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When I had first read about CMM I had thought that it was the holy grail that all software companies should be working towards, at that time I was still in school and idealism took precedence over reality.

I got back to application development using Java after spending the last 4 years developing applications using .Net and C++ and things have really changed!!! I have spent the last one month trying to catch up on all the new stuff in the Java world.

The build is the pulse of any software development activity and a good build system facilitates quality software development. My current thoughts on a build process are as follows Build Machine The build machine is a dedicated physical or virtual machine whose sole purpose is to build your product.

After having eagerly downloaded Vista from MSDN and installed it on my home machine last month, I am formatting my disk today and going back to XP SP2, the biggest problem for me is the extremely slow internet experience, while everything was working smoothly on XP, Vista for some reason is not allowing me to access the internet at a reasonable speed, it must be a problem with the drivers or my hardware, but for whatever reason this is one problem I cannot live with.

Recently I downloaded Picasa from Google to manage my huge collection of photographs, I was totally blown away by the great experience of using such a great piece of software. Everything was so intuit, and the UI was really slick and well organized.

I read a programming font review today and saw that Bitstream Vera Sans Mono was the most preferred one by most users. After giving it a try for a while I reverted back to Consolas from Microsoft, I’ve yet to find a better font than Consolas for programming.

After re-reading Essential COM and ATL internals yet again, I decided to use a knowledge management tool to store all the little pieces of information that’ll help me remember and keep track of all this information easily.

Over the last year I’ve downloaded the source for many popular open source tools like Gaim, eMule, Mozilla etc. in order to read the code. One big problem I always faced coming from a Visual Studio background was the lack of a solution or workspace kind of concept that allows for easier code browsing.

So I finally downloaded Vista from MSDN, at 2.5 GB for all editions it’s surprisingly small. So I burned the DVD, backed up everything I needed and did a clean install of Vista as upgrading would have left hardly any space left.

A few years back when I first started reading about design patterns, refactoring, OO principles etc. I got it into my head that I should “Always program to an interface not an implementation”.