Archive for March, 2007

1. Master of the Game
2. If Tomorrow Comes
3. Bloodline
4. Rage of Angels
5. Morning, Noon and Night
6. The Naked Face
7. A Stranger in the Mirror
8. The Best Laid Plans
9. Tell Me Your Dreams
10. Windmills of the Gods
11. The Sands of Time
12. The Doomsday Conspiracy
13. The Stars Shine Down
14. Nothing Lasts Forever
15. The Sky is Falling
16. Are You Afraid of the Dark?
17. The Other Side of Midnight
18. Memories of Midnight

Sheldon once quoted that - I try to write my books so the reader can’t put them down. I try to construct them so when the reader gets to the end of a chapter, he or she has to read just one more chapter. It’s the technique of the old Saturday afternoon serial : leave the guy hanging on the edge of the cliff at the end of the chapter.

Though I work with Oracle DB for the past nine months religiously this is my first post anywhere related to oracle. Its high time , I thought to give some post on Oracle ,which are though not something which was never found by any other people but it was quite interesting for me when I first tried it. Though there are many virtuosos on oracle blogging around the world vigorously on oracle, I also wanted to be a small part on this big knowledge sharing base.
Concatenating the rows of the table will always be required when you are working with database. At those time the following query would be handy for you.

hari9ir2@GENEVART>create table t(
2 name varchar2(20));
Table created.
hari9ir2@GENEVART>INSERT INTO t VALUES(’Hari’);
1 row created.
hari9ir2@GENEVART>INSERT INTO t VALUES(’Haran’);
1 row created.
hari9ir2@GENEVART>INSERT INTO t VALUES(’Ragunathan’);
1 row created.

SELECT LTRIM(MAX(
SYS_CONNECT_BY_PATH(NAME , ‘ ‘)),’ ‘)AS Full_Name
FROM (SELECT NAME , ROWNUM rn FROM t)
START WITH rn = 1
CONNECT BY PRIOR rn = rn -1;

FULL_NAME
————————
Hari Haran Ragunathan

To know more on the this refer this column in oracle magazine - On Favorites and Connect by .
Hope this tip could be useful for you.

Keeping this big idea in mind Robert. T. Kiyosoki has wonderfully crafted his book Rich Dad Poor Dad. This book is worth reading to have a change in an individual’s financial outlook. The mention of Robert Frost Lines on

holds good not only for the idea he has conveyed but also to Kiyosaki’s new way in delivering a financial guideline.

You can also give a try , since I could sense a lot of change in me after reading the book.

From the day I entered into this software industry the notion of Programming / Coding was quite dubious. We call the act of writing a program in any computer language as Coding during my college days.Coding was simply a miscegenation of Logic with syntax of a computer language. But now in this software space its quite different they say the act of writing a program is Programming and not as coding. Its only a part of a bigger life cycle. There are more important things than programming.

With this doubt in mind when I was peeking for more information to clarify my doubt, I stumbled on many good things. This piece of information on Why Programmers can’t Programmers…Program made me bemused. That made me to reevaluate my skills. There was also one more thought which hit my brain, whether the skills of programmers are made blunt by the type of work which is provided by most of the so-called software servicing companies or they really lack the skills. My personal finding is that not all those who have ambition of great programmers are not actually utilized in programming though they enter software industry. Because most of them do the famous Cntl+C & Cntl+V, as i found in the rantings of a software professional about making crap code worse.

I am still in deep thought, whether I am in right place where I expected to be doing some real programming or this is what the real programming is.

Thomas .L Friedman,in his book World is Flat , has lucidly described the most important phase of LPG - The Globalization. The classification of globalization into three periods based on Country, Company and Individual was one thing to be noted.

The catchy lines on description about the call-centers ,Outsourcing and software companies in bangalore , made me re-read it umpteen times. Though the main reason behind reading it numerous times was, I also belong to the same Crowd

This is a must to read , for Software Professionals working in Indian IT companies.

This Clever liar / Professor has the ability to make all his students sit tight in his class. If every individual has a mentor who will counsel their students with care, Success will be marked for all of us.

Its really a cool Idea.