Gr8 s/w quotes

UNIX is simple. But It just needs a genius to understand its simplicity.
–Dennis Ritchie

Before software can be reusable, it first has to be usable.
–Ralph Johnson

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
–Fred Brooks

Theory is when you know something, but it doesn’t work. Practice is when something works, but you don’t know why it works. Programmers combine theory and practice: Nothing works and they don’t know why.

It’s hard enough to find an error in your code when you’re looking for it; it’s even harder when you’ve assumed your code is error-free.
-Steve McConnell Code Complete

If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilisation.
-Gerald Weinberg

The Six Phases of a Project:
Enthusiasm
Disillusionment
Panic
Search for the Guilty
Punishment of the Innocent
Praise for non-participants

Good code is its own best documentation. As you’re about to add a comment, ask yourself, ‘How can I improve the code so that this comment isn’t needed?’ Improve the code and then document it to make it even clearer.
–Steve McConnell Code Complete

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
–Bertrand Russell

No matter how slick (efficient) the demo is in rehearsal, when you do it in front of a live audience the probability of a flawless presentation is inversely proportional to the number of people watching, raised to the power of the amount of money involved.
One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.
–Robert Firth

Fifty years of programming language research and we end up with C++?
–Richard A. O’Keefe

C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
–Edser Dijkstra

You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time.
–(Bertrand Meyer)

There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third works.
–Alan J. Perlis

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
–Bill Gates

The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time.
–Tom Cargill

Programmers are in a race with the Universe to create bigger and better idiot-proof programs, while the Universe is trying to create bigger and better idiots. So far the Universe is winning.
–Anon

As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn’t as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.
–Maurice Wilkes discovers debugging, 1949

I did say something along the lines of “C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows your whole leg off.”
–Bjarne Stroustrup

It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants. It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.
–Alan Cooper About Face

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
–Pablo Picasso

If the code and the comments disagree, then both are probably wrong.
–attributed to Norm Schryer

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
–Will Rogers

Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer .
–Fred Brooks, Jr.

As we said in the preface to the first edition, C “wears well as one’s experience with it grows.” With a decade more experience, we still feel that way.
–Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie

Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability
–Edsger W.Dijkstra

I’ve finally learned what “upward compatible” means. It means we get to keep all our old mistakes.
–Dennie van Tassel

Rules of Optimization:
Rule 1 Don’t do it.
Rule 2 (for experts only): Don’t do it yet.
–M.A. Jackson

Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
–Alan Kay

Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written, and another for which it wasn’t.
–Alan J. Perlis

Technology is dominated by two types of people: Those who understand what they do not manage. Those who manage what they do not understand.
–Putt’s Law

Copy and paste is a design error
–David Parnas

Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else.
–Eagleson’s law

The primary duty of an exception handler is to get the error out of the lap of the programmer and into the surprised face of the user. Provided you keep this cardinal rule in mind, you can’t go far wrong.
–Verity Stob

tech blog : new idea

I started one tech blog web developer school . Blogging and editing the blog templates makes me some knowledge as well as interest in web programming. So I decided to write down the experiments in web. I hope it will enlarge your knowledge as well as my interest.

The age of 'blog ' pathys

Read this chennai chronicle news . This will really encourage you to blog because laks of people are blogging daily in India.

The age of 'blog ' pathys

Frustrated with the fact that the money making drill known as your job has evolved into sitting at a desk from 9 to 5, getting paid peanuts at the end of the month? For all those buckling under the monotony of daily life, the global phenomenon called blogging may just have opened the doors to wealth heretofore unseen in office space.

But how does this work? The answer lies in the revenue generated from ads posted on each blogger’s site. Kiruba Shankar, a popular blogger from Chennai, says, “There are several ways to make a handsome earning through blogs. However, the most popular mode happens to be through ads, specifically – Google’s Adsense service. Subscribers of the service are paid a commission on the basis of the number of hits that ads placed on the subscribers’ blog get. The ads are posted according to the relevance of the blog.”

If you are a lover of gadgets and you frequently blog about the latest in gizmos, your blog could be posted with ads pertaining to local dealers of such gadgets, auctioning sites that sell them at different rates etc. The revenue earned by a blogger would depend on various factors. Ganesh, the blogmeister of Rupaiya.com explains this, “The money you make from the ads depends on the subject of the blog, it’s popularity and its ranking. For an ad space, one can earn anywhere between Rs. 2,000 to Rs. 9,000 per month. Hits on these advertisements could a fetch a blogger anywhere between Rs 4 to Rs. 300.” Ganesh says, “I have made about Rs 7 lakh in about a year and a half. But there are even those who earn from Rs 5 lakh to Rs 20 lakh per month.”

Parminder Singh, the business head of technology, Google India says, “The revenue as well as the exact number of bloggers in Adsense are confidential. Of course, it’s very popular in India and almost every major blogger is a part of it.”

However, ads are not the only way to make money through blogs. Ramanujam, an engineering graduate who makes more money from his blogs than his ads says, “I write product reviews and link my blog to the product’s website. So in turn, that company pays me.” He adds, “I have made almost a six-figure amount which is enough to sponsor my higher education.” But before these figures tempt you to quit your job and start blogging, Kiruba cautions, “It may look like the next big thing in terms of money, but it’s not as easy as it seems. Only a fraction make that kind of money. Moreover it takes a blogger almost a year, maybe more to make money.” Jamshed. V. Rajan, the product head of Ibibo.com, says, “Even though some portals have a system similar to Google’s, they are not as popular, due to the factors like accuracy, relevance etc.”

Are you getting the answer to the question ,'For what, are you studying '??

I am really strugging to get answer for that question. In my schooling days I thought , "I am studying for getting first rank in class". Then I understood that the answer was not sufficient for me to keep interest in studies.
Somehow I managed to get P.C Thomas tuition Centre in Plus two days. Then I understood , I was nothing , I was totally weak in lot of areas . Getting a good rank in P.C class was very difficult, that retarded my interest in studies. Then I kept another target as getting admission in a good engineering college. After getting ECE in Thrissur GEC, I realised that also not giving a permanent desire for study. For what I am studying ? getting good job, getting a rich girl, buying a car....etc.. These answers had come through my mind . But those were not giving me a final answer or an end to that question.
After started to write some technical things in my blog, I realised that I could have write more technical things or whatever I had studied. That would be very useful to next generation and also my article or blog would live even if my age over. Currently what I am thinking, just write down in blog whatever I am studing. Actually these intention, really give me interest in studing.

Oldest Couple bloggers a hit on net

Krishnaswamy (76) and Vasantha (73) have been active bloggers since 2005, the couple claims that they spend at least an hour every day to post their blogs. ( probably they are the oldest blogging couple in India). Krishnaswamy currently maintain three active blogs. http://www.blogger.com/profile/0059972677032452

earlydays.blogspot.com, jothidam.blogspot.com,bodhimaram.blogspot.com

His wife have two blogs ( http://www.blogger.com/profile/11276978525398082572

helpmeheal.blogspot.com
keytowellness.blogspot.com



These two are interesting characters I found in todays deccan chronicle.

Watch google adsense demos..

If you have interest in online internet free money making, then you can use the google adsense. Actually adsense will pay you according to the clicks and number of page impression to your web page or blog. You can see some online demos here..

Getting started with google adsense

https://www.google.com/adsense/logged_out

Effortless money making ideas from internet

If you want to do online free money making business, start one blog or site and read these sites and blogs...

http://www.geocities.com/onjochi/money.htm

http://make-money-online-ideas.blogspot.com

http://onlinemoneyideasforu.blogspot.com/

http://www.reviewscentral.blogspot.com/

http://www.freetipsandwits.com/moneymakingblog/

The 96-yr-old who blogs

Understand the meaning of the words of Randall on his 96th year.

"I am a learner. I believe that when one stops learning he ceases to live and that it is never too late to learn,"

These words are nice and encouraging me to do what I am hided in myself.


Randall Butisingh

At an age when people begin to lose interest in many aspects of the world around them, 96-year-old Randall Butisingh not only mastered the intricacies of the internet but also began his own blog, which describes him as one of the world's oldest bloggers and shows him as a man with a remarkable catholicity of interests.

The grandson of indentured workers who were taken to Guyana to work on sugar plantations, Butisingh has watched the world transform many times over in the past nine decades and has adjusted himself to the changes.


"I am a learner. I believe that when one stops learning he ceases to live and that it is never too late to learn," Butisingh said.

At the age of 80, he learnt Arabic so he could read the Quran. At 95, he began studying Spanish and he is doing it "poco a poco" (little by little). Butisingh has an agile mind and an eager interest in life and at present he is studying the Hindu religion and philosophy.

Butisingh's blog is versatile. Its subject categories vary from Buxton (his home town), economics, world politics, environment, history, philosophy, poetry, psychology, religion and an inspiring thought for the day.

In April, Butisingh posted a blog on his website that stressed the need to keep the internet an open arena and out of the hands of those who wished to place restrictions on this free medium. He responds to every comment or response to his popular blog.

Born in Buxton, Demerara, in what is now Guyana, Butisingh has never visited India since he does not like travelling, but he has followed Indian history and geography.


"The person I admire most is Mahatma Gandhi, the architect of India's freedom. Although I never saw him, I wept when he died as many did all over the world," he said.

He has three collections of poems to his credit - "Love's Light", "Wild Flowers" and "Love's Balm". His poems were written in the 1970s and he was inspired to pen them after reading about the life of the late blind and deaf humanitarian, Helen Keller.

Explaining his daily routine, Butisingh said: "At my age, I do not work strictly as per routine. I cannot read for very long although I have good eyesight. You may find me in the day resting for hours and at nights up until two or three reading or typing up my blog.

With the death toll from a massive earthquake in China now above 67,000, the government aims to prevent new deaths by protecting survivors from possible floods and the threat of a disease outbreak. Jamila Trindle reports from Beijing.



Chinese health officials said Tuesday that they have begun the country's largest public health effort in recent history to guard against the threat of epidemics among survivors of the Sichuan earthquake.

Concern about possible outbreaks is rising not only because survivors are living in cramped, sometimes unsanitary areas, but also because the threat of disease is always higher in the summer. Officials say there have been cases of diarrhea, tuberculosis, and hepatitis among survivors, and they are monitoring the cases closely.

Ministry of Health official Chen Xian Yi says researchers have compared the current outbreaks with disease patterns before the quake.

Chen says that they have found that there are no more cases after the earthquake. In other words, he says, so far, there has been no big outbreak of disease.

While health workers focus on disease, soldiers are trying to evacuate an additional 80,000 people from around a lake that formed when a landslide dammed a river during the quake. With heavy rains expected in the coming days, there are fears the dam could give way suddenly, causing a flood that could endanger more than a million people. More than 70,000 people evacuated the area earlier.


how deeply the disaster affect the people in china. If you want to see the coordination of chineese people even in this critical situation read the ppt . http://naveendavisv.googlepages.com/Earthquake11.ppt

A Crorepati who lives in a HUT!

http://noelatwork.blogspot.com/2008/05/crorepati-who-lives-in-hut.html is really touching blog entry. If you read this blog, then you have lot questions and doubts about entrepreneurship. E Sarathbabu, a self made enterpreneur gives you lot of confidence to start a business. His life is ansewer to who is an entrepreneur ?, Who can start a business and from where you get courage to face problems in business ??

Entering into Insurance Domain

I am doing LOMA certification. For that I am getting a Insurance Class. Actually this is a fully new subject to me. Lot of terms that are unknown to me. First three classes really tough to get, because teachers, sorry BA(business analyst), they are starting with insurance terms and also I had missed first 7 chapters.Anyway I started to new area of knowledge, more related business and money.

ubuntu counting my patience

I tried to get play audio and video in Ubuntu Linux. But it's showing "Totem could not start up" message. After that I went for downloading some other player.Then Synaptic Package Manager is showing some error like

W: Couldn't stat source package list http://archive.ubuntu.com hoary-updates/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_hoary-updates_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)


this. I tried toinstall php also in ubuntu. But it also failed. 'apt-get install' is also not working. Now I am totaly upset.

Sea bath

This is very hot season in chennai. Actually people call these days as Agni Nakshatram( burning star).In room I cann't sit, fortunately power cut is also there in my place( ha ha) .Today I got a chance to bath in sea. Really enjoyable.I went to Basant Nagar Beach at 5.30 pm.I called my hcl
friends also.Lot of people were enjoying the sea bath till I came
back(7.45 pm).Actually the water is not good for bath because it is
mixed with sand as well as some dirty things. Anyway after a long time I took bath in sea.
If there were more trees in chennai , it would have really helpful to escape from these hot season. Instead of trees, only building are here. It will only help to increase the temperature.The thing I understood , I have AC in my office, but the cooling I got from the sea shore had some more safty or calmness than I am getting from office.

MLM in all forms is illegal: experts

Actually this was Deccan Chronicle news on Saturday 10 may 2008

Before going to join any MLM ( multi level marketing ) you should read and understand these words :

Speaking about the 'pyramid modeled' businesses, Ms. Shobha lyre, the deputy director of Citizen Consumer & Civic Action Group(CAG) says,"When the perpetrator and the victim of the crime are one and the same, it's matter of greed overtaking good sense. Unless the business is registered with a proper license, those involved will not come under the purview of the Consumer Protection Act".
Mr. Chandrashekar, special public prosecutor for the CBI in the high court says that MLM companies are governed by the 'Prize chits and Money Circulation schemes ( Banning) Act'. He explains, " According to judgement passed in 2005, the so-called MLM squarely falls under the defintion of 'money circulation schemes' under the aforementioned act."
He adds, " In fact, enrollment of new members to the MLM scheme with a promise of an incentive is illegal. Under Section 7 of the act, any meeting held to canvas people or influence them to join
an MLM chain can actually be stopped by the law of enforcement authorities."

89 % of the people in pyramid model business is not getting any profit .

read more here why I wrote this blog.. questnet problem and hindu news
http://mohanbn.com/blog/chennai-police-crack-on-questnetgoldquest/

From http://www.createlf.com/

my blog traffic is not through college friends, but through blog dictionaries

In order to get traffic to blog, I sent blog link to my friends. But only few of them responded for once or twice. Meanwhile I joined in blogcatalog . For first two weeks I don't have idea about how to use that. After that I added some good blogs and site authors as my friends and neighbours. At the same day or next day they were sending messages like "thnks for adding me as friend or nice blog ". Actually these people really encouraging me to blog. Then I searched what are the other blog dictionaries.Blog dictionaries are where you can submit your blog or website and make friends there, can make even communities there. I got some . Actually there I found lot of people (more women) doing internet business( full free. no cost, nothing ). They have four or five web site . They beautifully maintaining those and achieving good traffic !!!!!!!!!!

www.blogcatalog.com
www.blogdigger.com
www.blogadda.com
www.blogsvertise.com
www.topblogarea.com
www.mybloglog.com

Amazon Ads in blogspot

I added some amazon advertisement to my blog. Actually it is very simple to do.
Go to amazon associates . There you have to create one account and register your web site. When you log in, you have an option to 'build links/widgets '. From there select your format of advertisement and you will get html code with your account id inserted(verify it) . Copy and paste it in your blog.... thats it.

ubuntu running

Today only I installed ubuntu linux. After installation I had xserver configuration problem in ubuntu so that I could not go to graphics mode. I tried lot off time to login as root(super user) . Actually ubuntu will not ask root password at installation time. Finally I had to google for that. Then I got 'sudo' command. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo . Reconfiguring command for xserver is 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg'

A confession of a Btech student... the things I forgot to follow

Really I wasted lot off time in Btech life. When I joined in the Electronics & comm department , I thought I would get everything from teachers itself. But in Btech 90% of things, a student need to study by himself... that is fact. It is possible... easily possible. But you should follow whatever principles you followed in the schooling time. Wake up early at least 6 am. Give half an hour to every subject in every day. .... every body will have one time table in school time.One thing that is different in college, teachers will not take portions everyday . So we have to study ourself to cover that day portions. Main problem for students failing to follow these principles in Btech ( from my experience and problems me faced) are .....
Following some superheros..... Those are coming in car to college or showing that they have some money or having 3 or 4 girl friends to talk...haha. Don't follow them. They are only showing their father's money or what they got before coming to college. Believe that you are the superhero. Show your hard work and abilities in studies and helping others. You can show things that you learned after coming to college. For that you must try to clear your weaknesses..... struggle for that.
Wasting time . ... In my college life, I stayed in hostel. In that days , I didn't get interest to study, because no portions of subject were moving. ... Nothing to study. The subject that taking in classes were not interesting. But one thing I can tell, if you try to study subject daily , you can create interest in those subjects easily and you can follow teacher's classes also. But Btech study culture is, only studying in exam holidays. I will tell, you can pass exams with that study, but it will not give satisfaction in study. Don't follow that culture , follow the study culture you got from your schooling. My mother is a teacher, so I know how strictly I followed sch ool time table and my own time table , including weekly revision of subjects.( i really confessing. ) . I forgot to tell how I wasted my time in Btech life. Actually i didn't get my own private time. Always some friends wil be there.( these are not their problem only , I also included in disturbing others ) .. playing cards , going for movies, talking about waste things...... etc. These things are needed, I know . But no limitations was there in my Btech life. “ Better you take single room or come from home to college . You should get your own 5 hours time daily“ this is my first advice to Btech students.

Make use of everything in your college... attend your teacher's class.. I least go and attend the classes. If you are following the daily portions then that classes will be helpful. Attend seminars , technical talks of every subject ,including other department. “Don't think I am a electronics student so why should I attend a computer science or mechanical subject talk”. Attend... attend. No need to understand everything . Make use of your library. Read books.... Don't read for exam. Study to get some extra knowledge. This was the No:1 mistake I did in my Btech. I didn't take even a single book from my main library.... I am really regretting because of that. But I usually go and take magazines from my department library . There are really good books and magazines that you can not subscribe or buy. My favorites are 'linux for you', 'PC Quest', 'electronics for you'. Go and participate every technical programs in every college.

The things that you must follow other than you followed in school are you must make a habit of browsing Internet 1 hour daily . Relate the subject you studied and the information you got from Internet . Try to acquire knowledge,technology,computer programming language from Internet. This is not for CS ,ECE but for every Btech student, Every day you should try for some new thing from Internet. At the same time you should not go back in your college subjects.

Every week or month you should try a project with the information you get from college, internet, magazines, books. In electronics there are lot off magazines and projects avaliable . Try to do those things monthly as group( with your friends) or individual.

Try to read English news papers daily and discuss daily news. That will improve your English as well as communication skill.(second mistake I did)

TATAINDICOM broadband in my laptop ubuntu

I have adsl router.
step1: http://192.168.1.254 (type adsl username and password as 'admin')
step2: in Interface Set Up -> select ISP as PPPoE/PPPoA
. enter your broadband provider given username and password
. encapsulation : PPPoELLC
. give ip address : dynamic (in that page)
. SAVE

. click Maintenance -> Sysrestart
. click current settings
. RESTART
. wait upto RESTART complete.

step3: in Ubuntu
. System -> Administration -> Networking

. Enternet connection -> Properties

. configuration - > static ip address
. ip address : 192.168.1.7
. subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
. gateway : 192.168.1.254

. DNS : 202.54.6.60

Blog - giving me some interest in web design

Actually I had no idea about what is html and css. But after starting this blog and blog reading , i understood that lot off people are interested in blogging and they are also keen in decorating their blogs. With in 2 months I studied lot of html and css stuff that we can insert into our blog. More than that blogging taught me how to increase traffic to my blog and how to increase my blog page rank.Because I need more people to read my blog( dialy i search for some new idea to get one more viewer to my blog)and click my advertisement. Adsense money - www.google.com/adsense - is my one of the motivating thing for blogging.Actually this motivation gives me more interest in internet world. I even scrapped my blog address in orkut and my communities... ha ha. With in these days I got some good response as well as more bad response from my friends. But one thing I understood is more people from outside kerala are intersted in doing these kind of internet activities. You should update your blog daily base or weekly base and give some good information to your readers then only they will come again.This is not at all time wasting or money loosing. But it is improving my self study power, English and knowledge.