Monday, December 27, 2010

100 years to Indian national anthem - Jana Gana Mana



Jana gana mana adhinayaka jaya he
Bharata bhagya vidhata
Punjaba Sind Gujarata Maratha
Dravida Utkala Banga
Vindhya Himachala Yamuna Ganga
Ucchala jaladhi taranga
Tava subha name jage
Tava subha asisa mage
Gahe tava jaya gatha
Jana gana mangala dayaka jaya he
Bharata bhagya vidhata
Jaya he jaya he jaya he
Jaya jaya jaya jaya he!

Today our  Indian national anthem Jana Gana Mana completed its 100 years.





Thursday, November 11, 2010

One more bug in Microsoft's account

This morning while logging into my machine I encountered the below issue(?). Microsoft Windows - Found New Hardware Wizard dialog - without "OK" or "Cancel" buttons.

The word behind this Dialog is "QUALITY" ;-).

Friday, November 5, 2010

Diwali - 2010

Had great time and really enjoyed this Diwali.
 
 
Dauuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuddddd :-)

Dancing with Lights :-)


Ready..Steady...Goooooooo :-)







Saturday, October 23, 2010

Terry & Best Visit to Hyderabad

Terry & Best Came to Hyderabad this week to do training. This time, I took them out for sight seeing & shopping.


 Best

 Terry & Me

Terry & Best


We went to Mohammad Cap. Mart a famous shopping center in Charminar. Terry & Best tried our  traditional dresses.
Terry liked them a lot, as we do not have the Terry's size we ordered  separately. :-)

Friday, October 22, 2010

Ben & Preeda Visit to Hyderabad

Ben & Preeda Came to Hyderabad this week to do training. I took them out for shopping. We went to Shilparamam, InOrbit Mall & Four Seasons.

Ben @ Shilparamam


Preeda @ Shilparamam
From there we went to InOrbit Mall. We did shopping for Ben, Preeda & Maya 
 



Ben in Indian Ethnic wear 


Preeda in Indian Ethnic wear.

We really enjoyed the shopping in InOrbit, I will not forget the fun we had in Manyavar. Best moments with Ben & Preeda.  
We went to Four Seasons for dinner. Ben & Preeda really liked the food.


A Nice art of Golconda Fort in Four Seasons
Preeda loved the Murgh Zafarani. He wanted to note down the name, Ben Showing the items "Murgh Zafarani".

On Friday evening we went to Jaganath Temple.
 
Ben, Kishore & Me @ Jaganath Temple.





Me & Kishore

Ben

Saturday, October 9, 2010

Vera & Terry's Visit to Hyderabad

Vera & Terry Came to Hyderabad this week. We had a great training this week. An excellent Start.

Vera - The Boss

 Terry Explaining the TRAC
 Terry & Kishore (My Boss)




 Writing Exam. Me in Last Bench :-)

This Weekend I & Terry went out for sightseeing and shopping.

 Starting with Chai in Cafe Niloufer :-)
 Bangles Shopping in Charminar
 Apne Bhao Loga in Charminar ;-)
@ Hard Rock Cafe
Had Lunch in Barbeque Nation, Terry really liked the Food. We had great time.

Thursday, September 16, 2010

Process Improvement Award

Got a call from Rajeev saying we got the "Process Improvement Award" for my last nomination before coming to DSTWS. Happy to hear about it. Getting compliments/awards is always a great feeling :-) 


But this time I am very much happy as even after leaving people still remembering and recognized the change we did in SIS. 

I should thank one important person "Adam" from Inflectra, Who helped a lot,  responded back with answers for all my stupid questions :-)

Thanks to Ryan for the freedom and support.

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Rupee symbol interpretation

I am not sure whether Mr. Uday Kumar derived/designed the Rupee symbol by keeping us in mind, But unfortunately it is 100% in line and matching with our current status.

I feel this is a very good interpretation.

Sunday, August 15, 2010

Sreeram wins Indian Idol 5


City Boy Sreeram Chandra won the fifth season of the music reality show Indian Idol.


He was announced as the winner by Mr. Amitabh Bachchan.  


I feel he won because of peoples support from all over India. We should really Thank to all of them.  He is blessed with a good oppertunity and he should continue the journey as a Real Idol to all.  I really dont want to see him as another Anchor in Idol show or lost in the crowd like others.


Best of Luck Sreeram, Keep Rocking.

Monday, August 2, 2010

A very good example on Small mistakes, and their imapct on application

Yesterday we went to MySchools office. A big discussion was going on some database locking issue. It's interesting, their problem is application able to process two transaction successfully, from the third it is locking the table and execution is getting failed with timeout error. We asked to open the code, and we verified further. Finally I found the cause.  Close statement is missing in the code.  :-)

The Code which helped me to resolve the issue



private void OnPostInfoClick(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
string strId = UserId_TextBox.Text;
string strName = Name_TextBox.Text;

ASCIIEncoding encoding=new ASCIIEncoding();
string postData="userid="+strId;
postData += ("&username="+strName);
byte[] data = encoding.GetBytes(postData);

// Prepare web request...
HttpWebRequest myRequest =
(HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("http://localhost/MyIdentity/Default.aspx");
myRequest.Method = "POST";
myRequest.ContentType="application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
myRequest.ContentLength = data.Length;
Stream newStream=myRequest.GetRequestStream();
// Send the data.
newStream.Write(data,0,data.Length);
newStream.Close();
}

Thursday, July 22, 2010

Points to Remember while creating Datastore in ESXi

Few days back Shaikh and I worked on QAESXi Server installation, at that time we used all the default options. ESXi is installed and we are able to create the VM's successfully.

Today we got a Task to create a VM with 1TB space. We failed to create the VM on the above ESXi server as it is not allowing to add a disk with more than 256 GB. 

Shaikh resolved the issue. He explained the issue, it was intresting. Issue is "Datastore created with Block Size of 1MB". If Block size is 1MB we cannot create a disk with more than 256GB. 

Here is the combination of Block size and the Disk Space


Block Size 1MB - 256GB
Block Size 2MB - 512GB
Block Size 4MB - 1024GB
Block Size 8MB - 2048GB  


As we cannot do anything, we moved all the VM's to another Server, removed existing datastore and again added with correct Block Size. Gosh, Horrible!!!

10 Steps From Presentation to Performance

Powerful Presentations eBook

Confluence SSL Certificate Configuration

Wiki certificate was expired. Myself and Kenny worked on this. There are couple of steps to import/install the certificate.

Installing The Certificates to the Keystore:
1.Download your SSL Certificate file (your_domain_name.p7b) from your Account to the directory where your keystore was saved during the CSR creation process (the keystore will be called your_site_name.jks if you used keytool CSR command generator).
NOTE: The certificate must be installed to the same keystore that was used to generate your CSR. If you try to install it to a different keystore it will not work.
2.Type the following command to install the certificate file to your keystore:
keytool -import -trustcacerts -alias server -file your_site_name.p7b -keystore your_site_name.jks
3.You should get a confirmation stating that the "Certificate reply was installed in keystore"
4.If it asks if you want to trust the certificate. Choose y or yes.
Your keystore file (your_site_name.jks) is now ready to use on your Tomcat Server and you just need to configure your server to use it.
 

Configuring your SSL Connector:
Tomcat will first need an SSL Connector configured before it can accept secure connections.
1. Open the Tomcat server.xml file in a text editor (this is usually located in the conf folder of your Tomcat's home directory).
2. Find the connector that will be secured with the new keystore and uncomment it if necessary (it is usually a connector with port 443 or 8443 like the example below).
3. Specify the correct keystore filename and password in your connector configuration. When you are done your connector should look something like this:
4. Save your changes to the server.xml file.
5. Restart Service.

Friday, July 16, 2010

Monday, July 5, 2010

Nice tools to Test a Website

Test Your Website- Make It Bug Free

Browser Shots - A nice tool for Browser Compatibility Testing

Browsershots - Nice online tool for Cross Browser Testing

Browser Compatibility Testing

For the past few days, Mubeen and Srikanth were busy in taking  the screen shots of their app and doing the functionality testing in all the popular browsers.
Everyday I hear Mubeen screaming "My eyes are burning like anything". Why the hell we have so many browsers in usage!! And If I am made a Queen, I would definitely see an end to all the browsers and bring a rule to use only a single browser.

As I too belong to the same fraternity, I completely  agree to her point and stand by her statements. :-) Some times, I too feel why Is there a  so much difference in the  look and feel  of the application and why it behaves differently in different browsers.  Doing the same repetitive Job/Task in  all browsers. What a Pain..!  I do remember another example which was like..sometime  back Ryan got an email asking compatibility of our Web application in older version of Internet Explorer(IE6) and with the deadline of  2 days.
We do not have any answer readily available as we had already upgraded to IE8 and IE 6 was under the trash as we were not using it anymore. And Gosh!! How is it possible to test app in 2 days.. :-(

If we have any tools, procedures methods readily available to automate these task would be great.

Ask Google - Googled and found few useful articles on Browser Compatibility Testing. 
I liked the below two articles describing all the available tools, hope you too like these articles
Links:

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Estimations and Results

Are we doing the estimations properly? if yes why most of our guys are extending themselves or working late nights to achieve the targets? And It has other side also like team members have more time than actual time. Is this due to our failure in Estimations or due to customers ;-)

Few days back Mubeen asked me about our Estimations. Honestly I don't have any answer for few questions as we too failed many times due to many reasons which resulted/effected to my team to extend their work hours to complete their tasks. Here we cannot blame anyone as everyone is correct on their perception,

Few methods here

Wide Band Delphi - my favorite Estimation method. In this we can involve everyone, taking their opinions. Check the below link for details
http://leansoftwareengineering.com/wideband-delphi/

Test Estimation Approaches

Test Effort Estimation

Finally on Estimations: There are many techniques, methods defined by our Guru's. But the problem is we do not follow properly.

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Best Manager of the Year - 2009


Best Manager Award - 2009, From Mr. Robin Jefferson, MD.
Today i have received this Prestigious award. Memorable day in SIS.

Thursday, January 7, 2010