Incredible India - a PHP adventure - Part3
This morning we had a nice breakfast on the balkone, looking on palm trees and I’ve enjoyed black coffee white tea (I ordered black coffee and got tea… also I’ve ordered toast and got an omelett - but hey - it’s india…)
At 9:00 we went to the company at Tidal Park. It’s a very huge building with many offices, shops and restaurants. Surprisingly we started on time.
Ah btw, if you wonder why I don’t name the company - actually not everybody must know with whom swoodoo is working. If you are interested just drop me a mail and I will let you know - probably 
They introduced themselve as a SGO - second generation outsourcing. Quite good idea, actually it means they act as a proxy between us and the developers. They take care about communication, management and quality. If this works it could help a lot. I can tell you that this overhead is really really nasty - you need people on site whom you trust. Otherwise the project is doomed.
Our Lead Consultant (the ‘proxy’) seems to be a bright guy - the first impression is quite good. We spent the full day talking about our business, explaining our needs and listening to their offer. I’ve furthermore explained our technical infrastructure, showed our cruisecontrol and codesniffer etc. (remember the continuous integration thingie?) Tomorrow we will hand over a small development VMWare and then our Tech. Lead Manager will explain everything. They offered us that we can test them and should give them a serious piece of work and within two days they plan to show results. They are really confident that they can deliver something impressive in two days. Let’s see - I am not so confident but we will know soon.
Hehe furthermore we will test the guys - we brought some small test with us to see what skills they have, can’t wait for this.
Ah btw if you ever go to india bring warm clothes. They are nuts about A/C - actually I needed to wear my jacket inside as otherwise it w1uld be too cold. Outside we have 37 degrees but inside a maximum of 20… if at all. A friend of mine who work at an israelic company (no, not zend) told me the same about them. They even had only 17 degrees n the office…
The most impressive for me in india are the differences. Really incredible. I mean the meeting took place in a very well build 12 floors of IT building. Could be anywhere on the planet - and outside you see people living on the street, chaos, unbelievable mad traffic etc. and between all this chaos you can see many adds for ‘c++,j2ee and .net’ - huh. Looks like the guys living on the street at night develop .net during the day. Could explain a lot, or ?
Just kidding.
After work they invited us to the best Chennai Style food available - in the Sheraton Parkhotel - a relly amazing place. Live indian (classical) music, nicely dressed waiters and the best indian food I had ever in my life.
Only the amount was tough - I think I never ever in my life was so full. The guys told me that indians eat a lot for breakfast, for lunch and for dinner and now I definitly believe this. I think I gained 2 kilograms just at this evening. And finally I got there my ice-chilled beer which was really good. It is called Kingfisher and the fun part is that the guy owning the brewery started a lot of other business where one is one of the best and largest cheap Airlines in india - which fits swoodoo perfectly. So - I did not hesitate and tried to support the Airline the best I could 
For those of you who think they can eat alot I can recommend this dinner. Actually I took the time to write down all what we have eaten - here we go:
starters:
banana pancake and kuzhi paniharam
first course:
masala vada - fried crispy rice flake
ceylon parota - bread with dips
idiappam - thin rice noodles (white)
with the following Dips (the ones I can remember):
- Dal
- Tomato thokku ( thick tomata gravy)
- More Koyambu ( light yello coloured butter milk)
-Spinach gravy spiced ( mint)
- Beans with coconut
second course:
- Chicken pepper dry
and a nice soup:
- Rasam ( Tomato coriander soup)
and more courses:
some Chicken I don’t remember the name
Mutton Sukka
Appam ( white steam cooked bowl shaped dosa)
and finally the dessert:
Dessert - Kulfi ( milk, saffron and honey)
The drinks where:
Golden Eagle draft beer
KingFisher bottle
Macallan whisky
1 meter coffee
and some really really nasty spicy fried peperoni…
For my records and also for you if you want to try indian food - you can find all the dishes at khanakhazana.com
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