After another day of my routine work in office, 26th Nov late evening 10.30 I reached home where I was welcomed by my wife. But this time her face was grieving with fear and a sense of agony in it. Immediately she pointed me to look at television. News were flashing about random firing on civilians, attacks near CST railway station, firing near Taj and Oberoi Hotel are being heard. We kept watching news and eyes were full of surprises to see within next 1 hr all the events getting converted into a saga of Terrorism. We saw live news being flashed about action by Mumbai police and within few mins Anti Terrorism Squad (ATS) chief Mr. Hemant Karkare arrived at the spot near CST station. We saw him on television wearing helmet and bulletproof jacket and being summoned by other police officials about the terror saga. He started his action to trap down terrorists who were freely roaming near CST station.
We kept on watching television during our dinner at 11:30 pm and suddenly news flashed - "ATS chief Mr. Hemant Karkare severly injured". Not even 15 mins were passed and to our shock another news flashed "ATS chief Mr. Karkare dead during the action with terrorists". Wasnt enough here and again in a min news flashed "Encounter specialist along with SP dead". The events within an hour turned into a full blown heneoius act of terrorism. We couldnt beleive the sudden turnaround of events and deaths of top police and ATS officials. A clear sense that the terrorist attack not a small one.
It was late night 1 am when news were flashing that terrorists have taken hostages in Taj and Oberoi Hotel. Army was called up immediately and by late night 2:30 we saw the army vehicles moving towards these Hotels. National Security Guard (NSG - black cat commandos specially trained to deal with terrorism and hostage situations) team was also immediately being asked to join operations in Mumbai.
Ofcourse no one can sleep when their City being attacked and challenged. We got several phone calls from loved ones and friends to check our wellbeing. We kept on watching TV entire night till morning 5:00 am and words cant describe the shock we were in.
Rest entire world knows now what all Mumbai went through for next 67 hrs of terrorist attack.
We felt sick while watching the TV images of a terrorised Mumbai. It was so shocking to see various locations in Mumbai is turned into warzone. We felt "Heartbroken, Helpless, Angry"
The toll in the worst-ever attacks in India mounted to 195 including 10 foreigners and 15 police personnel, 295 others wounded. During the operation, which went for almost 3 days, the country also lost 3 top officials of Mumbai police, One major from NSG and 2 commandos also died and a commando injured.
will continue this post later....
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Interesting read on "WorkLight"
The organisation for which I work have recently partnered with WorkLight Inc.
The partnership is to provide companies, for the first time, the ability to securely engage customers, partners and employees through consumer Web 2.0 tools, such as Facebook, iGoogle, iPhone, apps, desktop gadgets, RSS and more. Enabling secure, personalised and enterprise-grade interactions beyond the portal, companies will gain real business edge and significant advantages while reaping increased value from their existing infrastructure.
WorkLight lets businesses embrace emerging Web 2.0 consumer technologies to do more business, securely. Worklight believes that by making popular Internet tools enterprise-grade, companies can vastly improve collaboration, increase worker productivity, streamline the sales and distribution chain, and enhance business process execution. Bottom line – WorkLight enables companies to be more successful.
WorkLight believes that employees, salespeople, channels, partners, and customers should have instant and secure access to the information they need, wherever they are. This information should be available using the same convenient tools they are already using at home to get their daily news and other important updates. The need to log into complex portals to find information and complete tasks is a thing of the past.
The partnership is to provide companies, for the first time, the ability to securely engage customers, partners and employees through consumer Web 2.0 tools, such as Facebook, iGoogle, iPhone, apps, desktop gadgets, RSS and more. Enabling secure, personalised and enterprise-grade interactions beyond the portal, companies will gain real business edge and significant advantages while reaping increased value from their existing infrastructure.
WorkLight lets businesses embrace emerging Web 2.0 consumer technologies to do more business, securely. Worklight believes that by making popular Internet tools enterprise-grade, companies can vastly improve collaboration, increase worker productivity, streamline the sales and distribution chain, and enhance business process execution. Bottom line – WorkLight enables companies to be more successful.
WorkLight believes that employees, salespeople, channels, partners, and customers should have instant and secure access to the information they need, wherever they are. This information should be available using the same convenient tools they are already using at home to get their daily news and other important updates. The need to log into complex portals to find information and complete tasks is a thing of the past.
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Getting hands dirty on TDD
In my experience on Test Driven Development (TDD), while developing a small application from scratch in .NET, it requires PnP - "Patience and Practice" to adapt to this "Test-First" way of coding. I would rather term it as "code to test the code" methodology which doesn't require so much of mental change or paradigms shift but rather patience to try out new and better way to write quality, easy to read, finer code.
Along this journey of TDD, which I have recently started and still on my way, have learnt
simplicity. TDD, if followed religiously, by itself brings out simplicity in your design and code.
The key advantage that i felt TDD gives you is feedback. You write a failing test case, make it pass, and then you formulate the next test case. The wonderful thing is that when you get to that next test case, you have the feedback from getting the first one to pass to draw upon. Often that feedback will lead you to formulate the next test case in a different way. It could even lead you to produce a different interface for the class you were writing.
I still have to try and get my hands dirty on enhancement application/project to learn and share more on experience using TDD in such scenarios.
.......(One of the comment posted on Weblogs Forum by Richard Jonas)
If you don't understand the requirements of the project at all, you need to have a way to get these under control first. Writing tests in advance is a good way to think about the requirements of the problem and establish the questions you need to ask others.
If you really understand a problem well and are sure exactly how you are going to do it (if it's well specified and something you've done lots of times before), a process with a lot of control such as TDD makes the development more reliable.
Along this journey of TDD, which I have recently started and still on my way, have learnt
simplicity. TDD, if followed religiously, by itself brings out simplicity in your design and code.
The key advantage that i felt TDD gives you is feedback. You write a failing test case, make it pass, and then you formulate the next test case. The wonderful thing is that when you get to that next test case, you have the feedback from getting the first one to pass to draw upon. Often that feedback will lead you to formulate the next test case in a different way. It could even lead you to produce a different interface for the class you were writing.
I still have to try and get my hands dirty on enhancement application/project to learn and share more on experience using TDD in such scenarios.
.......(One of the comment posted on Weblogs Forum by Richard Jonas)
If you don't understand the requirements of the project at all, you need to have a way to get these under control first. Writing tests in advance is a good way to think about the requirements of the problem and establish the questions you need to ask others.
If you really understand a problem well and are sure exactly how you are going to do it (if it's well specified and something you've done lots of times before), a process with a lot of control such as TDD makes the development more reliable.
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