Free the Left Lane

The traffic in Hyderabad is getting miserable everyday. Last year, during the month of October it used to take me approximately 45 minutes to reach office from my home which is 25 KM away. Now it takes anything between 1 hour 15 minutes to 1 hour 30 minutes. Terrible, isn't it! The reason is not just increase in the number of vehicles on the road, but people driving without traffic sense and mutual respect for the others on the road.

There is a concept of free left lane at the signals in Hyderabad, this is not the case in Bangalore. The drivers in a hurry to reach the destination faster block the left lane and cause a severe congestion at the junctions. One such place is the junction at the Cyber Towers where people take a left turn as most of the companies are located on that way.

Recently, few companies started the initiative of "Free the left lane", where in employess of these companies help in freeing the left lane and reduce congestion. These people stand in the hot sun and ensure lane discipline. Thanks, folks! You are helping me reach the office early by atleast 20 minutes. I have noticed employees of SumTotal and CSC, many thanks to you!

SQL Joins

Here is a nice post on SQL Joins. A good read to brush your fundamentals. Don't miss out the links to other posts on this blog entry. Thanks, Jeff for this post.

Code for Testability

These days I'm finding it very difficult to get people write the unit tests. The difficulty is even more with the experienced developers, atleast the junior developers are clear when they start writing code and ask questions if they are not clear about something. One funny incident - one of the senior developers completed the coding and asked a junior developer to write the test cases for it. God! The test cases are not just for the sake of it.

Ironically, a few senior developers look at unit tests as some kind of validations!! perhaps due to the use of assert* methods...

Wake up folks!