Monday, August 14, 2006

What makes one a Senior Developer?


- Experience in interviewing candidates and making hiring recommendations.

- Experience in managing a team of intermediate/junior developers.

- Experience in estimating development time and bringing projects in within the given estimate.

- Experience in high-level architectural design.

- Solid knowledge of and experience in at least two different programming languages.

- Knowledge of the issues related to (but not necessarily experience with) all aspects of a software system including network, GUI, database, security.

- The ability to evaluate and offer recommendations on new languages/technologies/frameworks.

- The ability to think outside the box or go beyond existing solutions.

- The ability to coach/mentor new hires.

Monday, August 07, 2006

Qualified for the Summer ladder Tennis playoff

Had a tough summer season. Missed out on playing Joe Montagnino and Geoff Sessa in the list. Playoffs starting on 8/11, is going to be a very steep hill. Most likely will be facing Taylor in the first round, who breezed past me 6-3 6-3 in the only game we faced off. Below are the results.











Rank Points Player Win-Loss
1 331 Brian Cudney 14-1
2 319 Karthik Shanmugam 11-7
3 318 Alan James 9-4
4 303 Devang Shah 10-15
5 300 Joe Montagnino 11-4
6 297 Geoff Sessa 10-1
7 285 Taylor Busby 9-2
8 282 Adam Bernstein 7-5
9 281 Sameer Shaik 9-5

Sunday, August 06, 2006

Law of Conservation of Time

This is a new law as a corollary to the Newton's law of Conservation of Energy ( Every action as an equal and opposite reaction)

The amount of time you have, always remains constant.