Finally the monsoon has firmly set over the region. Cooling things down to the twenties… Half of 2006 has also passed and been a good year till now.

I am still overwhelmed with work but I took some time out last week to try making a real life project with cakePHP – http://cakephp.org as the framework and PHPEclipse from http://easyeclipse.org as the IDE, for want of something better I decided upon creating a Photoblog after the first couple of hours I found myself liking the code so much that I registered a project at cakeforge called cheeseCake (yes pun intended). After about 10 hours of programming a lot of which was spent in trying to search the cake documentation (the weakest point of the project) the results are at http://cakeforge.org/projects/cheesecake/ – I intend to keep this an SVN only project for as long as I can

On business front a kind of Joel Spolsky Vs. Paul Graham dilemma seems to be the crux, however since I am already seeing “why this boom is different” kind of articles appearing I would say that we are definitely approaching a flat period if not the end of the boom. Does not take a post graduate degree in business management to know what to do in such situations…