****ENGINEERING WOES PART1****

*****ENGINEERING WOES*****
THEY SAY THE NUMBER OF SHEETS WRITTEN BY AN ENGINEER IN FOUR YEARS ARE SUFFICIENT ENOUGH TO BURRY HIM WHEN HE IS GONE, LOGIC STANDS GOOD FOR BURNING AS WELL!!!
THE REASON I AM WRITING THIS MUST BE OBVIOUS BY NOW, THIS IS JUST TO HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THE MOST FAMOUS “ENGINEERING WOES”!!! BEING AN ‘ER.BABU’ IS NOT SO EASY, THERE ARE MANY THINGS THAT ENGINEERING KILLS IN YOU, NOT TO MENTION OF THE TIME AND INK,THEY GO ALONG…LOL!!
I STARTED THIS JOURNEY THREE YEARS BACK NOT KNOWING IT WILL TAKE SO MUCH AWAY FROM ME AND GIVE SOMETHING THAT I MAY NEVER REALLY BE ABLE TO VALUE OR UNDERSTAND. THE LIST OF MY LOSSES IS REALLY LONG BUT THEN I TRY TO FORGET ABOUT ALL THOSE THINKING ‘EVERYTHING COMES WITH A PRICE TAG’.
IF BY NOW YOU HAVE STARTED THINKING THAT I DONT ENJOY ENGINEERING, I AM SORRY, I DO, I FELL IN LOVE WITH IT JUST FEW MONTHS BACK IN MY 3RD SEMESTER AND THIS LOVE WILL GO LONG!! NOW THAT IT HAS TAKEN AWAY ALL MY PASSIONS AWAY FROM ME, I WONT LET IT GO!!
AH I JUST STARTED WITH MY OWN STORY, LET ME COME STRAIGHT TO ‘ENGINNERING WOES’
THE DAY YOU ENTER AN ENGINEERING COLLEGE, YOU FEEL GOOD ABOUT YOURSELF THINKING THAT YOU WILL GO OUT AS SOMEONE WHO WILL BE RESPECTABLE IN SOCIETY, THIS FEELING CONTINUES TO DOMINATE YOU TILL YOU GET YOUR VERY FIRST SESSIONAL TEST RESULTS!!!! LOL
THEN YOU GET LITTLE ACQUIANTED WITH THE ATMOSPHERE AND START INTROSPECTING “AH WHERE WAS I WRONG, I DID EVERYTHING AS I DID IN SCHOOL, LEARNT EVERY TOPIC, CRAMMED EVERYTHING AND EVEN PASTED SAME ON THE SHEETS” INNOCENTLY BUT INTELLIGENTLY YOU GET TO KNOW ABOUT THE BEAUTIFUL POLITICAL SYSTEM RUNNING WITHIN THE COLLEGE AND SUDDENLY YOU START FEELIN PROUD OF BEING BORN IN INDIA!!! YOU COME HOME TALK BACK TO YOUR BEST FRIEND AND PARENTS AND HERE IS WHAT COMES OUT “D AS ROMANS DO!!!”, AND IN YOUR HEARTS OF HEARTS YOU DECIDE YOU WILL OVERCOME THIS AND GET SOME SOLUTION, UNFORTUNATELY YOU END UP BEING PART OF THE SYSTEM AND THAT TOO ON A LEVEL WHERE THEY CALL YOU AS ‘THE PLACEMENT REPRESENTATIVE OF THE COLLEGE’!!!!
BEING IN SCHOOL YOU HAVE ONE GREAT HABBIT, I MEAN I ALWAYS LOVED IT WHEN I GOT UP AND WAITED FOR ALARM CLOCK TO RING, AH ITS ALL GONE NOW, I DON’T KNOW HOW IT WOULD VE BEEN IF I WAS AN RJ OR A DOC, BUT I BLAME IT ON ENGINEERING….TAKE IT FROM ME, I HAD NO SINGLE DAY IN LAST 3YRS WHEN I WAS TOTALLY FREE, I WAS ALWAYS WRITING A PAGE HERE AND PAGE THERE…. I REMEMBER SITTING WHOLE NIGHTS AND SIPPING TEA AND COFFEE AND EATING OUT HEADS OF MY FRIENDS ABOUT NO OF PAGES… NOW SEE THIS IS REALLY INTERESTING THE LOGIC HERE, I HEARD SOME TEACHER CONFESSING IT,”YU ALL ARE GONNA COPY PASTE SO ASSIGNMENT ASSESMENT WILL BE BASED ON VIVA” BELIEVE ME IF NOT FOR MY DECENT RAPORT IN COLLEGE I WANTED TO SHOUT OUT IN CLASS!! AND YOU KNOW FUNNY THING, LAST TIME MY MUM ASKED ME REASON OF BEING AN INSOMANIAC, I STARTED OUT WITH THIS THEORY BUT I KNOW WHAT THEY THOUGHT,”OUR BOY IS IN LOVE”…. FORGIVE ME GOD IF I AM DISRESPECTING LOVE BUT I AM NOT IN LOVE, I AM INTO ENGINEERING!!!!!!
ALL THE BEST GUYS, SESSIONAL TESTS START THIS MONDAY,THEY WILL BE ACCORDING TO THE CODES, FIRST UP 601,…..606

PART TWO WILL COME UP TO ADD TO WOES SOON

The imminent and sad demise of .net technologies!!

This topic has been quite in limelight among us all as to what is actually the better of two technologies, is it java or .net. The reason i am discussing this is cuz i stand alone in my class who has worked on java technologies and rest all had their interests in microsoft based .net. As they say the debate that air is more important or water has no relevance to fish, it is going to live in water anyway, same way with over 70% microsoft users, my points are useless.
I do not know if i am goin to regret my decision of opting for java or not but there are certain things in which java is certainly better than .net. Here i am presenting some important points with little explanation. Please do contact if any point is not clear or wrong, please do correct me, i am putting things as i ve been taught and as i ve researched a bit. . ,
THE POINTS STAND AS NAILS IN COFFIN OF .NET. . Here they are. .
1. Java applications run on multiple platforms from smallest devices to large mainframes. It runs on platforms ranging from smart cards, embedded systems, cellphones, servers(both mainframe as well as non stop)! .Net doesn, infact it is advised not to use .net applications in real time situations, they HANg UP on you like WINDOWS!
2. Java IDE'S are superior in their support for coding tasks, features like code refactoring, intention action(which .net copied and presented it as intelli sense), superior code browsing with built in code and class browser and robust automatic code completion. I wonder how many features has microsoft copied till now and added to its another new version ie beta 10VS. D argument that java copied it from .net should not arise, cuz java made that feature a part of IDE when .net was in its infancy.
3.CROSS PLATFORM INTEGRATION. . integration with other languages like perl, php or phython is achieved in java, these are not sun's creation but independent open source products so u cant present a point that they ve same creator. I can take my php script that can talk to java and run in windows and i can finally place it in linux box and ve ma work done without spending a single coin. . CAN .NET DO IT??
4. Java has retra mature and robust products that support mapping of relational data bases to objects, like top link and coco base. There is no such took in .net. And now microsoft has added something called objectspace and that too in beta, NOT MATURe enough to entrust intelligent users.
5. More deployment options with java!
There are more ways to deploy your application, like java offers you applet, webstart, x windows, midlet. What about .net? I dont know so please tell me.
6. Java applications can be compiled in one platform and run in other.
Now consider this in visual studio, .net and .net sdk ve strict user license agreement that code compiled with these cant run in non microsoft environment! Why???
I would not appreciate your views of marketing here. Lets talk engineering for God sake.
7. Java programmers and developers are ten times more in demand than .net. . You ll end up working in highly volatile environment with 10java guys and they are mad i tell u, cuz they dont drag and drop.
TO BE CONTINUED!
Suggestions and corrections are welcome!