Joel Spolsky Adorns My Blog

August 2nd, 2005 Joel Spolsky of Joel on Software fame has written an excellent article on the value of star programmers in a product development team. To summarize: Star programmers significantly outperform average programmers often with 5-10 times difference in productivity.

September 4th, 2006 Last week was an interesting one as hot debate raged over Joel Spolsky's article on enterprise language, Hani rightly bashed copious logging of open source software and my article on hacking attempts from Caltech topped the list of most read articles. We released Anaconda, a beautiful 3 column WordPress theme and version 3 of Translator Plugin Pro for WordPress.

July 19th, 2005 And if that’s not enough, it is brighter than LCDs. This could radically change publishing and art worlds.

April 10th, 2006 I found this hilarious blog entry (in present context) by Marc Fleury, CEO JBoss, against RedHat via Blogging Roller site. He adorns RedHat with some choice epithets which I am sure he wouldn't like to be reminded in present context.

March 25th, 2006 Ruby and ROR fanatics have adopted a highly annoying habit of luring hapless readers with highly provocative titles like "Ruby is not ready for production. Definitive proof".

July 19th, 2005 Since India has agreed to not share it with other countries, the US will now help grow India’s Nuclear technology, although details are still sketchy. Buried under “Disaster relief”: “Indian and US militaries will conduct ‘‘joint and combined military exercises’’.

July 30th, 2009 Digital River 2Q profit falls but beats estimatesMINNEAPOLIS — E-commerce software provider Digital River Inc. on Wednesday reported better-than-expected adjusted profit and sales for the second quarter, but forecast third-quarter profit below analyst estimates, sending shares tumbling in aftermarket trading.

June 23rd, 2006 It has been estimated (Kurzweil) that our brains can calculate at 10 petaflops per second, based on the number of neurons and the average number of connections per neuron. Riken has developed a supercomputer that it says achieves maximum theoretical performance of 1 petaflops (1,000 teraflops).

April 17th, 2006 Over the last few weeks, it's become obvious that America's immigrant community is seriously out of touch with the American cultural mainstream. Mainstream Americans don't go in for protest marches anymore (mass protests are so '60s).

April 17th, 2006 I blog for "Truth, Justice and The Indian Way"... Nah... I blog when I feel like it.

April 15th, 2005 Simple Thoughts Blog is now available in fourteen languages - English (original language), German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Chinese (simplified). You can bookmark the link above for your preferred language or access Translate icons from the right navigation bar.

October 23rd, 2007 Simple Thoughts was chosen as the name of this blog in distant past to highlight my approach - simple solutions for complex problems. The name stuck over the years.

April 5th, 2006 I have often wondered what is a true blog. Lets find out.

May 23rd, 2005 If you are interested in knowing more about this blog refer to this article on AwesomeBlogs.com featuring Simple Thoughts Blog.

March 10th, 2006 To my delight today I discovered the best java blog on the net. Check for yourself - Google I'm lucky search for best java blog :)