De-Coded

As you can guess, I am a programmer.

No, NOT Yet Another Programmer blogging about his girlfriend or his latest thingamajig. Why would that be of any interest to you? Unless you lack "life" and have all the time in the world to kill, reading trivialities, which I suspect isn't the case if you continue to read.

Yes. This blog is about Coding. More about Coding techniques that work and that don't (per my experience). Design, Architecture and other buzzwords will be peppered in as needed; but - Coding – shall remain the crust.

The focus will be on techniques, rather than Programming Languages. I remain agnostic to wasteful discussions about 'why a particular language/OS is better than others?'. My personal mantra – Any OS/language is okay, as long as it gets the job done satisfactorily. Having said thus, I am a bit biased toward Open Source/Free software as they provide full source code to the implementation; enabling programmers like me to tweak, change, enhance the system per our liking. What better way to judge a entree than having an up and close look at it's recipe? And garnishing can be added if you, so, desire.

Why am I doing This? Too much time to kill? Obviously, NO. You wouldn't find any personal pics or boring mundane details here. And no "hot" scoops either. Well, I am doing it for myself. A self-referential guide to nudge me, back, into the right path whenever the project pressures shall lead me astray.

I will be glad if you find any of it useful, and grateful if you contribute you thoughts and indebted if you'd correct me and/or provide a better solution or analysis.