Employee life-cycle at Big IT firms in India
I have been working in a big company since a month, here I am presenting a chart of the employee life-cycle that I observed during my tenure, I have been actively working and have found out that very few people are passionate about what they are doing, though it sounds pessimistic, but I hope the more I will interact with the people, the more I come to know about their aspirations and goal. Apparently in India software industry is a mess, once you are into it, you found yourself in a world of weird culture where the quality of a product is often below par. It’s important for developers to understand that the quality and ease of use of a particular product is what makes an end user happy.
Internet Explorer "Invalid argument" error
Recently, I was completely bowled out by Internet Explorer’s “Invalid argument” error, I did a google but couldn’t find any, so I started debugging my code, after a couple of hours of hair-pulling I did find the cause, and it was an accidental implementation of a PNG fix for IE 6. Let me explain this a bit, we have a “png fix” class in one of our CSS files where we have used some IE ‘expression hack’ to apply a fix for transparent PNG images in IE6 and somebody by mistake applied that class to an image which is a GIF file, and this was causing the error.
I thought to write about it, in case somebody has the same problem, he/she might find it helpful
Dean Edwards got his domain back
Finally after a lot whining and wrangling Dean Edwards (The JavaScript guru) got his domain (http://dean.edwards.name) back, which was hijacked earlier this month, though it was an unintentional mistake on Dean’s side because the domain registration reminder email was blocked by his spam filter and ended up being in spam, anyway after loosing the domain Dean hosted his site again in another domain temporarily and was in contact with the new owner who quickly bought the domain once it’s expired, and that squatter was actually hosting Dean’s articles which he published for the last 5 years, anyway Dean finally managed a deal with that person probably and I am very happy that he has got back his domain, I wish him all the best and good luck.
Keep up the good work Dean.
By the way you can check Dean’s post about it here http://dean.edwards.name/weblog/2009/04/back-in-the-game/ where he announced that he has got [Continue... ]