Who am I?

There would be lot of question in your mind when you see this blog like "Who is this guy? What kind of name is Programmer Y? What is this Blog all about?

Some of your question I will answer you today right now. Here it goes

Q 1: Who is this guy?

Ans: I am Programmer Y. I am a software engineer by profession. I work in a major sotware company in the land of outsourcing India. Yeah India is no longer the land of snake charmers and Taj Mahal because Meneka Gandhi(animal rights activist) has caught most of the snake charmers under the wild life protection acts and for Taj Mahal is constantly under the attack from pollution of the industrial belt around it and for the rest of the time by politician who want to create a tourist village around Taj and destroy it’s ambience . I think at some point Archaeological Survey of India will have enough of it & close it down for public and for good.

Q 2: Why the name Programmer Y?

Ans: I was born in the era of generation Y. And for that matter I started my work in the IT field also in the same Generation Y. That’s why the name came as Programmer ‘Y’ of generation Y. It’s also a pseudo name to hide my Identity because my company colleagues visit my blogs and if one of my managers knows about my Identity, I definitely will be in trouble. But I promise that I will definitely reveal my Identity at some point.

Here are some characteristic or traits of programmer Y.

• Programmer Y programmers grew up with Google and rely on it to perform their jobs better. Armed with smartphones (BlackBerrys or iphones), laptops, ipods and other gadgets. These things are Programmer Y’s basic necessity.
• Programmer Y is plugged-in 24 hours a day, 7 days a week prefers to communicate & socializing through e-mail and text messaging, networking sites (orkut, facebook) rather than face-to-face contact and prefers webinars and online technology to traditional lecture-based presentations.
• Programmer Y wishes to live this ideal life of fast car or a super bike, Big house, great bank balance, nice chic to date. But in order to achieve this Programmer Y needs money so he works day and night. In the end when he achieves this Programmer Y has lost half of his hairs.
• Programmer Y is confident, ambitious and achievement-oriented. They have high expectations of their employers, seek out new challenges and are not afraid to question authority. Programmer Y wants meaningful work and a solid learning curve.
• Right from the start of his career Programmer Y participated in team activities in office. He does not want to get involved but these programming methodologies have made Programmer Y a team player. He has to interact with other person to get his code working. If he does not he will not be able to get his code working.
• Programmer Y craves attention. Early in his career Programmer Y works harder to get appreciation and learns new technology because he thinks that it’s related to his appraisal. Soon he realizes that it’s not the case, you get promotion in only two scenarios.
• Case 1: You are a beautiful girl and I don’t think I have to explain much after this.
• Case 2: You threaten to leave the company.
• Programmers Y in the later years realized this and choose the 2nd option to be in the limelight and crave attention whenever needed to get a hike.
• Programmer Y likes to party(mostly booze party) because it relieves him of all pressure. He likes to follow the saying “work hard and party harder”

Q 3: What is this Blog all about?

Ans: This Blog is POV of a Mango(aam) Programmer i.e. Programmer Y who has spend enough time in the IT industry to know that he is stuck in this daily chores of applying patches and making thing work. His so called old Waterfall life is stuck and wants to re-invent & make it more dynamic & Agile. This is a story of an unsung Programmer Y and his journey in the binary world.

So keep hooked to this site for more interesting stories and insight to the World of Programmer Y.

Chao

- Programmer Y