Quotes from the Enlightened One

Imagine if there was no global warming, there would be a lot of people getting very rich. Of course there are those still imagining that and getting rich at the expense of the planet.

How are we going to justify global warming to future generations? Explain it as a consequence of greed?! No generation has made the world so inhospitable for the future residents like that of ours. No generation will be cursed and hated for their actions like that of ours.

Mobile companies are doing exactly what prehistoric fashion designers did centuries ago: Make you feel ashamed of not having any on you!

We meet so many people that we enjoy n love being with but can't.Alas we have just one life with limited time. The best we can do is b with the closest ones we enjoy the most n think and wonder about the life we missed with the rest.

In the old days kids learned their virtues from teachers ans parents. Yesterday the TV was added to the list, today the PC and tomorrow the Mobile will teach our kids about life. We had a tough time with the former two. I pity the kids of the future.

Cash, in all its heavy bundles are replaced by cheques and credit cards therefore reducing its size... But ironically the weight of it on people carrying them seems to increase.

True Freedom of speech will be when the world goes deaf.

A couple of millennium there were many specialized gods. No one was better then the other. Later, to prove their god is the most powerful, the one god ideology was born. There can be no debate with a person who believes in only one god.

Festivals are....

....like watching an F1 race from the track, u wait an entire lap for a glimpse of your favorite star n all u get is a lot of noise and then the cycle continues".

.... an example of Gods unfairness in this world. The rich spend on the gods and get richer, the poor don't and get poorer.

.....celebrated indoors be families, they spend. .... celebrated outdoors by corporates, they earn.

.....simply payed holidays, in India, when the festival is not of your religion.

..... becoming a show of strength amongst religions groups these days.

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Popular are ....

.....thou when, in a quiz, someone replies you name as the answer to a question and the answer is wrong.

.....thou when there is an porn MMS video circulating and people believe you are starring in it.

.....thou, in India atleast, if you are gay.

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Respect is...

....what you get when you cause harm to animals, things or people for a good cause. Good deeds are seldom noticed,let alone respected!

....a piece of gold colored plastic given to us by American Express

....costing Rs 1000. Its an Elections Season discount only for politicians.Offer valid only till the voting date.

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Why do we lookup to someone like Gandhi to make peace in the world? Coz we are humans; we always want someone else to do our dirty work. Fortunately he didn't start a religion. Imagine the communal wars that it would cause

Its amazing see how complex the simple task of shaving has become. Its just like a home facial. The money spent on luxury shaving product and that spent on researching newer product can end world hunger.

What are the three primary necessities of mankind? clothing, shelter and looking good.

If god preaches peace and the devil preaches war, Based on the actions we do in the name of religion,whose religion are we following ?

Gods come down to earth in human form make a bunch of mistakes that we foolish humans follow and the situations gets even worse. They have realized it now hence no one showed up in the last 500 yrs!

The one precious Indian item that the seller pays to give it away is a Bride.

Endangered species especially in India make so much noise before they go extinct in a desperate attempt to survive : Elephants, tigers, lions , communists.

There is nothing more evil than human perception. Pedophilia, hunting, poverty,genocide, global warming etc all being committed as a result of humans twisted perception. But the most evil perception of all is pretending all this doesn't exist.

My hand made blanket protected me from the cold last night. I wonder if it protected the person who made it?

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These are quotes on IT Professionals (ITP) in India

Want to sell a Coffee costing Rs 5 for Rs. 50 to an ITP, accept a credit card and give 5% discount.

Don't want your ITP employee to leave their job, tell them they are being sent to the US.

Whats the difference between an ITP employee and any other ordinary employee? an ITP employee earns and spends 10 times more than that of an ordinary employee.

How do you sell pooh (or anything close to it) to an ITP? Just brand it!

An ITP in his new car had a race to the office with a tortoise, Who won? The ITP didn't stand a chance, he worked in


Whats the difference and similarity between a bee and an ITP?
The Difference: A bee leave its cubical for work, an ITP enters his cubical for work.
The Similarity: Both work till they drop dead.


What do you call the wife of and ITP?
If she is dum, a virgin!
If he is dum, a prostitute.

What do you call the husband of an ITP?
If he is smart, Casanova!
If she is smart, Boss.

What do zoologist call an IT office? A green house with an AC.

What are the three most consumed items by a ITP during break besides food? Coffee, Cigarettes and Anti Depressants.

Yoga VS Yoga

The recent controversy of a couple of churches refusing to allow Yoga classes to be held in their premises have caused an uproar among yoga followers and fanatics specially in India. Why wouldn't it? Channels like NDTV, CNN - are flashing it all over TV like as though it is a crime against humanity.
Indians like many other culture-based nations over the world are hypocrites. A very small percentage of people in India of it 1 billion population practice yoga. But if anyone says anything against our heritage.. all hell breaks loose. This is not the first time such incident has happened. Indians hold their heritage close to their hearts.. well almost. Kill a diseased cow which threatens the entire population of cows in UK, its a crime against the gods. Take bribes in front of Gandhi's image but any makes fun of the mahatma, people are up in arms. That was precisely what Gandhi gave his life for. Bah... sorry to say these things will never end. Its human nature: Hypocracy.
If someone does not want to hold yoga classes in their premises, that is no one else's business. I dont know what must have happened between the priest and the yoga instructor, and frankly, I dont care. I am concerned about how everyone else including Indians in India and elsewhere are reacting just because yoga originated in India. I bet despite of its immense health benefits no Indian would be bothered about it if Yoga did not originate in India. And the question people are too afraid to answer, "Would people oppose this incident if instead of a church and priest, a mosque and mullah was involved. " No one would even think about it.
I guess news channels dont have any other news to present therefore they flash such irrelevant crap. If anything they should show how many Indians are not even allowed to enter temple premises let alone do yoga or aerobics there.
Its sad. Truly sad. One good thing that has happened because of this incident is that, in India yoga is diminishing and will soon be wiped out but I guess its legacy will be alive and practiced in other countries like UK and if anyone opposes it there we Indians are here to fight against those oppositions.

The Bold New World of Flex

Introduction

We all have viewed flash applications at one time or the other in our life on the web inform of e-cards, ads, games etc . It is a very different from the boring static html pages we normally view. Over the years Macromedia has created a revolution in the web world by developing a very strong platform for developing web graphics on the Internet. Now there is a new revolution taking place.
Macromedia, which is now owned by Adobe, has created a new technology for the developing web sites which is based on the existing flash platform, known as Flex.


One Night Stand!

Over the years I have tried and tested many technologies, both web and standalone. Ive dwelled into .NET (VB.NET, C#, ASP), Java (JSP, Servlets, J2ME), python, Ruby/Rails, Groovy, PHP, C, C++, perl etc. To be honest my skill level is not the same in all languages but I do know the pros and cons of each technology I use and believe you me, some of these technologies are just over hyped and once you hook on to any of these, they just suck you deeper and deeper into their vortex and by the time you realize that it was a mistake you are 60 and on the verge of retirement. My latest fascination was Ruby/Rails which I invested a lot of time and money(for books).

Couple of months back I had to develop two rich client web application, a web service for myself, say A and another for a Brokerage and Investement Firm, say B. Both application were entirely different wrt their demands. The former required a simple UI for the user. When I mean simplicity it means getting the maximum relevant information for the user with minimum number of clicks. The second application required a very complex UI but within a level of user friendliness. A has small volumes of data but large number of users. B has large volumes of data but small number of users. A was hosted on the Internet. B was restricted to an office My first choice was rails. It was easy, fast to develop application, and very powerful in terms of features. But it failed in performance and support. That was unacceptable for both applications.

I dove into AJAX. After an exhaustive study i selected Google Windows Toolkit or GWT. It was an obvious choice for me because the programming language was JAVA, but my curiosity did not stop me from exploring other technologies. So GWT was my client site technology and PHP was my server side technology. Although development was smooth, I had problems with interfacing PHP and GWT. Adding to my woes, the time it look to load the page would put most people to sleep. GWT was out along with the number of hours I spent on it. I hate to admit it, but I felt google did not release the optimized version of the GWT compiler. It was not even close to optimised


Flex, will you marry me?

During my research, I had accidentally come across Flex in one of my Developers IQ magazine CD. I had to reject it due to RAM constraints. It requires 512MB and I had just half that. Later I decided to back to it and I was glad. My prior knowledge in XML and JavaScript helped me pick up the MXML-ActionScript Syntax quite easily. But it took time to learn the internal working of the platform. I fell in love with it instantly.

I did not use Flex for project A. First, it required Flash 9 which were few people use. Second, it cannot be parsed by search-engines. Third, we felt that the UI would be too advanced and complicated to use for novice web users. We stuck to plain old but nevertheless effective HTML and JavaScript. We used flex to implement the Administrator UI and functions.

Project B just couldn't do without Flex type UI. Although my client cant tell the difference between a rich client web application and plain text even if it hit them in the head, I had to do my part to make their life easy, at least as easy as much as they can pay for it.

The server-side technology is PHP /MySQL and communication takes place using AMFPHP2, a RPC Service implemented in PHP. I use Flex Builder as the development environment.

Now my life cool, my work is easy and my client is happy. Well what else would I want? I don't know but Adobe thinks it does. It has released Flex 3 beta with new features. I am eagerly awaiting the final release. And for all you source fans there is an Open Source version on the way.

So what are you waiting for? Put on your swimming suits and dive into the world of flex.