Time flies!

Can’t believe that it has been almost a year and a half since I last blogged.  Since then, life has changed in many ways!

• Had  second daughter
• Moved verticals at Goog
• A marriage in the family
• A 48 Hour trip, to and fro to India
• Older daughter speaks fluently
• More gray on my beard
• New friends at work
• A founder’s award at Goog
• A new car (say Minivan!)
• 5 extra pounds
• …. and much more!

At this rate I am afraid life will just pass me by….

Many many years ago,  as a kid at school, read the following on a sticker pasted at the rear of our school bus.

“Take time to live, for the world has so much to give”

Never understood it then… don’t think I do now either!

God Bless America!

I am proud to have been witness to an event that will be recorded in history and retold for generations, over and over!

God Bless America!

Agony & Triumph (acts_as_state_machine)

You just learn some things the hard way! For a couple of hours I have been trying to get the ‘acts_as_state_machine’ to work in a consistent manner.  For some reason or the other, my unit & integration tests run perfectly fine while my program works once in a while! I would not have been thrown off guard had it not worked at all.

Finally after a very determined debugging session, I figured out that my object’s state would not change if the object is not already persisted! Now, that is common sense but would it not have helped to throw a small error if I tried to something like this? The plugin is great and I am not cribbing, but sometimes little things can really make your life miserable