My Favorites

Favorite Quotes

“The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.”

“If you are spending more time writing code than thinking about what code you should write – you are doing something wrong. Very wrong. Or it’s something trivial enough to not be of much importance. Or it’s Java.”
– Developing at the speed of thoughts

“Complexity is a sign of technical immaturity. Simplicity of use is the real sign of a well design product whether it is an ATM or a Patriot missile. ”
– Daniel T. Ling

“A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler”
– Albert Einstein

“Simplicity means the achievement of maximum effect with minimum means.”
– Dr. Koichi Kawana, Architect, designed the botanical gardens

“Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.”
– Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect, designed the Guggenheim.

“I don’t think I’ve ever seen a piece of commercial software where the next version is simpler rather than more complex.”
– Walter Bender, Executive Director of the MIT media lab.

“Simplicity hinges as much on cutting nonessential features as on adding helpful ones.”
– Walter Bender

“The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.”
– Edward Teller, Scientist, father of the H Bomb.

“‘Think simple’ as my old master used to say  meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.”
– Frank Lloyd Wright

“Even for expert users things should be simple”
– Jason Fried, Web Developer at 37signals

“Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. ”
~Martin Fowler

Favorite Tools

CutePDF

Very useful tool to convert any printable document into PDF document. This helps me a lot when I do print related coding. I don’t have to depend on printer to see my output, I can very well capture the output in PDF format using CutePDF.
(http://www.cutepdf.com/)

Programmer’s Notepad

Like Textpad this is an another tool to view text file with syntax highlighting.
(http://www.pnotepad.org/)

Jing Project

This tool capture the desktop activity like SnagIt software. Helps me a lot to prepare training videos and communicate bug reproduce step effectively. I found video is the best communication tool than anything else.
(http://www.jingproject.com/)

Paint.NET

Very useful tool to play around with images. Almost equivalent to photoshop with no cost.
(http://www.getpaint.net/)

Quick HTML Color Picker

It is a free windows color picker. Using this it is easy to pick any colors in the desktop.
(http://www.etrusoft.com/color-picker/)