Software engineers should read, no matter companies give them special time slot for reading or not. Companies take only 8 to 10 hours of a day. What about rest hours? A good engineer reads everyday, one to two hours at least. 4/5 hours in the weekend. You don't have to go far, we have many examples of that kind of SE right here in Bangladesh.
I think SE is a profession which is more like an artist, a musician, a writer or a doctor. To be a good professional of these kinds one need to merge his/her hobby and work. If you are not that passionate or committed, don't nag by saying your company doesn't allow you time for R&D. Go and find some other job for living. Be an accountant for example. Accounting practice is almost same for last 50 years. In IT, if you are out of touch for a year, you are an alien.
IT industry in BD is not yet in R&D mode. We are still playing at the lower end of the value chain. Whose primary responsibilities is it to promote ourselves to higher value chain? Businessmen? Not really.
IT industry is always dominated by geeks. And it is engineers’ primary responsibility to bring in innovation, learn high value job and gradually create a situation where R&D becomes part of the company’s job.
So, if your project manager is mean enough not to allow you reading tech stuff when you are free, do it at home. Learn and implement some interesting things in your work and show your manager how your learning helped the company to yield customer satisfaction or save time of the developers. Maybe your manager will change mind.
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Google releases Buzz
One of my friends wished Buzz becomes another Facebook.
I don't think it's gonna be something near to Facebook. Both Windows Live and Yahoo tried this, without much buzz in fact :).
The future lies in somewhere else; interoperability of social networking and IM. That means no matter what platform you are in (Facebook, Buzz, Twitter, Live, Yahoo)... everyone sees everyone. For example, being a Buzz user you should be able to add your friends in Facebook, without you ever signing up for Facebook.
I mean if a gmail user can send an email to yahoo mail users, why can't a Facebook status update reach a Live user (if both agree to see each other)?
That's something we deserve and should demand for, don't we?
Tuesday, February 02, 2010
Welcome 2010
Good bye 2009 and welcome 2010.
Where to start a promising and exciting year, other than right from the wild nature? To rejuvenate, to educate and to recharge ourselves with energy and promise we went back to the nature this January.
Lawachara is a national reserve forest located in Sreemangal, which is also famous for the highest rainfall, orange orchard, export quality tea, indigenous people like Manipuri and Khasia, and the natural reserved lake - Baikka in the vicinity.
We started our journey early in the morning.
The tea garden was fabulous.
The landscape was breath-taking …
Not quite was the navigation through it.
But there were hands to help
and little things that made us laugh.
The woods were dark and deep
and dangerous species lurking around,
but we had miles to go before we sleep.
As we knew 2010 is a year to fly
on the wings of our weaved dream.
[We took loads of pics visit our Facebook Fanpage to see more.]
Sunday, January 17, 2010
She is only 2 years and 8 months, and I put her in school!
Is it too early to put one in school?
She is always eager to go to school, as sharp as any other kid of twenty first century, and don’t have much environment learn at home. So, I put her in school this January. Not very sure if I took a right decision though. But I am trying to do what I think is best for my kid. Hope, she will forgive me, if I am wrong.
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Tuesday, September 08, 2009
Setting priorities.
I think the biggest challenge in life is setting priorities. The second one is trading-off short term gain for a long term one. That's probably something to do with emotional IQ.
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