Monthly Archives: August 2007

Language and Accent Issues

Posted on August 31, 2007 by Krishna

Ouch! I landed on this Wikipedia article on Indian English which had some of the common mistakes in Indian English grammar. After decades of speaking and writing English, it is funny how some of the incorrect English habits (or “grammar … Continue reading →

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Posts by Smarter People

Posted on August 29, 2007 by Krishna

In the last couple of days, Phil Haack and Guy Kawasaki (separately) have written beautiful posts on subjects that I mentioned in my latest posts. On validation, Phil writes “Don’t Be a Validation Nazi” to follow on his “… How … Continue reading →

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Hiring People

Posted on August 26, 2007 by Krishna

If you ask any manager about hiring, he or she would say, “I want to hire the best employees and my hiring process is streamlined to do that.” There is quite a lot of material, if you wish to read, … Continue reading →

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Unnecessary Field Validations

Posted on August 25, 2007 by Krishna

I was reading this interesting article from Haacked.com about email validation. The author Phil Haack illustrates how most email validations are really too strict because the RFC (Request for Comments) really had a much liberal interpretation of what characters an … Continue reading →

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Specialized Requirements Analyst

Posted on August 25, 2007 by Krishna

Kalpesh left a very valid comment on my last post on overcoming the inertia against writing requirements, where he said that this task can be better performed by someone “who understands domain of the customers & enough of technology”. I … Continue reading →

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Overcoming "Requirements Writing" Block

Posted on August 23, 2007 by Krishna

Here is a fact of life: When given a development task, most developers directly jump into coding with the bare minimum of understanding or documenting the requirements. This happens despite the common knowledge that lack of proper requirements management can … Continue reading →

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Getting Rid of the TV

Posted on August 16, 2007 by Krishna

A couple of weeks ago, we moved the TV from the living room to my study room. This has enormously reduced wasted time watching stupid stuff on TV. Otherwise the TV is on all the time. Half the time, you … Continue reading →

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Books, Links and Crazy Coincidences

Posted on August 13, 2007 by Krishna

Drat! Josh Kaufman has updated the Personal MBA reading list. Several new books have been added and a few have been removed/updated. I was not making that much progress towards reading all those books, but suddenly it has becoming an … Continue reading →

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Indian Software Product Innovation

Posted on August 12, 2007 by Krishna

This is a follow-up from my previous article, The Rising Rupee-Dollar Ratio“. Whenever there is talk about the growth of the Indian IT industry, there is much lamenting of the fact that almost all the revenues come from outsourced services such … Continue reading →

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The Rising Rupee-Dollar Ratio

Posted on August 12, 2007 by Krishna

I recently received an email article entitled “Stronger Rupee, Stronger India”. The essay was about the appreciation of the Indian Rupee against the US Dollar since the beginning of the year. The author’s argument was that a stronger rupee was … Continue reading →

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