The 25th Hour

Software industries are growing day by day. Now if we think a bit more on this, what does it mean by "Growing". Well they just add something new to their existing awesome software.

So i went mad some day and i thought about the "world". Why does the world does not grow? uh? that was wierd... but lets just imagine that if god would want to add something new to his existing software(?), what would he do?

You got it(that doesn't mean you are kinda brainy or something).He will surely think about having an extra hour.

So let's say GOD want to have a new 25th hour developed with latest technologies(or something), what are the features he should give?(show your System engineering talents in comments ;))

Now as I am the one writing this, I'll have the honour to ask for following features -

• First and the most important thing is "add this hour to the night and not to the day" cuz i don't want to spend another hour in company.
• May be if you can "Mute" everything(not people) for this time, it will be really cool cuz i seriously want some peace of mind.
• Let people talk only truth for this hour, it will be interesting to hear some confessions. (Atleast all the fake people will be identified).
• I don't want all those boring people around me who make me cry, atleast for this special hour.
• Let "innovation and creativity" flow through the air, and make this whole world like "Silicon Valley".

Thanks

Pradyumna Dandwate

Funny Lift algorithm

I was observing the lifts in our tower, at night they seem to follow a very funny and innovative algorithm.
So lets think about it and compare it with traditional algorithm. So first comes the "Nomenclature":
The new algorithm : Funny algorithm(FA)
The traditional one : Not so Funny algorithm(NFA).
Note : no rights reserved. You can use these names wherever you want.

The NFAs generally are zero logic algorithms, i.e whenever you press the button the nearest lift will come. So in worst case the distance traveled by the lift is twice the total number of floors.

Now how FA works is : say there are three lifts in a 6 floor building so in "idle" case the lifts will stay at particular floors only say 0, 2 and 4. Now that means when i want to go to 0th floor from 3rd floor, the lift at 2nd floor will come and drop me to 0th floor and then as an obedient servant will go again to 2nd floor.....Howzzat(I have seen it).
In this case also the worst case distance traveled is twice the total number of floors but what is best is the waiting time is saved for the person who uses it. :)

SO that is really cool...

Current Microblogs and Blogs

I don't like any of the current Blogging / Microblogging sites,
not because their interface is not upto the mark,
not because they don't give lot of functionality,
not because most of them don't let me put ads on them,
not because they don't give me more reputation.

But i have a very genuine and powerful reason, "Nobody reads my posts on it" :(

Being OO

I was coming home from Burger King, and a car just passed by featuring "DON rules". So i just said to Patrick,"Wow! People write about me on their car!". He said, "Hehe! You are not don, you are don.paddy".

I: Its same!

He: Look, you are an attribute of an object called don. (don.paddy.. understood?)

I: OOPS! yeah! really!

So moral : May be I am not don solely! but there is no meaning to DON without me... whoa Howzzat?

Select into ChatZilla

Doing lots of SQL stuff these days. Playing with tables and chairs[:)]. If you have seen my twitter posts, you might have found my twit about a problem that i came across in SQL. I was finding a way to create a local copy of table which can be updated without touching the original table. Now here local copy doesnt mean the copy on client side! otherwise i might have used SESSIONS. But say i want to have the same copy distributed over to a group of users! ugh...

Now there was(i first thought) one solution,that is to create a view, but i read somewhere(not sure?) that when we update(not alter) the view, i.e when we update the data in the view, the original table is also updated. I haven't found any good document about this. And havent bothered to try it myself.

Then i thought why not ask to people who better know these things... and where these geeks can be found (forums, nowadays are full of marketting), so the only other place is IRC, so installed chatZilla for the first time and tried to chat through IRC and there i got the real answer!..

We need to COPY the table into a new one every time we need it, and then just drop it when the work is over! done!... But its not as easy(!its time consuming). so i got a command "SELECT INTO". which can copy my table into a new one (even in other database). But it was not working, i was like...Eh... WHY?? then i found that mysql doesn't support it and so i got another one "INSERT INTO ... SELECT ..." (a more simple one than i thought!).. It worked!...

So the moral of the story is whenever you got problem go "SELECT INTO CHATZILLA".

Want to move!

I am really fed up with this .. i want to move my blog to somewhere else ... may be blogger will be a good option ... But then there is problem!.. how do i move all my earlier posts... Gods.. that's gonna be critical... anyways will try and get it done in some way... till then, this is the place where you can hear from me!

Yay!!!!
i Moved....here ...from wordpress.
nice congrats to me!
but anyways ... those who also want to move from wordpress to blogger ... check this out http://wordpress2blogger.appspot.com/

AJAX is cooler and simpler.

Haven't written any post from so long...but twitting regularly..must check http://twitter.com/webbisshh...
Just moved on to a new flat a week ago ... feeling very free ... we have a net TATA connection here... so thought just learn some new things... and meanwhile, a friend(AB)(dont want to mention name without permission) came to me and said he is building a community website in AJAX, and i said, "i would like to help"... so i started doing this ... and thus had a revision on AJAX... the website, thus consists of only one page(the main index page)... and all the data is gathered using AJAX... [have you ever seen any big community website on a single page?]... its a must watch!...but haven't yet completed...
I dont know how many of you know AJAX? but let me tell you its easier than anything you might have learnt (comparable to such vast use). Again working on rss reader(AJAX of course)... thinking of using it in COEPBlogger. I had done lot of work on COEPBlogger but lost it during shifting...not a big deal...Koi ghai nahi hai... cya..

My corner

I was at farewell party organized by College and listening to the song "i'm gonna miss this place". And just thought "ya i will!". Eh but not the college as i can come at anytime here. But i will surely miss the place where i'm sitting now,the corner of my room. Its the place where i sit the whole night and do lots of fun. I don't think i can do that later in future, but OK the CHANGE is required and i will surely find another way of enjoying the life, may be a lappy.
The last semester is been full of fun only, this is the time when i tried lots of different things too, like music, gym but finally i'm back to original(TP whole night).
Anyways Champions league is on fire, Man U vs Barca will be great to watch. Fight between the two magicians cristiano and messi will be the center point. waiting for the day.

What an !dea... Sirjee!!

Sorry guys writing a second post in continuation, but i thought this is more important...
I am planning to have a website which will bring the like-minded people like us who are used to write a blog to express their feelings or experiences (or anything). Plz have a look at the !dea... and tell me if you like...

Check out the presentation here

B-industry's got great future ahead

This year industry has seen some new but talented singers and actors and both reaching sky high.. lets know about some of them...

Singers



If you dont know this guy, you are an extremist about singing..
He is the find of A.R.Rehman, the hot favorite for this year's best playback singer award.... Rashid Ali, With his song "Kabhi Kabhi Aditi" topping the charts. He was actually a Guitar player for AR but then suddenly AR realized that his voice has got really attractive modulations.And this way he become a star.



Benny Dayal is well known to many of us... He has sung lot of superhit songs in this year...like "Nazre milana" from Jaane tu..., "tu meri dost hain" from Yuvvraaj and many more....BTW  He is a star in south..



Toshi ... Singing couple of songs in Raaz 2, one("Mahiyaa") of it is becoming very famous, but he is basically very famous in all talent show viewers...



One more King is here..
He is my favorite, Raja Hasan...This year was the great success for him, after winning "Ek se Badhkar ek" and "Ustadon ka ustad" and singin some bollywood songs.. I think he will be a big name in Promotional songs and jingles like Kailasa... Guys if you like Kailash Kher then you must hear Raja too, i think u will love him..

Actors



The one child we all know , a great upcoming actor, surely he will have a great future ahead in acting and i wish for him.



Aamir may not have got big success but the actor Rajeev Khandelwal has got a big break from this movie.

Both


Of course he is the one, the path breaker... now after Himesh, who has acted after being a famous singer and music director... this guy has made a courageous work by singing and acting after being a famous Director. And now his show "Oye it's Friday" is doing great job..

Guys that's not all, i have put some names that came to my mind... do tell if i missed any really talented newcomer...

Dogs and Engineers not allowed!!

From past two weeks i have been trying to get some good call centre job to have some extra bucks in hand, but things are just not working, cuz everytime i visit a call centre, i can very easily see an imaginary notice showing "Dogs and Engineers not allowed!"..

Then i tried to fool them out by pretending like i am a very dumb guy, who left studies after HSC, but again when i show my marksheet.. its all shit again...93%... man how can a person leave study after getting such an UNACCEPTABLE scores... damn its totally messed up. I am feeling like why the hell have i scored such marks in HSC ( When there was no need due to CET)... and now i am getting how unbearable feeling it is, when you are sure that you will be rejected from the job but still you are going for the interview...

Anyways.... "try, try, never cry," "A never DIE spirit" of an Engineer have to be maintained... but one thing i am feeling lucky of, is that i am in COEP and i have got placement... otherwise it would have been a big mess..

So guys, hope you had fun in ur vacations... now its time to come back to regular routine (Khana Pina Mauj manana).

Cheers..and Happy new year to all of you..