It is bright and sunny again and I intend to enjoy the couple of days before it gets too hot…
Somewhere in the middle of last week I was made to undergo a medical exam for insurance – the good news is that my Lipid Profile seems to be behaving itself. Spent a lot of time going over the Zend Framework – looks like a good start the best thing I liked was that while it can be used as a framework it will also serve as a component library. I do intend to use the Zend Service, Search and JSON soon.
However if one was to look for a complete and usable framework I would right now recommend Symfony.
A part of the week was also spent on learning a bit about structural engineering and how differential settlement of underlying strata of a building can effect the walls… and also about the unfortunate fact that even if you are willing to pay some people are reluctant to give their best.
The plot where our new home is being constructed has got part rock and part soft backfilled soil!! The structural engineer had redesigned the footings and added a note that there can be differential settlement of the footings – that basically means that some part of the building may settle down more than the other – the end result being some minor cracks in the walls at place. While the cracks are not big deal and many houses have it and can be easily repaired etc etc (BTW. walls do not hold the building in place). We got down to researching the stuff on our own and found the solution is simple – dig deeper and also found out that a couple of feet deeper there is hard rock!
Thats what is now being done – what I am pissed at is the fact that finding this was not my job in the first place…
Yes a meeting is being scheduled between the architect, contractor and structural engineer and Swati – hopefully they will get the message. People do listen when Swati talks business 