Renaissance

Here are some of the photographs from beautiful place Pondicherry and Cuddalore. More to follow.The photographs was taken in Nikon S10. (Point and Shoot) and post processed in Photoshop.

In this series of photographs I tired minimalism and redux which leads to simple beautiful photographs. Do let me know what you think of them.

Almost all doors remain closed on hot summer day. Somewhere in Rue Saint Gilles in pondicherry

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Photographed on Nikon S10 at Chandrachoodeswarar Kovil in Hosur.

Here is a collection of some of the rare photographs of temples of enchanting tamilnadu. The photographs sheds light on people, dress, transport, religious practice at that time.

Enchanting tamilnadu. Rare photographs of temples in tamilnadu

Arsenalist make a blanket statement about the programmers from India in his article on outsourcing . Need not get offended by the issue raised. Instead one should ponder if he makes a good programmer or lousy one.

A good programmer will:

• Read good code and appreciate it.
• Embrace simplicity.
• Embrace aesthetics.
• Embrace review process.
• No ego.
• Collaborate and be team player.
• Communicate properly.
• Read Code complete, Pragmatic Programmer.
• Visits slashdot and other tech blogs.
• Do not have superficial knowledge.
• Have common sense.
• Develop a taste for programming.
• Learn multiple languages.
• Learn form the masters.
• Optimal use of meetings.
• Do not blame on compilers!
• Fixes the issues at source.
• Will have meaningful debug sessions.
• Will be a part of religious war.
• Will not be a part of religious war.
• Uses version control effectively
• Does not repeats himself
• Will not become a manager!
• Do not get defensive on review comments.
• Do not entertain BS.
• Do not tolerate lousy programmers.
• Are lazy.
• Do not live on jargons.
• Will write test cases.
• Will comment.
• Will use correct tool.
• Will develop tools.
• and many more….

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“Strangers are friends you have yet to meet”

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Exif data  ( Photographed at Thirupathi. )

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I had a question in my previous post. The question is

Finally why do people give expert opinions when they lack the indepth knowledge?

Pegasus even chimed in that it is very basic nature of Indians! I wish it turns out to be false
Every one should have intellectual honesty in them. You exhibit intellectual honesty when you

Refuse to pretend you’re an expert when you’re not.

Readily admitting your mistakes.

Honesty commands respect, I want every body to have intellectual honesty which is required for result oriented dialogue.

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