Clean Code or Code Clean

I am pretty sure that most of the times, us developers have heard the following line from some senior personal "Why don't you code it clean the first time". Well in fact I have heard this many times as a developer and have told this to my juniors many times as well.

But when you dig deep, you begin to ask your self, Is there anything called coding clean these days. With the business demands, systems evolving, pressure to fix or develop faster etc... we as developers are tide down to quickly hash code and release! in fact all these new Agile methodologies and time boxed sprints are not making it any more easier.

So how do we make sure that we keep our code maintainable, clean and effective... We use a simple term called "Code Refactor".

So what really is refactoring...

Full Article - http://cleancoderefactoring.blogspot.com/

Giving estimates on R&D software projects

Recently I was at a seminar were one of the participants asked a question regarding estimating properly when working on an R&D project from the expert panel.

The question was “How do we give proper deadlines when we are working on R&D projects, because when we start going into research we come up with so many stumbling blocks that we need to figure out so many things and our estimations goes out of the window”.
http://estimating-the-unknown.blogspot.com/

Aikido and My Life

Aikido, a traditional Japanese martial art which teaches the way of Budo, was introduced to me quite accidentally at a very turmoil junction in my life. I was at several cross roads of my life which was filling my life with much stress and it was impacting me on my health, my emotions and my life as whole.

I was immediately drawn to the flowing movements and charm of Aikido and from the day I saw Shihan Tadashi Komenoi, who later became my teacher and mentor, practicing with his pupils. However after experiencing Aikido first hand I knew I was truly beginning a journey that would not know any boundaries or limits.