Layoff…jobcuts…recession

Confession {
I have taken a new house 5 months back and need to pay an EMI of 10,000 INR. But I was laid off together dozens of employees. I am helpless now.

I had a plan to marry in start month of 2009, but how will I feed her without a job?

Wish I could have continued my job for another 5 months before I have been fired.

He used to be a nice person for me but no more. I really don’t understand the diplomatic talks of management level people.

Very soon I am going to finish my MS. It took a long pain for my parents to gather a huge sum and they sent me US with a hope that after 2 Yrs. I will be given their money back with a huge compound interest. But I don’t find any job in market.

Because the industry was growing unexpectedly in last few years, I decided to do MBA and then start earning in lot……………. But it was a bad decision.

It makes me insecure when I found a statement like “Market will be continued like this till 2011”.

Why did I apply for this investment policy, which is at verge of packing up the company itself? Will I get my money back?
}

So where do I stand now?
Friends, this is not a story but a hard core fact. Though the above “I” doesn’t belong to me, but of course it belongs to someone else. Someone else is among us only, may be next to your chair, or adjacent to your cube, or in the same compound or just around your compound. But it is happening.

So my question is : Who is responsible for these layoffs?
Well the market is down, Sensex keeps falling, almost every company is recording it’s the lowest price in stock list. Most of the new projects are getting deferred as the US is trying to sustain on the remaining asset. Probably, every IT guys is expecting a lot from the new man at stand Obama. We may expect our politicians to behave aggressively into the cabinet to control this inflation.

The only advantage I find with this recession is “Filtration”.
The context of this paragraph is meaningful only if there was a proper way of showing a Pink slip is followed. And I respect the parameters taken by any management across the globe would have justified them very well, rather than adopting a concept–Yes I need to throw them out because of consequences at hand.

Whatever is it, I know it hurts them at personal level. But the layoff has forced the recruitment team to find a hole in the system. Is the employee with my organization is proper, was he performing below the expectation or none at all, wasn’t he driven by few fake certificates in his career. And of course this opens the door for them who has been awaiting for a break may be not today but very soon when IT restarts breathing in open air.

Who can help you at this miserable situation?
Your hard labor and skills earned while working. This may pop up an alternate way for you. You need to be very sensitive for any further calls in your lifeline.

Situation may demand you to learn a new technology in a marathon flow, and so work accordingly.

You are multitalented, show it to the world professionally.

Probably the money you could have saved while earning. Money you have not spent in PVR, Inox or Fames at every weekend. Lesser your frequencies to enter a Pizza hut. You could attire into a non branded elements. You might have purchased all those prerequisites in your life what we say Roti, Kapda aur Makan (food & shelter).

People who are into pipeline……
Work hard, use your neurons 24×7 and give your best. Don’t allow to pinpoint your skill easily.
Don’t migrate just for the sake of vitamin M.
Save your money, assuming there is a future lies in it.

After all,
Pursuit of happiness:
Believe in making you better and better, despite you have been fired, or into a pipeline or not yet fired. You need to learn a way to be happy into this life, if not through mechanism X, and then let’s try Y.

Converting nil

Check C,C++,Java, JavaScript or any other langugage which treats “nil” as something different–probably a meaning equivalent to “a person having 5 hands”. But in Ruby you may use

nil.to_s —>> “0″

nil.to_i —->> 0

Is this really breaking the original stream of programming languages?

Chrome: Google’s Browser

CHROME:Hit the world

 

Yes I have downloaded CHROME and below are my observants:

0. Very slim look, ofcourse faster 

1. A great care about Javascript (got a separte Javascript Debugger, plus the console)

2. Tabs at the very top of the window, this will give u a feeling that browser is of bit lareger size

3. Diagnose problems with runaway plug-ins easily

4. History of the sitesfor most visited

5. In the address bar, highlights the main domain 

6. incognito window -> a Specail window, when u open any sites, it wont be tracked for browser history, no cookies upon closing.

7. If any problem happens in ONE of several tabs, you can close exactly the one without disturbing other tabs.

8. Your serach box and address bar is the same. 

9. On startup, you can open multiple pages.

Large development@Rails

With my recent Googling, I could crawl through few sites, blogs and data analytic graphs. I was shocked to know the jumping intercourse relation of web development with RoR, Specially on the blog http://www.railsonwave.com/ about the migration of site http://www.yellowpages.com/ from JAVA to Rails with so many positive results. I won’t make you to go through the blog and read each and every line unless you want…

Yes I am up with few highlights :

· Yellowpage has got 23 million visitors a month, this shows the Rails is fit for a large application in terms of performance.

· From 125.000 lines of code in Java, mainly written by external consultants from 2004 to 2005, to at least 20.000 lines of code in only 3 months of development from a team of 4 developers.

Sites those are developed in Rails and could be matter of a crown here, I would love to list few of them: (Yeah all of them has got 10+ million visitors@per month)

· http://www.yellowpages.com/

· http://www.revolutionhealth.com/

· http://www.43things.com/

· http://odeo.com/

· http://twitter.com/

Few more can be highlighted here:

· http://www.spock.com/

· http://penny-arcade.com/

· http://chowhound.com/

Visibility of a method

By default methods within a class in Ruby is PUBLIC. But as we know, ruby supports meta programming and hence a new/updated code can be generated on fly during the runtime.
here is a way to make the public class methods to private.

class Myclass
  def mymethod
    puts "I am public and wishing to be private!"
  end
  private :mymethod
  # OR also can be written as
  # private_class_method :mymethod
end

obj = Myclass.new
obj.mymethod
# private method `mymethod' called for # (NoMethodError)

Similary public :mymethod or public_class_method :mymethod

Regular expression

Here is the most frequently used special characters in regular expression of Java script. In a simple and concise way. [Background support : AMIT R.]

*   - 0/n chars >> /raj*/ -> ra, raj,rajj,rajesh, krajesh too [talking about j]
+   - 1/n chars >> /raj=/ -> raj,rajesh, krajesh too but not ra [talking about j]
?   - 0/1 char  >> /raj?/ -> ra, raj, rajj [talking about j]
.   - any SINGLE char expecting at its postion except \n.  [no previous no after]
    /.n/ >> in,on,an but not nan
|  - or >> /java|ruby/  -> java or ruby (dont think a or r) , matches also jruby or rjava
[abc] - matches ANY ONE , same can be written as [a-c]
^   - begin with /^ruby/ -> ruby, ruby programmer but not jruby
$   - end with /ruby$/ -> End with y >> ruby, jruby, kruby but not rubyk
[^a-z]  - Any single match other than a-z
\d   /[0-9]/  i.e. any single digit
\D   /^[0-9]/ i.e. any single char other than 0 to
\w  - Any alphanumeric char other than underscore  [A-Za-Z0-9]