DOPEJAM::The Tariq Ahmed Experience
Tariq Ahmed

Greetings! DopeJam is my personal website aimed at keeping family and friends up to date with what's going on, but also serves as a communication vehicle to express thoughts, opinions, and experiences regarding the stuff I'm into (technology, home theater, movies, high end car audio, bass, electronic music, web applications, etc...). I also use DopeJam to host ideas that I experiment with. Read the profile if you're interested in knowing why the site is called DopeJam in the first place.
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Technology & Business (169)
Large decision making groups are ineffective - work around them
Posted on May 03, 2011 05:46PM | Comments (0) | Permalink | 2318 Views
At many companies decisions and prioritization tends to be done by committees, in fact Agile itself tends to be very committee driven (the team estimates together, the team determines how things will get done, etc...).
Large decision making groups are ineffective - work around them
A managers take on the state of CF
Posted on Mar 14, 2011 11:13PM | Comments (0) | Permalink | 2494 Views
I recently wrote an article for RIARockStars regarding my take on the CF ecosystem and my challenge as a manager to find talented CF developers - along with some our hiring strategies to work around that.
A managers take on the state of CF
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Personal (224)
ION Drum Rocker IED07 Review
Posted on Feb 14, 2011 10:51PM | Comments (0) | Permalink | 1766 Views
So my wonderful wife got me a set of ION Drum Rocker electronic drum pads for the XBOX (for use with Rock Band).

ION is a company that makes music equipment, and has this set of electronic drum pads - and swapped out the module that would convert the hits into sounds for an amp for an XBOX/PS3 controller.

The difference is amazing.

ION Drum Rocker IED07 Review
XBOX - Blur... I like it
Posted on May 15, 2010 10:54PM | Comments (0) | Permalink | 4201 Views
What I like about Blur is even if you're last there's still things you can actively do to catch up.

There are these lightning bolt things and homing missle things - they go after the leader. So if you're in a 20 person race, you have 19 other players that are shooting those things at the leader.

XBOX - Blur... I like it
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Technology & Business
Adobe Flex (79)
Agile & Scrum (7)
C# (1)
ColdFusion (58)
Companies (2)
Database (2)
General (5)
Management & Business (5)
Products (6)
Usability/User Experience (3)

Personal
Call of Duty - MW2 (2)
Dreams (2)
General (115)
Golf (4)
Health & Fitness (15)
Investing (17)
Movies (9)
Products (12)
Project Acura CL (3)
Zafira (40)
Zombies (5)

Points of Interest
Honda Prelude SRV:: My now destroyed second car
Memories:: Photos and Old Sites
Zafira:: Our daughter

BMW 745i AC Schnitzer Bodykit

Trance/DNB Stations
DanceHance Digitally Imported
Philosomatika DNB Radio
BassDrive JungleTrain.NET
UK Bass Radio Kunnin Mindz

Coldfusion Contributions
CF_ParseOfficeCSV
Parses Office/Outlook CSV files
ReplaceURLText (UDF)
Changes/Replaces links in text whose display text is the url to something friendly.
DualSelect (CFC)
Create multiple dynamic context sensitive dropdowns/comboboxes
Session (CFC)
Working with Sessions like finding out how many Session instances exist.
convertActiveDirectoryTime
Converts Active Directory 100-Nanosecond timestamps to a UTC Local timestamp CF can use.

Movie Comments
I Am Number Four
Super Powers = Good. 8/10
Green Hornet
Good story, action, and comedy. 8/10
Human Centipede
Eerie and awesome. 9/10
Frozen
Similar to 127 Hours.. 8/10
Fast Five
Crazy car action. 8/10
The Tourist
After SALT, expecting more action from Angelina. 7/10
Skyline
All Alien Action = Good. 10/10

My Sites/Domains
Community Adobe Flex
CFLEX - Empowering Adobe Flex Development
Flex In Action
Become Effective Fast w/Flex
FlexCoders.NET
The International Registry Of FlexCoders
Zafira's Site
Pictures and News of my daughter
GoodBye Canada
The Resource for Canucks heading South
afterSHOX
Freelance Website and I.T Services
NIL8
An Online Gaming Team (obsolete)
X-TIB
Community of Ex TIBCO Finance Employees
Coming in the future...
accesstracy.com - Tracy City Portal
nexilo.com - Knowledge Management
nuclearbass.com - Car Audio

Friendly Links
Sosa LandScape
Tracy's Best Landscaping
WoKits
Cool & Unique Kids Toys
KambohTech
Nabeel's Technology Center
Sith Sigma
Business Management Sith Style
SilvaFUG
Silicon Valley Flex User Group
ORHP
Get your home protected with Old Republic
Amcom Technology
Enabling companies to succeed through an I.T competitive advantage.

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