zoo zoos – Vodaphone ad

The new Vodaphone ads are interesting.  I came to know that they are not animated characters, they are real people wearing the mask.  Cool ad but I don’t think they can replace the popularity of Hutch dog.

http://www.apnacenter.com/?p=2135

Akshya Patra

Last week we visited of Akshaya Patra Foundation near Pattancheru, Hyderabad.  The foundation prepares and serves Mid-day meals to government schools. 

Typically Mid-day meals for the govt school children's are prepared at the school campus.  Most of the time it will not be tasty and not hygienic too.

The Akshaya Patra Foundation prepares the food in central location with modern technologies and distributes to the schools which around are 100 KM surrounding.

The highlights are

• Additional fund added to the govt allotted fund to make the program successful.
• Modern cooking - Pressure based cooking.  Rice for 25,0000 children prepared in 20 minutes.
• Nutrition and Taste are given priority.
• Automated cooking process confirms the hygiene.

The foundation is part of Hare Rama Hare Krishna (ISKCON) the donations are tax exempted.

Think before vote

It is an election time in India.  The 15th parliament election of India is most modernized and take the advantages of electronic media.  The Lokshabha site is so informative and provide the questions and discussions happened in the house.  You can at least realize the wide spectrum of issues and the size of democratic system.

Each party is putting effort and making their party attracts youth.  Check out the sites of BJP, Congress, Communist, Marxist.  I really like the congress site, which connects each individual details some of the members have their own site.  They listed the questions they asked and their role in the house.

As an Indian we must look all these info before voting.  Democracy will be successful only by participation.

Jai hind!

Amazing Innovation

How cool it would be when you look for a product in a store, your sixth send searches Google and presents you the information you are looking for.  The innovation done by Pranav Mistry from MIT Media Lab is one such think.  It is called wearable gestural interface.

Check out the link you will like it.

http://www.pranavmistry.com/projects/sixthsense/

Could you get me a job in IT?

It becomes usual when go to my home town, my friends or neighbor coming to my home to refer their friends or relative for an IT job, and asking my help to get them a job. In IT we cannot get a job for other until otherwise the person is ready to prove himself.

Usually I suggest the following

Target: Make your career aspiration align to your resume. If you looking for a .Net developer role make sure all the details in your resume align to that, if you have connect which is not align to that remove it. If you are not sure about your role, build the role based on your existing knowledge. Don’t put all your skill and the employer to choose the role for you.

Aim: Prepare a clear resume

• Prepare similar font and size in all pages.
• Use Verdana or Arial font and size 11
• Make sure the resume is short and right to the point
• Highlight the strong skills with bold
• In work experience section talk about your role rather than about the project and company

Fine tune: Build your knowledge and prepare well for the interviews. Attend as many interviews you can and write down the discussions of each interview and improve on it. Find the answers of those questions that you could not able to answer in the interview.

Act as if you are in job: Even if you don’t have experience, put yourself as an experienced person and try to answer the interview question with real world examples. When you study the concepts you have to correlate with real time situations.

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It is also true that some of my friends keep complaining about their existing job and role, in such cases our discussion leads to the following

• We need to be clear with our ambition and path; the project we work should not determine our career path.
• Try to make sure our career ambition and the project we work are align, if not plan your time to work on path and plan ahead to change the track.
• As the experience count increases, the expectation will be increased. Make sure that we are aligning with industry expectation.
• Each project is unique and has its own issues, try to isolate the project issues and career. Dedicate time for career growth.

Windows Live Writer

Windows Live Writer is an interesting tool to write and update blog entries.  It makes the blog entry extremely simple.  You can keep the history, connect to multiple blog site. It provide the edit screen with same template of your blog site.

Including Pictures, Hyperlink and Videos in your blog will be simple using Write.

Download the tool and start blogging.

Auxiliary numbers table - MSSQL Technique

Auxiliary numbers table is a T-SQL technique. It uses a simple table (say num) with one column with a sequence of numbers. Using the num table we can avoid loop structres

http://sqlserver2000.databases.aspfaq.com