Although the excitement of returning home overshadows a lot of things. The mind is flurrying between grief and happiness... But within these mixed reactions... still there are few thing I would miss.
1. Struggling to get up @ 6am in the morning... some times I made it.... sometimes I over slept... Finally Judy extended the helping hand to wake me up :)
2. Snow Walking... that was a new sport I started playing.... the 2 mins walk to the clinic was as good as an exciting sport.
3. Morning morning application going hay where and not working as expected :)
4. Amanda's calls... where she says "Hi this is Amanda from Dr. Bekals office, I called to schedule a colonoscopy" :)
5. Judy and Me fighting our way out to make the application work :)
6. Understanding the medical lingual, often referred by the doctors... That made me half a doctor :)
7. Dr. Mike and Alans giving voice commands as "aaascending colon" instead of "A scending colon" :)... Not our fault.. thts a difference between British and American English
8. The internet switching off at odd hours... :)
9. Sandy's candy offers... stealing Caris dymo label printers :) and the recovery room nurse making the environment all the more lively :)
10. Sheila's soft voice and humble voice... everytime excepted by the computer as a voice command... That always brought confidence..
11. McDonnalds Fries...
12. Long hours spent woth laptop... ending up @ 3am :)
13. Our (Bharats and mine) discussions about improving the application
14. Weekend spent at Downtown, Zoo and shopping malls
15. Dad's almost forgetting my Birthday
16. Warmth shared by all the physicians ... to make me as comfortable as possible
17. And how can I forget one of the most lovely BDay cakes ever...
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Saturday, January 5, 2008
34 procedures and 5 Rooms
This day will be marked as the "Real load testing" day for eMerge, and mind you it fared well :)
The day started with a bash, with all the hustle to round up trained physicians to use the system in most of the rooms.
We started in late !!! Patients were being brought to the procedure rooms and the physicians followed. Slowly n Steadily doors of the rooms closed and I was humbly praying for no crashes :)
But as always God betrayed !!! Down went the internet !!!
The doors of every procedure room slowly opened, n the nurses peeped out to find me :)
I could only guess that dooms day had arrived :) First look and I was rebuking the internet setup. After all the running around, restarting systems etc... We found that one of the nurse switched off the whole network by mistake :P
Finally we were on track !!! The app could handle the load well and except for few voice tweaking, Nuthing major happened !!
So, if 34 procedures have produced 30 X 3 reports, in the end it doesnt even matter :)
The day started with a bash, with all the hustle to round up trained physicians to use the system in most of the rooms.
We started in late !!! Patients were being brought to the procedure rooms and the physicians followed. Slowly n Steadily doors of the rooms closed and I was humbly praying for no crashes :)
But as always God betrayed !!! Down went the internet !!!
The doors of every procedure room slowly opened, n the nurses peeped out to find me :)
I could only guess that dooms day had arrived :) First look and I was rebuking the internet setup. After all the running around, restarting systems etc... We found that one of the nurse switched off the whole network by mistake :P
Finally we were on track !!! The app could handle the load well and except for few voice tweaking, Nuthing major happened !!
So, if 34 procedures have produced 30 X 3 reports, in the end it doesnt even matter :)
Friday, December 28, 2007
Rolling on eMerge
When eMerge started, I wasnt there. When I joined the team I was apprehensive. But now when I look back, Iam happy to realise that we ACHEIVED what we set out for.
It was a tough job and precision mattered the most. So "When the going gets tough and the tough gets going", WE work HARDER and TOGETHER(with each of our clients and the eMerge team) to build a generic system which is very easy to use and a database so comprehensive that it in itself is invaluable in the endoscopy world.
With the craziest ideas like "Voice Recognition", "Video ActiveX" etc brought under one Umbrella, and with no product as this yet in the market, I guess we are about to become the TREND SETTERS.
The engines are rolling now and with some tweaks in efficiency, Pretty soon we will be ROLLING.
Although the best is yet to come, but with our arsenal filled with the very best in the medicine and software world. We WILL GET THERE TOO.
Hope we did a good job !!
It was a tough job and precision mattered the most. So "When the going gets tough and the tough gets going", WE work HARDER and TOGETHER(with each of our clients and the eMerge team) to build a generic system which is very easy to use and a database so comprehensive that it in itself is invaluable in the endoscopy world.
With the craziest ideas like "Voice Recognition", "Video ActiveX" etc brought under one Umbrella, and with no product as this yet in the market, I guess we are about to become the TREND SETTERS.
The engines are rolling now and with some tweaks in efficiency, Pretty soon we will be ROLLING.
Although the best is yet to come, but with our arsenal filled with the very best in the medicine and software world. We WILL GET THERE TOO.
Hope we did a good job !!
Project X.... A Diamond is a coal that did well under pressure
Caution: "Names & Situations in the following write up are fictitious and bear no resemblance to the real name or happening of any person, object that is living or dead" :)
This is about a project for which I have been working for quite some time now !! Although there is much to talk about in the project like fundoo technology used in this project, which encompases every imagineable element in the .net world, I have done enough goof ups to make them worth mentioning.
The morning sun always played hide and seek with me & is the prime accused of my not reaching office early :). It so happened that I worked for 1 & 1/2 year in Mysore, which is a hill station, the chilling wheather always forced me to get up only when the sun sparkled, giving warmth and vitamin d :) , Carrying on the same habbit now has become a pain, and adding to my bad luck the place where i sleep, never has the blessings of the sun. Result: LATE FOR OFFICE :(
As always, every morning I barely manage to reach office just when our first meeting kicks off. The moment I enter, thoughts of my lead firing me left and right !!! brings morning shivers. But thank god, his peaceful approach does slows down my breathing :)
After the Kick Off meeting, its a dive into the ocean of untamed code snippets, which almost always require head banging logistic support. Sometime even 24 hr is less for a simple issue and sometimes even 10 mins is enough for a complex one.
if I were to boast of this project, I wuld say :
1) Chalenging environment :) :) :) First because I have to get up early :) Second: sometimes the coding becomes ultra challenging :), such that even in dreams, instead Maria Sharapova, "Menu-1-0" comes :) As one of the guys mentioned 'Rocket science' is an apt word.
2) Collaborative Team: Whose cohesive force always help, Like staying late in office :) and having coffee on the other floor {For other Reasons ;)}
3) Highly technical manager, whom you can never fool :) He asks for every line you coded, so no chance for making a simple logic look complex :)
4) With its technological tentacles entering every possible place, the project made me learnt "patience" and thus "Every Issue has a solution".
5) Cool Manager :) His suave moves in a party did gave me a shock and after finding out that he was married, I was dumbfounded.
6) English Teacher: A voice recog system in the application never accepted my voice, so it made me pick up phoren accent. Like saying "ophen" instead of "open" etcs
7) Friendly Neighbours: Who have never got a chance to listen to music since the day we asked for their headphones with mic for coding purposes :)
8) Modest 'Sin Finders' rather the testers who always take a courteous approach to inform the developer of the a silly mistake and not yank him for the same.
I donno if all the above make a better project.... Now that Iam seeing "Maria Sharapova" back in my dreams and with appreciation for work in office... It does say we are doing better :)
I guess someday someone else writing the following phrace wuld say it all.
"A Diamond is a coal that did well under pressure"
This is about a project for which I have been working for quite some time now !! Although there is much to talk about in the project like fundoo technology used in this project, which encompases every imagineable element in the .net world, I have done enough goof ups to make them worth mentioning.
The morning sun always played hide and seek with me & is the prime accused of my not reaching office early :). It so happened that I worked for 1 & 1/2 year in Mysore, which is a hill station, the chilling wheather always forced me to get up only when the sun sparkled, giving warmth and vitamin d :) , Carrying on the same habbit now has become a pain, and adding to my bad luck the place where i sleep, never has the blessings of the sun. Result: LATE FOR OFFICE :(
As always, every morning I barely manage to reach office just when our first meeting kicks off. The moment I enter, thoughts of my lead firing me left and right !!! brings morning shivers. But thank god, his peaceful approach does slows down my breathing :)
After the Kick Off meeting, its a dive into the ocean of untamed code snippets, which almost always require head banging logistic support. Sometime even 24 hr is less for a simple issue and sometimes even 10 mins is enough for a complex one.
if I were to boast of this project, I wuld say :
1) Chalenging environment :) :) :) First because I have to get up early :) Second: sometimes the coding becomes ultra challenging :), such that even in dreams, instead Maria Sharapova, "Menu-1-0" comes :) As one of the guys mentioned 'Rocket science' is an apt word.
2) Collaborative Team: Whose cohesive force always help, Like staying late in office :) and having coffee on the other floor {For other Reasons ;)}
3) Highly technical manager, whom you can never fool :) He asks for every line you coded, so no chance for making a simple logic look complex :)
4) With its technological tentacles entering every possible place, the project made me learnt "patience" and thus "Every Issue has a solution".
5) Cool Manager :) His suave moves in a party did gave me a shock and after finding out that he was married, I was dumbfounded.
6) English Teacher: A voice recog system in the application never accepted my voice, so it made me pick up phoren accent. Like saying "ophen" instead of "open" etcs
7) Friendly Neighbours: Who have never got a chance to listen to music since the day we asked for their headphones with mic for coding purposes :)
8) Modest 'Sin Finders' rather the testers who always take a courteous approach to inform the developer of the a silly mistake and not yank him for the same.
I donno if all the above make a better project.... Now that Iam seeing "Maria Sharapova" back in my dreams and with appreciation for work in office... It does say we are doing better :)
I guess someday someone else writing the following phrace wuld say it all.
"A Diamond is a coal that did well under pressure"
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