Blog Of A Socially Well Adjusted Human Being

Moved to LiveJournal

2005-05-14T15:34:00.000+05:30

My New Pick-up Line

2005-03-10T01:45:00.000+05:30

Alright, brace for it. Here it comes:

"I'm ugly. So I try harder."

Cool huh? Huh? Funniest pick-up line ever huh?...............No?....... You're just jealous cause you didn't think of it first!!! If Woody Allen had said that, you'd have it in your frigging signature!

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Code Complete Reviewed

2005-02-23T23:42:00.000+05:30

Alright, that's it! I'm done reading this book. Reading the first five or six chapters, I didn't learn anything new. And judging from the comments here, I probably would never, even if I read the whole damn book.

And this isn't really a review. Just thought it would be cute to title it "Code Complete Reviewed" since my previous post was titled "Code Complete Previewed".

The book would be great for those new to programming, but it isn't worth my time. I have kilometres to go before I sleep.

Usually, I have to read a book right to the end so I don't feel guilty. Probably a combination of mild obsessive compulsive disorder (I have had a serious case of OCD, but that's another blog post) and the way I like chalking off in my mind the books I read.

Completing a book is important because if anyone asks me I could say "Sure! I've read that" which I couldn't if I just read half the book.

My worst book-reading experience: Some Danielle Steel Novel. It was the only time I read Danielle Steel and I couldn't believe how awfully boring it was. I read the whole damn thing to the end just so when someone asks me my opinion I could say that Danielle Steel sucks. I'd go crazy if the conversation went like this:

"I like Danielle Steel"
"Danielle Steel sucks"
"Have you read any of her books?"
"Half of one of them"
"Isn't it mighty presumptuous of you to think she's bad when you haven't even completely read a book of hers?".

See? This is also the reason I watch crappy tamil movies. Honest!

Anyway, as I was saying I don't usually leave a book half-read. But ironically (I hope I'm using 'ironically' right), I recently read an IEEE article by Steve McConnell and it made an impression. No more am I going to read a book to the end just because I started reading it.

Reading 'Code Complete' was one of my 43 things. I'll be deleting that thing now.

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'Code Complete' Previewed

2005-02-09T20:41:00.000+05:30

When I start reading a classic, I feel so good inside. "I'm going to be a genius when I'm done with this book!"......Thoughts like that.

This monday, I bought a second-hand copy of 'Code Complete' (The First Edition). Figured that if everybody thinks it's a great book ("Best Book I've Read!", " Greatest Programming Book!"), then it must be true. And that when I finish those 896 pages, I'd be a lot wiser than I am now.

Later, checking out the back cover, I discover that it's a book dealing with procedural programming!! Procedural programming?!?! What the heck?! Not even Program Design is within the scope of the book. It's just a book about coding using procedural langauges.

I haven't yet looked at the contents of the book. The book lies with the ten or so other books I am simultaneosuly reading. But I can't help wondering what the book is all about. Maybe the first four hundred pages deal with the Art of avoiding the One-Off Error. And the next four hundred are about strategies to pick suitable variable names.....

When I buy a book on programming, I expect Design Patterns Damn It!! And it's got to have "object" mentioned atleast ten times on the back cover!! And if the foreword isn't by Grady Booch, Martin Fowler, Kent Beck or one of their buddies I'd be pretty disappointed.

Anyway, this Steve McConnell must be pretty lame to be dealing with "Procedural Programming". What does he build? Mission Critical Tetris Software?

P.S: I kid! I kid!! The book is probably going to teach me stuff I Didn't Know I Didn't Know. And I'm going to go "Whoa!" And then I'll probably go "Whoa!" some more!

P.P.S: Are there catalogued procedural design patterns? A quick google search gave me nothing. I've never been involved in the creation of large-or-medium scale software using the procedural paradigm, so I really don't know, but if the field is sufficiently mature, shouldn't there be a bunch of commonly used design patterns?

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Religion

2005-02-05T23:16:00.000+05:30

The tonic of Religion instills those values which prevent people from stealing office supplies.

Side effects include a tendency to mass-murder.

Technorati Tags: religion, atheism, humour, humor, funny

My Autobiography

2005-02-03T23:38:00.000+05:30

"Everything you always wanted to know about me but were way down the social ladder to directly ask".

Watch out for it in twenty years.

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My Second Post

2005-01-31T22:12:00.000+05:30

I've decided to start blogging again. My first post didn't really do as well as expected (No bloggie nomination that year). After much persuasion by the voices in my head, here it is. My second post.

2003-12-02T14:09:00.000+05:30

Testing. Need to make sure this thing is working