Cycle Gap

Recently at work I couldn't help chuckling and shaking my head as I went through a list of requirements for a well known MNC - buried in...

Shyam points out the hypocrisy of a TCS executive advocating net access at work while denying the same to his own employees. A couple of ...

I don't understand why we need a program to spend millions of dollars to make laptops cheaper, when laptops get cheaper everywhere. I me...

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use virtualization." Now they have two problems. (Jamie Zawin...

Joel Spolsky's lecture at Yale university makes some interesting points about the dangers of automated testing. Joel is good at latch...

John Gilmore suggested to me a test of a good programmer: one who has written a piece of software that at least 1000 people have downl...

I was listening to a fascinating presentation (video)by Ivan Krstić , the director of security architecture of the One Laptop Per Child ( ...

But the Apache web server configuration file is pretty close. I once heard one of the founders of the Apache project confess that, the only ...

Mitch Kapor's wife Freada was in charge of HR at Lotus in the early years. (As he is at pains to point out, they did not become romantic...

"We sat down one morning," recalls Steele. "I was at the keyboard, and he was at my elbow," says Steele. "He was pe...

The odds of finding truly beautiful code in most production systems seem to be on par with the odds of finding a well-read copy of IEEE Tran...

If you are not one of the founders of a startup , you really need to aware of this. I wish someone had reminded me about this :-( . Startups...

That's one of the dirty little secrets of blogging: the discussion in the comments are often better than the original entry. ...

Recently, at work, I had to use the XML-RPC.Net library and couldn't help smiling at this tongue in cheek answer in the FAQ section. Why...

I was reading an article Indian IT biggies losing out to MNCs , when I came across a very interesting and insightful comment by Chanakya. Ye...

Subversion developers Ben Collins Sussman and Brian Fitzpatrick in a talk titled How Open Source Projects Can Survive Poisonous People (And ...

There are some great quotes from Mac hacker, Andy Hertzfeld in Scott Rosenberg's book Dreaming in Code. "My style is to get someth...

At age 29, Jepsen found herself suffering from blistering headaches, confined to a wheelchair, and sleeping ...

Financially, writing science fiction is to writing technical books as writing technical books is to having a "real" programming jo...

I have always wondered why Zeroconf adoption has been so poor. Stuart Cheshire of Apple who pioneered this technology, briefly explains on...