Buy Diamonds online in india? – Yes, Welcome to CaratLane

Ever wondered what will happen if jewellery shopping is made online, ladies choosing and buying jewellery using a computer instead of making men spend whole day(s) standing in a shopping mall. This is where the future is .. Visit Caratlane.com this i think is probably the first portal in india focussed towards online sales of diamonds jewellery, they say that they are gonna change the way indians buy jewellery.

“CaratLane is an online Diamond and Diamond Jewellery Portal that aims to change the way Indians buy diamonds and diamond jewellery”
Visit: www.caratlane.com

P.S. You also get a free gold coin as a part of their launch

the Zilla ! vs Business User

“The Zilla” has become my new nickname in office (with all credits to Collen for this amazing initiative) after I have started with bugzilla project to manage development activity at Chennai office. And the same guy says that I talk in C++ when he talks to me in English. I was wondering what makes me/us different from others, I think i have spend more time learning business process engineering, on-demand businesses, web design and marketing then with learning PHP or AJAX. So I thought of comparing the software that we use everyday to see if I can find any key differences in the way we work

An assumed list of tools that a business guy will use

  • Windows
  • Outlook
  • CRM
  • Web Meeting
  • MSN Messenger
  • Word
  • Excel
  • Powerpoint
  • Internet Explorer
  • Skype
  • Notepad
  • Microsoft SQL Server

Technologies/Concepts that they work with everyday

  • Saas
  • Strategic Planning
  • EPM
  • Strategy Maps
  • BSC
  • Six Sigma
  • BI
  • EFQM
  • TQM
List of tools that I use everyday

  • grub (the boot loader)
  • ubuntu (my operating system)
  • gnome
    (window manager – I tried KDE, didn’t look well)
  • pidgin (MSN messenger)
  • wine (to run some windows apps)
  • eclipse (the development environment)
  • php
    (one of the main languages that I speak)
  • umbrello (UML)
  • dojo (the JS toolkit)
  • dijit (more into dojo)
  • jquery (the other JS toolkit)
  • apache (the big – boss)
  • evolution (my email client)
  • firefox (obviously)
  • firebug (yes!)
  • subversion (source code management)
  • bugzilla (work management)
  • nautilus (file manager)
  • gedit (more that just notepad… )
  • shell
    (well the all illusive command prompt)
  • sudo (‘I am the god’ mode)
  • nano (notepad when I become god)
  • emacs (1 more)

Technologies/Concepts that I work with everyday

  • JSON
  • XML
  • REST
  • SOAP
  • CRM
  • BI
  • SaaS

From the above comparision (length of the list)we infer that they are obviously doing lesser work then developers (he.. he.. i know i m gonna get kicked when collen sees this). They have fancy names for thier software, the only well known name in the list of my tools is firefox. But I never managed to understand what EFQM means???

Finding the Right Programmer.

I was trying to find to resurces to properly evaluate programming candidates and i stumbled upon this article which i thought was perfect 10/10 measure to exactly identify a good progammer. But i am not sure how good this articale will be if we had to apply the same logic in a country like india, where exposure to computers only starts after college. (But when i put down myself in the same race, i did bunk my +2 tutions and school classes to hang out in internet cafes and try out Suse linux 6.3 using at that time’s most advanced installation module-Yast2. Now when i look at myself. i almost manage to score a 9 out of 10 in these questions. ) . Read on this will be really intresting if you are really into programming. Finding the Right Programmer.
http://www.inter-sections.net/2007/11/13/how-to-recognise-a-good-programmer/

I am still here.. haven’t quit blogging yet

For all those who were thinking that i had quit blogging…. bad news .. i m still here just that i am not finding enough time to work with google tools (gmail,gtalk,analytics,adwords,docs,calendar…. and this one blogger).. I have been quite busy these days (everytime i say this, i want to give some other reason but couldn’t find one).. if you wanto know what happened in between last blogpost and this one is that i travelled to two places one long trip to my office headquarters at stavanger(March) and one short but enjoyable trip to pondy after that(April). Pics posted below. Try here : http://picasaweb.google.com/itkrishna

Stavanger – Trip – March2008

Photography – the old NEW hobby

Hi, all

Its been a long time since i had posted anything on this blog. Reasons are simple, i m too busy with my work, havent found time to travel or to take a few snaps. There are too many things happening over here, couldnt catch up with everything in these schedules. Well the good thing is that i managed to find a small trip to coimbatore (fotos below) and an across the border view of kerala for a couple of days and i have got a new prosumer camera (FujiFilm s5700) for myself and what next would you expect me to do all these times… its only been fotography.
Coimbatore Trip

More pics here

Photos near pallavaram hill

More Pics

and i seem to be learning a good amount of photography skills as well, look at my best photographs collection.

Art of Photography