Programming Myself.. Ambati Sreedhar

In my current project MS CRM customization I am working with a fresher Vishal.

 

My experiences  with him are:

 

I am remembering my days when I was a fresher.

I use to work by forgetting the food.

Trying with different options and completing the work in the given time and asking for more work.

 

Still I have that josh but intensity was reduced.

But after working with him I am also working as if I started my career just now like that.

I liked  working with him.

Now I am taking lunch at 4 pm staying office upto 10:30 pm.

 

But working with a fresher and with his full pace is difficult as I stayed with industry for more 4 yrs..and it is difficult to maintain with the same pace with freshers.Now they have full josh and high spirits and new ideas.

 

But anyway I love working with new things and new people.

 

Last week :

I want to go to my native place on Friday morning. Trains are cancelled and same case in evening and unexpectedly I went to Bojug meet.There I saw one of my caritor colleague ( I like her very much and I proposed her too) .Now she is with Sun. But could nt find time to talk  with her.

Bojug is a nice meet.

From last two weeks I am working on MS CRM customization. Again new area for me.

Really liked my TL and PM. Venkat finds and solves the design issues in rapid speed.

 

My first CRM code is : getting guid using javascript

 

 

 

 

In these 4 yrs of my experience in software industry I learned so many things related to technical and

nontechnical things.
Project Managers are paid more than developers.
People who are having good communication skills reaches to the top levels faster.
Why I mentioned the above .. I have reason ...
Why some projects fail even though they are having good functionality comparing with their competitor

products ..? Reasons may be poor marketing, managing skills . Leave these organisational issues.They

fail because of lack of User Experience capabilities.
When I joined as a fresher I have very bad idea on UX things and people who are stressing on that.
But it was changed now.
It plays a vital role in the success of the projects.

Vic's "Building Great UX With .Net"
I know before the session itself that it is not a technical session.
But I know the importance of UX.
And he told before starting to the session that it is not going to be a technical session.
I liked his frankness.
Among all the keynotes delivered in Developer Summit the best keynote was from "Jesse James Garrett".His

speech is not new technical trends but about the importance of user experience and innovation. Everybody

appreciated his session.
Now world understood the importance of UX in every aspect.

Vic started his session with a slide which has a question like "Is UX=UI? Or is just another buzzword.."
He gave answer to it and told the importance of it.
User Experience is about everything like adaptability,extensibility,scalability,reliability,performance.
He explained the different roles played by different persons in the industry like Information

Architect,Interaction Designer,Usability Engineer,Visual Designer,software architect and how these

people fit in User/Human-Centered design.

If developer has taken little care about UX while coding it will show great impact on the user

acceptance and it differentiates in the market place.
One slide which helps organisations where to invest and how much to invest...
That graph shows user-adoption vs purpose.
Choose agile fora UX-friendly process like Test Driven Development,Behaviour Driven Development,Domain

Driven Design.
Testing  UX can be done using heavyweight ,lightweight ,tunnel vision.
He discussed about UX patterns. Can find at infragistics.com/ux.
Refactoring also plays a vital role in UX.
Net gives you so many technologies but not UX expertise and design,Human - Centered Thinking.
So you have to incorporate those qualities.

Some references:
www.welie.com
www.lukew.com/ff
www.uxmatters.com
For better UX we have to change our approach "Design from the outside in!"

Vic can be reached at vic@infragistics.com
Overall it gave insight about the importance of UX and its a good session.

Presentation is available at:
http://bdotnet.in/files/folders/ppts/entry2000.aspx

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bojug started by Ranganath (cisco) ,Amith, harish, Angath.

Students also attended for this event.
I dont know the address of the venue.I am a member of this group from a long time but attended for the first time. Thanks to muslim guy who gave address

details through chat facility of his blog.He is studying in NITK Suratkal.

I got some useful information from Ranganath before the session regarding active user communities in open source world in Bangalore. They are bangpipers,

python ,grooovy , Ubunto (usually conducts in IISC Bangalore),Solaris user group.

 

Last Friday ie 27th June it was organised at Sun Microsystems.

 

JavaFX : Harish
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So many guys attended to know the sense of JavaFX.
More expectations from this session.
So many guys came here to know more about JavaFX.
We expected a more interesting session from the speaker.
But the session didnt well right.
Didnt get satisfactory answers for the questions asked by audience.
But Vaibhav, Rohan tried their best.
JavaFX on mobile still yet to come.
They are far lagging behind from Adobe AIR and Microsoft Silverlight.
I met an old Adobe friend Ajay here.
Only one girl that attended the session and she left in the middle as the session is not upto the mark.

SE 6u10
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blogs.sun.com/vaibhav

He showed some demos on JavaFX too.
requires firefox 3
Nimbus Look & Feel (It came late as it Windows XP look and feel)
Drag & Drop plugin. It will create process in another JVM. Audience asked more question how it was implemented. Speaker is very good in answering to the

doubts.

Kernel JRE .Its file size is only 1.4MB less than Adobe flash(1.5 MB).
What is warm and cold startups

Java deployment toolkit
Translucent and Shaped windows

Its a good session.He gave so much information in a short time.Gave satisfactory answers to the questions raised by audience.
He is a jovial person too.Timely jokes which I enjoyed too. But he has to keep a watch on them too.

Third Session :From JourneyMan to Master by Rohan.Ranade@sun.com
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Nowadays I am feeling that I am working more than 100%. No time for my personal life.
Felt of changing the job too.
But this session bring back my spirits.
The best session.
Rohan really gave useful information for a true developer.
He gave so much useful information how to become a true architect.
He shared some book names, blogs, podcasts,videos.
I am having the list too which I will post it later after doing some initial study.
Thanks Rohan.Good job.

Thanks Ranganath and Amith.
We are expecting atleast one session per month to raise the spirits in the Bangalore java community.