Learning is an Art

Before starting on this I would like to than Atlassian team for starting personal licenses for users. I would say its really a big thing for me as it saves me a lot time going to atlassian site and downloading license after every one month.

So now what do I do with my personal Jira installation :

Tracking my own progress on things: My jira Installation has project name learning which I have components as shown below so the differnet sources of my learning has become components of my jira project learning and not forget the title of my Jira installation is Personal life Jira

Personal Jira Components

Similarly versions are quarters of year and I create few Jira issues for each components each quarter like say I have a traget of reading two books each quarter, write ten blog posts each quarter; Jira helps in setting my personal goals.

We all agree that putting down things on paper or in genral documenting it somehwere helps alot especially putting down what we want to do and what we are suppose to do. People might say Jira might be to big application for managing personal taks but in my humble opinion its not about tool its more about the intent.

Developing some plugins and customization for Jira: Being a developer at heart I was not able to refrain my self from trying my hands on Jira’s plugin development environment with so much help available its pretty easy to get started though maven may suck you at start but once set it works as bread and butter.

So Jira as whole as impacted my learning process; I would like to thank Atlassian for providing such a nice tool and great licensing options.

Disclaimer: I am not associated with Atlassian by any means.

Subversion 1.5 is out and its been almost half year to it. Now thought comes to mind where to go from here, Subversion has still a long way to go from here, Subversion developers should not content with accomplishments in 1.5 its still a long way for Subversion to go to be an enterprise software, having said that I would also like to point that penetration of Subversion in enterprise environment has considerably increased but still it has an uphill task and I am sure that Subversion development team is aware of same.

I am big fan of Subversion thats why I sometime ponder about its future, when I see fanatics talking about GIT, Clearcase and Perforce. I was really saddened when Linus trovalds in his speech said “whole point the Subversion project started is wrong” but I have not found anything wrong with the tool, may be I am not as capable as Linus and neither I am into kernel development but Subversion works pretty well for me and so does for my organization, and there are many other Subversion works for them too.

There is a big wish list which people might have for Subversion but I would say to Subversion developer community add the features which are good for tool as whole and keep in mind that Subversion is version control first anything else later.

Ballmer Peak

I agree with Ballmer’s Peak; personal experience if you have proper quantity of alcohol and than do coding you are highly efficient but have no comments on whats that quantity as when I try I am not able to reach to that level but some time it happens on its own.

So alcohol is good for programmers; just kidding.