Thursday, December 08, 2005

School's done for now...

Whew... Assignments, quizzes, presentations, group projects, exams..... All over for this semester! What a relief! Final exam was completed on Monday, grades were out on Wednesday. Glad that I "A"ced them all. Now it is time to get back to some learnng on my own, without any exams or quizzes. Let's see how it goes.

Thursday, November 24, 2005

Learning...

I have been planning to learn quite a lot. But it does not seem to happen. I still have the final exams for two of my courses, Strategic Management & Cost Benefit Analysis of Technology Management. By end of the first week of Decemeber, I should be done with my courses. I will try to catch up with the learning part once I am done with the classess, hopefully !

Tuesday, November 08, 2005

Programming for kids

My son wants to learn programming. What's the best that he could start with? I am not sure. Any ideas?

Monday, November 07, 2005

Just in case you are wondering...

what NFJS is all about... checkout http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com

No Fluff

It was that time again, time again for No Fluff, Just Stuff. I was not as much as excited as I was last year, when I went to attend it for the first time.
A couple of reasons...
- Weekends are turning out to the best(read, only) time for quality family stuff..
- Who ever who registered my name got my email in right, so no reminders..
- I messed up the dates, I had a quiz to take this weekend, for which I was yet to prepare
- Checked out the sessions, saw some repeats, oh no, please don't..

But then, I went to attend the conference starting friday afternoon, Two sessions of Dave Thomas back to back ( racing sheeps.. & Ruby) and a keynote on "Art in programming", got me back to senses on why I am here during this weekend! Oh, now I know why they repeat the sessions.. Dave was here last year, with the same session, but guess what, I was listening to someone else during that time.. It was a very interesting talk. Thanks Dave!!

I am still not sure whether I will attend these sessions next year, (not because of anything about the conference, but mostly because it would mean, missing out on a weekend with family which is turing out to be very very much needed...) but I definitely would recommend this to anyone interested in learning something during a weekend!!

The truth is.....

Its been a long time... A lot of promises.. none fulfilled...

That's the way it has been for me off late. All these ideas, dreams of much much to do and look what happens! Absolutely nothing done!!!

Its easy to make excuses, and I hate making them. But you know the truth is...

Friday, September 16, 2005

I am back, but not....

I am back from Vacation. But still has not yet started on the learning process, that I was hoping to achieve. Its been very busy with work, school and much much more... Hopefully, I will be ready to go in a while!

Saturday, July 02, 2005

A small break..

I am going on vacation for about a month. God, I need it very much. Back in August, everything will be back to the same, school, work, kids.. Piano lessons, chinese math, dance classes.. what not!

So I going to take a break from books and learning for sometime.
I hope to do some reading though! I am sure I will be all rejuvenated after this vacation, and will be ready to start all over again!.

Until next time!

Wednesday, June 29, 2005

Design Patterns Study Group?

I found this article by the authors of "Head First Design Patterns" book. The article talks about starting a Design Patterns Study group based on the contents of the HFDP book. I am very much inspired to start a study group like that at work. It would be a great opportunity to learn more. Joshua Kerievsky has lot of information on forming a Design Pattern study group here. I might as well check that out too..

Tuesday, June 28, 2005

Design Patterns

I started out revisiting design patterns, this time it will be here to stay. I read great reviews about "Head First Design Patterns" book. So this past weekend I purchased a copy of the book. I started going over the book. I find it different, and interesting. Happy learning!

Imbricating Thoughts

Mind is being imbricated with many thoughts. So I decided to separate them out. Imbricating Thoughts was then born! Even though it is titled imbricating thoughts, I intend to keep it less like it :)