When will you consider yourself successful?

Do we still remember those who helped us in life?

Last week I was talking with one of my friend and he said to me. “Hey sijith, you have not called me for past 2 or 3 months, looks like you are very busy now days.” Even though he said this for fun, those words really took me on. It imposed me to think. How true. We have become so busy that we have forgotten those behind our success and the busy life we now enjoy. We don’t remember about those childhood friends who used to be with us always, who laughed when we laughed and cried when we cried. We don’t remember about those who gave us tips on how to learn and how to achieve success. We don’t remember about those who opened us the doors of opportunities and paved way to our success. We have completely forgotten them. Don’t know where they are, how they live. We only have our BUSY work to care.
Another incident also made me conscious of this. I called one of my old friends and when I was about to end the call, he said “Thanks for calling sijith”. I understood that getting in touch with your friends and relatives is something which will make them happy and something which makes us different from others.
Let me ask you this “List a few teachers who aided your journey through school”, “Name three friends who have helped you through a difficult time”, “Think of a few people who have made you feel appreciated and special”. Once the list is made, pick out those names that you call often or meet them often. I did this and found that I have only a very few names in my list. This exercise made me aware that unfortunately I am also among those who forget the people involved in our life success, and now I want to change.
Remembering the people involved is something we really lack in our life. Once we are settled in our life, we don’t care to think about those people without whose help, you would not be in the position we enjoy right now. Do you people think we should honor the hand extended to us during our life. Just imagine the immense happiness and sense of recognition they would get to hear our voice again. It may be a small thing for us, but this is really a big thing for them.
Life is a roller coaster life. We know that we are interdependent and can’t go forward without help and support from others. How small the help we get or how large the help we get, they have come to us at the time of a difficult situation, giving the necessary guidance and support towards achieving our dreams and goals. These people have been away from our life for a while now and I think it is time for us to bring them back. Take a letter pad and write few sentences and post them. Buy a greeting card and wish them. Take your cell phone and give them a call. Or start your car and ride to their home.
We all are preparing for the spring and summer breaks. We are in the middle of our final exams and submitting all our assignments and are eagerly looking forward for the holydays. We have lots of plans for the vacation. Why can we have one more plan? Make a list of all those people who have played both minor and major roles in our life and just give them a call, or give them a visit. I am sure this is something you can do very easily, but see the difference you make in others life. What ever we do to reinitiate the broken link between us and them, it is definitely going to open new doors of friendships, love and relationships in our life. I wish all my readers a happy spring break.

Apple iPhone

well, after all the media hypes, iPhone is available to public. iPhone has till date got good welcome from the customers.

The iPhone is a multimedia and Internet-enabled quad-band GSM EDGE-supported mobile phone designed and sold by Apple Inc.

The iPhone's functions include those of a camera phone and a multimedia player, in addition to text messaging and visual voicemail.
It also offers Internet services including e-mail, web browsing, and local Wi-Fi connectivity. User input is accomplished via a multi-touch screen with virtual keyboard and buttons.

But the price of the phone is still high : $500. and the carrier is only AT&T (There was a recent report that one hacking guy has found a way to use iPhone with other carriers as well).

PC world conducted a stress test on the iphone phone and it was very interesting to watch it

http://www.pcworld.com/video/id,545-page,1-bid,0/video.html

There are some nice and cool articles in PC world which discusses more on the features of iphone and give some good review on it

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,134515/article.html
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,134516/article.html

enjoy!!!1

My university reopened after the summer break

Hi all, my school reopened back after the summer break.

I feel really great to meet my friends and have my nice time in the college.....My university, univeristy of new haven, connecticut, has introduced lots of new innovative initiatives and this i am sure would be very helpful to the students....

There are many freshman in the school. I think they should be settled by now....

i am also keenly looking for my coming semester....

A small history of python language

Hi...since i am now working on python language, i thought i will learn a bit on the history of python language...

Python was designed by Guido van Rossum in 1991 (I recently read in an article that Guido is currently hired by google. Dont know when google will see my resume :) . Python was designed around a philosophy which emphasizes readability and the importance of programmer effort over computer effort. This is really true. I felt this when I did the development in python.

The language has lots of rich features. Python has similarities to Perl, Ruby, Scheme, Smalltalk, and Tcl.

Wikipedia has an excellent coverage of this programming language. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_%28programming_language%29

If you feel that python is not being used much and it is a waste to study this language, then beware... google is mainly running on c++, java and python. So now I think you all will be a bit more motivated to learn python language...

good...that is nice....so i wish u all good luck...

i will keep writing on python ...stay tuned

World of python programming language

I am now doing my summer internship in a company called ASML. It is a nice experience to me to work in a company with lot of good technical people. My assignment here is on python programming language. I haven't learned this language before. So I was a bit curious and quite interested on my new assignment.

Python turned out to be a very strong programming languages. Lots of good features. The data structures in python is excellent. Passing of variables and objects were very nice. I recently learned that google mainly uses C++, java and python for majority of their programming.
With this I got convinced that python is such a strong programming language.

Internship is going fine. Doing programming using Python and Tkinter. Good experience for me. Looking forward to complete the assignment in the best way possible to me

IT world - the world of magic

Hi, I was busy for some time due to my exams and now I am back.

Lots of things happening in the IT industry. Fight between google and microsoft (google offcourse leading the show). Last week, I was going through a book on developing application using GWT (Google window toolkit). GWT was announced by google in the javaOne conference held last year. I was virtually thrilled to complete the development using this tool kit.

You write the java code and GWT takes all the the pain to convert them to muti-browser compatible ajax code. Cool right.

Last night, I was trying to run the GWT application in the apache tomcat server running in my Red hat fedora 6 OS running in my laptop. I had some troubles getting it done, but it was a reallu nice experience. I would be posting the issues you can anticipate while doing this configuration and how to solve them.

OK then...get ready.. to learn and to share

Sijith

Yahoo! Bridges email, IM Divide

According to reports, Yahoo! has blended its free email and Instant Messaging (IM) services, thus making it simpler for users to chat online from any computer connected to the Internet. The company said that starting yesterday and continuing over the coming months, Yahoo! will activate this feature for users of the new version of Yahoo! Mail, which is in beta phase but available to all users of the service.

In a statement, John Kremer, Vice President, Yahoo! Mail, said that they are bringing the fun of instant messaging into the e-mail experience. It is about bringing to the masses choices on how they communicate. They are hopefully bridging the gap between email users and IM users, as there is still a chunk of Yahoo! Mail users who are not using IM.

According to Yahoo!, the new feature alerts Yahoo! Mail beta users if their contacts are logged on to Yahoo! Messenger and gives them the option of starting a text chat session from within the mail interface. And if the user is composing an email message but wants to chat instead, Yahoo! Mail can take the text and paste it into the text chat window. Similarly, the chat session can be automatically imported to an email message form.

First Look: Apple's iPhone - a Revelation

Apple's steve jobs introduced the most awaited iPhone in the MacWorld conference. The entire world is looking forward for this product. After the magical success of iPod, there is a very much excitement in the industry to see what steve jobs and his team is up with.

Well, one of the editors of the foxnews was able to get hands on experience on iPhone piece and he is excited on the product.

let us look what he has to say us on the product.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,243395,00.html

Top Stories of 2006

PC mag released a list of top stories they had for 2006. I think this should be an interesting on to you all.

For reading in detail, look at the below link

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2078287,00.asp

Sijith

2006 at a glance

Hi all

We saw a lot of IT trends and products in 2006. Google obvioiusly lead the game with apple following with their iPod music success.

2006 saw the release of much delayed vista operating system and office 2007 from microsoft. Microsoft launched the live services pack with some good features, but I am not whether they were able to keep up with innovation sparkled by google.

I expect a very good competition ahead for the 2007 and I wish all my users a happy new 2007.

Sijith

GATES VS. GOOGLE Search and Destroy

The fight between google and microsoft continues. Recently I read an interesting article on this, and I thought I would share them with you all. There has been talks that google be the next microsoft. The way google is moving forward gives the audience the same sign. That they are going to take on microsoft.

Last week I was watching a video of steve balmer being interviewed by ZDNet team. When he said his microsoft team is "innovating", the audience gave a big laugh. They know that when microsoft releases a product in 4 year, google does it each month.

Here is the article I read.

http://pipi68.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!7D93A15A5B18BFA!561.entry

Microsoft says it knows how to compete with Google

At the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Fla., Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer explains to Gartner analysts Dave Cearley and Tom Pittman that the software giant plans to compete with Google in the search market by delivering more value and relevance to users.

http://www.zdnetasia.com/itlibrary/webcasts/0,39044504,39283307,00.htm

The Best Ajax-Based Apps

Hi all

Today I was reading an article on top AJAX applications and I found it very interested.

Check the below link to browse the article

http://www.crn.com/sections/breakingnews/dailyarchives.jhtml?articleId=196603519

Sijith

Mozilla puts up alpha version of Firefox 3.0

Mozilla fans still starry-eyed from the recent release of Firefox 2.0 can already get a glimpse at what the next version of the browser will look like, as an alpha version of Firefox 3.0 has recently been uploaded to Mozilla's public FTP server.

According to the Mozilla Wiki entry about Firefox 3, several enhancements are in developmentfor the successor to Firefox, which was released less than two months ago. One new feature planned to be in the new browser is called "places", which takes a new approach to bookmarks and page history. Reportedly, these items will be transitioned to the left side of the browser, sort of like Internet Explorer 7.

Microsoft Betas Book Search ready by tomorrow

The Redmond, Wash.-based company announced that it will release the beta version of its Live Search Books application tomorrow.

This is an important part of the company's strategy to turn its Windows Live platform, which it just took out of beta in the last few days, into a hub of experiences that create customer loyalty, thereby driving incremental advertising revenue gains.

Currently, Live Book Search returns queries on books that are no longer protected by copyright.

Next year, it will include books that are currently under copyright protection as well.

That, Microsoft hopes, will make its users come back more often.

Leopard OS from Apple

Apple is working on to release MAC OS X leopard operating system.

To know more on this OS, please visit the below web link

http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/index.html

I am sure you all will enjoy the snapshots of this OS.

Google to end fee service for answering questions

Hi all

Google is shutting down Google Answers, a service that lets users pose questions to a panel of researchers and pay for useful answers.

The service, about four years old, failed to gain much traction with users, especially when compared with a rival service offered by Yahoo, which is free.

Google Answers never generated much traffic or revenue for Google, said Danny Sullivan, editor of the online publication Search Engine Watch.

"Yahoo has an answers product that works," he said. Because Google Answers required users to pay, he said, it "could not have been that product." Sullivan noted that unlike Yahoo, Google had not promoted its service very much.

Microsoft Launches Vista

Hi all

Today microsoft launched their much awaited operated system. Windows Vista .
It is since 5 years that microsoft has come up with another operating. Windows XP was their previous desktop OS.

Microsoft will spend hundreds of millions of dollars to market its new versions of windows and Office and plans to release more than 30 additional business products in the next year that piggyback on their technology, CEO Steve Ballmer said todayin New York.

For more details,

http://www.informationweek.com/industries/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196600601

Symantec Vista security advances despite Patchguard

Symantec has released a public beta of its Norton Internet Security 2007 and Norton AntiVirus 2007 suites for Microsoft's forthcoming Windows Vista operating system.

While the software supports both 32 and 64-bit versions of the operating system, Symantec stressed that it still requires access to Microsoft's Patchguard security technology that is built into the 64-bit version of the operating system.

Security vendors including McAfee and Symantec have been pressing Microsoft to cooperate and have lobbied the European Commission and Korean government to force the Redmond firm to open up its kernel.

The PatchGuard technology blocks access to the Vista kernel, blocking security technologies that rely on behavioural profiling as well as anti-tampering features that verify a system is running anti-virus software and a firewall.