September 2010
1 post
The Art of Momentum: Why Your Ideas Need Speed →
August 2010
1 post
prashantrajan's Code Blog
Just started a code blog as a one-stop shop for all my code snippets, gotchas and musings on software development.
Hop on over to code.prashantrajan.com and take a look.
February 2010
1 post
“Nothing gets done unless you make decisions”
May 2009
1 post
The Curse of a New Building « Steve Blank →
March 2009
3 posts
“Zidane added: … but most importantly he gives the players around him...”
– Zidane names Gerrard as best player in the world
“Most software developers are optimists. Painful experience teaches us to temper...”
– 97 More Things Every Software Architect Should Know
February 2009
1 post
“Copying skips understanding. Understanding is how you grow. You have to...”
– Why you shouldn’t copy us or anyone else - (37signals)
January 2009
3 posts
“The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.”
– CHARLES DE GAULLE
WatchDan Gilbert researches happiness | Video on TED.com
“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of...”
– Cesare Pavese
December 2008
6 posts
“Taking action without thinking things through is a prime source of problems.”
– Alec Mackenzie
“Sloppy success is always better than perfect mediocrity.”
– Alex Mandossian’s Blog
“There’s no teacher like experience.”
“when you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes rather...”
– _why
“Choose progress, not perfection.”
– Alex Mandossian’s Blog
“Businesses, like armies, always have to adjust to the facts on the ground.”
– When was the last time you looked at your business plan? - (37signals)
August 2008
1 post
The end-game in life
How would you like people to remember you after you die?
July 2008
3 posts
“What’s the difference between a programmer and a software engineer? A...”
– Amazon.com: “Start a Silicon Valley Dot-Com”
RIP Randy Pausch
See “Last Lecture” CMU Professor Randy Pausch Dies
I'm going to BarCamp!
I’m going to be at BarCamp Malaysia this weekend! Come say hello :)
June 2008
3 posts
“Chasing growth as an end in itself makes it all too easy to give up optimizing...”
– DHH in Finding the natural size for your company - (37signals)
Subversion Dev: Subversion, decentralized version... →
It’s a little dated but definitely worth the read. In a way it sums up the whole git vs. svn issue - they each have their place, duh! However, because the centralized scm concepts are easier to grasp (for geeks and non-geeks alike) and the svn GUIs are sufficiently advanced that even non-technical people get it, I’ll continue to advocate its use in private/commercial settings.
May 2008
3 posts
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are...”
– John Dalberg-Acton
“Don’t look for extraordinary people; build a place where ordinary people...”
– 6 Secrets of Breakthrough Companies
Fun Programming Exercise
Joel Spolsky in Architecture astronauts take over hits the spot with this definition of a fun programming exercise: A problem that is just hard enough to be interesting but not so hard that you can’t figure it out.
April 2008
6 posts
“Those who cannot love want power”
– Guggenbuhl-Craig
The Dilbert Blog: Doomsday Cult →
If everybody jumped off the bridge… would YOU?! →
March 2008
8 posts
“… when someone is being an asshole it’s usually uncertain even in...”
– Paul Graham in Trolls
“In an artificial world, only extremists live naturally”
– Paul Graham in You Weren’t Meant to Have a Boss
Perforce/ClearQuest Integration
I miss the good ol’ days of Trac/Svn with the joys of post-commit hooks. Alas, nowadays at work I need to use Perforce (for scm) and ClearQuest (for defect tracking) which lacks this useful feature. I can’t stand the fact that I have to add notes and close tickets manually when most Perforce changes are in fact tied to a ticket. I’m just lazy like that! I came across P4CQ...
“Corrupted by the desire to please”
“If you follow your heart, work tirelessly, and fish in good waters, good things...”
– Will Price via TechCrunch