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Thought of the day

2011-11-09T20:29:00.000+05:30

This one comes from "How i met your mother" Robin: Ted, the future is scary. But you can't just run back to the past because it's familiar. Yes, it's tempting... Barney: But it's a mistake.

Thought of the day

2011-10-20T13:26:00.002+05:30

Love your parents. We are so busy growing up, we often forget they are also growing old...

Thought of the day

2011-10-20T13:17:00.004+05:30

Pencil: I'm sorry Eraser: For what? You didn't do anything wrong. Pencil: I'm sorry cos you get hurt bcos of me. Whenever I made a mistake, you're always there to erase it. But as you make my mistakes vanish, you lose a part of yourself. You get smaller and smaller each time. ... ... Eraser: That's true. But I don't really mind. You see, I was made to do this. I was made to help you

Bowled by simplicity...

2011-09-12T23:08:00.001+05:30

I met someone yesterday and since that meeting things have been disturbing for me. There was something in those discussions that's making me nervous. Yep nervous after all those years, really long long time. Is it because of a fear that things might go the other way? Probably yes or probably not. You know i've met a lot of folks and given up on a lot others and things haven't been this difficult

Thought of the day...

2011-08-30T21:17:00.000+05:30

Everytime i thought i'd a plan and i knew where i was going, He unveiled His plans and a diversion. So far the dots have connected, i'm just waiting for the next set of dots. :-)

Thunderbird plugins to sail you smooth

2011-08-17T21:47:00.000+05:30

Thunderbird Conversations: Bring GMail conversation view to your inbox MinimizeToTray Revived: Minimize thunderbird to system tray LookOut: Support for M$ OLE data (calendar format, winmail.dat attachments etc) Provider for Google Calendar: Support for Google calendar Lightning: Support for calendar out of thunderbird Google calendar tab: Google calendar as a tab in thunderbird

Thought of the day

2011-05-29T03:28:00.000+05:30

The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her life. I saw following possible sources for meaning: in work (doing something significant) in love (caring for another person) in courage (doing what was right even in difficult times) in acceptance (learning to move ahead with experiences from my mistakes and failures) PS: this one again came from my sister :-)

8 questions and a why: Seth Godin

2011-05-11T01:39:00.004+05:30

Who are you trying to please? What are you promising? How much money are you trying to make? How much freedom are you willing to trade for opportunity? What are you trying to change? What do you want people to say about you? Which people? Do we care about you? (and after each answer, ask 'why?') Source: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/12/8-questions-and-a-why.html

shayari

2011-04-17T12:24:00.000+05:30

मुझसे कहा खुदा ने, मत कर इन्तजार इस जनम में उसका मिलना मुश्किल है मैंने भी कह दिया, लेने दे मजा इन्तजार का अगले जनम में तो मुमकिन है उसने कहा, मत कर इतना प्यार बहोत पछतायेगा मुश्कुरा के मैंने कहा, देखते हैं तू कितना मेरी रूह को तड्पाएगा फिर उसने कहा, हटा उसे चल तुझे जन्नत की हूर से मिलवाता हूँ मैंने कहा, आ नीचे देख मेरे प्यार का मुस्कुराता चेहरा तुझे जन्नत की हूर भुल्वाता हूँ तिलमिलाकर कहा

Thought of the day

2011-04-10T11:46:00.003+05:30

In my school days, I used to love those calculus problems with limit x tending to infinity. It still looks funny how a delta (tending to 0) brings meaning to something totally nonsense (like 1 divided by 0).

GAE locked transactions issue

2011-03-30T21:11:00.000+05:30

We were facing certain issues while deploying on GAE, our application had some failed transactions and was complaining about locked transactions. Just thought the following information might be helpful and handy at a later date. Locate your . If you are using eclipse plugin you would find appengine sdk in \plugins\com.google.appengine.eclipse.sdkbundle.<

Chetan Bhagat Speech : Spark

2011-03-30T21:00:00.001+05:30

I'm not a big fan of Chetan Bhagat but his speech published here really made it's point http://www.chetanbhagat.com/speeches/spark/ It has bits and pieces copied from other such stories but all credits go to him for combining everything in one; do read it whenever you get time. Here are few interesting anecdotes from his speech: Don’t be serious, be sincere. Frustration is a sign somewhere

Thought of the day

2011-03-06T11:39:00.001+05:30

"Derice, a gold medal is a wonderful thing. But if you're not enough without it, you'll never be enough with it" - Irv, Cool Runnings

I wish you enough...

2011-02-17T00:07:00.000+05:30

I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright no matter how gray the day may appear. I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun even more.. I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive and everlasting. I wish you enough pain so that even the smallest of joys in life may appear bigger. I wish you enough gain to satisfy your wanting… I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you

Thought of the day

2010-11-11T10:05:00.003+05:30

i'm not perfect and may be i'll never be; but its you who makes me want to be perfect and that's why i love you...

Thought of the day...

2010-11-01T13:12:00.001+05:30

Success is to celebrate that you didn't screw up and failure is to remind you that you are not perfect. Rest in between is what we call life.

Thought of the day... 2

2010-10-25T07:40:00.003+05:30

एहसास के लिए एक लम्हा भी काफी है वरना कमबख्त कभी कभी उम्र गुजर जाती है इन्तजार में ...

Thought of the day...

2010-10-24T20:19:00.000+05:30

.. and then you realize there is so much of life yet to live and that you can't hold on to past that can't be fixed there is a future waiting for you a new morning, a new sunlight, new aspirations, new dreams, new hopes, and new moments of happiness for you... Amen!

C'est la Vie

2010-10-23T11:16:00.001+05:30

I met old moments of happiness today, all overjoyed. In the end it left me with an emptiness with the feeling of a deep loss that it's been long lost forever, from my life. And then i cried... again! Again with me and for the first time all of me...

Thought of the day...

2010-09-27T10:29:00.000+05:30

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering. - Paulo Coelho

Thought of the day...

2010-09-14T17:37:00.000+05:30

Life is nothing but experiences and memories of them...

tumi asbe bolei

2010-09-06T10:06:00.000+05:30

QOTD

2010-09-05T21:03:00.000+05:30

Disappointment is for those who have appointments with the future. Again taken from "Leaving Home" - the documentary on indian musical band "Indian Ocean"

तलाश...

2010-09-05T20:52:00.002+05:30

This poem has been taken from a scene in "Leaving Home", the documentary on the indian musical band "Indian Ocean". The way Asheem quoted this, it just touched me. यूँ निकल पड़ा हूँ सफ़र पे मैं, मुझे मंजिलों की तलाश है नए रास्ते नए आसमां, नए हौसलों की तलाश है जहाँ बंदिशों की हो हद खत्म, उस हसीं शहर की तलाश है जहाँ रंग-ओ-खुशबू का हो मिलन, मुझे उस उफक की तलाश है मुझे मंजिलों की फिकर नहीं, मुझे

Thought of the day...

2010-06-28T08:48:00.000+05:30

When things go wrong as they sometimes will; When the road you're trudging seems all uphill; When the funds are low, and the debts are high; And you want to smile, but you have to sigh; When care is pressing you down a bit Rest if you must, but don't you quit. Success is failure turned inside out; The silver tint of the clouds of doubt; And you can never tell how close you are; It may be

Thought of the day...

2010-04-13T11:17:00.002+05:30

"Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind. People grow old only by deserting their ideals and by outgrowing the consciousness of youth. Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul... You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self-confidence young. Keep your hope young." - Dr. L.F. Phelan

Thought of the day...

2010-04-05T13:57:00.000+05:30

"Life’s not about expecting, hoping and wishing, it's about doing, being and becoming. It's about the choices you've just made, and the ones you're about to make, it's about the things you choose to say - today. It's about what you're going to do after you finish reading this." ---Mike Dooley

Thought of the day...

2010-03-20T09:04:00.004+05:30

"लहरों से डरकर नौका पार नहीं होती, कोशिश करने वालों की कभी हार नहीं होती. असफलता एक चुनौती है स्वीकार करो, क्या कमी रह गयी देखो और सुधार करो. जब तक न सफल हो नींद चैन को त्यागो तुम, संघर्षों का मैदान छोड़ मत भागो तुम, कुछ किये बिना ही जय-जयकार नहीं होती... कोशिश करने वालों की कभी भी हार नहीं होती!" -हरिवंश राय बच्चन

Thought of the day...

2010-02-27T00:32:00.002+05:30

Being fearless isn't being 100% not fearful, it's being terrified but you jump anyway. In similar words "Throw yourself to the wolves and learn from the bites.. ;-)"

Patch for extjs ItemSelector

2010-02-21T01:05:00.003+05:30

At work, extjs was the first javascript library we used. It provides very nice UI and probably has the best documentation and forum support available among other similar libraries. We modified its code to provide legend support which is nothing but title in the custom ItemSelector ui element. Below is the patch(not a big deal but i didn't want to loose this change so thought to post here). ###

Thought of the day...

2010-02-17T10:07:00.000+05:30

मुआ क्या कब्रिस्ताना माहौल है सब ने खुद को किसी गम-ए-कब्र में दफना रखा है?

Transparent iframes

2010-01-26T23:44:00.001+05:30

Firefox by default makes all iframes transparent (no effort required from the developer) if you don't define the background css property. IE requires extra effort to ensure that the hosting page as well as the iframe's content owner both wanted this iframe to be transparent (few may agree with IE's approach while most will condemn M$). Whatever, here is the css (for page loaded in the iframe)

Bypassing browser history

2010-01-11T23:07:00.001+05:30

Ahh, this was interesting thing@work. We've an iframe that opens within a website and its location keeps changing with user interactions. The problem was with all these new urls going into browser's history and interference with the default browser back/forward navigation (back/forward navigation gets enabled for the iframe instead). Initially i thought it wasn't possible to control this (

intercepting javascript errors from live system

2010-01-03T21:49:00.001+05:30

Ever wondered how to intercept javascript errors (that happen on client side browsers) for your live system? Yep, i know! Despite all the efforts, a visitor might encounter an issue in his "foobar" browser that you just couldn't test before you went live. So how to do it? This little guy is the savior: window.onerror = function(errorMessage, url, line) { } I just stumbled upon this blogpost by

Interesting 45 things to ponder about...

2009-12-27T21:08:00.000+05:30

Written By Regina Brett, 90 years old, of The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio - "To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written." 1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good. 2. When in doubt, just take the next small step. 3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. 4. Your job won't take care of you when you are

client side storage: persistjs

2009-12-27T12:37:00.000+05:30

Current project that i'm working on, works like a plugin to an existing website. To match to the scale we are targeting, we decided to go the stateless way on the server side; so that we don't necessarily need a sticky behavior on the server side. Now this raised requirement to store state and related data on the client side. On each request client sends the "exactly required" state to the server

Quote of the day...

2009-12-12T11:29:00.001+05:30

"I do my thing and you do yours. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, then it is beautiful. If not, it can't be helped." - Frederick Perls

Sixth Sense : Pranav Mishtry

2009-11-18T23:40:00.001+05:30

Beyond words, do have a look at the following: http://on.ted.com/7X More on pranav mishtry goes at his website: http://www.pranavmistry.com/ I loved his quotation - "I know few things, now i need to learn what to do with these"

Comment of the day

2009-11-16T23:00:00.000+05:30

Starting a new series guys!!! :-) This one came from Debashish (my team mate at work) when India lost 4 significant early wickets but Rahul Dravid was still playing his one of the best innings: "All the pillars are gone, but the wall doesn't need pillars to stand on the field"

On demand CSS and JS minimization (Java/PHP)

2009-11-07T00:03:00.004+05:30

In web development CSS and JS play a very important role but at the same time, if you don't give proper attention, you may make your pages load really slow. I'm a yahoo fan for the standards and open technologies they have come up for the web. If you are a web developer, i strongly recommend these Exception Performance Blog and High performance websites. Recently in my current work i'd to deal

Interesting case study on innovations in Indian context

2009-10-31T23:02:00.002+05:30

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125598988906795035.html

Coke Studio Songs

2009-10-31T09:32:00.000+05:30

Just thought to share this interesting musical fusion that was being aired on some pakistani channel. I loved most of the songs. Here is a link with downloadable mp3s http://www.koolmuzone.com/2009/08/coke-studio-episode-5-download-audios-videos/

Thought of the day...

2009-10-12T22:35:00.000+05:30

Stolen from Ghai's fb post, but it was worth it: "We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? And we’ve all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it." - Steve Jobs

Regex Pattern for Validating Email addresses

2009-10-12T01:04:00.004+05:30

Interesting post here talks about how complex RFC 822 is, that defines a valid email address. But thankfully the guy found a simpler pattern from msdn and modified it to put more restriction on the regex; here it goes:- "^([\w]+)(([-\.][\w]+)?)*@((\[[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.)|(([\w-]+\.)+))([a-zA-Z]{2,4}|[0-9]{1,3})(\]?)$" However this pattern fails to approve email ids like "mygroup

selecting from a combobox, populated using JsonStore in extjs

2009-10-03T20:16:00.004+05:30

gotcha.. it took me quite sometime in figuring this out. I was populating the combobox from a JsonStore and then wanted to select one of the values by default. The documentation for setValue(String v) : Ext.form.Field says: Sets the specified value into the field. If the value finds a match, the corresponding record text will be displayed in the field. If the value does not match the data

Browser's limitation on cookie

2009-09-24T02:54:00.003+05:30

Interestingly, now most of them have come to a standard value on their limits. If you've ever worked on client side (i.e. javascript coding), you would really appreciate this and understand why its worth mentioning here. Here are the details: Per domain limitsFirefox - Both 2.x and 3.x allow 50 cookies per domain IE - Until IE6.x they supported only 20 cookies per domain and IE 7 and above this

syntax highlighter for blogspot

2009-09-20T13:47:00.000+05:30

as you might see now, i've the source highlighter plugin enabled. thanks to this post, it went really smooth this time.

javascript snippet for getting url parameters

2009-09-15T12:34:00.002+05:30

Interesting reads from hbr blog

2009-09-06T19:42:00.001+05:30

How to escape perfectionism? How to ask a (near) stranger for a favor What to do when you are out of control? Should work make us happy? Purpose bigger than product

Thought of the day...

2009-09-03T23:39:00.000+05:30

A thought just came across that its been really long since i posted a "Thought of the day.." and why is it so? I guess i'm getting stable now :-), less worried and more productive and no more of those meta-thinking that i used to do few months back. To hell with that, who wants to waste the precious time!!!? ;-)

Comparison of online payment gateways in India

2009-08-29T17:41:00.008+05:30

Found this analysis here and thought to keep it handy for future needs. The information doesn't seem complete and if you've more information to add or correct this information, please do share in comments. Two of my friends needed this information immediately, so here you go buddies...GatewayOne time setup feesTransaction Cost (CC/DC)Transaction Cost (NetBanking)Annual Maintenance Cost (AMC)

Installing Agilo - Agile plugin over Trac

2009-08-29T02:29:00.005+05:30

[If you are looking for instructions on installing Agilo over Trac, click here to skip to the instructions directly]Finally a post on my current work in my new organization. :-) Its been running really busy with lot of things going on in parallel; but i must admit it, it feels lively after a long long time here and that's one reason you find me posting this entry at 2:30 past midnight (no.. i'm

Interesting reads from hbr blog

2009-08-29T00:46:00.006+05:30

How to manage your stress levelTo Master Change, First Dread ItChange is hardest in the middleTo get more done, slow downWhy few executives are skillfulPrepare yourself for the next downturnHow to get a job without experienceObama's 10 Leadership Mistakes (And How Not to Make Them) Disclaimer

Adieu

2009-08-23T14:20:00.003+05:30

Taken from a video post on Reflections By IITians. IIT Kharagpur recently celebrated its 59th foundation day. It just reminded me my old KGP days and revived the nostalgia. I'm sure it will remind you your college days too..A life which is to endOnly when i'm no moreA life which transformed meIn a fighter to the coreA season of love and friendshipFor eternity which will lastIn my future to

Interesting Choreo by Prince Group from Orissa - India's Got Talent

2009-08-19T23:24:00.001+05:30

Amazing Sand Animation - Ukraine's Got Talent

2009-08-19T23:22:00.001+05:30

An old song - favorite from KGP days :D

2009-08-11T20:22:00.003+05:30

Interesting reads from hbr blog

2009-08-08T15:19:00.007+05:30

To Get What You Want, Don't Go With Your GutFour Rules for Effective NegotiationsAfter reading these posts, i realized how miserable i was in a recent negotiation (i was desperately looking for a +ve outcome but lost it even before i could start presenting my side of the case)... definitely worth reading; not sure how much a reading can help but something is better than nothing. And in my way of

बस यूँही...

2009-08-01T19:50:00.002+05:30

आज फिर उस गली से गुजरे हमहुए पुराने लम्हे रूबरूतुम न थे दूर दूर तक कहींफिर भी की हमने गुफ्तगू...

Thought of the day...

2009-07-31T13:51:00.006+05:30

... well, i always thought its funny; and yesterday i realized it really is (yep, i did)!and then i thought why the hell it took so long for the realization?...then i felt this thought itself is funny; finally to conclude that i "think" too much!

Deleting all tables in a mysql database

2009-07-30T13:16:00.004+05:30

Turned out there is no command like "trunk database " but unix piping could be a savior. Warning: Somehow my putty session crashes after running the command mentioned below and i've to restart the session. Just in case you know a better way to do this, please do share in the comments. Thanks!mysqldump -h -u -p --add-drop-table --no-data | grep ^DROP | mysql -h

Thought of the day...

2009-07-29T10:01:00.004+05:30

All work and no play, makes Jack a dull boy;All play and no work, makes Jack a mere toy!

One week in a call center...

2009-07-25T12:53:00.006+05:30

When i told my friends where i was going to join next from Y!, questions like below came up: Ain't that a BPO, hold on, a call center? What are you going to do there? Are you out of your mind? What the ...? Yada, yada, yada...I knew this would come, but when i explained to them what organization in the company i was joining and what my roles and responsibilities would be there, they calmed down

bY!e ...

2009-07-19T11:24:00.004+05:30

Ahh, time flies by... isn’t it? This friday I completed my 1 year 11 days in Y! and sadly that was my last day as well (at least for this round). I’m moving to a (not-so) startup this Monday for new adventures. It was a tough decision to make but few not-so-good events triggered it and made easier to go through as well. Many good things happened as well in this 1 year tenure that i will cheer for

Another good bye

2009-07-12T23:58:00.004+05:30

So today i bade good bye to a special friend. Special because a lot of good things happened this year in my life, thanks to that friend. I'm no more what i was few months ago and hope all the good things i've gathered all this while will accumulate further. Whatever!! Saying good bye is not so easy specially knowing that you probably won't be seeing them again next few years or probably the

Thought of the day

2009-07-12T10:02:00.000+05:30

Don't try to do everything... its just not a 'scalable' lifestyle...

Thought of the day

2009-07-11T00:50:00.004+05:30

Few quotes taken from "50 Things" which i feel is relevant to "after school" life as well:Your friends will change a lot with time. Let them.Carve out an hour every single day to be alone. (Sleeping doesn't count.)Embrace the differences between you and people around you. Always be asking yourself, "what can I learn from this person?".Working things out between friends is best done in person, not

Thought of the day

2009-07-10T23:37:00.001+05:30

Be a good listener and observer; sometimes the best piece of advice/help can come from a source least expected and it can be life saving. :-)

Thought of the day

2009-07-10T23:28:00.003+05:30

"...and you know the best thing about the end of the day? tomorrow it starts all over again, all afresh!"-From "Wanted"

2009-06-28T23:27:00.000+05:30

दिल ने आज फिर आरजू की हैकि एक तमन्ना होऔर जिंदगी में उसे पूरी करने की कोई जद्दोजहद हो!मुआ वो ज़िन्दगी भी क्याना कुछ चाहा ना कुछ हासिल कियाना कुछ पाया ना कुछ खोयाहाँ, मुश्किलें हैं राह-ए-मंजिल मेंपर उस मंजिल का भी क्याजो कोई भी पा लेऔर उस मुसाफिर का भी क्याजो बीच राह में हार मान ले...

10 Firefox plugins i use...

2009-06-27T00:56:00.004+05:30

Just thought to create a handy list of the plugins i've been using at Y! I'll soon be moving to Mac (and probably in future migrations as well), this list will be really helpful in getting started fast. WebDeveloper - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60 SwitchProxy - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/125 LiveHttpHeaders - http://livehttpheaders.mozdev.org/

Thought of the day

2009-06-25T22:30:00.001+05:30

When you've got nothing, you have philosophies.

CSS Loader javascript snippet

2009-06-22T00:09:00.003+05:30

copied from github:javascript:void(function(){var%20i,a,s;a=document.getElementsByTagName('link');for(i=0;i%3Ca.length;i++){s=a[i];if(s.rel.toLowerCase().indexOf('stylesheet')%3E=0&&s.href)%20{var%20h=s.href.replace(/(&|%5C?)forceReload=\d+/,'');s.href=h+(h.indexOf('?')%3E=0?'&':'?')+'forceReload='+(new%20Date().valueOf())}}})();Or just drag this link: CSS Loader to your browser toolbar

Thought of the day

2009-06-20T10:02:00.001+05:30

It's OK, I'll find another way.... You ain't gonna get me down, no way!!!

Thought of the day

2009-06-17T21:07:00.001+05:30

सोचते थे...पानी से जुदा होकर ये मछलियाँ इतना क्‍यों छटपटाती है. . .ना मालूम था. . .नज़दीकियाँ आदत और आदत...अक्सर ज़िंदगी बन जाती है.....-गुलज़ार

आहट तन्हाई की...

2009-06-12T15:06:00.013+05:30

.....पता नहीं क्यूँ आज ठन गयी है खुद से ही खुद कीमन मस्तिस्क में हो गयी है न जाने क्यूँ एक अनबन सी शायद, शायद दूर कहीं सुन पड़ी है आहट तन्हाई की...हमें एहसास न था किएहसास भी हम कर पाए कभीकि तेज तीछन धारा से तट की ओर भी आयें कभीबढ़ते ही गए हम बढ़ते ही गए हम...लगता है जरूरत आन पड़ी अबएक सुनहरे पड़ाव कीजो मन ने सुन ली है अब आहट मेरी तन्हाई की... - सुधीर कुमार सिंह Full version @ http://

Enjoy your coffee

2009-06-06T17:20:00.004+05:30

A group of alumni, highly established in their careers got together to visit old university professor. Conversations soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.Offering his guests coffee, professor went to the kitchen and brought a large pot of coffee and assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal. Some plain looking, some expensive and some exquisite, telling them to

Interesting quotes

2009-05-29T21:49:00.002+05:30

1. कौन कहता है आंसमां में सुराख हो नहीं सकता, एक पत्थर तो तबियत से उछालो यारों...2.ज़िन्दगी की असली उडान अभी बाकी है,ज़िन्दगी के कई इम्तेहान अभी बाकी हैं,नापी है मुठी भर ज़मीन अभी,आगे अभी सारी ज़मीन, सारा आंसमां बाकी है....सौजन्य: http://www.google.com/transliterate/indic/

Manna Dey - Coffee House

2009-05-29T19:58:00.001+05:30

Lyric Of Coffee House Of Manna DeySource: http://banglamusic.com/lyrics/index.php?m=s&lid=454hmmmmmmmmm........hmmmmmmmmcoffee house er sei adda ta ajj ar nei ajj ar neikothai hariye gelo shonali bikel gulo sei ajj ar neinikhiles paris e, moidol dhaka te nei tara ajj kono khobor egrand er guiterist gouaniz d'souza ghumiye ache je kobor eka ke jeno bhalobeshe aghat peye je shes e pagla garod e

Thought of the day

2009-05-28T19:24:00.002+05:30

Less than 1 year, 2 cubicles, 3 teams, 4th project, 5 managers, 6 Y! tees, -7kgs (thanks to Y!Gym) - Thats my Y! story until now

2009, so far... - II

2009-05-20T00:22:00.007+05:30

So a little more update from the last time. I've lost total 11 kgs in a year and a half. :) My office gym trainer is a cool dude and has been helping me out really well. Have learned a lot from him (this entire routine has helped me loose some 7kgs in 3 months) and here i go "all thanks to you dude".Had an awesome time with my family in darjeeling few days ago. The place is awesome with cool

Javascript formatter

2009-05-20T00:00:00.003+05:30

I was recently working on a webconsole for our product and turned out that my eclipse was somehow screwed up. It gave weird stacktraces whenever i tried formatting the javascript code. I thought of fixing the eclipse (for some reason, it didn't happen in first 15 minutes and i gave up :D) I searched and found a really interesting link which supported OO JS and formatted it really well. I'm

Thought of the day

2009-05-15T09:22:00.000+05:30

You can understand and relate to most people better if you look at them -- no matter how old or impressive they may be -- as if they are children. For most of us never really grow up or mature all that much -- we simply grow taller. O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple,

Thought of the day

2009-04-29T19:34:00.001+05:30

Nothing in the world can take place of persistence.Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. ~ Calvin Coolidge

Three things...

2009-04-29T19:30:00.002+05:30

Three things in life once gone never come back...... 1.words 2. opportunity 3.timeThree things in life are never sure... 1.dreams 2.success 3.fortuneThree things in life that make you a great person... 1.hard work 2.sincerity 3.successThree things in life are most valuable... 1.love 2.self respect 3. friendsThree things in life must not be lost.... 1.peace 2.hope 3.honestyThree things in life

Thought of the day

2009-04-27T23:39:00.003+05:30

"Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." - Will RogerLooks like time is coming to start running again. Its really been long long time guys!

Thought of the day

2009-04-16T10:09:00.001+05:30

Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes it meaningful.

Thought of the day

2009-04-14T13:35:00.004+05:30

Restlessness is good, if for nothing it helps you resolve the status quo faster and you will see things that you didn't see earlier with your bogged up mind

Being a Y! ...

2009-04-12T13:43:00.006+05:30

Y'day i was really happy. For the first time in last 10+ months, i thought man, its good to be a Yahoo! So what do you get being a Y!, here you go with the top five:Smart and great people to work with on interesting challenges that change lives of billions of users on the internetCool ambiance and friendly and funky work environmentFree coffee, tea, snacks, fruits and almost free lunches (and i

2009, so far...

2009-04-08T02:15:00.010+05:30

Its been a really happening start, no i mean it. Too many things happened in a very short span, few things i kind of hasted my way, few just happened without my noticing, few i just did without thinking much. In totality, really a lot.In Jan i found myself thinking a lot about a career decision and i somehow got it mixed with an emotional decision. It seemed like a dream opportunity that i was

Thought of the day

2009-04-07T16:58:00.003+05:30

We all do stupid things and its perfectly fine as long as we enjoyed what we did or the least we learned something from it.

Thought of the day

2009-04-03T00:20:00.003+05:30

I'm not afraid of what i know is coming, i'm worried when i don't know what's going to happen next...

Chance and Choice

2009-03-28T09:27:00.004+05:30

This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes. [Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sahuin/]

Thought of the day

2009-03-27T09:06:00.002+05:30

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

Thought of the day

2009-03-26T14:22:00.004+05:30

"There is always a first time for anything and everything"and for the first time, i seriously felt "its easy to preach others on what to do and what not to do, but when it comes to "you doing it", its always difficult"That means next time i'm giving fundae to others, i will be more soft and be able to relate to them more.

Glimpses from my diary...

2009-03-24T05:19:00.005+05:30

"... so that's it!! Don't bother too much about the short term failures or under achievements.. all that matters is what you do in long term!!! So come on... don't bother yourself!!! There are things that happen in your life and you never understand why they happen, whats their significance??? But always remember that everything has a purpose, without purpose nothing exists.. Everything that

Thought of the day

2009-03-23T08:48:00.003+05:30

Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breathe away.

Thought of the day

2009-03-17T20:49:00.005+05:30

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.[interesting thought here, but...]

Thought of the day

2009-03-16T21:16:00.001+05:30

Today i'm scared, yet again and yet again i want to believe that things would be fine tomorrow.

5 Tips for Error Handling in Java

2009-03-10T20:21:00.004+05:30

Avoid throwing an exception whenever possible. In stead return special values e.g. null.Throw early, catch laterEither throw an exception or log them but never do bothAlways throw a checked exception, unless it’s a severe error that cannot be handled by the caller of the api.Maintain layer wise clear abstraction on errors and exceptions so that even if there is a change in the lower layer,