While I have utter regard for individuals who differ from me in terms of personal opinion, some of them do rattle me up. Like it happened one fine morning, when I accessed one of my Social Network's feed. "Confession - I dislike Google's range of assembly line products. Be it Orkut, Buzz, GMail, and the [...]
When Corruption Crusaders infiltrated Plagiarism
28th November 2011. Following the schedule of a normal Monday evening. Finish office work - Checked. Personal email - Checked. Cricket scores - Checked. Twitter timeline - Checked. Facebook feed - Check... wait a minute. *Goes back to twitter timeline* Confirm that someone copied a tweet without acknowledgment - Checked. (This Monday evening was no [...]
Social media best practices for representing an organization
Introduction I am an IT guy, who admires Social Media significantly. It is one of those areas where lives of several people have been made easier via Computers. The element I appreciate the most is the way it has made it easier for end user to interact with his/her favourite brands. As I observe organizations [...]
How to do cost cutting in the IT Industry
(Disclaimer - This article is intended to be a satire on the (mal)practices prevailing in the IT Industry. Those who know me personally should be able to gauge the tone with which I am narrating verses, those who don't can refer popular satire artists like Jaspal Bhatti. It'd be interesting if any of the suggestions mentioned here [...]
From small to medium – When IT Companies go wrong
Introduction This article is based on what I have observed in the last two years, when I started working in the IT industry, over what happens when an IT company grows in terms of work, money, resources, and infrastructure; but encounters few shortcomings that remain unattended most of the times. Kindly note, these are general [...]
Chronicles of Database Privileges
I am out of words over how to start this article, how to proceed with this article, how to conclude this article. Not that I don't have anything to convey, just that, I am a bit amazed over how to describe the events that had occurred. What happened? There was a set of PL/SQL code, [...]
“Good” PL/SQL Programming Practices
Few "good" PL/SQL Programming Practices, for optimizing and improving your code delivery efficiently. Based on self experience.
Oracle PL/SQL Tuning for the verdant Application Developer
Hi, Based on my personal experiences, I have written the following article - Oracle PL/SQL Tuning for the verdant Application Developer, wherein I have mentioned few interesting things I learned on the job from March 2009 to December 2009. (Photograph courtesy Arjun Suri) My purpose of articulating this piece is to share something that could [...]
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Hi, Welcome to my technical blog. I shall be showcasing here some of technical adventures (and misadventures) that have made their way into my life. A few socially relevant issues for whom I wish to raise my voice in a non-boulevard manner would be raised here as well. I wanted to write more in my [...]
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