Ketan's Musings

Bangalored adj

(said of a corporation, project, or employment) having been relocated to India; having lost business or employment due to such a relocation.

Huh, what, when ? Don’t worry, I did not lose my job to Bangalore. Somebody else did.

So how did somebody else getting Bangalored affect me ? To enumerate:

1. Bad, bad code. There’s no notion of “refactoring” or “code resuablity”
2. God object: too many responsibilities for one object.
3. Spaghetti code: Systems whose structure is barely comprehensible, especially because of misuse of code structures
4. Copy and paste programming: Copying (and modifying) existing code rather than creating generic solutions
5. Reinventing the square wheel: Creating a poor solution when a good one exists.
6. Big ball of mud: A system with no recognisable structure

With an infinite monkeys around, everything is a one banana problem. But yeah, the world needs all kinds of people. If it was not for these Bangalorites today, I’d have never appreciated a lot of the Anti Patterns. Thanks guys.

I’d been invited to take OOCS lectures at the K.K. Wagh College of Engineering. As with all hackers, I immediately took up this invitation, simply because I could enjoy doing it. Moreover, I got an opportunity to learn some real cool technologies, that were really new to me.

The course involves OO, COM, DCOM, CORBA, JAVA/RMI and XML.

About 25 students had signed up for this subject. The attendance figures, with a grand maximum attendance of 9, with some 5 students regularly attending lectures. These figures are sure to paint a different picture It’s been about three weeks that I’ve been doing these lectures.

The results were declared a week ago, and I’ve not taken any lectures since then. Today was an altogether different experience. I learnt that there were just 9 students, who have decided to continue with the subject. The rest of the folks simply choose the easier alternative. While I’ve nothing against these people. The general reason being that — the subject is too vast in its breadth, and one has to read too many books for the course.

I asked the folks who had chosen to continue with OOCS, as to why they choose the difficult alternative.

The answer, surprisingly was that I was: I’ve been doing a good job at the lectures, so far.

Thanks guys, you’ve made my day. The efforts have been worth the staying up at nights.