Welcome to my page.
My interests include Design Patterns, Extreme Programming.
I am an Extreme Programmer and Coach at Industrial Logic, Inc. (
http://www.industriallogic.com).
To visit my page, go to
http://www.geocities.com/somik/
I am a member of CALJUG (
http://www.caljug.org) and XPIndia (
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xpindia)
I like
ExtremeProgramming, and am trying to follow it at my work place.
I find the connection between and Aikido and Extreme Programming very fascinating. I have written about it at
ExtremeProgrammingAndAikido.
I've read
LateralThinking by Edward
DeBono, and can't help noticing the Lateral element in Extreme Programming. Check
LateralThinkingInExtremeProgramming. Recently read the book FiveDysfunctionsOfATeam - and I think it holds explanations as to why XP manages to succeed and build great teams.
Also, check out the wiki page of
JoshuaKerievsky
Writings that I am inspired by - Swami Vivekananda's talk about what Hinduism is at the World Parliament of Religions, Chicago (September 11, 1893):
http://www.mahanadi.com/nirmalya/svivek.asp
My Favorite Books :
- Autobiography of a Yogi - Swami Yogananda
- My Experiments with Truth - Mahatma Gandhi
- Unpopular Essays - Bertrand Russell (Fav essay - An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish)
- In Praise of Idleness - Bertrand Russell
- Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
- The Outsider - Albert Camus
- The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
''Somik, Thanks for the discussion about XP and Aikido! I have been interested in some time in learning Aikido because I had heard some about its content. But I had not heard before of its unique self-paired teaching style. That makes it even more interesting!
Perhaps others would want to compare other programming styles (waterfall methodology, etc.) to other martial arts?''
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UnitTestingAndMartialArts talks about how we test ourselves daily in the dojo.
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SomikRaha
Anyone interested in knowing further details on Swami Vivekananda may also refer to
http://www.vivekananda.org/
The official website of Ramakrishna Mission is
http://www.sriramakrishna.org/
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AngsumanChakraborty
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Visited the page... came from Yamanoor Srihari's page. A lot of hyperlinking and spent an hour on reading! -
http://www.chella.zenvalley.com