Notes from a Desi Geek

Jivha decided to quit.

I was not very sure how I should react.
I think Prashant summarized it in best way.

“Personally, I never cared much for it. There was a lot of ranting on it that I didn

From Coggeshall, Zend is now offering PHP Certification. I think this is really good idea as it gives more creditbility to language itself. Those corporate customers who might be complaining that they can’t find a PHP programmer, now can find good PHP programmers easily. Btw, exam cost is 200 USD, if I am here in States till year end, I will try for the certification!

JD

KC has written an interesting post about how to get answer to your question.

I guess I could use this trick, if only I did not have so much of ego! Got to work on self improvement!
JD

Experience is what you get when you don

From random browsing, came across Ygnet site. Looks interesting to me! I will join and find out more!

Two nice quotes which I came across in recent time.

1. ‘I always knew that looking back on the tears would make me laugh; but I never knew that looking back on the laughs would make me cry

Bloglines is my news reader for RSS. Why I love bloglines as my newsreader?
1. It’s simple to use. No nonsense design approach.
2. It’s free. and most importantly,
3. I can access my feeds from anywhere! Earlier I was using NewsGator which is amazing because it makes your Outlook in to RSS client. But problem is that I can not sync my reading of blogs between my home PC and office PC. Bloglines solves that problem neatly. I love it!

On completion of 1 year, Bloglines re-designed their site and it now looks much much better! Though there are few quirks here and there, but otherwise it’s an impressive re-design!

JD

Brainbench is offering free exams for all the courses as part of celebration of their 5 millionth member. You can test free tests between July 1 to July 14.

I am surely going to take few as job hunting is going to start soon!
JD