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Monday, February 20, 2012

Why shouldn’t we have a night out on Sunday night especially when Monday is not a holiday

Long long ago, one Sunday, in mid February, after a consecutive Saturday (I was reading some important stuff which had nothing to do with me or anyone alive nor was it useful to anyone dead or alive in anyway) and a Friday night out (Because of a sadist senior and a brainless junior), I reached home very late (Busy day, had a “sort of” “lets discuss the geo-political issues of this world” meet and then had to attend a surprise birthday treat of a very dear friend of mine who is very much fat but thinks is reducing weight in the long run coz of his five minute walk everyday, which later turned out to be a “I’m screwed” treat – Further details regarding this statement will be published later when the time is right) and decided to watch some (due to unforeseen issues caused by Mr. Castle) episodes of Fringe I had missed earlier. Since it’s always difficult to grab a sleep once we cross the routine sleep time, I had no choice but to play Prince of Persia (The Two Thrones Chapter 29, Just 2 more two go!!) till sleep strikes me (after completing the missing three episodes of Fringe and an episode of Nikita). I had to wait till my morning alarm (I keep that to frustrate my roomie who always wakes up to switch this off before returning back to sleep, but if we look from a broader point of view, it’s nothing compared to the torture he gives the rest of us) to activate my sleep inducing part of the brain (Everyone knows that alarms are the best sleep triggering catalysts).
All thanks to the warm/hot sunlight that started burning my face since 8:00 AM, I was forced not to ignore the cruel intentions of nature by nine. Sigh!! It was not a pleasant sight, mainly coz of the following two reasons: a) I could complete just half my sleep quota of the night and b) It was already 9 and my shift timing was from 9 to 6 (Thank you Capgemini for not forcing us to maintain a 9 hours office time or reach by time though there is always a catch that we all know exists!! Now, if you ever start treating your employees like human beings, you will definitely be something close to a dream job), so I was left with very little time to wind up my morning engagements and rush to office. My long wait for the lift was then followed by the run for the train and the “as-usual” horrible train journey (It’s just five minutes, but horrible is not a quantity which has a time factor in its measuring unit) and the same bus journey and (This is new) the fat moron sitting beside me in the bus listening to some shitty music in loudspeaker (imagine that!!) as if he is the only person who has a Smartphone or could ruin my entire morning.
Anyhow, after all this crap, I reached office to find that there wasn’t any work assigned to me (all the work is in ‘pending further information from others’ status) and Sandy (Mr. Cool dude who assigns me work and motivates me and finally makes me do the work that is 100% boring, unproductive even for our clients – ‘they don’t know what they want and they don’t realize what they have’ and is also a social suicide if someone hears that we still do such outdated work) was on leave.  So what was the whole point in sacrificing my sleep and then come to office and waste this much energy? – Screw the productivity of others, especially of the people sitting near to you.

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

How to use Google to ruin your vacation using Appspot and Google Cloud SQL

All thanks to Google, now we have a free application server (appspot) and a free (as of now) SQL that too in cloud!!

All this shit started when one day I got a mail from Google announcing its new cloud SQL server (free for a limited time period) and it was written in bold that this work only with appspot only!! So, to test this I had to make an appspot account as well.. Hmmm.. (thanks to Google, all the Google products are interconnected at the most basic lever - user account, so it was not much a pain creating the account for the web app) anyways, coming to basic issues, the most important issue I faced was, I code in C and not in JAVA anymore.. It was ages before that I used JAVA and frankly speaking, it was CRAP.. Everything was there.. There wasn't much left for me to do.. But C is never, it doesn't know anything, so u can research and find out and all you need is the basic knowledge and logic.. More like JD Edwards in the ERP world.. :D

So, what I was saying was, I had to brush up my JAVA knowledge to check out appspot and I needed that to check out the Google Cloud SQL.. But being an engineer, we always have a better, fast and more efficient method than conventional methods (I don't want to hurt anybody's feeling but, facts are facts.. we are the supreme race :P) So i ended up googling out sample codes.. It was a piece of cake.. From basics to pro, everything was given.. That too in a well-mannered way.. So I ended up creating the code (not using cloud SQL as everyone is not having access to that) and then reverse engineering the code I wrote to find out what I actually did.. :D please note that this is not a joke.. I did a quick test and found that it was working as expected.. (I didn't do anything.. Google had provided everything before itself.. It was like implementing a solution so other shitbag designed.. Zero intelligence.. Hmmm..)

I'll write about the issues I faced later on if I feel like later on, but not now.. That itself will need another thousand word to describe.. :D

Later on, implementing the same methodology, I used the cloud SQL to store the data in place of the file system.. This part of the design was quiet good as SQLs always are interesting.. Those are not like JAVA.. I'll write about that incident in the next post.. not now.. Writing all these craps I forgot about the subject of the post :D I actually forgot to mention that I was doing all these when I was at home having my new year vacation.. hmmm.. ohh, and visit: this and this.. and lemme know how it is..

+ArjunDamodar