Monday, February 28, 2011
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Speech by Shankar Abhyakar on Veer Savarkar
Few days ago, I listened to a great speech series (in Marathi language) given by Vidyavachaspati Shankar Abhyankar on Swatantryaveer Vinayak Damodar Savarkar. (http://www.savarkar.org/en/audio)
I have always admired greatness of Savarkar. He was a fearless freedom fighter, social reformer, writer, dramatist, poet, historian, political leader and philosopher to name a few. After listening to the speech, my respect about him got multiplied by thousand times. A good amount of information about Veer Savarkar and some of his books are made available at http://www.savarkar.org/ in both Marathi and English languages. Please read and get inspired !
Vande Mataram !
I have always admired greatness of Savarkar. He was a fearless freedom fighter, social reformer, writer, dramatist, poet, historian, political leader and philosopher to name a few. After listening to the speech, my respect about him got multiplied by thousand times. A good amount of information about Veer Savarkar and some of his books are made available at http://www.savarkar.org/ in both Marathi and English languages. Please read and get inspired !
Vande Mataram !
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Do you really need a Code Beautifier ?
A food of thought! As a good developer, do you really need a Code Beautifier?
This thought came to my mind when I was reviewing my friend's code which was not properly intended for whatever reason and appeared to me as if scribbled on a paper. Soon I got frustrated comprehending the code with my brain muscles stretching out beyond their limits. When I asked the reason behind improper indentation, I got an answer (rather a question) - Do we have a good code beautifier which would properly intend the code without human intervention? That was an unexpected answer to me. There are certainly a lot of paid and open source code beautifier tools available, but do we really need them when we write a code?
Why can't we make it a good practice to properly intend the code when we write? Almost all IDEs provide good facility to have proper indentation and formatting. Why am I emphasizing so much on this? In my opinion, a good readable and logically structured code is necessary not merely for outlook. It actually reflects your mind - your attitude, discipline and neatness. This also brings a very important aspect when you are collaborating amongst your development team.
Yes, when you download a third party code and if that code is not properly formatted, then the code beautifier tools play a good role in making the code clean and readable. The code beautifiers are meant for existing ugly code faces, they are not meant for fresh development!
The ultimate message is - whenever you are creating something, be it a code or anything... make it always beautiful .... :-)
This thought came to my mind when I was reviewing my friend's code which was not properly intended for whatever reason and appeared to me as if scribbled on a paper. Soon I got frustrated comprehending the code with my brain muscles stretching out beyond their limits. When I asked the reason behind improper indentation, I got an answer (rather a question) - Do we have a good code beautifier which would properly intend the code without human intervention? That was an unexpected answer to me. There are certainly a lot of paid and open source code beautifier tools available, but do we really need them when we write a code?
Why can't we make it a good practice to properly intend the code when we write? Almost all IDEs provide good facility to have proper indentation and formatting. Why am I emphasizing so much on this? In my opinion, a good readable and logically structured code is necessary not merely for outlook. It actually reflects your mind - your attitude, discipline and neatness. This also brings a very important aspect when you are collaborating amongst your development team.
Yes, when you download a third party code and if that code is not properly formatted, then the code beautifier tools play a good role in making the code clean and readable. The code beautifiers are meant for existing ugly code faces, they are not meant for fresh development!
The ultimate message is - whenever you are creating something, be it a code or anything... make it always beautiful .... :-)
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