Latest happenings

As usual, I blog on and off every now and then. There's been lot of changes in my career and life, since my last post.

I became a father on September 30th. I had a son. He is keeping me busy and its fun to see him grow.

On October 6th, I joined another project with the same client, Kaiser, as a Tech lead. Its a new project and I have a team at offshore. Its nice to work in a elevated role, except the offshore challenges. The work is challenging and timeline is aggresive. We are using Seam framework which will run on Jboss Server, ESB Services on WSO2 Server.

Pleasanton DMV Behind the Wheel Driving Test Routes

When I was searching for DMV test routes for Pleasanton, I couldnt find one. So, I just collected some of the possible routes from friends and uploaded here.

Route # 1

->> Come out of DMV
->> Left @ Hopyard
-->> Left @ Parkside
-->> 2nd left
-->> Right @ Hopyard
->> Right @ W Las Positas
-->> Left @ Williow Road
-->> Left @ Inglewood ->> This is residential area usually they will test curb parking and straight reverse here.

-->> Left @ Denker
-->> Left @ Dorman
-->> Right @ Hopyard
-->> Left into DMV
->> Then he will ask you to park

Route # 2

->> Come out of DMV
->> go straight on W Las Positas
-->> Left @ Hacienda
-->> Left @ Gibraltor
-->> Left @ Williow Road
-->> Right @ W Las Positas
-->> Right @ Hopyard
-->> Left @ Inglewood ->> This is residential area usually they will test curb parking and straight reverse here.
-->> Left @ Denker
-->> Left @ Dorman
-->> Right @ Hopyard
-->> Left into DMV
->> Then he will ask you to park.


Route # 3

->> Come out of DMV
->> go straight on W Las Positas
-->> Left @ Hacienda
-->> Left @ Gibraltor
-->> Right @ Williow Road
-->> Left @ Inglewood
-> Go straight you will cross Hopyard junction- >> This is residential area usually they will test curb parking and straight reverse here.
-->> Right @ Denker
-->> Right @ Stoneridge
-->> Right @ Hopyard
-->> Left @ W Las Positas
-->> Left into DMV
->> Then he will ask you to park.

Passed PMP

On May 24th, I appeared for the PMP Certification and passed it. I studied for 2 months and finally cleared it. My secret of success is as follows:

• Read Rita Mulcahy Guide
• Read PMBOK
• Read Rita Mulcahy Guide
• Read PMBOK
• Read PMBOK
• Pmstudy exams
• Exams from other books like Kim, Joseph Philips
• Again PMBOK

My PMP experience was very enlightening. Acquiring PM Knowledge is indeed an enriching experience and the confidence which I got, once I acquired the certification is worth all the hardwork. One thing I learned - I found the test to be very focused on application of knowledge/concepts in real world projects, as opposed to knowledge itself. It is very important to understand all concepts. The exam tests the concepts thoroughly.

Right & Left Hand Driving

Last week, I was chatting with my friend who lives in France and we were discussing about the driving system in US and France. I was thinking, it was only the countries in North America which follow the "driving on the right" system. It looks like there are around 166 countries which follow the system including France. Others follows the UK System(around 76), that is "driving on the left".

Another interesting thing is that, how the system actually started. It is very well described in the following link.

http://users.pandora.be/worldstandards/driving%20on%20the%20left.htm