ஒரு நொடி பிரிவு

18Apr09

நொடிகளுக்குள் ஏன் இவ்வளவு தாமதம்,
கண் சிமிட்டலில் நீ மறைந்து போவதாலா??

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சுவாசம்

18Apr09

நித்தமும் சுவாசிக்கிறேன்,
உன்னை கடந்து வந்த
காற்று என்ற நம்பிக்கையில்!!

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My technical blog

18Apr09

I’m moving my technical blogs to http://venkatlooksback.wordpress.com/ and I wish I continue tech blogging (dude, I seriously wish I do ). I am planning to spend sometime evangelizing Y! offerings to developers and hence this split.

I am planning to use this blog for non technical blogging.

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தூரம்

26Dec08

நீ ரசித்த நிலவை
நானும் ரசித்த அந்நொடியில்
உணர்ந்தேன்,
தூரம் கண்களில் மட்டுமே
நினைவுகளில் இல்லையென!

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Interesting/important updates

08Dec08

I almost failed this attempt to blog, as well.. I’ve had a few busy months in the recent past – personally and professionally.. The needle moving well on both ends for now.. Touch wood and thank god.

Wondering whats kept me busy these days? Foremost, my laziness .. Busy is always an excuse (I know ).. Okay, time for the updates:

Update 1:
The most interesting things in life are those that happen only once in a lifetime. What does that mean???? I am getting married (blushing blushing).. Divya, the girl my parents thought is an ideal match for me (and I signed it off later), has decided to risk her life with me .. With hopes of a promising future, we will be joining hands on june 14th 09 and assuring the same on feb 8th ‘09 (yes yaar, engagement..

Update 2:
I got a promotion recently and moved to take a new role “tech lead” from “senior software engineer”, on oct 1st 08..

Update 3:
I had to travel to Bellevue WA for 5 weeks for a product transition. This included a week of fun filled thanks giving vacation, I spent with my sister and family. I reached Bellevue on the 2nd of Nov, stayed there for 3 weeks before heading to my sister’s place. I spent one week there, came back to Bellevue, spent a week in Bellevue and now heading back to Bangalore. I will reach Bangalore in another 02 hrs 23 minutes . (I wanted to blog about my previous trip to Sunnyvale in Sep 07, I am gonna ditch it and just say: I had more fun in the first trip and I did more work in the second). Oh yeah, pictures are worth 1000 words and u can find them at http://flickr.com/rvenkat.

There have been a lot of technical happenings in the time I haven’t blogged. I will try to ink (what do u call when u blog??) my thoughts about them and continue blogging from now (yet again try?????)

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Log on to NASA website if you want your name to float around in space!

27Sep08

The Web site, where participants can submit their information, is located at: http://polls.nasa.gov/utilities/sendtospace/jsp/sendName.jsp

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Experience wii

27Sep08

Beware: this video damages ur screen – http://in.youtube.com/experiencewii. Awesome!!

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kutti padam – vijay tv

02Sep08

I saw an ad in vijay tv today.. “You’ll have 1008 tasks, we won’t take up too much time. Do you have time to watch a 3 hour movie?”

Well, giving it a thought, its been years since i watched 3 hour movie completely in television channels.. Too many ads, news in between, hindrances.. Ooooh!! tough one to accept.. but, I realise its difficult to watch a 3 hr movie..

Vijay TV has started a programme named “Kutti padam”. The unnecessary/boring parts of a movie are cut and the movie is shortened to a one hr movie. Hmmm, nice idea. But I doubt how the continuity would be. Are there 2 hrs of crap in a movie?? I haven’t had a chance to see a kutti padam yet, will write my comments after I see one.

3 hrs movies transformed into kutti padam. One day cricket transformed to 20-20. Are we getting really busy or aren’t we managing time well??

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REST winning over SOAP

25Aug08

REST (Representation State Transfer) has been a buzz term in web services world for more than a couple of years now..We are seeing a strong shift to the REST arena from SOAP recently..

SOAP adds a layer on top of HTTP making the developer’s job a little more tedious.. You have to use tools to marshall/unmarshall the data according to the protocol..

Who would want to do it if there is an easier alternative? Yes, REST is the easier alternative. (talking in pure technical terms REST is just an architecture which could be implemented using HTTP or SOAP). But recently, REST has evolved into a name that marks web services using just HTTP.

We have seen big players like Yahoo, Amazon, Google providing REST APIs. Now, we are clearly seeing a shift from developer focus as well. The study done by Amazon shows that 85% of developers preferred REST over their equivalent SOAP apis. Details: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3005.

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Head first design patterns

22Aug08

Of all those boring technical books I’ve read in the past, this book definitely stood out.

This book walks you through the important design patterns sighting very simple and appealing examples. Certain sections are written in conversational style. There are also some sections where patterns discuss with each other explaining their applicability. I felt like reading a comic. If you are thinking about learning the basics of design patterns, this book is worth investing on. I wish all tech books are like this … Interesting effort! Looking for more such books in the head first series.

O reilly link: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596007126/cover.html

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