Naveen Thota

IT Architecture World 09 @ Pune

The last couple of days I have been attending a two day Architecture summit hosted by ICMG and KPIT Cummins together. The event was held at the KPIT Cummins premises in Hinjewadi, Pune. The agenda consisted of keynotes presentations and panel discussions by CIOs and CTOs of some of the key IT companies. The key [...]

This is a new low – MNS hoarding forgets non-Marathi heroes

Today is the anniversary of 26/11. The incidents on this night in Mumbai last year have left an everlasting impression on the minds of many Indians. The mindless murder, mayhem caused by a handful of terrorists has changed many a lives. And politicians being what they are try to gain political mileage out of this [...]

Shifting Jobs – A Quick Guide

There are three things you should look for in a job.

1. Money – The money should be good, if not better. You should ideally get a little more than the market standard, if not, then even the market standard would do. There is no point in working for less, loyalty to the company be damned. If the company can’t recognize your talent and pay accordingly then chances are it will never recognize them.

Hard-code a Few Values in Your Life

In programming hard coding is considered a bad practice. Yet it has its advantages – hard coding improves performance at the expense of extensibility of the program. A person can also benefit by hard-coding a few values or habits. I would say these values need to be hard-coded in to your personality at a very

Office, e-mail and productivity

E-mail – one of the greatest invention of the modern world and a very useful tool for many a occasions. But I hate it when it rains e-mails. My company thrives on e-mail, everyday I get into office there are atleast 40 to 50 e-mails waiting for my attention. I dread opening my Inbox after a leave of few days and the task of reading and acting on the e-mails takes up an entire day. I’m a software developer hired to write code. I, however, write more e-mails than the number of lines of code on most of the days. [read more..]