Notes from this morning.
Starting on Monday, we have class at the Royal Orchid. It's down the river away from the gates. Be there at 830.
In N block there is a grocery and laundry.
We had breakfast at a place called the cow standup! It was delicious. Masala dosas and south Indian coffee.
The Manipal hospital is nearby.
hundred-feet road- resturaunts
south on 100 is Axis books.
To get to the Bangalore 2 office, take a shuttle from the 2nd week onwards.
Every city in India has an MG road. The one here is very busy and very broken-down. They're trying to build a metro, which will be done in April and which will improve everything very much.
MG road has lots of shops.
The the corner of Brigate and MG is a handicraft shop - gift shop
Blossons bookstore is on a road which is paralell to MG road.
Gungarams is another bookstore on MG road.
Survival tips
dress modestly.
pay by meter. rickshaws constantly try to rip you off.
busses- big, red, safe, 15 rupees.
schedule trips with the trip planner guy at the office.
hot food. hand sanitizer.
avoid ice- it might not be from safe water
carry tp for non-office toilets
train - win. but slow.
Myseore- couple hr drive
Prices:
b1 to b2 not more than 30 rupees
B1 to MG 40 rupees maximum
trips already set:
Rob - kabini he's at B2
Sahana - elephant camp. 29, 30 Jan.
MRP = maximum retail price - printed on most products.
The start charge for auto is 17 Rp. If the meter shows 13, it's an older meter and isn't converted yet.
2 airport taxi companies - easy cabs & meru. call or go to website. Website is unreliable.
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our schedule today:
Bangalore presentation
break -
Learning and collaborating at TW
lunch
phones
coaching mtg
Shopa surprise at 5pm
While on break, I talked to my flatmate Pah-vee-thra and a dev guy Car-the (thesaurus) and Juan from Brazil... about the batter buckets at the Elephant Standup... and Chicago... and also some other dude...
70-20-10 rule
Google:
70 regular projects
20 own stuff - but could be business relevant
10 not business related
Princeton:
70 learning - real exp
20 - feedback
10 training
me- graph, cartesian coordinates.
know, don't know (2 matrix)
confident novice
thoughtpedia-public.thoughtworks.com is partially out of date. moving to new system.
thoughtworks google groups - you should join thought communities, especially the one related to your role.
reflexive performer
Networking methods:
Yammer network
facebook groups - TW india
thoughtblogs - very useful blogs.thoughtworks.com rss feed...
twitter - check sumeet's groups... use tweetdeck
delicious... sumeet has 1000s of bookmarks
TW google videos, docs, spreadsheets, presentations
slides.google.com/a/thoughtworks.com
videos- what's cooking tag