Junctions: A weird experience to me.

Ha.... After lot of fight I am out of problem. Guys this really good experience to me. Such things you may know but for me its new.

Part of my regular work is, deliver code to Production (Live) server. Before delivering I will take backup of files from server and replace them with my files. Its very common thing I do it almost every day. While taking backup I will copy all files in Live server to a temp folder, zip it and push it to my company ftp.

As usual yesterday also I want to take backup, but by mistake I have copied some image folder which I don't do normally. After copying that folder, I deleted it from temp folder because I don't want it. Live server has very much less space I want to remove from recycle bin also. So I emptied recycle bin. Came out and did normal regular work.

Suddenly I got mail from client saying images are missing (These images are very much important to them the size of this folder is 800MB: You can think how many JPEG's are there). I surprised, one more thing the same images are used by 3 different projects (each project internally have one folder for images), the images in all projects are disappeared.

After doing some research we found that if we delete one file from one of these 3 folders it will be deleted from all folders(It stays until removed from recycle bin). If we copy some file to this folder it will appear in all three folders. The people who know unix it is not new. But it is new to windows users.

Do you want to know how it happens???

It is because of hard links. Hard links are called as Junctions in windows. It is an undocumented feature of windows. By reading all above message you may not know how it is a feature. The good thing with this is If you don't have space in C drive and lot of drive volume is used by your program files , you can simply move all of them to D drive, and make a hard link in C drive. Problem solved, You get lot of space in C drive an all programs works as usual.

Want to know more on it
http://shell-shocked.org/article.php?id=284

We home some tools to do it easily, read above link to know about them.

Communication

Effective Communication takes real skill. Communication is like a two-way street, it requires and provides equal space for listening and talking. Communication skills have become very important in every small task we do. And these communication skills have to be developed, honed and added to on an on-going basis. Being an effective communicator means that other people take us seriously, listen to what we have to say and engage in dialogue.

http://www.geocities.com/pavanm007/Communication.swf

Multi Skilling

Is Multiskilling required for software engineers????????

Really to say:YES.

Multiskilling can be defined as ‘the acquisition of additional skills, supplementing those already achieved in a given craft’. Organizations typically multiskill with the intent of removing functional barriers and increasing the flexibility of the workforce; it is rarely about the ‘ideals of job enrichment and empowerment’.



Did you read the artical what is your openian?

Some comments:
“This is a great opportunity for Software Engineers to look at two of the most in-demand technologies. By learning a different Technology we get a different paradigm. I personally believe that in this new generation of technologies, Multiskilling is essential for everyone to stay a cut above the competition in this field”, Sadanandam K

”Virtusans need to embark upon a journey under the banner of “Multi-Skilling”. Any person working on one particular technology has to make him/her acquainted with other technologies involved in the organization. As Java and .NET are the two driving forces behind Virtusa’s exemplary growth, the Virtusans have to keep themselves acquainted with both of them. The material, has been prepared in a very judicious way so as not to scare amateurs away from learning the technology. The examples given were also very much helpful in visualizing the concepts taught theoretically. This would help in turning oneself into a complete software engineer and which would be the biggest investment any company can make in its Employees”, Raghu Kalyan