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  • The curious case of the permanent contractor

    When I first came to the UK, I found the concept of the IT contractor was very different to the Indian IT contractor. In India, an IT contractor or ‘contract employee’ is like a daily wage labourer. Let me explain why. The wages are much lower compared to a permanent employee. You work for a… Read more

  • Stuff that Microsoft must stop doing

    I recently moved off .net after 3 years. Now I am working in the wonderful world of linux (more on it in another post). Looking back and reflecting on .Net and windows, I feel windows is a pretty decent desktop OS (nobody else can beat it’s driver support). I still use it for my personal… Read more

  • Water falls bottom up

    I have been doing test driven development on a standard 3-tier web application for around 2 years now. Initially I felt that doing bottom up development was the best thing to do. It was easy for me to think of small domain objects on the service side that seemed to have small pieces of the… Read more