How you guys doing.. returning after almost a couple of months.

Things have changed a lot for good, am returning to Bangalore after 3 years. Its good logical progression, career growth, overall a sense of satisfaction and clarity of thoughts. It would be wrong to say won't be missing Mumbai, yeah its been fun to live here specially Andheri have grown kind of an attachment to this place and overall Mumbai life style (Mumbai rains, local train, Juhu beach, Marine Drive, Oberoi and Infinity malls and everything) has been really choool.

Bangalore is my favorite place to live and settle down. Had started my career here. Its weather, peaceful clean environment and a very thriving ecosystem of IT giants that gets the best out of you in every aspect. Growth and challenge here is much fast paced than any other in part of India. And overall some good friends who I missed very much... :)

Good luck to all the wonderful guys here and do keep in touch... :)

Lots of things going on these days, exploring WCF and REST technologies I wonder how fast we are going, with every six months we have a new set of tools technologies and releases. Even Gordon Moore would not have predicted the current state of affairs in information technology space.
We are about to surpass the rate of change predicted by Moore's Law for semiconductor and processor technology. But then rapid strides are also making it easier for people like us help people's lives with use of these technologies.
Remember the days when we used to code in C++ ATL framework. It was so cryptic and overwhelming to develop simple fucntionalities let alone the entire projects. Its a lot better today, even to the extent where kids out of college can write software without understanding much of the basic principles thanks to abstraction and out of box in-built frameworks available on all major platforms.

Perfect finish for Fernando Alonso with full drivers points and man what an exciting race it was Singapore Grand Prix the only race to be held at night.. Lets see who's going to win the world championship my bet on Vettal or Hamilton.. :)
keeep racing..

Its really really hard to wait now tomorrow I'm leaving for two weeks leave and thats almost after an year that have got this.. :)
So its Hamilton in Belgian Grand Prix winning comfortably and now on top of the drivers ranking.. its good I'm a good fan of Hamilton and even tried to have a glimpse of him in person when he was in Mumbai couple of years back but had to content with seeing him on television as of now.. good racing..

This week China became the second largest economy behind only to the US surpassing Japan which held this position for the last 43 years. It also surpassed Germany in terms of total exports to the GDP ratio.
India is the 11 economy in the world today. In 16 Century we were the second largest economy with the global trade share of 24.5% aggregate this was the time when Emperor Aurangzeb ruled and this was the largest share by any country in the world ever.
After that British East India company came to the power in early 19 Century and this share reduced to 16% then ultimately 12.2% by 1870. And now we are sitting at a paltry 6.3% of the global trade share that too when our population is 1/5th of the globes population.
These are some of the not so interesting statistics, came across in The Times of India today....

Alls well here these days.. going through some good stuff on SharePoint 2010 as shared by one of the colleague, its really good and informative..
Started or resumed my study on Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith the very genesis of economical, social and political aspects of the present day society as we live.. language of the author is very dense but will get through as you read on..

Ramzan is going in full swing.. Its a month of fasting and prayers for Allah Rabbul-alameen, having patience, helping others, giving sadqaah (monetary help) to poor and section of society who can not afford these, in there good deeds and stoping from bad deeds which are not good for the humanity.. its a one month practice so that we human can follow it through out the year..
Cant wait to go home on EID almost after a year now.. :)

Some tragic news coming from the situation in Jammu Kashmir landslides.. more than 600 missing many dead.. Mumbai also is facing an environmental crisis with oil spill contaminating its waters.. its better to avoid sea foods untill situation improves.. overall tough times..

Indian loosing to New Zealand by 200 runs.. its very sad our team is capable of doing much good only we have to be consistent and play less cricket..

I tried to reason with but some questions I'm not able to understand.. what would it take to have decoration flower pots costing 30 Crore, a ballon to be hoisted in opening ceremony for 50 Crores and a total budget that can be any where between 10,000 to 50,000 crores with no or limited visibilty and accountability... Really Government and Commonwealth Games committee has lots to explain to the people...

Formula 1 is gearing towards an exciting competition between Hamilton, Webber, Vettel with some surprise elements who can pitch in any time or in at least any single race disturbing the very momentum... just 4 points gap between Hamilton and Webber, its going to be an all out game of lead building... Webber wins at Hungarian Grand Prix is well deserved, one of the toughest circuits at 7.1 Kms with top speed straights to die for as an F1 driver...

Blackberry issue with the governments in India, UAE, Saudi Arabia and its Canadian provider... ideally the federal authority of state should control, regulate and access information in todays highly complex world... with our world getting more and more unsafe place to live in, it seems right as a matter of opinion and public policy that Government should know things as they need to for the better good of our society and humanity as a whole... but we need to pause here and think its a thin line of trust, privacy and control that needs to be simultaneously addressed...

A very good article on an interactive adhoc query system "Dremel" from Google Labs as suggested by one of my colleague... overall its interesting and a good read...

Nothing much going on these days just working on some Lotus Notes SharePoint Migration Framework and exploring SharePoint 2010 custom development..

Currently reading this very nice book from Peter Senge - The Fifth Discipline, may be a good management fad but there are some real learning into personal mastery and changing the way we look into an aspect from systems approach, also for reference Harold Kerzner is an authority on this and his work in systems approach is very fundamental and original to this discipline in general management, I've read his book while in college and still some times look towards it really gives better perspective... Lets see what comes ahead.. Happy reading till then..

Ramzan is coming next week.. it will be day fasting, prayers, rememberance of Allah-Rab-Ul-Aalameen.. its the holy month of Muslims around the world and then comes the EID.. Planning to go on leave for EID probably around first week of September.. its been long since I went home.. its gonna be fun :)

Gaming really keeps me up and running. Just now cleared Challenger Series - Challenege 9 - Need For Speed - Most Wanted. had been trying since a couple of days but could not get through.. now its my name on the Blacklisted community block.. Enjoy buddy beware I'm gonna beat each one of you by not seconds but minutes probably.. Fiat Punto and Corvette rocks..