World Of Change

3 Idiots of my life

2009-12-27T23:28:00.000+05:30

The Song that made me say Gimme another chance I wanna grow up once again. Meet all of them once again whom I call my Friends not because I had chosen them to be my friends but they live upto those levels that made me proudly say that you are my Friend. The talks, the times, the moments that I still share with them on the fly calls me back to hold them more close to my heart. If I look back now they are the gems of with different colours, different shines, different prices but precious in every aspect. The one with whom I always fought in my school, never get tired not even today, never afraid of him even when he is 1 feet taller to me, thrice as strong as I was. The one who can bear a slap and say ‘It was good with a thumbs up’. The event that gave a different blow to our friendship that continued, still continuing and I wish continuesJ. The one who taught me to stand upfront and argue.. do not hide away. Surely missing you _ e _f

Moved out a bit and there came the culprit of all – competition, that make you stand against your own friends, the one that makes you to learn cheating and the one that makes you loose in the end even if u won. Never thought that the opportunity can be so challenging that in search of avoiding it I will meet up with someone that unknowingly made me realise how contended one can feel with the win of your friend can be so satisfying that it overruns all your defeats. Never understood the difference between friendship and love..cant create that thin line between the two..what I believed is that they coexist. Even in the life o becoming something, proving something you can still find yourself in the comfort zone of your friend where nothing can touch you, the secure layer of friendship can never let you down. The effort that was doubled, the spirits that are heightened when you know your friend is just standing by you to say Come on, I know can do it… u can tear the sky apart. The classes in which we used to ignore teachers, the lectures where mimicry used to capture the high point of the day, the assignments that with night calls we somehow completed, the tests in which we copied, the practicals in which we dictated answers from the window, class bunks, birthday celebrations, nicknames, the laughs at our scores and the events in which we fought with the Bub Bub kind of people. I enjoyed the steepest high and the deepest low with you and rest yet to visit. The two extremes are created by you where I surmount myself. One promise given to myself …you remain my friend and I cherish your friendship forever you need to do something really really worst to make me forget you. I wish to be there for you the way you have been there for me.

The list does not end, life moves on even at a higher pace this time. When you find yourself in a completely unknown world, standing alone in a crowd, no known faces, away from your home. You introspect and say was this the life you have been fighting for. I found one more who met like a smooth breeze flowing through, lightly touching my ears and whispering slowly. Slow steps, gradual highs, sudden turns unknown to the world made it grow stronger with every uncertainty we decided to face together. Nothing could let us down until my friend believes in me, runs away when I shout and come back with a small flower to say Welcome back and makes me smile. Remembering the one who flirts with the hep girls of the college just as a naughty move to raise his share value, the one whom I can hit and hide, the one whose shoulder is always for me to sleep. As bad as I can be in making plans but still make it, all time dance partner who loves to see me dancing but cannot dance. A complete makeover of Chimpi, with a hint of hairy bear which you can easily pull to see monkey’s high jump J. Seriously wanna go back to those days where we were a call away. Calling each other to wake up for gym, class and still sleeping over the ongoing phone call till the tipping point is reached, alarms set not according to self but to your friend. Moderating every other plan just to be together for late night walks. I miss those walks and talks.

TWILIGHT SAGA...

2009-12-14T00:55:00.003+05:30

Feel the feelings of Bella...the one who met and loved a Vampire

Pond of my heart I believed is shallow, Gets filled quickly never seemed so hollow,
I never knew where my jump will let me in, things may be new, exciting, good & be evil though.
One day I got a spoon to dig, that was the day when I asked to cross my limits,
I found it astounding to reach those heights, Was alarmed before I could miss the ground hits.

Found one who just wants to swallow, living in its own empire,
Look at his attire, I bet u can’t guess it’s a Vampire

Touch of him is so subtle,

That makes you cross all your hurdle;
Runs with the speed of hare,

But wins with the rule of turtle;
Reads my mind like an open book,

Gives it a glance where no one can hook;
When we first met created the effect unusual,

Living the expected but every minute is substantial;
The way he cared, the way he loved,

The way his warmth, holds me through;
Crossing the top of mountains, the end of sea,

He created his land, where only he can be;
I thought never to bleed in front,

The moment came when my hardness burnt;
Feelings turned tender, up to blow,

See the divine change in the eyes that glow;
No fear, no hate, no boundaries will stay,

Praying to the majesty to put them on this way;

Now I want every bit of him to hire, That will be the D-day when I’ll also be a Vampire
The world will see our empire, growing higher and higher without any fire.

WOW

2009-06-18T22:30:00.002+05:30

Slowdown, layoffs, cost cutting , operational efficiencies etc. all heard, read and ready to experience it as I am now a part of WOW. WOW – how many of you are aware of this acronym... it’s not Wow(Whaooh) but WOW (mark all caps). Those who know must have guessed uptil now as what is to be followed next but those who don’t then I must request you to be patient but saying “Be Patient, it pays” (sometimes) and rest of the times Your Insurance company pays... ha ha.

Wow(Whaooh) – an expression for something very amusing, exciting.. Trust me, WOW of which I am a part, is not just an expression but a lot more which cannot be clubbed under one roof.

Time to reveal full form of WOW is actually “World Of Workers”.

Decades back, when I was born, Technology was growing. Today, I am growing older but Technology is still new and growing. WOW, in my honest opinion, consisted of long beard brainees, doing wonders in years they spent working, low in quantity but high in quality but it gradually cone to a point where Darwin’s Theory – “ Survival of Fittest” can be applied without a doubt. And here I am being welcomed with smiling faces who clearly knows that soon I will be crowned with all the things that they are handling and one day I will be standing on the other side of the table to welcome the next victims.

The best part is – I am loving it

Making RUP more AGILE

2009-02-07T12:00:00.003+05:30

Think in my terms
Its very Hot, wanna have Mango Juice, so what do I need to do
hmmmm...
1. I know about Mango and its very juicy.
2. I know about a juicer which is very handy.

Use 1 and 2 together, use juicer for making juice and put mango for making mango juice.

Similarly, I want to be adaptive to changes while building a software using Rational Unified Process, so what I need to do
hmmmmm...
1. I know about Rational Unified Process, its lifecycle, its disciplines.
2. I also know about Agile Software Development and its principles.

Can I use them together ????
This was the thought that lead to my topic for the discussion and then the search begins.
Here, I am presenting what I understood as "Ways in which RUP can be made mor AGILE"

Google Videos Link for my screencast : Ways To make Unified Process more AGILE"
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6119645895906946175

Useful Tips

2009-01-10T00:37:00.005+05:30

1. Awesome Tip For Gmail Users

Let’s say that your email address is ‘GeorgeBush@gmail.com’, basically everything sent to any of the following email addresses will be forwarded to your primary email.

GeorgeBush@gmail.com
G.eorgeBush@gmail.com
Ge.orgeBush@gmail.com

…
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GeorgeBus.h@gmail.com

GeorgeBush@googlemail.com
G.eorgeBush@googlemail.com
Ge.orgeBush@googlemail.com

…
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GeorgeBus.h@googlemail.com

And that’s not all, you can place as many dots as you want, it can be even something like ‘G.e.o.r.g.e.B.u.s.h@gmail.com’ and you’ll still get it on ‘GeorgeBush@gmail.com’

Additionally, I just also found out that you can embed random text to your email ID using ‘+’ sign. That is to say ‘GeorgeBush+anythingyouwant@gmail.com’ can be used as your email address, as well.

One email for every purpose

Instead of using different email addresses for various purposes (work, school, friends, etc.) you can use different variations of your Gmail and filter incoming mails by ’sent to’ address. For instance, all incoming mail sent to ‘Name.Surname@gmail.com’ can be put to folder ‘work’, messages sent to ‘NameSurname@gmail.com’ can be put to ‘friends’, ‘N.ameSurname@gmail.com’ can be used for newsletters, and so on.

2.Convert Microsoft Docx files to Doc

Zamzar is an online service to convert files between various formats, docx (and pptx and xlsx) being one of them.The website is free of advertisements and the service speedy. What more can you ask for ? All that Zamzar asks for is your email address to send over a link to the converted document, and of course the original document.Just point your browser to the website, upload your document, give your email address and you’re done. No need to download any docx viewer.

SWITCH – on the verge of being WITCH

2009-01-07T23:36:00.005+05:30

SWITCH comprising the IT biggies(Satyam, Wipro, TCS, Infosys, Cognizant and HCL) of India may soon left with WITCH with the crash of Satyam seemingly very close to happen after the resignation of its chairman R.Raju admitting the frauds made in the Balance Sheet from last few years. Wooden chair over fire has to burn today or tomorrow without letting the one sitting on it to be safe from being burnt. Confession of Satyam’s chairman mentioned that acquiring Maytas was an attempt to clear the existing financial irregularities in order to continue to ride the tiger.
What comes as a question mark is : What will be the next prominent step of board of directors to safeguard the company and its image

Organizer: A new Start up Project

2009-01-02T10:52:00.002+05:30

Software Development Methodologies Workshop as a part of our curriculum is being conducted and it surely began a chain of thought process since the start of the session. Be it regarding RUP Vs Agile or RUP with Agile, which one fits the best and where etc... Now, in the last session we (my team: Prerna, Manpreet, Rahul, Pawan and Harkul) took up a new start up project of developing an for an organization to define roles, responsibilities, expertise, current projects etc. of each employee within a hierarchy. Organizer helps in allocating tasks to employees according to their expertise or skill set. We decided to follow RUP methodology, in which Inception and Elaboration phases are complete. Thinking process initiates when I started thinking of what can be taken up as a project start up. Then head on to deciding it with my team and the work begins. We started with developing a business case and based on that we completed with the inception phase. While the critical high risks use cases and sequence diagrams were reviewed by Mr. Parag Shah, a concern stuck in our way, whether or not to show failure cases in sequence diagrams or not. Because there can be so many failure cases that our one sequence diagram can be swamped with and whole motive of drawing the diagrams is all in vain. So, we decided to make it more clear, hence our next exercise will be to show diagrams with and without failure cases and see how much time can be saved or how to identify which failure situations if not considered can turn into a high risk later on. So, stay tuned for the results..

End to an Old and Beginning of a New Countdown

2009-01-02T01:00:00.000+05:30

A Year that was... A Year to be... A Year of hopes... A Year for a new beginning... A Year to usher... A Year to venture... A Year of delight... A Year that we invite... A Year of fresh Dreams... A Year that sure gleams... A Year of promises... A Year of surprises... A Year of joy... A Year to enjoy... A Year to forget all the pain... It is A New Year Again!! A Year that is here... Wishing You A Happy New Year!!

A new year has arrived, months, dates and days will repeat in their respective cycles. Last year has shown a flipside of the booming economies. Crashing moment of the year has been the one and only economic meltdown that took the US economy to standstill and other dependent economies to run for their survival. Everything changed with the blinking of eyes. Everyone seen newspapers flooded with the news of Lehman Brothers going Bankrupt, reasons, pitfalls and consequences. I know it was not just that but a lot more of which we have not been aware of. I have heard from people (my acquaintances) telling me that there is just few banks who came into the limelight but there were other 100s of financial institutions that turned bankrupt in US. One can found it similar to the crashing of a building floor by floor with each passing day. Bad news being followed by Good News has always kept us hopeful. Hence, after the hard hit everyone is doing whatever they can. Lets talk abt INDIA now, running through tough times. Somewhere in mid Jan.2008, it was presumed and informally declared that India will be showing a 9% growth rate, cannot be dreamt of. Though, India is facing only the slowdown not the recession but the Toughest times are here. Mantra for current life is “SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST”
So, do not lose hope and strive hard to party harder. Lets all hope that this new year comes with a new beginning. But not to forget, Learnings from the past are must to turn your future from bitter to Better to the BEST.

About Renowned RUP contd.

2009-01-01T17:38:00.002+05:30

How to evaluate a project as best fit for RUP or not, what alterations will be required to follow RUP and Agile at iteration levels....remember the questions I had in mind! Today, I found a case of mid-sized financial institutions, adopted the RUP and wanted to tailor it with Enterprise Management concepts from the EUP, in particular they wanted to ensure that the Inception phase and Elaboration phase efforts of individual projects were supported by enterprise-level requirements, architecture, and reuse efforts. This case has also elaborated upon the alterations that can be done to RUP to make it a success. The writer has described very clearly how they started and what support did they get from the management. They were able to get ahead with the inception and elaboration phase when the issues actually started. Please refer to the following link :

http://www.agilemodeling.com/essays/agileModelingRUP.htm#CaseStudy

I have been hearing about SOA from some time, so here comes again a puzzle of my mind: How good is to adopt RUP for SOA Methodology? But Fortunately, I didn’t have to wait too long for this answer; I found it the same night. Eric Roch, a chief technologist for SOA Methodology has a same question on one of the SOA blogs to which he answered and said

While it's possible to run SOA projects in an XP fashion, major concern is that the lack of rigor can lead to an incomplete or inconsistent process around business domains (how they are linked to form composites), the common information model (schemas representing common business objects), and interface design specifications. Since these deliverables become the basis for future reuse, process consistency is critical. It is possible to create lightweight instance of RUP as the SOA methodology for design deliverables. RUP's iterative nature and focus on architecture early in the process are well-suited for SOA. The key to success is to keep the process lightweight and iterative.

What you want to avoid though the methodology is the lack of standards being a barrier to reuse. You don't want to go back and have to look at code to determine what a service does or try to decipher an XML schema to understand its semantics. This is where a set of minimum design deliverables become most valuable. It is much easier to look at a one or two page use case to understand what a service does and a sequence diagram to understand service invocation than to look at code.

All set for getting started but you need to think about what documentation you will leave behind for future developers who wish to use your services. They must at least know that the service exists, what it does and what is the meaning of the data it uses.”

Further, he agrees to the argument that it is impossible to understand a holistic view of the end goal of enterprise-wide SOA. But it is possible to decompose SOA into manageable domains with a strategy to integrate domains and means to handle schema and interface changes through versioning. Hence, he firmly suggests that, Services documentation should include a system level use case, a UML sequence diagram to detail the SOAP message interactions (even if they are simple request and replies there are often exception messages), an annotated XML schema and the semantics for message transformation (from an external canonical message to an internal native format) if transformation is required. It really does not take much time to create these deliverables and they promote the reuse of your services.

About Renowned RUP

2008-12-30T20:57:00.000+05:30

Talk of developing software which will do a list of things, all verbal and what runs next is how to go about developing it. Let start implementing... but wait ..is it the right way I am heading to. Really not, atleast this was not what I have been studying. There is term I remember i.e. Software Methodology, means framework for structuring, planning and controlling the process of developing software. Next strikes you is Waterfall model, the most heard and the most cursed J. People thought of building software like constructing a building and devised the above model. Recently , I studied RUP (rational Unified Process) , another software development and methodology. At first glance to it, it again looks like an abstract layer of waterfall model like any other methodologies look like. There are drawbacks of Waterfall model but at micro level of any methodology, we are actually following the sequential steps of waterfall model only. It is just same as adding abstract classes in java so that can be defied or altered according to the changing needs.

RUP contains 4 phases, 9 disciplines, key principles and some concepts. Then in the next round, I studied about Agile Methodology. I have carried out a project following Agile Methodology and hence it was very easy to relate what was being explained. I was at ease relating all the concepts of user stories in Agile Methodology to relate with the ones I created.

On a higher level, following is the RUP Vs Agile deeds

Although RUP is iterative, it follows the phases of inception, elaboration, construction, and transition in a more or less linear fashion. As the development proceeds less time is spent on requirements and analysis, and more time is spent on construction, testing, and transition. Agile processes on the other hand, spend time on each activity in each iteration. During each iteration (usually 2-4 weeks) a little of all steps (requirements, analysis, design, development, test, etc.) are undertaken. The goal is to have stable software which could be shipped at the end of each iteration. At the beginning of each iteration, all stakeholders meet to reorganise requirements and their priorities, while at the end of the iteration, working software is demonstrated to the stakeholders. This ensures that customer value is being added at all times, and that progress is being made on what matters, working software.

RUP is quite comprehensive, and were designed to be modified to suit the project being developed. This adds another layer of complexity to the development effort, as the process has first to be modified before being implemented. While this allows for the flexibility to use RUP on any project, it requires teams to have access to RUP experts to ensure that the process is being defined and used properly. Agile on the other hand tends to be used for small to medium sized projects involving teams up to 10 closely knit developers. Once teams become bigger than this, agile methodologies begin to fail, as they don’t scale to large teams, or teams spread across geographies.

But what stuck in my mind was the RUP Vs Agile. I was not interested in knowing the known theoretical things about the Vs issue but what would have interested me was what kind of projects will be perfect for RUP or Agile, how to evaluate an project as best fit for RUP or not, What alterations will be required to follow RUP and Agile at iteration levels??