My Web Log

Prelude: After nearly more than a year, i went on vacation for 2 days. This time with my company colleagues(or rather i say, my company gang). I have a beautiful team in my company and we all share a very healthy rapport with each other. They all have been to my engagement ceremony and marriage event. Ever since they narrated me their Ahobilam adventure(where they got lost in the dense forest and struggled to find way out just before dusk), i was waiting for the right time to plan a trip with the same gang. We pulled it off finally at the last weekend of March. Participants - Myself, Ramesh, Supriya, Satish Lade, Sowmya, Mounika, Gouse, Vipul, Piyush. Destination - Chirala beach resort. I booked my accommodation in Sea breeze beach resort .  Transportation - Chevrolet Tavera - only 9 seater available on rentals. We all gathered at Supriya's home at 9:30PM. Had a nice dinner. As we had some more time to start, we spent time on the open terrace playing cards and chit chatt...

What are we doing to enrich our life? Next month, and it would be an year in my current job. I was retrospecting past one year. What did i do so significant to enrich my life? In that line, i went on to retrospect my last 5 years of time. What did i do to make my life better? Or did i do anything that made anybody else life better?  I always feel, that each passing day should make us much better individual, a much useful being to live. I was discussing the same with my friend and this discussion enlightened me with many things. The satisfaction, sense of achievement, the feel of enriching need not be always tangible. The emotional endurance we learn, the unnoticed small things(like finding a better/shorter route to your work place, taking a measure to save time, starting on a healthy habit, a sense of satisfaction after heart full lunch) are not tangible. If one considers achievement at work/career, financial achievements(like purchasing a home, a car) or setting up ...

There may be many more features which PRPC doesn't have. May be the work on it is in progress with product team or may be Pega never felt to have one such thing. As a developer or the production system admin or a manager role in an prpc application, you may want to have a visibility of the business process. The over all business processes created in the system till date, the business processes running now, business processes that are suspended, business processes in waiting state. Something like this,                                                     Images: Cordys BOP4 We can also get all these info by running OTB list views from Work-, Assign- etc. but still a view like this would certainly be useful. Couple of days back, when i had been to Pega Developer Conference 2013 , i talked the team at the Designer Studio booth and they too...

Talking to the players on the field....what the hell of sense is this? In IPL season, the players on the field are made to talk to the commentators and answer their funny and yet some stupid questions. These questions can wait till the end of the game. But, what sort of culture is this? The players should be there fully concentrated and reserve their energies and thoughts on the match. But recent times, IPL has made cricket as a mere circus with lot of entertaining feats and just for entertainment and very less of cricket game. Even the umpires and even the referee has turned a blind eye on this act. I really feel this a completely sick act. I think, its high time that some authority intervene and stop this insane act to just popularize the show. I don't know, if there any game rules that restrict any sort of interference/disturbances to the players on the field when the game is ON.

As an adage goes, all fingers of one hand are not the same, similary no two individuals think in the same manner. One may not have some opinion on a matter as other. So, while handling a team, we better understand what are the source of motivation for each in there. One source motivation may not be so high degree of motivation to other or may mean nothing at all to another. For any employee or member to service beyond call of the duty, there certainly has to be a source of motivation. I mean like a yummy cheese cake to a child. And these cheese cake demands varies from one to one. Appraisals/Bonus: Only money means me and nothing else. I dont care whether you appreciate or give me a onsite oppurtunity or give me long speeches. I just need money and only with that you can expect me to work in more & more effecient way. Some people may call him a mean fellow, but not me. I dont find it completely wrong in this. After all, at the end of the day, we work for money and f...

It's World Kidney Day . Do you love your kidney? Do you know the purpose of Kidneys in our body? How to service them regularly? I may not sound sensible to some people who have a healthy kidney and never come across people who have a kidney problem. You can google on the purpose kidneys and you will know the importance of them. Do you service them regularly? What i mean is this,   Watch the complete series of videos from Sri. Dr. Manthena Satyanaraya Raju. It may not take more than a couple of hours, but still, its a very educative video which can change your thinking about the intake of water and the advantages of drinking water in the right quantity which can keep our kidneys healthy. So, on this World Kidney Day , take oath that we will do the needful actions to keep our kidney healthy and thus have a happy living. An adage says, " You will not come to know the importance of peace of mind until you loose it ", so lets not wait till we loose our peac...