http://www.whizcreed.com Wed, 14 May 2008 00:38:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I totally agree with what Savia is saying in her blog post. If media tries then it can prove to be a big source of motivation for those who are willing to do something about major problems we see, hear and read everyday. Government has already initiated involvement into media ... http://www.whizcreed.com/2008/05/12/media-vs-real-media/ These days we see a lot of websites which have disabled right click for so called security reasons. I am using Mozilla Firefox and have spell check installed. I was writing an email to my bank's branch manager and wanted to correct a misspelled word but when I right clicked ... http://www.whizcreed.com/2008/04/28/enable-right-click-context-menu-of-browser/ Are we missing on the daily dose of news about students giving their lives away by surrendering in front of pressure to perform better and excel in such a competitive world of education in India. It seems yes and that we want children of India to suffer in traumatic situations. ... http://www.whizcreed.com/2008/04/13/schools-to-be-ranked-more-lives-to-end/ My girlfriend studying in Germany got a Tevion 85572 webcam as her christmas present. After installing it and hours of struggle no one could make it to work with any of the VOIP messengers that also supports video streaming. Quite surprisingly video from the webcam could be seen with the ... http://www.whizcreed.com/2008/03/24/webcam-not-working-with-yahoo-skype/   A yet another wardrobe malfunction at Wills India Fashion Week has left the fashion freaks astonished. In Rajesh ... http://www.whizcreed.com/2008/03/14/cat-slips-her-walk-again/ Few days ago my current Ruby on Rails project was been moved to a staging server with similar configuration of the live web site. Suddenly yesterday in one of the administration modules I started getting the following error: Mysql::Error: Incorrect key file for table '/tmp/#sql_61a9_0.MYI'; ... http://www.whizcreed.com/2008/01/17/mysqlerror-incorrect-key-file-for-table/ Its obvious to get confused after seeing this banner. Kamasutra one of the leading Indian manufacturers of condoms and known for the same around the world has introduced a new range of personal care for both men and women. Tag line here "I let my daughter wear ... http://www.whizcreed.com/2008/01/02/i-let-my-daughter-wear-kamasutra/ There are several online advertising agencies which serves advertisements on web sites. And the advertiser is charged for clicks being made on the ad, out of the amount charged a portion of it is given to the web site owner displaying those ads. More commonly know as concept of PPC ... http://www.whizcreed.com/2007/12/30/online-advertising-in-a-soup/ Orkut in its initial days used to give several exceptions or errors now and then, which has really improved over the course of time. Being Orkut in beta version, few errors in a long lost while are quite acceptable. But shouldn't Orkut be concentrating on making things more stable before ... http://www.whizcreed.com/2007/12/27/orkut-beta-scrapbook-ajax-bug/ Several aspects of a video advertisement makes it distinct from others and enables it in getting a special place in hearts of its viewers. One of them is the jingle, the catchy background music of an advertisement. Maruti Suzuki Wagon R has released a new advertisement featuring background music ... http://www.whizcreed.com/2007/12/27/advertisement-jingle-smart-very-smart/ Few weeks ago while talking with my RoR buddies we happened to have a small discussion about David Heinemeier Hansson clearly instructing  everyone not to use logo of Ruby on Rails for any commercial purpose where he himself is not being involved or you may say not being benefited. While ... http://www.whizcreed.com/2007/12/22/ruby-on-rails-all-rights-reserved-dhh/    Under very uncertain and unexpected situation I was in a grave need of sending some money within India. Now the fine print is that the recipient don't have any bank account. I started to explore options to be able to send money as soon as possible without ... http://www.whizcreed.com/2007/12/21/transfer-send-money-within-india/ In my very first project with Ruby on Rails several months ago I almost freaked out finding a better way for displaying a flash message for the same request and rendering an action instead of redirecting it elsewhere. For those who are not aware about the flash message concept ... http://www.whizcreed.com/2007/12/20/rails-flash-hash-for-same-request-render/ Internet Email spamming is highly uncontrollable even after huge efforts around the world. Recently I received an email in my Gmail INBOX and wondering how a spam email has came in my inbox I checked it: Increase your Size http://www.google.com/search?q=inurl:anherbal&btnI=I=Im+Feeling+Lucky famish grin lair ... http://www.whizcreed.com/2007/12/09/i-am-not-feeling-lucky/ These days I am making an application using Active Scaffold. I needed to have reordering functionality in my application and found a plugin for the same called "active_scaffold_acts_as_list". Getting it to work was really a tricky part. I kept on getting errors while starting my server: /vendor/plugins/active_scaffold_acts_as_list/init.rb:5:in ... http://www.whizcreed.com/2007/11/25/active_scaffold_acts_as_list-issue-with-template_search_path/ I am working on a new Rails project these days and I was being asked to cache all the static pages displaying site's static content. All the content was coming from one controller but I went crazy about implementing page caching by using caches_page, what I wanted to do was ... http://www.whizcreed.com/2007/11/05/caching-all-the-pages-under-a-controller/ May be about a month ago I was talking with Sid about buying a cycle so that I could go to metro station on that. Actually metro station is quite near by from my house but still I am required to travel a little. It consumes a quite ... http://www.whizcreed.com/2007/11/01/dmrc-concerned-about-environment/   Download my presentation on Agile Project Management with Scrum Few months ago Manik suggested me to read about Scrum to see how we can implement it in our organization and prepare a presentation for everyone. I started reading book by Ken Schwaber called ‘Agile Project Management with Scrum’ based on which ... http://www.whizcreed.com/2007/10/03/now-i-know-what-scrum-actually-is/ I made this presentation for training in Vinsol when I recently started working there. This presentation helped the audiance get a basic understanding of XML and get a feel of what it is capable of doing. With the same objective I am sharing this presentation with everyone and I hope ... http://www.whizcreed.com/2007/10/02/extensible-markup-language/ Out of blues I thought of reading news paper today and was bit surprised to see that an advertisement which used to come on television of Amul undergarments is being taken of the air by I&B (Information and Broadcasting) ministry. They have stated the advertisement to be vulgar and indecent. ... http://www.whizcreed.com/2007/09/28/different-side-of-media-and-advertising/ Cost of taking something lightly can prove to be life of an innocent child is something I could have never imagined. While coming back from office I got down at Uttam Nagar East Metro station and noticed that there were few kids sliding on the slope built for escalator. ... http://www.whizcreed.com/2007/09/28/cost-of-being-ignorant-boy-dies-in-metro/ I am feeling really delighted to tell that I have won the Opera Travel Widget Contest with my entry Travel Mate. As a grand prize I will also be getting a Windows Mobile Phone from Opera soon. Major reasons for Travel Mate's success as specified by Opera were very positive user ... http://www.whizcreed.com/2007/09/28/good-news-i-won-opera-travel-widget-contest/ After several nights of hard work and research I proudly announce the release of Travel Mate. Travel Mate provides all the important information and tools that a traveler really looks for before leaving on any trip. Special care has been taken while designing the widget and while making it, so as to ... http://www.whizcreed.com/2007/09/28/travel-mate-now-ready-to-travel-with-you-2/ I am currently working at Vinsol (Vinayak Solutions Pvt. Ltd.) and I would like to share my experience that I had with my colleagues while developing Travel Mate. All of us work like a team and it was really enjoyable to talk with others and get their views, I can still ... http://www.whizcreed.com/2007/09/28/developed-at-vinsol-2/ I faced this problem while implementing Google maps in Travel Mate that is, if I would click on the map and try to drag it to view other areas on map it would move the entire widget. Seems like this is a property of widget that if we try to ... http://www.whizcreed.com/2007/09/28/problem-with-navigating-google-map-with-mouse/ There are times when I find my self powerless and helpless. There are boundaries around that I am not able to cross even when I am willing to. So much needs to be done and there are so many who are looking towards me as someone in a better position ... http://www.whizcreed.com/2007/09/28/trying-to-be-is-the-first-step-to-be/ My recent post talks about truth and now again I am writing about it. Yesterday I went to Church with a friend of mine and after that I went to his place. There we watched Da Vinci Code together and quite obviously it raised several questions in my mind. His father ... http://www.whizcreed.com/2007/09/28/truth-is-exclusive/