Author Archives: Justin Joseph

My knowledge of music

After following music for 14 years, this is what I learned I KNOW NOTHING IN MUSIC and that I need to start from the beginning What does that mean ? It means, compared to 14 years back, I am now aware of more things that I do not know and that gives me an opportunity… Read More »

Process vs People Management

In your carrier as an employee you would have come across several managers. I have categorized them into two kinds Process Manager People Manager When I say process management, it means, managing without the human element. You apply the latest and the greatest techinque from the best business management books, but fail to look at… Read More »

Sending email using PHP

Whenever i send an email to gmail, I got the following response was rejected due to classification as CONFIRMED SPAM. https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer Use the button on the right ‘Download ZIP’ to download the source files I still could not get to use the encrypted servers ( TLS) Following is code that works, <?php require “PHPMailerAutoload.php”; $mail… Read More »

Jenil’s engagement

Today was Jenil’s engagement which was held at Jenil’s would be wife’s place. They converted their backyard to a pandal and served food there. They even had novel concept of thattukada, where dosa, puttu etc was served. Mom, dad, rashmi chechi, george pepan, cini checi, all came for the function. Unfortunately, nobody from beena chech’s mom side… Read More »

New automation project

Sukalayan informed the team that, in the next week, I will be working with Sukalayan and no one should assign any task to me, during this time. The idea is to come up with a solution to automate the TFS code check-in ( which is now done manually) and let the developer know in case… Read More »

First work day of 2018

Today is Jan 2nd, 2018 and I headed to work as usual, at least, that’s what I thought – but nothing about today was ordinary. I will explain why Today is a full moon. I have never experienced a full moon, so early in the year – the second day of the year. Although I… Read More »

My new year gift

It’s a new year. And what better way to welcome the new year, than to gift me something special ? So this year, I decided to gift myself an audio recorder, this one by zoom. It is H4n pro by Zoom. The going rate was almost 15,000+ even a few weeks back. But when I… Read More »