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.

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

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.