Personal Weblog of Deepak Vasudevan

Easy To Use Package and Deployment SystemsElegant Package and Deployment of applications has been the concern of people for long time. With the advent of Visual Studio, there was an easy 'Package and Deployment Wizard' with Microsoft Visual Basic. Then with Visual Studio .NET, there came, 'Setup and Deployment Wizard' project, which makes Package and Deployment a breeze. But whilst searching in Google, I just came across this simple tool called NSIS -- NullSoft Scriptable Installation System, available from http://nsis.sourceforge.net/site/index.php?id=2&backPID=2&tt_news=4 Well! This comes under Open Source license. The beauty is an EXEcutable is made by simply writing a script file, which is so simple like our Windows/DOS batch files or Unix Shell Scripts. I was just browsing through NSIS website and it seems it also supports a wide spectrum of User Interfaces. Perhaps, if someone was looking for a Scriptable Installation System, wh...

Sabarimala...The month of Karthigai&nbsp; and Margazhi are supposedly causing the entire Indian atmosphere to vibrate with more incessant spells of God, Devotion, Classic Music etc. The significance of Sabarimala Ayyappa 30-40 day observations are also not an uncommon feature. I had an opportunity to start this 30-day observation for Lord Ayyappa and I am planning to start to Sabarimala Pilgrimage sometime by December 22, with the blessings of the Lord. There are observations to follow and strict regulations to abide by. With the blessings of the Lord, I hope, all this would be feasible. < !-- bd_ad_type = 'inline'; bd_ad_id = '72511'; //-->           Posted at 08:14 am by Deepak Kumar Vasudevan           Original BlogDrive Post on Monday, November 24, 2003

It is Diwali on 24th. The most celebrated festival through out India. It falls on the Amavasya day of the Hindu month of Ashwini (October-November).  The festival is celebrated with a diversified set of rich historic reasons that are being attributed to it. There is saying that slaying of the wicked demon king of Narakasura is one such reason. In Northern Parts of India, it is being celebrated as a return of Lord Sri Rama after his two seven (14) year exile period.  Perhaps, towards Dussehra, Northern Parts of India celebrate a Ram Leela, which signifies burning of effigies of Kumbakarn, Indrajit and  Ravan, in that order For us, a Diwali means a lot of fun and new inspirations and new goals rejuvenated for our lives. Sweets, New Clothes, Meeting and Get-To-Gether with Friends and Relatives. Perhaps with this age of cable Televisions, we should not get locked up before the stupid box but break off to get together with a lot of our friends. Th...

Leadership Qualities for Personnel in Technical Domains I was quite in tensed and depressed&nbsp;mood perhaps sometime last week.&nbsp;One of my friend sent me some URL and articles on leadership&nbsp;to keep me motivated and keep up the&nbsp;spirits. I really loved the Leadership Qualities for Personnel in Technical Domains that I almost spent that night till about 3:30 trying to understand it. It is really a very excellent piece&nbsp;of article. In fact, my heart-felt thanks to the author. Perhaps this ten points on leadership, which I got via mail, I would like to share with the readers of my blog. Perhaps I would consider this as a kind of Ten Commandments for a Leader in Software Industry.&nbsp; Out of my own interest and curiosity, I just went to google andput the the first line to find out where this content actually came from. It was from this URL: http://www.isoquantic.com/RandRs/SWLeadership.html   1. BUSINESS LITERACY Software o...

This was a few jottings I wrote sometime back and circulated to my friend fed up because of the amount of attrition that my team was witnessing. The email slowly leaked into my CEO's attention. I was afraid whether that is going to create trouble whereas  Srinivas Thirunagari  took it very positively for the affection I had for my organization  and he sponsored today's snack juice at  Hotel Ashoka . I come from Mississippi and St. Paul plains I jump down through the timezones I sparkle amongst the different rains and chains To bicker down the Marina cones By thirty months I hurry down Or Slip between various ridges Till last by XP’s farm I flow To join the brimming bridges For Men many come and Men May Go But I go on forever. I chatter over the stony ways of enraged customers, I jump into hard days and babble with the pebble of depressions, With many curves and twists I fret with many peaks and fallows Sweety fairy projects and sour maintanence provide...