nirav April 26th, 2007
Read an interesting note from boss to employees on ExecPundit. Naveen sent the link and I felt if everyone would follow those suggestions, things would be so much better! The post also has a few notes from employees to the boss, and they are also a good read! Here’s a sampling of the note from boss to employees:
- I am sometimes under enormous pressure from upper management; pressure that you seldom see. Anything that you can do to make my job easier will be greatly appreciated.
- I will make mistakes. Please give me the same understanding that you’d like me to give you when you blunder.
- If I do something dumb or am on the verge of doing so, please tell me. Don’t hint. Tell me.
- I expect you to take initiative. If you keep bouncing things to me, I’m going to wonder why I have you around.
- Don’t let all of my talk about meeting goals and producing results lead you into unethical behavior. You always have my permission to be ethical.
- If either of us has a problem with the other’s performance, let’s talk about it.
So true!
nirav December 23rd, 2006
Kartik, Naveen and Ameya have organized Magnet’s first HackFest this weekend. Eight of us are here, ready to hack, and stuff our stomachs with pizzas and pesticides (err.. Coke). We already have some stuff going on. Participants so far are: Kartik, Naveen, Ameya, Vishal, Vinay, Mohan, Arun & Me.
Kartik kicked off the HackFest and told everyone about the schedule. We logged in at 5.15pm and will be logging out tomorrow 5.00pm. Till then, we are in the office, no one stepping out (except the organizers 
We brainstormed ideas of what we can hack on! Shortlisted a few, and after the pizza party, things will start rolling.
Till now, people have just got their feet wet. Researching a little bit here and there. Most of the research by the way, has gone in getting Quake working on all the machines here. Couldn’t join the arena from Linux / Mac yet. The Frag Match is over, and the winners are announced - Kartik and Vinay. I didn’t know Kartik was so good at Quake (or that the rest of us are so bad
I started on finding more about the popularity contest plugin to WordPress, to fix the spam comment problem I had - it was taking even the spam comment counts in calculating popularity. Surprisingly, it just worked today, without my changing anything. Not sure what changed. I reviewed the code, ran it, and it worked! Looks like my aura is really getting stronger!
Have made a list of things I want to work on. Let’s see where we reach!
I have put up some photos in the gallery under HackFest01, will be posting more as I process them! Will also post updates here.
