After a very long time…

Well , there is a very few blog following for this average blogger.But those who follow “pinastro” might have already lost hopes what happened to this guy called pinastro.People might have thought pinastro is dead.This blogpost comes in the right time to say that pinastro is alive.

working hard (in the right arena ,I guess)

Well, I do not blog much these days as I am busy with “surgeries” on PHP code, thanks to my friend from  medical field ,I am talking all medical these days.I have come a long way from wondering about Krish Ashok’s fantabulous blogs to actually creating websites with some of the cutting edge technologies like RAILS,wordpress,bbpress,buddypress and now also JOOMLA along with weekend freak-outs with friends not to forget the regular BOOZEMASTER sessions with the office-mates.Ofcourse,I have been investing a lot of money too in my ideas.I really hope for the best after all the turmoil in my recent past ,personal and professional life combined.

I am soon coming with a revolutionary text editor about which I will be blogging soon and subsequently with the product itself.The idea was born out of the ashes of my washed away R and D dreams of Comic Book Mark-up Language.Not only that I am coming up with many killer ideas these days,thanks to removing my long-term nagging,complex,sick,confused girlfriend out-of-my-mind.

As my BBPRESS coding is calling me,can’t blog much now but I can say one thing.I am definitely on the right track and the greatest strength I have is IMPULSIVE CREATIVITY and the greatest drawback that keeps me away from comprehensive victories is IMPULSIVE OPTIMISM and IMPULSIVE PESSIMISM toggling and sometimes even LAZINESS to CODE.

And for the die-hard fans of pinastro’s blog, this blog happens to be my anniversary blog.I have completed one year of blogging

Pinastro 1.9-A Stone Age man in the Web 2.0 world

Frankly speaking , this is what I am feeling like at the moment now , A man from Stone Age era , after getting released from my ex-project that was literally in the stone ages in terms of tools usage even the communication and collaborative tools were like Neanderthal’s “Hoo Hoo , Ha Ha “.Everything was in terms of word documents and spreadsheets.I am sick of spreadsheets that too in an Agile project.The ‘tasks’ allocated to my team were in a spreadsheet and never could be easily understood. It always took nearly half a day to read the spreadsheets and another two hours at the end of day to discuss the doubts on phone (with my boss at onshore).Gosh !!! then why did he create a spreadsheet if we could discuss it over phone.

Of course , I used to share my knowledge through e-mail (LOTUS NOTES) every week to everyone in the project, about what I discovered in the proprietary tool my project used to boost about.But the problem the probability of reading an “Information” mail is 1 in 100 , and the maximum people in my project was just 80.Nearly 30 mailboxes will always bounce back saying “The receiver’s mail box was full” and 40 of them will never read such mails and only 10 of them who read the mail were Testers who never used the tool. What was required was a Project level “Wiki” (a self correcting, self growing KM platform).We did had a KM platform but it always stinked due to the a huge repository of “Write-Only” and “Unusable” documents.

Why Mails never work ??

I even went on an ambitious plan to eliminate spreadsheets forever but was held back by the project bureaucracy and politics.I had another plan to correct the flaws in appraisal system , not because I have got low ratings in early part of my career but due to my I belief in the possibility of an Utopian era.I must agree though that the steps I took for changing the work place was very crude and primitive.I myself needed to learn a lot which I am doing now.

This blog is definitely not mutterings of a frustrated IT guy like my previous blogs this , this and this one.This blog is about my conquest of AJAX. In fact, it’s a sequel to one of my favorite blogs

So Dumb of me

For the last few days , I have been single mindedly trying to catch the AJAX snitch.The reason I am calling myself as dumb is because this site has made me realise that I have actually caught AJAX nearly a week ago and have implemented some ten small programs with AJAX TECHNIQUE (to be precise) but never realised it.

Yeah ! AJAX is a TECHNIQUE not a Technology.

Done or Still More ??

Unlike it happens in the Quidditch, that Game is over once the Seeker catches the Snitch , the Web 2.0 actually begins after the conquest of AJAX snitch.Javascript is definitely fun but it is very tedious to develop big projects based on AJAX , Javascript , DOM alone.We need frameworks which make Javascripts so easy.Yes I need to learn frameworks now.JQuery ( a lightweight Javascript library) also makes life easier.Again my analogy of AJAX with Quidditch is very amateur.

Technology is about plumbing work and the Customers don’t really care about plumbers

Whenever my colleagues in my last project tell me that “Mainframes is cool yaar.You get billed higher in Mainframes than any other technology guy”.I say “CRAP”.These are some TABOOS in which techy guys live with.The customer wants solutions , and Simple Solutions , not the Complexity which every Development project Programmer aspires to work in.

And Yes !!! I have successfully achieved the target of mission Pinastro 1.9

though it shouldn’t have taken such a long time (two weeks)