Welcome to my page. 
My interests include Design Patterns, Extreme Programming.
I am an Extreme Programmer and Coach at Industrial Logic, Inc. (http://www.industriallogic.com).

To visit my page, go to  http://www.geocities.com/somik/
I am a member of CALJUG (http://www.caljug.org) and XPIndia (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xpindia)

I like ExtremeProgramming, and am trying to follow it at my work place.
I find the connection between and Aikido and Extreme Programming very fascinating. I have written about it at ExtremeProgrammingAndAikido. 

I've read LateralThinking by Edward DeBono, and can't help noticing the Lateral element in Extreme Programming. Check LateralThinkingInExtremeProgramming. Recently read the book FiveDysfunctionsOfATeam - and I think it holds explanations as to why XP manages to succeed and build great teams.

Also, check out the wiki page of JoshuaKerievsky

Writings that I am inspired by - Swami Vivekananda's talk about what Hinduism is at the World Parliament of Religions, Chicago (September 11, 1893):

http://www.mahanadi.com/nirmalya/svivek.asp

My Favorite Books :

	* Autobiography of a Yogi - Swami Yogananda
	* My Experiments with Truth - Mahatma Gandhi
	* Unpopular Essays - Bertrand Russell (Fav essay - An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish)
	* In Praise of Idleness - Bertrand Russell
	* Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
	* The Outsider - Albert Camus
	* The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James

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''Somik, Thanks for the discussion about XP and Aikido!  I have been interested in some time in learning Aikido because I had heard some about its content.  But I had not heard before of its unique self-paired teaching style.  That makes it even more interesting!

Perhaps others would want to compare other programming styles (waterfall methodology, etc.) to other martial arts?''

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UnitTestingAndMartialArts talks about how we test ourselves daily in the dojo.

-- SomikRaha

Anyone interested in knowing further details on Swami Vivekananda may also refer to http://www.vivekananda.org/ 

The official website of Ramakrishna Mission is http://www.sriramakrishna.org/

-- AngsumanChakraborty
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Visited the page... came from Yamanoor Srihari's page. A lot of hyperlinking and spent an hour on reading! - http://www.chella.zenvalley.com