vague/wage thoughts on a Friday night

Everybody will have 100 odd things in there wish list. 

There is no right and wrong but there’s always a conventional way and winners don’t care for conventional way.

Between spending time on preparing road maps and just going for it is the difference between just planners and winners.

It’s not the talent that matters but consistent hammering and pushing oneself.

Hypocrites call it poor jokes and rest enjoy the creativity in the random wilderness of thoughts.

if you don’t keep quiet you run the risk of solving the problem.

If one is always afraid to try challenging things it’s better to master ‘ShavaSana’ than see others do other ‘Asanas’

How to punish oneself in one simple step? Hope to get a call from FM channels for a goodie. 

There’s nothing wrong in being a technical person as long as you are not a treason.

It’s Ok to aspire but one should not forget that there will be people who will take a superior stand to curb your aspirations. 

lastly, life is long to enjoy so don’t worry if you are not enjoying currently.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Design Patterns – Introduction

Of late.. I am discovering that I love teaching.. the preparation I put into teach others makes me understand the topics in a much better and cleaner way.

For starters, if you know design patterns its like .. you could be sure that you don’t design your system in a wrong way. If you want an efficient and a scalable system.. you need to factor in lot of things..

In fact,  I understood one thing. The best way to learn any new language is to first start with Design patterns. As a beginner to programming/coding one should not get enamored by the Syntax of that language(as they call it).

The best way to learn Java according to my experience is pick up Head first design patterns book and read it. Blindly, type all the code. You will learn how to use interfaces, inheritances etc etc., If you learn Java directly, no matter how much one explains the use of interfaces and inheritances one would not understand/appreciate it.

Learning Design patterns is a  continuous experience. The more you discuss with others the better your concepts would become.

I would encourage people who haven’t tried Design patterns to pick up the following:

1. Head First Design Patterns – java

Available on Flipkart: Price: 406/-

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

2. Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software - C++ (Gang of four)

Available on Flipkart: Price: at 356/-

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

3. .Net Patterns: Architecture,  Design and Process

Available on Flipkart: Price at 428/-

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction

“The book creates a new language, what the authors call a  ‘pattern language’ derived from timeless entities called patterns. As they write on page xxxv of the introduction, “All 253 patterns together form a language.” Patterns describe a problem and then offer a solution. In doing so the authors intend to give ordinary people, not only professionals, a way to work with their neighbors to improve a town or neighborhood, design a house for themselves or work with colleagues to design an office, workshop or public building such as a school.“

Available on Flipkart: Price: at 2847/-
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

As I write the series of articles on Design patterns I would like to read the above books as my reference
To be continued..

what is growing up?

growing up..is not only growing taller.. it is becoming “Acceptive”!!!

i started to write this on July 20 2010!!!

But now, it is end of 2011.. what do i feel about growing up!!

I feel the same still but growing up is making new mistakes and try to mitigate old ones.. and also growing up means becoming SMART..

then.. what is growing Old?

growing old according to me is growing to tolerate others and accepting others thoughts and feelings and accommodating them!

Just completed an old draft…

Fire in the equations – Kitty Ferguson

I was wondering where I can pick up this book from India..
Flipkart: 1013/-

Infibeam ebook: 473/-

Infibeam: 1021/-

IndiaPlazawhooping: 680/-!!!!

Is IndiaPlaza better than Flipkart and Infibeam when it comes to imported books!!??

Very interesting..

Preparing yourself for the next big thing.. Marathon it is

My next big assignment.. to run a marathon….

some of the tips I got for running long..

1. keep chocolates with you…
2. don’t go and run in open grounds..
3. run on roads.. preferably from 8 to 9..
4. wear cotton undies..and put plasters on nipples when running long distances..
5. Put vaseline .. u know where..
6. best of all.. the last point.. SIGN UP FOR A MARATHON three months before the marathon.. and start preparing!!!!

Yay!!!!

Day 1 efforts:
5.8KM -> 40 minutes..

Hmmm.. end of the year 2011

I want to sit back lot of stories of 2011.

it all started with jari, simha in Pizza hut on the last day of 2010.
Rich rich memories of MH2, iiitb, SR’s meetings, TA corrections, monitoring the sessions, taking attendance, TT, hacks, websites, conferences..
The awesome Hyderabad trip with Bodhi, Rashmi VH, Rashmi Rao, Sudha Mani, Karthikeyan, Vamsi, Naveen, suji!!!
The awesome leather ball matches with Tarun, Adithya P, Sid, Sangarsh, Ather, CP, Shivam, prateek, amitesh, abhishek, sanket, chitresh..
The bestest bestest Spandan 2011.. where mtech2009 batch were both runners up and winners.. and I was part of the runners up:D
What a moment it was to reach the semis and finals of mixed badminton finals with she kp in spandan 2011.. playing at 3.30 am and 5.30 am semis and finals against yet another 2009 batch mates.. prateek and shwetha!!! another silver medal…!!!!!
Travelling trips to dinner with almost no energy to walk with bodhi and avinash!!!
Seeing abhaey, CP, bodhi and Tarun win the football in spandan 2011!!!
Then came the weekly meetings of thesis and corrections spree.. when I took only programming questions and automated the corrections:D.. the meetins with shrisha rao sir and Jaya ma’am!!!
the anxiety of getting a 4/4 gpa in third sem.. only to have a sigh of relief to compensate for a dismal 2.5/4 in first sem..
going to college and coming down home from college with Sushma!!!! Getting up early.. and running to pick her up..eating oats and carrying and sharing carrier with her!!!
constant taunts on bodhi’s negligence and interest towards hacking of college’s network..
awesome time with Amit Paul and bodhi in his room.. with dhwanit and abhishek joining after class hours.. and neelesh and gaurav calling me bhaiya bhaiya whenever they saw us!!!
The day when our parents met sushma’s parents and decided that we have to get engaged..
the hurry to paint the house when sushma’s parents came to visit our place for the first time!
the hurry in which our engagement got fixed…
how my thesis got completed during the day of spandan itself… i.e. good 4 months before the actual completeion of Mtech..
then the hunt to get into a job before engagement..
failing to get thro in schneider… tata infotech..
narrowly missing out on deloitte for god knows why reason..
for the call of the year from Archan to come for the interview to SAP labs.. and how I had the time of my life with a class of an interview with jayanth and netra…and how i got thro SAP labs!!
How awesome it was to develop a php website for Hci 2011 and becoming the volunteering co chair for that.. and how awesome it was to interact with Murali sir..
the vistis ot DRDO and talking about my work and abhinandan’s constant awesomeness with his progress in his thesis.. ather, nisha, karthikeyan, nabi added the great time in thesis meetings with prof. shrisha rao..
then coming to the engagement day.. how me and sushma shopped endlessly for our engagement.. how for the first in two years to earn a salary.. and how happy I was to earn money for the first time..
the shoppping for cricket bats. leather balls… wowow wow.. wish tarun stayed back in bangalore…
How awesome it was to see nitin,uff, phani, adi, rahil,shivdeep, pommi, katru, harsha, vikram on my engagment.. heartiest sorry for rajanna for missing out on that.. how awesome and how happy to see tarun, abahey, avinash, bodhi, mala, sandeepa, kp, cp, abhinandan, anupa, sunaga..
Mn of course missed out on his brother’s wedding also…
then came the bachelor’s party.. wow wow.. it was truly a thing to remember for my life.. but dearly missed tarun, phani and nitin….
whattta anaweome day it was.. continuously played for the whole day.. tirelessly!!!!!!!! wish i could it more.. with gulabi also around..
then came the graduation day.. the submission of my thesis .. thesis defense.. hwo prof. dinesha and prof. das were tehre in the panel.. whom I personally invited..
How bad I felt when i last drove out of college for the last time.. with abhaey and tarun still around in the campus.. (
how bad i felt when I paid the fine in the library.. met everybody in the college after joining sap…
it was very bad to see .. chitresh break his leg.. especially when placements were happening..
the last day when sushma took our pictures while coming back home.. the movie we watched after the last day.. is still fresh in my memory..

this ends the part 1..

part 2 starts now..

sap started.. tarun left to delhi..:( felt bad.. ( but what to do.. graduation day .. woooowwww whattta day it was.. all of us.. me and sunag.. came together and dressed up in black robes.. threw the hats.. photos.. when the moment arrived to take the degree from none other than NRN!! i felt proud.. in front of family friends and my fiance!!! and ya Rashmi had flown down to blr… and she witnessed a graduation day in iiitb!! wow .. a very special day.. the day before graduation day.. juniors gave me … a sporty award on our send off day:D:D::D.. it was very sweet of them.. and how we enacted mad-ads.. with preparation of just one hour.. with special appearance from none other than.. Bharath.. that day was our rehearsal day..

then came the italy thingy.. how I got my VISA in the last moment.. how nervous I was before flying.. I had to present reehan and arun’s paper also.. it was a very very nervous moment.. getting upgraded to business class to visiting trieste.. venice.. and on the way back flying past paris and wishing i want to come here!!!!

then came the big big big big moment of my life.. that is wedding day:D::D:D.. wow.. what a special moment it is for everyone!!! we got married.. !!!
our house got expanded to accmodate the newly wed!!!!
how tarun flew in just for my wedding.. how jari flew in from malaysia just for the wedding.. my special friends.. how awesome it was to see so many iiitbians on stage and all the speical people in the world .. coming and wishing us.. wow wow.. still gives me an adrenaline flow..
I don’t know how i treated anyone.. sorries if I didn’t take care of you all..

then came the malaysia trip.. wow what a great place Langkawi is!!! Kaulalumpur with sushma.. and having jari around in KLL made life so easy.. the night feelings walk with jari on our honeymoon.. was aweomse fun.. buying a tv and getting a flat 50% off made us even more awesome..

then after coming back from wedding.. things started to become serious at work.. on Xs.. then one fine day.. how jayanth and bharath asked me to travel to walldorf!!! that day still gives me goosebumps .. what an awesome awesome day it was!!!

walldorf trip with sam, sudha, shilpa, and rakshit.. and then to paris trip with sam and shilpa.. it was a very special trip.. learnt and interacted with some German colleagues. and learnt a lot from them…

bought so many gadgets this year.. beetel, nokia phone, slr, cannon point and shoot.. ::DD:D

read some amazing books.. namely rashmi bansals.. paul grahams. douglas crockfords.. etc, etc.,

what a sooper trek it was to Maaribetta and saavandurga…

took some awesome photos.. wrote no exams.. !!!

learnt a great deal of javascript.. spring, struts!!!
HANA, in memory, php, REST, Open APIs on Zomato..

Last but not the least.. watched India win the world cup 2011.. watched Sehwag beat Tendulkar’s record.. 219 against west indies..

saw another close friends getting engaged in 2011 itself.. !!! it’s year with lot of great people passing away.. the likes of steve jobs, dennis ritchie and many many lives were lost due to careless mishaps.. in wars and protests and terrorism..!

year full of inflation.. rising petrol prices..

Will 2012 be the same??!?!?! I am sure… It will be even more awesome.. with lots of sweet memories and a big thanks to all my best buddies..

love you 2011!!!
will misss u.. and you will always be special!!!

Cheers
vasanth

Maaribetta – 7 hours trek 10Dec2011

A decent get away from a monotonous work life. A trek path which is not tread by many but few. A trek which will leave you with a good feeling and lots of fresh air and greenery. A must trek spot for trekkers and photographers.

Maaribetta: Around 50Km from Bangalore. 4-5 kms detour from Kanakapura road on the way to Ramanagara.

Things to keep in mind

Lots of water.. atleast 2 bottles per person
Carry chocolates with you..
You might need to pack food and have it on top.
There are lot of thorns and bushes.. you might develop scratches.. so carry first aid kit
don’t wear loose clothes.
Wear shoes
Don’t wear sandals and socks. Small thorns might get stuck on your socks and it might tear your skin..
Again.. lots of water!
No leeches..

Enjoy your trek because it is going to be legendary!!

Video for the Universal Web

Video streaming over the Internet has become omnipresent. Content providers such as Netflix, Hulu, Apple, and Vudu don’t deploy their own delivery infrastructure, but use existing Internet distribution means to deliver their services. This streaming approach works surprisingly well without any particular support from the underlying network, even in heterogeneous access network environments, including mobile devices. This success is due to the use of efficient video compression, content delivery networks, and adaptive video clients. The following articles discusses lot of methods adopted like

• comparison of push-pull based streaming protocols
• end-to-end mobile and in-home streaming, current standardization efforts, and future challenges
• emerging MPEG standard for Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP
• World Wide Web Consortium initiatives regarding media annotations (for cross-community integration of multimedia objects), media fragments (for improved content access), and timed text (to enable online captioning)
• management of heterogeneous environments, including session mobility and adaptive streaming over a three-tier server-proxy-client architecture.
• address issues such as interactivity, packet loss, and client power constraints in mobile communication systems by using transcoders with dynamic feedback received from the terminals

Ref: computer.org

TIP Hungama – Last over 7 runs required..what happened?

It was one of those days, when I wanted to win very very badly. It was more of my ego issue. I had to win because it was long since I desired something really hard.

The first match was a tie. It meant, we had to go through to the next round with the best run rate in the group. It meant if we chased, we had to have 9.5 runs per over(or I guess more).. if we batted first, we had to dismiss them by 37 runs(atleast). It’s a 10 overs match.

Our captain, Giri won the toss. We choose batting. Sreeni and I opened the innings. Sreeni was at his best. He hit 4s and 6s. Showered them literally. All I had to do was, rotate the strike. I just did that. We had a fantastic start of 35 runs partnership until got dismissed trying to pull a low raising delivery from around the stumps bowler. he was frustrated. That is when me and Giri put a partnership of 20 odd runs until I got run out. I was disheartened beyond expression. How could I get out when I had decided not to get out? I was timing the ball very well. There was no way I could get bowled like the last match. No ball passed my bat to get caught behind. I was not trying extravagant shots. All ground shots. How How How!!!

But, Giri held the innings from the other end. At the end of 8 overs, score was 85 runs. Last two overs was not great. We scored just 7 runs. At the end of it, our score said 92 runs and target was 93 runs.

The experts ran the algorithm which churned out THE numbers. You have to restrict them below 59 runs to have the run rate to go to the semi-finals.
Trust me, we had a very good start. It was always a tensed moment for all of us. Fantastic bowling from Giri, Suhas and Sreeni saw us through the first 7 overs. I had bowled just one over that was I guess in the 4th over. I had given 7 runs.

The scores said 3 overs 24 runs ( 24+ 34 = 58 runs actually) for us to reach semi-finals. Sreeni bowled and unfortunately for our team, a catch was dropped which resulted in a four. A wide heave from the batsman got them a four between long on and where I was standing i.e. mid wicket. But he recovered back to give just 2 runs in the next 4 balls.

2 overs 14 runs required. Giri bowled, the penultimate over. he bowled very well. Gave just 7 runs.

Last over, was a drama. Who should bowl. When sreeni and giri were discussing whom to bowl. I ran from mid wicket and took the ball and said. ‘Don’t worry. I will bowl!’ But everyone was worried. Can I bowl? It was a very crucial over. We couldn’t mess. Suhas was not feeling well. (he plays for SAP Labs). So Suhas was not ready to bowl the last over.

I had only one thing running in my mind. ‘Let me see how can they score 6 runs in my over. I am ready to give you hell’:D.. I was really high on winning on the match. With the adrenaline rush I set the field. Sent everybody back except pradeep and a 3rd slip.

Bowled the first ball, a heave again and a simple catch at mid wicket. What happened? it was somehow dropped . yes. It resulted in 2 runs. Everybody was tensed and disappointed. I ran in to bowl the next ball with more vigor! Result: a wide ball!!!

Match was slipping out of hand. All the emotions were running dry. Everybody gave up. 5 balls 4 runs. Who can’t hit! A simple heave and it will result in a boundary and you are thrown out of the tournament. Another wide and a mis field .. you are out!!!!

I told myself. Attacking wicket to wicket is the only option. I ran in and bowled a perfect yorker. I was ready to celebrate the uprooting the stumps. unfortunately, the ball hit the batsman’s toes! Damn!

Last 4 balls 4 runs.

I ran in again with wicket to wicket strategy. Batsman, defended and I had to run across the pitch to stop it. No run.

Last 3 balls 4 runs.

I ran in again telling myself, you could it. Come on!! Win is all we want!
A ball outside off. A single taken!

Last 2 balls 3 runs.

This time my adrenaline was rushing even more. I was smelling the victory. I was ultra sure we are going through. But, there was a field change. Only man covering both mid wicket and long on. Giri came to short mid wicket to save the single. I protested. But, he reasoned, we can’t give singles and lose the match. I agreed.

I ran this time, telling myself, outside off, just short of length. Result: batsman beaten!

Last ball 3 runs.

Everyone sent to boundary line. Tensed moments. Very tensed moments. Heart beating heavily. Only one thought running through my mind. JUST ONE MORE BALL. JUST ONE GOOD BALL. COME ON VASANTH. I charged in. Outside off. Just short of length. Batsman hits the ball directly to gully. I ran to the gully and literally shouted at the gully fielder to release the ball!!!!!

it was over before I realized. We had made it!!!!!!!!!!!

I dashed around the ground with the best of the best feelings!!! Inexpressible happiness!!!

That’s all from my side. Tuesday Semi-finals. Hoping to go and win the TIP Hungama Cricket cup!

TIP Hungama – Last over 5 runs required.. what happened?

Two catches in mid-wicket long on region. One wicket and one run out in two overs.

My recent match.. thought of sharing.. target 75 in 10 overs.. opened the batting.. 5 overs 52.. 4 overs 45.. 3 overs 22.. 2 overs 9.. 1 over 5.. by then the opposite team had lost hopes.. that is when yours truly who had scored some 30 odd runs.. got bowled first ball of last over.. match ended in a tie!

A satisfaction to have played full innings from first ball. But in the end it didn’t matter..
when I had to finish it, I got out, just 5 more runs.. one easy ball.. didn’t judge the bounce and got bowled!

After a well constructed innings.. I thought I will finish it..

but…. shake of head..

sleepless night.. today.. and I am sure we will win tomorrow and we will reach semi-finals1!

Till then.. I should have finished thought will be there in the back of my mind!!!