What I did in this whole year??

 Made so many experiments

 fully loaded with plans
 like business  
 planned to fly  
 learning more and more tech stuff 
 in the middle proposing to girls ( if my concentration goes on them)

 struggled to know the attitude and commitment of ladies as usual.
 otherwise  helping  technical event organizers 

 writing feedback for tech events
 strived for making my surrounding  environment  a good one

 Health wise its not a good year. 

 I felt very bad after seeing people becoming more and more selfish
 Met great team and got clear picture of my goals

 Helped my family in financial matters for the first time not too much to job seekers and poor.

 Visited orphanages during August 15th ,Diwali, and so more occasions.

 Got Bdotnet community star award  after so many threatening mails.

 Felt unhappy while leaving my team( CaseManagement)

 Got good friends like CM team , cab driver Jalal (helped me mostly in taking me to my room safely)

 Got good neighbours 

 Greatest achievement is staying in a company for more than 9 months (by Dec 19th) but cant able to celebrate with CM team as I left it before a week

 Completed 4 yrs with Dec 15th and cant celebrate with any colleague as I left CM team 2 days back

 Symbolically I didnt done any pagination program in this year. Usually that will be last program in any company.Till now no such requirement came. 

 My last article that I  read is : URL rewriting in Asp.net

 Cant able to wear ClientProfiles T- Shirt officially

 

 

 My Principal (Ntcollege Visakhapatnam) always encouraged the bright students.

 From the last 3 yrs I want to help atleast 2 students . Now I came to a conclusion that I cant wait till I am fully settled. Its a distant dream.

 So kept some money and plans for the above activity to come into action.

 Again I am in safe side as per the job wise like in the early years. But this is not my destiny.

 

Microsoft just released a new Web site that aggregates a bunch of BizTalk blogs.  However, I should also point out that when they say “BizTalk“ blogs, they are also covering .NET 3.x and other related technologies. Several of us from Pluralsight are included in the list of aggregated blogs.

 

copied from http://www.onebigweb.com/blog/index.php

 

Demo List
Following are the confirmed Demos
SMS Social Networking in Babalife , Sean Blagsvedt Company, Babalife
Mobile commerece, mobile banking, Ritesh Mittal, NGPay
Mango Application Framework,Sunil Maheswari, Mango Technologies
Mysore Dassara - Flash Based Application,Vivek,TheDesignTree
Mobile Photo Blogging,Varun, Fonearena & MoMo Chennai
Online Video on Nokia Phones, Rajeswari, Nokia
Mobitop - a Mobile Application Platform, Lalit, Mobisy
Game Developemnt Demo, Zarina
Mobi-Winsk20,Nalin
Opera Mini Browser, Navjot & Sagar
Mobile Map Application that does not require GPRS, Vishnu
iPhone and 3rd Party application, Siddharth
Mobile Video Streaming, Kunal, Novix
Google my Location on Mobile, Ajay
SMS Gupshup - Mobile Social Messaging Platform, Tathagata, Webaroo
Zook.in - Mobile Social Search, Sameer Shishodia, Ziva Software
Foodie Hotline - Ubona Voice Search Engine, Vishal Lal,

Mobile Adult Literacy, Aditya Mishra, TCS
OpenGL based games, Selvan
Mobile Visa Money Transfer, Naveen Thangiah, mChek
Mobile Photo Application, Manish
Entreprise Tracking with Mobile LBS, Anand, Mobiance
Mobile Mandi Bhav , Parul Awasthy, TCS
Mobile Cruiser - Symbian Call Handling Application
MyDuniya - Integrating the  Mobile and the Web World, Keshav

 

Important things to figure out are:

There is a monthly meet every last Monday of a month among Mobile community  . http://bangalore.mobilemonday.in/ 

Want to know more about MeMobo :

  http://mobilewireless.wordpress.com/2007/12/18/modemo-bangalore-16-dec-07/ (Arvind Padmanaban)

and http://www.kenneyjacob.com/2007/12/16/modemo-the-demo-only-event/    ( he came from Kerala to attend this event)

 

 

Siddhartha Mehta showed some live tweaks on Iphone

Zarina on gaming

mChek money transfer

On Mobile Devices Opera has developed miniopera browser

 

One of the organiser Thiyagarajan blog : http://rajan.wordpress.com/

 

 

 

World wide events of Mobile Monday : http://www.mobilemonday.net

 

 

 

 

 

 

Game sites:

fragbyte.com

 

Osmosis unconference Dec 15th 2007 feedback

Navision (Microsoft Dynamics NAV) UG meet on 15th December 20076:10 PM to 8:00 PM - Navision (Microsoft dynamics NAV) - By MVP David                

About David:
 

David Singleton introduction. 
I started working with Navision as an End User. That was on ver 3.04 on OS/2 and DOS. That company eventually became a Navision reseller, and I joined PC&C to create NTR's (Navision Territorial Representatives) in Central and Eastern Europe. I then created my own consulting company, where I consulted to NSCs (Navision VARS) and also developed Add-Ons. I have implmented 187 Navision systems in 16 countries, and lost count of the number of consultants and developers that I have trained over the years. These days most of my work involves training people how to implement Navision on Budget, and helping End Users to control the cost of their Implmentation mainly through management of their NSC.

Hi Friends,

I attended Navision event given by David Singleton. Thanks to Kashi and RahulNathan (BangaloreITPro) for organising the event.

Navision is one of the product in Microsoft Dynamics suite.

Microsoft Dynamics NAV is an enterprise resource planning (ERP) software product from Microsoft.

The product is part of the Microsoft Dynamics family, and intended to assist with finance, manufacturing, customer relationship management, supply chains, analytics and electronic commerce for small and medium-sized enterprises. VARs can have have full access to the business logic source code, and it has a reputation as being easy to customize.[1]

History
Navision A/S developed in 1984 in Denmark as PC&C ApS (Personal Computing and Consulting).

In 2000, Navision Software A/S merged with fellow Danish firm Damgaard A/S (founded 1983) to form NavisionDamgard A/S. Later the name was changed to Navision A/S.

On 11 July 2002 Microsoft bought Navision A/S to go with its previous acquisition of Great Plains. The new division in Microsoft was named Microsoft Business Solutions and also included Microsoft CRM.

In September 2005 Microsoft rebranded the product and released it as Microsoft Dynamics NAV.

The product itself has gone through several name changes as the original Navision company or Microsoft has tried to decide on how it should be marketed. The names "Navision Financials", "Navision Attain", "Microsoft Business Solutions Navision Edition", and the current (2007) "Microsoft Dynamics NAV" have all been used to refer to this product.

Refer : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Dynamics_NAV

Before evolving it as Navision the below are the versions:

1. PC plus

2.  Navigator DOS

3. Navision

4. Financials

5. Dynamics Nav

6. Version 6.0  (going to be released in next year)

Different Applications that can be developed using Navision:

1. Inventory & Finance

2. Supply Chain

3. Ware house

4. Agile Manufacturing

 

C/Side features:

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• Its is not a coding language
• Client/Server intergrated development environment
• Business Oriented
• Not a true OOPs
• Transaction based on "Version Principle" (key feature in database)
• Sift and Flow field technology
• Simple Object Model

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He showed the UI of Navision

He told that Navision is suitable for mid sized companies. 250 users can parallely enter data but not 1000 users. Best performance will be shown for 120 users.

Its a windows application (thick client application)

Navision supports RFID (bar code readers) , RF scanning , RF data ware housing

His answers to the audience questions: 

Plans are there to integrate with Visual Studio

Current versions wont support web services and unicode but version 6  (yet to be released) will support web services

Pure Accounting & Auditing -- U can go for GreatPlains (another product in Dynamics).But difficult to customize and good for manufacturing,datawarehousing.

Axapta is more good for sales

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Navision Community:

dynamicsuser.net

wiki.dynamicsbook.com

Microsoft community: dynamics.com

http://go-live.us

He can reached at dsingleton@go-live.us

Book:  Programming Microsoft Dynamics Nav - By Studebaker

He has done 189 implementations till now in his career.

Thanks to David for his patience to giving insight into Navision.

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From the audience perspective these questions arised in their minds:

• From his speech we understood that Navision is suitable for Mid sized companies.We are not convinced how Navision can get new clients. We always have to give support to old clients which are already using this. How we can convince a client to go for Navision as there are so many better ERP applications available in the market.
• Why one has to choose Navision as his career.
• It is not supporting large customers who are having crores of records
• Navision UI is not at all cool and fresh.

This is what the audience felt at the end of the session.

They are not impressed with Navision product but felt happy to know about Navision through David.

 

 

 

 

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Expected releases from MS in 2008 by Bink.nu website. http://bink.nu/news/what-to-expect-from-microsoft-in-2008.aspx

Want to know events in and around your residing place...

 

 

www.upcoming.com 

 

 

One of my colleague Muralidhar Raj has forwarded this:

 

8 Ways to Boost Your Career in '08

Mary K. Pratt

Source: Computerworld.com  

Today's IT professionals are an evolving breed. The job keeps morphing as companies demand not just technical know-how, but more business acumen, analytical skills and industry knowledge as well.

Kudos if you've pulled that all together, but don't rest just yet. The evolution isn't over, as the upcoming year promises more changes. If you want to stay in the driver's seat of your own career, put these items on your to-do list:

1. Incorporate security into your responsibilities. Security and related disciplines, such as business continuity and disaster-recovery planning, are permeating all levels of the organization. That means all IT workers, and not just the security folks, will have to contribute by understanding how business processes, technical requirements and security intersect.

"Everyone has to understand security to a certain degree and apply it to their responsibilities," says Sam Helmich, vice president of technology at ADM Investor Services Inc. in Chicago. The learning requirements vary by IT positions, but Helmich recommends that you seek out security classes and certification. Finding mentors from the security team is another good way to prepare

2. Re-engineer processes. IT has always been responsible for keeping everything running and developing new systems, says Michael Cummins, CIO at the Georgia Institute of Technology's College of Management and a clinical professor of management, but now he sees a new responsibility emerging: re-engineering business processes and workflow.

"We've seen movement to business processes and workflow analysis as you try to show how systems can help re-engineer how you do the work and make it more efficient," Cummins says. "That's where we see all these big productivity gains."

To deliver this, you must understand how your business-side colleagues actually do their jobs, he says. You can start by signing up as a project lead, finding a business-side mentor or working as a systems analyst.

3. Use analytics to guide business decisions. "We're seeing more and more companies that are stellar examples of using data analysis to run their business," Cummins says. Casinos, for example, collect and analyze detailed data on individual players and then tailor their marketing based on those findings. Other industries are following suit, which means you'll have to set up the systems and understand what data to mine and analyze.

To brush up on analytics get onto projects that expose you to the needs and goals driving non-IT departments, study vendor information on how business intelligence applications can provide data to drive decisions, and get training in Six Sigma, a data-driven methodology for eliminating defects.

4. Be more versatile. There will always be a need for deep technical skills , but you'll be obsolete if all you can offer is one particular expertise, says Pamela Taylor, a solutions architect at a subsidiary of a Fortune 50 company and vice president of SHARE, an IBM user group.

"Keep yourself open to new approaches," Taylor says. "While there is some need for specialization and to demonstrate an expertise for the particular role you're in now, you must keep yourself aware of and consistently educated in new things that are emerging."

5. Work on multifunctional programs and multidisciplinary teams. Companies are putting together more teams of workers from diverse departments to deliver technology-related projects, says Diane Morello, an analyst at Gartner Inc. in Stamford, Conn. Getting assigned to those teams is a key to getting broad business knowledge and becoming known outside IT.

"Individuals are going to work much more consistently around multidisciplinary teams, and that means their competencies need to be understood and known by people outside their skill sets," Morello says.

In short, you must be skilled in teamwork, effective communication and change management. Try to work for managers who operate across business units. Or, if you can, get assigned to a boundary-spanning role, and seek some relief from daily operational duties so you can focus on the big picture.

6. Beef up your business skills. The need to do this has been building for a while, but 2008 will put an even greater emphasis on business acumen, says Kate M. Kaiser, an associate professor of IT at Marquette University and coordinator of the Society for Information Management study "The Information Technology Workforce: Trends and Implications 2005-2008."

The need for business knowledge is moving farther down the IT workforce chain, she says. Even newly minted IT workers will have to have business smarts. Moreover, companies are looking for IT workers who have expertise in functional areas, such as marketing or finance, says David Foote, CEO and chief research officer of research firm Foote Partners LLC in New Canaan, Conn.

Getting a degree in business management -- an MBA if you have a tech-related bachelor's degree, or a bachelor's in business if you have an associate's degree in technology -- can help prepare you for this new reality, Kaiser says. But so can on-the-job management experience, such as leading projects.

7. Be more accountable. The folks in finance, marketing, HR and other corporate departments already use data to evaluate performance. IT workers will increasingly have to do the same, Cummins says. Granted, evaluating an IT shop can be hard, because of the lack of productivity measures and because of the difficulty of measuring certain, sometimes intangible, gains. But be prepared to show your value.

Learn Six Sigma-type tools and benchmarking, and learn from business managers who have reputations for running efficient departments.

8. Manage your own career. You can't rely on your manager, company or vendors to determine a path for you, because those predetermined paths might be too narrow or even obsolete, Foote says. You yourself must prepare for tomorrow by evaluating your skills and filling in what's missing through certification, education and on-the job experience.

"This is the year you can no longer sleepwalk through your career," Morello adds. "Each person has to take ownership of his or her career path."

 

Muralidharan TR

Intentionally I made this entry public.

I want to make my working environment better.

Earlier I send some mails to the respective departments to post the content to all mostly about tech sessions.

But it was not happened.

 

Irrespective of a company ,we are getting mails from Training dept about the training calendar and training programs.

First a mail comes with the topic asking us to nominate for the session. After some days another mail comes informing that the training session is postponed because of inadequate participants.

Finally it becomes a regular phenomena.

If you are continuing this both the speakers and the participants will lose interest and these training sessions will never be successful.

 

Below are the list of suggestions I want to make:

 

1.       Create interest or zeal in the people like in my CM team.  There team members always asks for sessions and even want to come for the sessions at 9 ‘o’ clock though they are having very hectic schedules. When Prakash J and Sendhil introduced the sessions there is some bit reluctance from the team. It happens everywhere . But after finding it useful everybody are interested to attend these. Other teams also showed interest in participating these sessions. If you could able to make at least some members participate  regularly it will create curiosity in others also. So don’t expect 15 members. Make it 8 to 10.

2.       Make the speaker present the session with real time examples and with code.

3.       Ask the managers to encourage their team in participating such sessions.

Always we are having work in the project. And it should not be a reason to learn new things. We have to make some time for it.

4.       Training department should take full responsibility and has to involve fully. Make the sessions very interactive.

5.       Nowadays technical sessions are going informal way ( like in Bar camp). Experiment with new formats which people really likes.

6.       Take the feedback seriously then and there and take actions appropriately. Change the format of taking feedback and it should identify the key requirements of the company and the participants. Don’t stick on stringent processes.

7.       Identify the key speakers and the topics.

8.       Ask suggestions from the participants about the topics.

9.       We can ask even the less experienced people (who have outstanding performance in their respective projects) to take the sessions. Ask their team members and mentors to participate in those sessions and encourage them.

10.   Once these training sessions are successful we can open these sessions for external people also (like Osmosis event) .It will help in our recruitment process also.

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Live Documents

http://www.live-documents.com/company/news.html

Live Documents is a full-featured suite of online Office productivity applications offering functionality equivalent to Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Built using RIA technologies such as Flash and Flex, Live Documents allow users to view and edit documents within any common browser on any operating system from anywhere. Live Documents uses a Flash-based user interface that offers a richer and responsive user experience that is comparable to native Office software applications.

In addition, Live Documents is available as a optional desktop client application that wraps around Microsoft Office and embeds collaborative capabilities into these hitherto standalone software applications - Live Documents converts Microsoft Office applications from static standalone software to smart clients that are connected to the Internet and facilitate in-context document sharing (multiple people can edit a document at the same time) and management (security, access control and revision control) without requiring users to give up their familiar user interfaces. The Live Documents desktop client also ensures offline access to documents - a key failing of current online Office applications.

With its hybrid “Services plus Software” approach, Live Documents gives users the choice and flexibility to work on their documents either on the desktop or on the browser and while they are online or offline – any changes made on either side are automatically synchronized to the other side ensuring that the desktop and web versions are always in sync without requiring manual actions like check-in/check-out, upload/download or import/export. Live Documents is designed to increase consumer choice when it comes to purchasing hardware, selecting an operating system, choosing a network and accessing and sharing file formats.

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Want to know what was discussed in InitRia event?

 

 

The below content is copied from Mrinal (the organiser for this event). Very useful info.

initRIA: Round Up

 

 

 

Hi friends,

 

This is the update of the last 3 days.

 

On Friday I left office at 3 Pm in the afternoon.

One of my best friend ( here best is adjective. Really my best friend)  Venky (working in Emc2) was hospitalized.

Major operation was done. Spent 3 days in the hospital with him. Now he was discharged. He is not in a position to stand on his own.

Srinu ( another best person) put 2 weeks leave for him.

I like them because they will do take any risk for a friend.

I know so many times people misused them.

 

In the mean while I attended some sessions which are : Bdotnet (on Saturday) and Sunday( ThoughtWorks)

I will give my update.