A spot on the map!

At the NY Times office in Edison, on one of the walls in the room where my boss sits, is a world map with marker stickers showing the motherland of each consultant. The consultants are given a spot on the map only after the team is sure that they'll be around for a while( my guess). And today, I have been asked to spot my city on the map. :)

I have invented another way to reassure myself .. :))

The cost of bread

I now work for The New York Times at their Edison Plant. I started there on the 4th of October and am happily doing an ASP.NET project. The only pain is that I have to code in VB.NET which means I have to ulearn my C# habits like ending each line with a ;

Believe it or not, NY Times is an awesome place to work at! And I am lucky to have an excellent team and a very smart team lead - Nick Downing aka THE FIRE MARSHALL.

Chris Sells and my personality

I read the blog of Chris Sells , the man who wrote the most beautiful book on Windows Forms programming using c#. So while reading his blog, I found a link to a personality test that he'd taken. Me, being a sucker for those assesments, took the test and this is what they have to say about my character :



Your distinct personality, The Discoverer, might be found in most of the thriving kingdoms of the time. Your overriding goal is to go where no one else has ever gone before. Regardless of the number of available natural problems to be solved, it is not unusual for you to continually challenge yourself with new situations or obstacles that you have created. You are an insatiable explorer of people, places, things and ideas. You thrive on constant change and anything new or different. On the positive side, you can be creatively rational as well as open minded and just. On the negative side, you might be an impractical and indecisive procrastinator. Interestingly, your preference is just as applicable in today's corporate kingdoms.

Is "creatively rational as well as open minded and just" another way of saying that you are "impractical and indecisive procrastinator"?

Laziness

Well, I did implement it during that weekend but have been too lazy to post. Also, there are so many solutions on the web that there is a risk that mine might appear to be a copy! So I guess I'll let this one go.

ASP.NET Role Based Security Using SQL Server 2000

I've been doing some research on finding the best method to implement role based security in the .Net web app that I am currently developing. I hope to implement it over the weekend. Will post the details if the results are satisfactory.

Beamed in!!

I have just been teleported to the universe of blogs! This will be the place where I express my ignorance and intellect.