Author Archives: Justin Joseph

Got my guitar back

I had given my guitar for service and also to change the pickups. When Melvin came home a few days back, he carried it all the way from Trivandrum, holding it close to the body, so that it doesn’t fall off, all through the journey of sitting in the bus, for more than 650 km.… Read More »

Valyamachi passed away

Valyamachi passed away yesterday( Sep 28, 2018) at 11:10 AM at James Uncle’s home. As soon as he got the news, dad reached there and with the help of Linto, took care of most of the stuff there. John chettan along with Joe kuttan also pitched in to buy all the necessary things for the… Read More »

Building powerful salable websites using the cloud

Understanding the power of cloud architecture Introduction The world has moved forward so much, in the last several years and new technologies keep coming that makes development easier and faster. Cloud technology is one such aspect, that has revolutionized the way developers and testers could think of the software development cycle. Yes, now you might, ask,… Read More »

Project management

Considering the number of personal projects that I am working on, I decided to give a try for some good project management software. And this was the criteria I was looking for Source code integration with Git Projects > Tasks > Bugs Burn down charts and time tracking Supports at least two users Email notifications… Read More »

NLP with Python – First steps

Today is one of the happiest days of my life because, for the first time, I saw the real power of python and the Natural Language Took kit library. I had downloaded the text version of bible yesterday and using that as input and the following lines of code ( source code is after the… Read More »

Swaroop’s visit to Bangalore

Swaroop came home yesterday from Hyderabad. He reached at 1:00 PM. We ordered food from swiggy and then talked for a long time. In the evening, we went to 1 MG mall as well as Big Bazaar. Once he came back, Swaroop taught me how to use the Tez and BHIM app, along with that,… Read More »

When Indians go abroad

When Indians got to US and attend calls from there or when they come back to India, they won’t stop acting like an America. A few obvious changes, you will notice are Change in name : Krishna becomes Krish and so on. GopalNath becomes GN ( Gn ?? really ?) Talk in an accent, which… Read More »

Golden gems ( books ) on Software Engineering

Found this on ./ I teach CS 428 (“Software Engineering”) at BYU. The three texts my students read are: — The Mythical Man-Month, Fred Brooks (originally published in 1975, anniversary edition in 1995) — Peopleware by DeMarco and Lister (first published in 1987, currently in its 3rd edition) — Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering by Robert Glass (published in… Read More »

Rich vs Poor – People’s perception

Nobody questions the poor for not working hard. Nobody asks the poor, why are you like this?  But the rich have to be hardworking and also share their wealth with other people. If they don’t they are creating big crime. Social responsibility part applies to the rich. If a poor guy, decides to skip work and have a… Read More »