About
My name is Sudhanshu Goswami. I am a software developer by choice. I live in Bangalore, with my wonderful wife, Sampurna.
What is 42klines all about?
42klines is my personal repository. It’s a record of things I have happened to learn along the way. It’s meant to record my own experiences when playing with software, writing code, working with people and exploring new ideas. If you find value in what is published here, please share your comments, insights and experiences.
I started writing software 10 years ago (1998) and it has been my passion ever since. It’s been fun (and sometimes a nightmare) writing programs in dBase, PL/SQL, Javascript, Java, C, C++ and Ruby. Along the way I’ve learned new languages, forgotten what some used to look like and still having fun learning the new and upcoming (Ruby being my current muse). I work on a filesystem nowadays, and write silly little programs in my spare time.
I tend to get a lot of ideas. Several of my ideas have this uncanny habit of seeing the light of the day, within months of being conceived in my own mind. The world has never waited for anyone to implement an idea. If it’s time has come, it’s just a matter of time that it gets implemented, not necessarily in exactly the same form you conceived, but close. You can find some of the ideas which I have pondered on before, implemented here, here, here, here and here.
I like to write occasionally when I feel like or when I want to record an experience. In case you are interested in what I have written before, here’s a technical article and here’s a travelogue.
If you read the travelogue, you’d have figured out that I am interested in trekking. I stayed in Pune for about one and a half years, when I used to work with Veritas. Pune is a trekker’s paradise. If you are interested in photographs of places I have visited on treks in and around Pune you can find them here. I do not trek as much after moving to Bangalore in December 2006. It’s partly to do with not being able to find good nearby (less than 100 kms) places to trek and partly to do with not finding enough time nowadays.
You may sometimes find references to photography on this blog, because I love photography. No, I don’t own a DSLR. Someday I hope to, though. You can find my most interesting photographs here. If you are wondering what Zork means, an old dictionary I used to own, defined Zork as a greek warrior. Yes, it has nothing to do with photography. Zork is also the name of a text based adventure game. It’s a pseudonym I used to use while playing Age of Empires II. I used to play a lot of strategy games and had been known to play a single game of AOE II for 16 hours non-stop, over the network with 3 other guys at one point of time. Nowadays, it’s just me and sometimes my Google Reader.