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Note from Boss to Employees

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!

PHP has come a long way!

nirav February 20th, 2007

Read a note on Joel On Software about Language Wars. Someone asked him about the language to choose for his next project. And Joel mentions (on the language war):

These debates are enormously fun and a total and utter waste of time, because the bottom line is that there are three and a half platforms (C#, Java, PHP, and a half Python) that are all equally likely to make you successful, an infinity of platforms where you’re pretty much guaranteed to fail spectacularly when it’s too late to change anything (Lisp, ISAPI DLLs written in C, Perl), and a handful of platforms where The Jury Is Not In, So Why Take The Risk When Your Job Is On The Line? (Ruby on Rails).

What interested me, was the mention of PHP there, and the significance of it. We have been working with PHP for 8 years, and it has grown tremendously. It’s now even preferred language for big enterprises. Makes me proud to have taken the PHP route for Magnet! As it is, after working on and managing projects in so many technologies, PHP is still my number one choice for programming!