I had my one-on-one meeting for 2012-13 appraisal this week. I was disappointed with the feedback given to me. Well, I have been _work_ing for very long time, and I know if you are not hurt then it is not an appraisal.
We received a lo..ong email from my manager couple of days before the one-on-one meeting, explaining his expectations from resources. A week after we submitted our self appraisal. Though unofficial first rule of appraisal is not to talk about appraisal, I couldn’t help myself from posting this.

TDD (Test Driven Development) was introduced to me around 2006 with PHPUnit. As a naive, I couldn’t see the benefits, eg., I saw the pattern of code has been updated very often (growing organically) and frequent failing test. I was like, Why should I write unit test to test my own code? with the same data I used for manual testing? As they say I was seeing the forest for the trees. I failed to realize the failing test is actually the benefit of practicing TDD.

If you want to quickly disable internet/networking to test offline features. Doing it frequently with System preferences GUI is quite a slow workflow.

I couldn’t help myself after listening to John & Marco discussion about the pricing of Panic’s new app Status Board.

I agree with the pricing of the app, who could deny John’s reasoning? With all due respect,  a dedicated iPad just to display a dashboard? sounds like diamond studded car. It is a overkill and I would argue you ruining the destiny of your iPad. It deserves more care than hiding behind your old TV/Monitor.

Bitsplitting - Beautiful logo I have seen in a long time. I don’t know how @danielpunkass decided to use one version of the two. I couldn’t decide which is the one I like the most.

Finally I found a good usecase to test the Sudden Motion Sensor of my macbook pro. I was curious to know whether there is an impact of cooling pad’s fan.

Project planning is always a difficult task for me. I could do anything to skip the project planning because for following reasons:

I was insanely angry with Google’s decision still I am. Here are some stats from my Google Reader takeout data.

• Following 44 people
• Followed by 31 people
• 690 Articles shared* with me
• 1017 Articles shared* by me
• 5657 Starred Articles

If you are people who think Social feed is replacing it, I promise you it never will. Reader is completely a different beast. I agree with Führer here. Leave.

Larry, if all these are because of Steve’s advice. Learn one important attribute of Steve, his ability to change his mind.

Kill products that are copycat of others (cough! cough! Google+). Whatever the efforts that went into recent changes of Google reader (Unified theme, Removing “Share” feature and add “+1” features) are the reasons why there was a decline in usage.

I was in Bangalore for two days, I kinda liked it.

Yes. Danlec already created a bookmarklet that lets you create Trello card from many services like Fogbugz, JIRA, Github and more. I forked his code and included the functionality to create card with salesforce case information.

Remember my old post about the TOI - Epub project? Yesterday, I published the source on github. If anyone still interested, go ahead and take a look at the source. Kindly go through the Dev-Notes.txt, as it has all the urls and image path used to inspect their mpaper hiearchy.

Last Thursday one of my iPad app’s provisioning file has expired. Client brought it to us at the very late moment, the iPad app was distributed internally as an enterprise app. App users are for HVAC technicians, app integrates with their organization’s CRM (Salesforce) so distributing it with App store doesn’t make any sense.

Task management app with little twist. Yep, Dug instead of clippy while nagging.

Idea is to log all our project ideas similar to logging notes in nvALT. This app runs in the background and randomly nag you to split a one line task you had logged earlier to multiple small tasks.

A Bookmarklet or a Browser extension to select the root element of a DOM (UL/OL) to view the Inverted tree structure of its child nodes.

Wish you all a very happy new year!

It is 2013, another chance for us/me to start a new beginning. I believed in Mayan so much, I never had a plan post 20th Dec 2012 :)

I wrote a small plugin for sublime text to develop salesforce. I’m glad to share one of my idea to project execution.

We received an unusual call at 4am on 6th only to know my Uncle and Aunt are no more. Suicide at the age of 70+ is not an easy decision, it has been a week and I couldn’t digest the news.

If you are experiencing frequent disk I/O and your console is full of

25/08/12 4:30:19.506 PM ALSPlugin 235.55[62]: Failed to get brightness for displayID 0x042731c0

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Chrome updated its policy to not to install extensions and scripts outside of Google webstore by default. (Gatekeeper, everyone wants to be the police)