contract expires or extends at the end of every quarter.
It still works...
Didn't think this would be active after this long. Came here to look up a post I wrote a few years ago...
Now that I am into active development again, I will try to post more often... Will see, how this goes...
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
It's a long time... (forgot the count)
It's been a very long time (again) since I last posted here. Thought I will post something here to let myself know I have a blog :)
Saturday, August 12, 2006
DELL Laptops - great design?
My laptop crashed a week back taking most of my data with it. Also the eject button of the PCMCIA card reader came out. I could still push the card and get it out, but the IT staff wanted to get it fixed. My initial thought was, the engineer from DELL would just remove the entire slot out and try to put the eject switch back into it, or replace the reader. Guess what he did? He replaced the mother board 'coz the reader comes as part of the motherboard (soldered to it) and not as a separate removable entity. Nice design, what say?
At least I (almost) got a brand new laptop ;)
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At least I (almost) got a brand new laptop ;)
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After a long break...
The last post discussed what happened at Day 01 of the Architecture World, after which I don't remember why I stopped blogging (probably I lost interest). Months have passed since then, and the some events I attended also went unblogged - like the MS Tech Ed 2006. It was a two day event with differents tracks on Data, WinFX, Mobile & Embedded,... Most of the sessions on the data track were good, the video of WinFS was excellent (I later came to know that they are scrapping the Beta 2 of WinFS, and is being split of parts and integrated into other products like MS SQL Server, and ASP.NET). One other good thing happened there - there was a XBox gaming competition and guess what I participated (being a gamer) and came 3rd in the finals. What I got as a prize? - A Mouse Pad, a Stress Cube, and ... (I guess that was it). The guy who came 1st got a all-in-one USB kit. Isn't that unfair? ;)
I also attended a couple of internal trainings conducted by my company on Advanced Design Principles, Design Patterns Workshop, and JSF (JavaServer Faces). I will be attending a couple of trainings in the months to come...
Right now my interests are from writing a wigdet library in JavaScript, to understanding JVM,Java, and C++ design & implementation, to distributed & concurrency systems, to linux internals, and of course patterns & frameworks. Still unsure of what I will be doing the rest of this month... maybe spend the month trying out various games ;)
I also attended a couple of internal trainings conducted by my company on Advanced Design Principles, Design Patterns Workshop, and JSF (JavaServer Faces). I will be attending a couple of trainings in the months to come...
Right now my interests are from writing a wigdet library in JavaScript, to understanding JVM,Java, and C++ design & implementation, to distributed & concurrency systems, to linux internals, and of course patterns & frameworks. Still unsure of what I will be doing the rest of this month... maybe spend the month trying out various games ;)
Tuesday, May 09, 2006
Architecture World 2006 - Day One
The day started off early in the morning (08:45) with the lighting of the lamp. It was followed by the Welcome speech by Sachin Khanna, Director Sales, Compuware and then a Sunil Dutt Jha went over the agenda.
Agenda:
- Covers EAF, MDA, SOA
- 2 keynotes - Dr. Thomas Mowbray (Day One) and Jon Kern (Day Two)
- 9 Presentations
- Panel discussion - Career paths for Software Architects
The first two speakers didn't seem to have the required presentation skills or the skills needed to talk to a large audience (about 450).
[1] Keynote: Enterprise System Planning Methodology - Beginning Large IT Systems Properly - Thomas Mowbray (2 hours)
Even Thomas didn't seem to have good presentation skills (wasn't live enough or I would go down to the level of saying - wasn't live at all).
- Lack of documentation is a Universal problem
His slides were damn crowded with data/information. Even the front row folks had trouble viewing it.
- Normally a project contains 1 Enterprise Architect and 1 or more Solution Architects
EA Principles:
- Result driven
- Visual
- Self contained
- Best Practices
- Actionable
- Long term view with short term benefits
By this time he was boring us to death. I suddenly heard closures and started to think about closures in Ruby and the article I read last week about it by Martin Fowler on his Bliki.
I have attended other seminars & conferences, but none was so boring as this. The case study Thomas used isn't enlighting enough.
Guess what's EAEF?
It's Enterprise Architecture Evaluation Framework - a framework to evaluate an architecture. Where is this going?
Thomas is really making me re-think about my becoming an Architect plan (I believe a lot would have thought the same way). Looks like all they (EAs) do is document, discuss, make powerpoints and posters. If you like that kind of thing, then that's the way to make *good* money.
He is boring us to death.
Posters
Posters
More Posters...
He spoke about Steven H. Spewak method (Enterprise Architecture Planning) and Infrastructure views.
[Re-engineering = Engineering the same thing over and over again.] :)
All his case studies were based on the District of Columbia project he is working on and talked mostly about how the Fedral government worked (which of course none was interested in knowing). This was visible as quite a number of people left the hall to take a break.
He talked about how to procure paper clips ;)
Center of Excellence - reminded me of my last job where I was a member of Software Engineering Center of Excellence division.
CBA - Cost Benefit Analysis
It finally came to an end. I could see a lot of releaved faces!
[2] Defining and realizing migration & modernization blueprints using EA - Sunil Jha
I am still editing this entry...(will post again shortly)
Agenda:
- Covers EAF, MDA, SOA
- 2 keynotes - Dr. Thomas Mowbray (Day One) and Jon Kern (Day Two)
- 9 Presentations
- Panel discussion - Career paths for Software Architects
The first two speakers didn't seem to have the required presentation skills or the skills needed to talk to a large audience (about 450).
[1] Keynote: Enterprise System Planning Methodology - Beginning Large IT Systems Properly - Thomas Mowbray (2 hours)
Even Thomas didn't seem to have good presentation skills (wasn't live enough or I would go down to the level of saying - wasn't live at all).
- Lack of documentation is a Universal problem
His slides were damn crowded with data/information. Even the front row folks had trouble viewing it.
- Normally a project contains 1 Enterprise Architect and 1 or more Solution Architects
EA Principles:
- Result driven
- Visual
- Self contained
- Best Practices
- Actionable
- Long term view with short term benefits
By this time he was boring us to death. I suddenly heard closures and started to think about closures in Ruby and the article I read last week about it by Martin Fowler on his Bliki.
I have attended other seminars & conferences, but none was so boring as this. The case study Thomas used isn't enlighting enough.
Guess what's EAEF?
It's Enterprise Architecture Evaluation Framework - a framework to evaluate an architecture. Where is this going?
Thomas is really making me re-think about my becoming an Architect plan (I believe a lot would have thought the same way). Looks like all they (EAs) do is document, discuss, make powerpoints and posters. If you like that kind of thing, then that's the way to make *good* money.
He is boring us to death.
Posters
Posters
More Posters...
He spoke about Steven H. Spewak method (Enterprise Architecture Planning) and Infrastructure views.
[Re-engineering = Engineering the same thing over and over again.] :)
All his case studies were based on the District of Columbia project he is working on and talked mostly about how the Fedral government worked (which of course none was interested in knowing). This was visible as quite a number of people left the hall to take a break.
He talked about how to procure paper clips ;)
Center of Excellence - reminded me of my last job where I was a member of Software Engineering Center of Excellence division.
CBA - Cost Benefit Analysis
It finally came to an end. I could see a lot of releaved faces!
[2] Defining and realizing migration & modernization blueprints using EA - Sunil Jha
I am still editing this entry...(will post again shortly)
Sunday, May 07, 2006
Architecture World 2006 at Bangalore
Architecture World 2006 is being held at IISc, Bangalore on May 09th & 10th. This is my first Architecture World conference and I will be posting about what happened at the end of each day.
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