Infosys Vs MorgaStanley

Bit tough to answer this question. It is also incomparable sometimes. These are all with respect to my context and my opinion.

• ------- Infosys ----------- Morgan Stanley

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1. Pay ------- Less-----------More
2. Relocation- No relocation---amount Rs.80,000
3. Location--- Bangalore-------Mumbai
4. Work------ Same at IITM--Finance domain/Technologies

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I have chosen the last points as advantage to me and joined Infosys.

Its been a month that I joined SETLabs, Infosys, Bangalore as a Junior Research Associate. Rush starts at 6AM and ends at 7PM daily on week days. Weekends going either to native or to IITM. It took a month to get the formalities done at IITMadras and I am still waiting for the relieving letter. Things are quite settled now and I am planning to settle myself. Our mind always thinks ahead of us and looks for what it wants, even though they may not be satisfied practically..... The following question is unanswered till now.. "Joining Infosys leaving MorganStanely".

That was my stupidity to say eureka in the last post. Some things are worthless if they end normally or so easily. Lets come to point, who is responsible for what, I guess everyone....It should be otherwise....we cant keep blaming others..before that we should blame ourself.............confused.............Hmmm this is what I wanted you to be.................... :).

Eurekaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Do you know why people say Eureka? when they are in high spirits. I am done here..........I am happy .............

Things are not as they shoould be :)

At least few of them I have complete from the list I have given here. Rough draft of the thesis is out. Work is communicated to one conference and one journal. Now all set me to relieve from the institute, which is not easy though. One more meeting is still pending. Got some other offer (which I have not mentioned any where in the blog) apart from Morgan Stanley. I was fixed to choose one from the other, but again in dilemma which one to opt. Other thing, I have committed myself to some other work whose results are unpredicted for the next one month. Hoping to get done things in smooth fashion without any risks.

Domain Hacks

Have ever tried the following web sites?

1. http://del.icio.us
2. http://blo.gs
3. http://doma.in/
4. http://einste.in/
5. http://adm.in/
6. http://fami.ly/
7. http://the.unique.name/
   

8. Vis.as

9. http://3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592.com/

and even the following mail-ids?

1. d@v.id
2. j@m.es
3. w@y.ne
4. eg.ch@irman.net

They are called domain and email hacks respectively.

Try your hands at http://xona.com/domainhacks/suggest/ (Domain Hacks) to find your name as domain without top level domains. Look at this also http://websear.ch/

There are Perfect domain hacks like http://del.cio.us and minor domain hacks like http://dr.phil.com/ (Dr. Phil) or http://j.ames.com/ (James)

Isn't funny..............

ABC of AJAX

AJAX stands for Asynchronous JavaScript And XML.

AJAX is a type of programming made popular in 2005 by Google (with Google Suggest).

AJAX is not a new programming language, but a new way to use existing standards.

With AJAX you can create better, faster, and more user-friendly web applications.

AJAX is based on JavaScript and HTTP requests.

Look at the AJAX examples:

1. http://www.google.com/ig
2. http://www.pageflakes.com/
3. http://www.netvibes.com/
4. http://www.protopage.com/
5. http://www.webwag.com/
6. http://www.live.com/

Had flavor of AJAX ?

RSS - What is all the Fuss About?

RSS Stands for Really Simple Syndication. It is used for the specific purpose or conveying information that a website or blog has been updated. It is a standard for publishing regular updates to web-based content. And for the technical, RSS is a Syndication Standard based on a type of XML file that resides on an Internet server. It answers the question "What's New?" for a website or blog.

We can find RSS feeds on almost every website that is updated very frequently. The following logo is almost standard to indicate RSS feed.

Here is a Perl Module to create, read RSS feeds.

For Web masters

You can create RSS feeds for your websites in simple way. You can do it either automatically by a program or manually creating adhering to RSS file format.
More information can be found at the following links:

1. http://www.rss-specifications.com/steps-create-rss.htm
2. http://www.rapidfeeds.com/
3. http://www.feedyes.com

Test your RSS against a validator to make sure it's well-formed XML.

• Feed Validator for RSS and Atom
• RSS Validator (UserLand)
• Experimental Online RSS 1.0 Validator

For the End User

If you are an end user, and wants to read the RSS feed available on the net, you can do it so by using feed reader. Feed readers can be either web based or stand alone applications. The following are the webbased applications to read RSS feeds.

• Bloglines - Specializing in blogs, naturally
• Fyuze - Sign up and see what's new on your favorite sites
• Google Reader
• Gregarius
• My Yahoo - Lets you add RSS feeds to your custom page
• News Is Free - Register and make a customized page of feeds
• Rocket RSS Reader (RocketNews)

The following are the standalone applications that can run on your desktop

• Aggie
• Ampheta Desk - Puts feeds in your browser
• Awasu - My favorite, so far
• Feed Demon
• Feed Reader
• Headline Viewer
• News Gator - Integrates with Microsoft Outlook
• Newzcrawler
• Radio UserLand
• Syndirella
• Wildgrape NewsDesk

Ok lets not get into the geeky world of downloading installing ..blah..blah......blah....So you are a naive user......you can find sites that aggregates the RSS feeds from different sites in different categories..............You can search for desired RSS feeds in the following websites.

• http://www.feedster.com/
• http://www.newsonfeeds.com/faq/aggregators
  
• http://www.rssmicro.com/
• http://www.syndic8.com/
• http://www.search4rss.com/
• http://www.plazoo.com/

What to do?

Bugging thoughts in mind?
Alone cant do anything?
Cant easily become part of some group?
Still want to achieve goals?
I know the outcomings.
Wht shld I do now?

ABC of Web 2.0

Buzz word of geeks in the modern era of technology. I happened to read book on web2.0 while downloading e-Book. It is not a single technology like .NET or Java. It is collection of technologies to give a beautiful look to Web and be able to create rich applications. The following are the three layers that constitute the Web2.0

1. Social Layer
   
2. Architectural Layer
3. Technical Layer

1. Socal Layer: The social layer of Web 2.0 is about making the Web a read/write web again. For some, this goal is motivated by philanthropic or political reasons: everyone should be able to express his or her ideas. For others, the motivation is financial: if the growth of the number of web readers is deemed to slow down, the growth of the Web can only be fueled by the growth of the number of people that create content on the Web. The business models of Web 2.0 sites differ on the way to convert content into actual revenues, but they share the fact that their content is created by their users, and this is the most distinctive characteristic of a Web 2.0 site.
2. Architectural Layer: The ability of using the Web as a platform can be seen as the architectural layer of web2.0. This is the consequence of the Social Layer; if you want to give write access to all your users you can’t rely on anything that isn’t installed (or installable) on any platform they might be using. That limits the prerequisite for Web 2.0 applications to a relatively recent version of a web browser. Furthermore, due to most needed security constraints, web applications have very limited access to files and data stored ontheir users’ computers. That means that Web 2.0 applications have not much alternative to considering that the platform on which they run is the Web! This has made Web2.0 to deliver everything throught browser (Web). Examples of them are Google Docs, Live Office, YouOS etc...
3. Technical Layer: This layer of web2.0 decides the richness of your application on the web. This layer mainly consists of three parts. First thing is about client side programming, nothing but the browser where most of your web applications are visible. The second part is nothing but the underlying protocols that makes it possible to communicate with the others on the web. The third part is the server side processing, ultiamately this is where client requests are processed :). HTML, XHTML, DHTML, CSS, Javascript and AJAX constitute first part of the technical layer in web2.0. SOAP, REST, HTTP-PUT are second part of technical layer. Creating webservices, mashups, serving XML over HTTP etc constitute third part of technical layer of web2.0.

This is just an overview of what I understood about Web2.0.