Finally back to my writing, have been so busy doing nothing these days that I had not found any time to write. Anyways coming back to Hyderabad, had so many things to catch up on that writing kept on moving down in my things to do list. Happy that I could make it atleast. Offlate I have been getting some really nice forwards and below is one such composition. After I read it I found it quite apt to people like us in the IT field. Guess most of us know it all but I guess no issues reading it again. Think of it as a summary...

Golden Rules for Career Success

Richard Moran - A business consultant working all over the world, discovered some basic career-related rules that everyone should know—but many don’t.

• Business is made up of ambiguous victories and nebulous defeats. Claim them all as victories.
• Keep track of what you do; someone is sure to ask.
• Be comfortable around senior managers, or learn to fake it.
• Never bring your boss a problem without some solution.
  You are getting paid to think, not to whine.
• Long hours don’t mean anything; results count, not effort.
• Write down ideas; they get lost, like good pens.
• Always arrive at work 30 minutes before your boss.
• Don’t take days off sick—unless you are.
• Assume no one can/will keep a secret.
• Know when you do your best—morning, night, under pressure, relaxed; schedule and prioritize your work accordingly.
• Treat everyone who works in the organization with respect and dignity, whether it be the cleaner or the managing director. Don’t ever be patronizing.
• Never appear stressed in front of a client, a customer or your boss. Take a deep breath and ask yourself: In the course of human events, how important is this?
• If you get the entrepreneurial urge, visit someone who has his own business. It may cure you.
• Acknowledging someone else’s contribution will repay you doubly.
• Career planning is an oxymoron. The most exciting opportunities tend to be unplanned.
• Always choose to do what you’ll remember ten years from now.
• Understand what finished work looks like and deliver your work only when it is finished.
• The person who spends all of his or her time is not hard-working; he or she is boring.
• Know how to write business letters—including thank-you notes as well as proposals.
• Never confuse a memo with reality. Most memos from the top are political fantasy.
• Eliminate guilt. Don’t fiddle expenses, taxes or benefits, and don’t cheat colleagues.
• Go to the company Christmas party.
• Don’t get drunk at the company Christmas party.
• Avoid working at weekends. Work longer during the week if you have to.
• The most successful people in business are interesting.
• Sometimes you’ll be on a winning streak and everything will click; take maximum advantage. When the opposite is true, hold steady and wait it out.
• Never in your life say, “It’s not my job.”
• Be loyal to your career, your interests and yourself.
• Understand the skills and abilities that set you apart.
  Use them whenever you have an opportunity.
• People remember the end of the project. As they say in boxing, “Always finish stronger than you start.”

Regular Expressions

Today a quiz was distributed around at the client place I work to write an efficient program in RegEx to validate and fetch pieces from a specific String format. I had looked into Regular Expression for one of my projects earlier but did not really use it. I got inspired today after looking at the quiz to give it a try and was reading a bit. I found this link very useful and guess everyone would like it too.

http://www.amk.ca/python/howto/regex/

MathWorld defines Regular Expressions as follows:

Regular expressions define formal languages as sets of strings over a finite alphabet. Let denote a selected alphabet. Then is a regular expression that denotes the empty set and is a regular expression that denotes the set containing the empty string as its only element.
If , then is a regular expression that denotes the set whose only element is string . If and are regular expressions denoting sets and , then
1. is a regular expression denoting the set , where denotes the union.
2. is a regular expression denoting the set of all concatenations of and , where and .
3. is a regular expression denoting closure of , that is, the set of zero or more concatenations of strings from
The sets defined by regular expressions are called regular sets, and a set is regular iff it is defined by a right linear grammar.

The word "PraBhas" is a wonderful word in my life. It is Pradeepa who is me and Bhaskar who is just not better but my best half. I set out on look for a Telugu to English Dictionary on the web to translate the word Prabhas from telugu to know its meaning in English. From the results I ended up reading so much on Telugu. It was more interesting to read it as Telugu is my mother tongue and it made me knowledgeable about it. There is loads of information wealth in Wikipedia about this language and I think every Telugu enthusiast should read [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telugu] . This is a complete detour about what I was going to write so I am going to get back on track.

When I was in school my class teacher once made a comment in my progress report that I was lethargic. I, at that age of 12 or 13 (don't really remember) did not know the meaning of the word lethargy which was later clarified to me by my father (whom I dearly love) as "laziness" was aptly written according to me. Even now I think I have grown up with that habit mostly because of the pampering by my parents, brother, sister and for the past 5 years my dear husband. Being the youngest at home I guess you are born to be pampered ;-) Anyone who disagrees do write to me. I would love to hear it.

Anyways, getting back on track I want to break free from the shackles of laziness and try to something constructive. This is my first step towards it... I think I have lots to contribute, loads in my brain to be shared and talked about.

Keep looking for more posts from me. Do keep writing.

Ciao, have a great new day with full of joy!!!!