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I just found a very nice article explaining the difference between a developer and a programmer. Some of the key points are

• Developers have some knowledge of the domain and the business
• Developers care about maintenance burden
• Developers know that work methods are more important than technical chops
• Programmers try to solve every problem by coding
• Developers seek repeatability, programmers like one-off heroics
• Programmers like complexity, developers favor simplicity
• Developers care about users
• Developers like to satisfy a need, programmers like to finish
• Developers work, programmers play

Who am I then? I think I have qualities according to which I am a software developer. But I am strongly eagerous to become a programmer. I am in the process of becoming a good programmer. I am a wannabe programmer.

Recently I read an article on Lifehacker which is one of my favorite sites. Article titled From Bloglines to Google Reader. I was really impressed from the article and I exported my Bloglines feeds to opml file and imported it into Bloglines and the magic started. The current Google Reader is so nice that I fell love with it. I liked the List view too much.

I think my blog looks like one of dedicated Google blog. But that is not the case. I post the articles about the things that fascinates me. Google is the thing which continuously fascinating me from last 4 years. Hats off to Google.

Rahul has posted a very nice article on some orkut hacks. I tried all of them and they were really kool and useful. Do check his post.