ye na thee hamaree qismat ke wisaal-e-yaar hota
agar aur jeete rehte yahee intezaar hota
tere waade par jiye ham to ye jaan jhoot jana
ke khushee se mar na jaate agar eitabaar hota
koi mere dil se pooche tere teer-e-neemkash ko
ye KHalish kahaaN se hotee jo jigar ke paar hota
ye kahaaN ki dostee hai ke bane haiN dost naaseh
koee chaarasaaz hota, koee GHamgusaar hota
rag-e-sang se Tapakta wo lahoo ki fir na thamta
jise GHam samajh rahe ho, ye agar sharaar hota
GHam agarche jaaN_gulis hai, pe kahaaN bachaiN ke dil hai
GHam-e-ishq gar na hota, GHam-e-rozgaar hota
kahooN kis se maiN ke kya hai, shab-e-GHam buree bala hai
mujhe kya bura tha marna ? agar ek baar hota
hue mar ke ham jo ruswa, hue kyoN na GHarq-e-dariya
na kabhee janaaza uThata, na kaheeN mazaar hota
usse kauN dekh sakta ki yagaana hai wo yaktaa
jo dooee ki boo bhee hotee to kaheeN do chaar hota
ye masaail-e-tasawwuf, ye tera bayaaN 'GHalib'!
tujhe ham walee samajhate, jo na baada_KHwaar hota
Sunday, December 26, 2010
Saturday, December 25, 2010
Possible reasons why you don't write test
If i have to choose the biggest thing i learnt in 2010, then it would be Test Driven Development. Before i joined ThoughtWorks (we are hiring) i had just heard of it and never realized how important it is to write code and know that it works for X condition for sure. Now it freaks me out that lots of people dont write test .
There could be several reasons for not writing test.
Best resource to begin with is TDD by Example..
There could be several reasons for not writing test.
- It takes too much time.
- It is not worth it.
- I am too lazy.
- I don't know how to do it.
- I know my code works because i ran it once and it worked
- I am a superhero, i don't make mistakes.
Best resource to begin with is TDD by Example..
Sunday, December 19, 2010
ghalib ke andaaz
Yeh chamanzaar, yeh jamuna ka kinara, yeh mahal
Yeh munaqqash dar-o-dewaar, yeh mehraab yeh taaq
ek shahenshah ne daulat ka sahara lekar
hum garibon ki mohabbat ka udaya hai mazaak
meri mehboob meri mehboob,
meri mehboob kahin aur mila kar mujhse
Yeh munaqqash dar-o-dewaar, yeh mehraab yeh taaq
ek shahenshah ne daulat ka sahara lekar
hum garibon ki mohabbat ka udaya hai mazaak
meri mehboob meri mehboob,
meri mehboob kahin aur mila kar mujhse
Gentoo-ism
First of all, a big big thanks to ubuntu team and ubuntu is an amazing distro and they have single handedly made linux experience so awesome. I was using it for past 2 years and never i had any issue with it.
But recently Ubuntu released natty narhiwal 11.04 alpha 1 and i upgraded to it on the first day. And it created hell lot of problems. They switched to a new window manager unity which i found to be very flicky and unstable. So i decided to take the pill . This weekend i finally installed a bleeding edge distro .. the distro for geeks and nerds .. yeah you are absolutely right its GENTOO
Its not the first time i have installed gentoo i was a ardent fan of of gentoo in my engg days and probably the only guy who installed a non GUI-installer based linux.
Working on gentoo gives you a lot more inside info which i really like .. my basic OS installation is ready and now i guess i will need to create a overlay to maintain my favorite ebuilds ... okay time to go figure overlay stuff.
But recently Ubuntu released natty narhiwal 11.04 alpha 1 and i upgraded to it on the first day. And it created hell lot of problems. They switched to a new window manager unity which i found to be very flicky and unstable. So i decided to take the pill . This weekend i finally installed a bleeding edge distro .. the distro for geeks and nerds .. yeah you are absolutely right its GENTOO
Its not the first time i have installed gentoo i was a ardent fan of of gentoo in my engg days and probably the only guy who installed a non GUI-installer based linux.
Working on gentoo gives you a lot more inside info which i really like .. my basic OS installation is ready and now i guess i will need to create a overlay to maintain my favorite ebuilds ... okay time to go figure overlay stuff.
Monday, December 6, 2010
recover git-svn clone after it gets interrupted
I keep running into this problem especially when the repo i am cloning is huge or the network is flicky. Before this i had no idea how to pickup the process from where the network problem happened so i use to delete the repo and re-clone the entire thing from the start. But this is a extremely frustrating and waste of time.
Fortunately, this is not necessary; just go into your partially retrieved git-svn repo and execute git-svn fetch. This continues fetching the svn revisions from where you left off.
# git svn clone git://url/project.git
..... connection breaks :(
#move to project directory
# cd project
# git svn fetch
.. fetch continues from where the connection was lost
This works like butter but if you gets a empty directory after git-svn fetch completes. Don't worry, just rebase hard the project
# git rebase --hard
and you are ready to code next generation features in the project you donwloaded ;-)
Cheers,
Fortunately, this is not necessary; just go into your partially retrieved git-svn repo and execute git-svn fetch. This continues fetching the svn revisions from where you left off.
# git svn clone git://url/project.git
..... connection breaks :(
#move to project directory
# cd project
# git svn fetch
.. fetch continues from where the connection was lost
This works like butter but if you gets a empty directory after git-svn fetch completes. Don't worry, just rebase hard the project
# git rebase --hard
and you are ready to code next generation features in the project you donwloaded ;-)
Cheers,
Support WikiLeaks
I am truly shaken from the ferver attempts with which American govt has tried to intimidate Wikileaks. They wants to crush transparency and silence the debate on the issues raised by the leaks.
In 2007 the median number of Iraqi civilians deaths due to the invasion estimated by the American public was 9,890. The minimum number credibly reported was over 40,000 and other studies have come up with estimates ranging from 200,00 to 700,000. This excludes the many hundreds of thousands of children who died from malnutrition during the preceding embargo. These, the consequence of silence and secrecy.
“In March 2006, after an afternoon of card playing, sex talk and drinking Iraqi whiskey, Pfc. Green and three other soldiers went to the home of 14-year-old Abeer Qassim al-Janabi near Mahmoudiya, about 20 miles south of Baghdad. Green shot and killed the teen's mother, father and sister, then became the third soldier to rape the girl before shooting her in the face.” (MSNBC).
The recent WikiLeaks points to a consistent policy of allowing mercenaries like Blackwater to murder innocent Iraqi civilians and remain unpunished. It is these and the many stories of innocent Iraqi deaths that should be told all over the world. The lack of information on these events has allowed western society to lose its moral compass on the true human cost of the aftermath of 9/11. The release of these documents should be resulting in war crime charges and a sense of revulsion in every city of the world.
I urge you to support WikiLeaks.
In 2007 the median number of Iraqi civilians deaths due to the invasion estimated by the American public was 9,890. The minimum number credibly reported was over 40,000 and other studies have come up with estimates ranging from 200,00 to 700,000. This excludes the many hundreds of thousands of children who died from malnutrition during the preceding embargo. These, the consequence of silence and secrecy.
“In March 2006, after an afternoon of card playing, sex talk and drinking Iraqi whiskey, Pfc. Green and three other soldiers went to the home of 14-year-old Abeer Qassim al-Janabi near Mahmoudiya, about 20 miles south of Baghdad. Green shot and killed the teen's mother, father and sister, then became the third soldier to rape the girl before shooting her in the face.” (MSNBC).
The recent WikiLeaks points to a consistent policy of allowing mercenaries like Blackwater to murder innocent Iraqi civilians and remain unpunished. It is these and the many stories of innocent Iraqi deaths that should be told all over the world. The lack of information on these events has allowed western society to lose its moral compass on the true human cost of the aftermath of 9/11. The release of these documents should be resulting in war crime charges and a sense of revulsion in every city of the world.
I urge you to support WikiLeaks.
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Apache Thrift
Yesterday I spent the day with Thrift. Thrift is a framework developed at Facebook for “gluing” together programming languages. The Thrift framework enables efficient and scalable communication between C++, Java, Python, PHP, XSD, Ruby, C#, Perl, Objective C, Erlang, Smalltalk, OCaml, and Haskell. Thrift allows you to chose the right programming language for the job at hand. With Thrift you won’t have to chose between development speed and performance – you can have your cake and eat it too. Thrift is still very much in its infancy.I hope to shed some light on Thrift and make it just a little bit easier to get up and running. I will write a follow-up post on how to use Thrift to communicate between Java, Python and C++.
Cheers,
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