“When Sachin Tendulkar travelled to Pakistan to face one of the finest bowling attacks ever assembled in cricket, Michael Schumacher was yet to race a F1 car, Lance Armstrong had never been to the Tour de France, Diego Maradona was still the captain of a world champion Argentina team, Pete Sampras had never won a Grand Slam.

When Tendulkar embarked on a glorious career taming Imran and company, Roger Federer was a name unheard of; Lionel Messi was in his nappies, Usain Bolt was an unknown kid in the Jamaican backwaters. The Berlin Wall was still intact, USSR was one big, big country, Dr Manmohan Singh was yet to “open” the Nehruvian economy.

It seems while Time was having his toll on every individual on the face of this planet, he excused one man. Time stands frozen in front of Sachin Tendulkar. We have had champions, we have had legends, but we have never had a Sachin Tendulkar and we never will.”
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How Many Ways Can You Say Goodbye to a Job?

As talk of a thaw in hiring freezes rises above a whisper, many people are
already planning to look for a new position when the job market picks up.

It might be tempting to give the boss an earful if you land a new job in the
coming months. But the way you quit can have a long term impact on your
career. How to resign on good terms:

Be prepared. Review your employee handbook or employment contract before
announcing your decision, so you know what company policy is regarding
resignations, severance, the return of company property and pay for unused
vacation time. Also, find out the company’s reference policy to see what
information will be disclosed to a prospective employer. If you have another
job lined up, be sure to have your offer in writing before you resign.

Use it or lose it. If you haven’t used your vacation time and will lose it
if you quit, you might want to use your time before leaving or link it to
your resignation date. States like California consider accrued vacation time
to be part of wages and must be paid upon resignation or termination says
employment attorney Michael J. Goldfarb, president of Northridge
Calif.-based Holman HR. But if you don’t want to burn any bridges, don’t
take vacation and announce your departure just after you return.

Make an appointment. “Be formal and make an appointment with your boss,”
recommends Tanya Maslach, a San Diego, Calif., career expert who specializes
in relationship management issues. “Prepare what you want to say. Be direct
and engaging-and be transparent,” Ms. Maslach says. She also recommends
offering to help make the transition easier; ask your boss how you can best
do that. After the discussion, put your resignation in a hard-copy letter
that includes your last day and any transitional help you’ve offered. Keep a
copy. Two weeks advance notice is still standard but experts recommend
offering more time if you’ve worked at the company for more than five years.
You also need to be prepared to leave right away-some companies require it.

Don’t take the stapler. “It’s not worth it,” says Mr. Goldfarb. “If there
are security cameras or coworkers with a grudge, stealing from the company
doesn’t look good.” In some cases, you could also end up getting billed for
the missing equipment-or even taken to court, he says.

Scrub your digital footprint. Clear your browser cache, remove passwords
to Web sites you use from work, such as your personal email or online bank
account and delete any personal files on your work computer that aren’t
relevant to work. Don’t delete anything work related if you’re required to
keep it.

Be honest but remain positive. Be helpful during the exit interview but
keep responses simple and professional. Don’t use the session to lay blame
or rant about coworkers, bosses or the workplace. “Whatever you do, don’t
confess about how much you disliked working there,” says Ms. Maslach. “If
you want to leave a helpful bit of advice or opinion, consider offering your
expertise to your soon-to-be ex-boss … offer to be available to them for
advice when they get in a rut.”

Stay close. Consider joining an employee alumni association, which often
serves as a networking group for former employees. It can be a good way to
keep up with changes in the company and industry-and find leads to new jobs
down the road. Keep in touch with coworkers you worked closely with; they
may end up in management roles.

Health:

1.    Drink plenty of water
2.    Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a beggar
3.    Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants, and eat less  food that is manufactured in plants
4.    Live with the 3 E’s — Energy,  Enthusiasm, and Empathy
5.    Make time for prayer
6.    Play more games
7.    Read more books than you did in 2009
8.    Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day
9.    Sleep for 7 hours
10.  Take a 10-30 minutes walk every day —- and while you walk,  smile

Personality:

11.  Don’t compare your life to others’. You have no idea what  their journey is all about.
12.  Don’t have negative thoughts or things you cannot control.
Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment.
13.  Don’t over do ; keep your limits
14.  Don’t take yourself so seriously ; no one else does
15.  Don’t waste your precious energy on gossip
16.  Dream more while you are awake
17.  Envy is a waste of time.  You already have all you need..
18.  Forget issues of the past. Don’t remind your partner with  his/her mistakes of the past.
That will ruin your present happiness.
19.  Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. Don’t hate  others.
20.  Make peace with your past so it won’t spoil the present
21.  No one is in charge of your happiness except you
22.  Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn.
Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away
like algebra class but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime.
23.  Smile and laugh more
24.  You don’t have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.

Community:

25.  Call your family often
26.  Each day give something good to others
27.  Forgive everyone for everything
28.  Spend time with people over the age of 70 & under the  age of 6
29.  Try to make at least three people smile each day
30.  What other people think of you is none of your business
31.  Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick. Your family and friends will. Stay in touch.

Life:

32.  Do the right things
33.  Get rid of anything that isn’t useful, beautiful or joyful
34.  GOD heals everything
35.  However good or bad a situation is, it will change
36.  No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up
37.  The best is yet to come
38.  When you awake alive in the morning, thank GOD for it
39.  Your Inner most is always happy. So, be happy.

Last but not the least :

40.  Do forward this to everyone you care about.

// Methods
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{
// This method is used to get directories (from disks, or from other directories)
//Clear the TreeView each time the method is called.

treeView1.BeginUpdate();
iDirectories = 0;

try
{
DirectoryInfo diRoot;

// If drive, get directories from drives
if (tnSubNode.SelectedImageIndex < 11)
{
diRoot = new DirectoryInfo(tnSubNode.FullPath + “\\”);
}

//  Else, get directories from directories
else
{
diRoot = new DirectoryInfo(tnSubNode.FullPath);
}
DirectoryInfo[] dirs = diRoot.GetDirectories();

// Must clear this first, else the directories will get duplicated in treeview
tnSubNode.Nodes.Clear();

// Add the sub directories to the treeView1
foreach (DirectoryInfo dir in dirs)
{
iDirectories++;
TreeNode subNode = new TreeNode(dir.Name);
subNode.ImageIndex = 11;
subNode.SelectedImageIndex = 12;
tnSubNode.Nodes.Add(subNode);
}

}
// Throw Exception when accessing directory: C:\System Volume Information     // do nothing
catch { ;    }

treeView1.EndUpdate();
}

private void AddFiles(string strPath)
{
listView1.BeginUpdate();

listView1.Items.Clear();
iFiles = 0;
try
{
DirectoryInfo di = new DirectoryInfo(strPath + “\\”);
FileInfo[] theFiles = di.GetFiles();
foreach (FileInfo theFile in theFiles)
{
iFiles++;
ListViewItem lvItem = new ListViewItem(theFile.Name);
lvItem.SubItems.Add(theFile.Length.ToString());
lvItem.SubItems.Add(theFile.LastWriteTime.ToShortDateString());
lvItem.SubItems.Add(theFile.LastWriteTime.ToShortTimeString());
listView1.Items.Add(lvItem);
}
}
catch (Exception Exc) { MessageBox.Show(form.statusStrip1.Text = Exc.ToString(); }

listView1.EndUpdate();
}

Here is the link for the steps for removing left hand side navigation bar from iGoogle:

http://stever.ca/internet/new-igoogle-navigation-sucks/

OR

http://www.timedyn.com/igoogletabremover.htm

I purchased Swift DZire (VXi) last week; I don’t have four wheeler driving license yet so I decided to apply for Learner’s license.

First I called agent to know the charges and I am shocked after listening agent charges, he told me 200 Rs. for learners license and 900 Rs. for permanent license, at the same moment I decided to apply for license on my own.

So I started investigating on net and found few useful information and links.

RTO Pune website

In further investigation I found that there is facility for filling Learner’s license form online and in the same form you can schedule a date for written test also.

Online application

The best part I found is RTO office is closed on Second and Fourth Saturday only, so I booked my written test on third saturday.

Hope this information is helpful for you, wish me good luck for my written test

There is a need in my project to generate XML file using Typed dataset and XSD. XSD is nothing but XML Schema Definition.

For adding dataset in C# project, right click on project click on Add New Item and select dataset.

For adding columns and tables in the XSD file, open it in designer view right click on the file and select the appropriate context menu. Second option available is you can simply Drag & Drop database table on XSD.

Once you are ready with the XSD, code for dataset manipulation goes as follows:

EmployeeDS ds = new EmployeeDS();
DataTable table = ds.Tables["EmployeeDS"];

///programmatically adding tables and columns

/*DataTable table = ds.Tables.Add(“Employee”);
table.Columns.Add(“Employee Name”, Type.GetType(“System.String”));
table.Columns.Add(“Employee Description”, Type.GetType(“System.String”));
table.Columns.Add(“Salary”, Type.GetType(“System.String”));
table.Columns.Add(“Phone”, Type.GetType(“System.String”));
table.Columns.Add(“Address”, Type.GetType(“System.String”));*/

/// Another way of accessing user control
//(theUserControl as usrcntrlNewEmployee)

DataRow row;
row = table.NewRow();
row["EmployeeName"] = ((usrcntrlNewEmployee)theUserControl).EmployeeNAME;
row["EmployeeDescription"] = ((usrcntrlNewEmployee)theUserControl).EmployeeDESCRIPTION;
row["Salary"] = ((usrcntrlNewEmployee)theUserControl).Salary;
row["Phone"] = ((usrcntrlNewEmployee)theUserControl).Phone;
row["Address"] = ((usrcntrlNewEmployee)theUserControl).Address;

table.Rows.Add(row);

/// Writting string to buffer
//Dim sw As New System.IO.StringWriter
//ds.WriteXml(sw);

ds.WriteXml(“C:\\Prashant\\Employee.xml”);

As simple as that

Reference:
Typed Dataset & XSD

Few Relations In Earth Never Die, typical SMS definition

Friend a warm rug in a freezing night, too romantic anyway let the definition apart, today I started counting my friends and found that there are too many to whom I hadn’t contacted since too long. So I decided to list down all my friends from my childhood and here they are, true Gems in my life…

# Kanga Colony (1992 – 2007)

- Shantanu Chavan.
- Jaideep Deshmukh.
- Vishal Gadekar.
- Priti Gadekar.
- Harshad Kadam.
- Sonali Sankpal.
- Rupali Sankpal.
- Kiran Sankpal.
- Abhijit Sankpal.
- Vivek More.
- Shantanu Shukla.
- Sumedh Pethkar.
- Aditya Kulkarni.
- Rashmi Kulkarni.
- Hashad Ransubhe.
- Sonali Ransubhe.
- Nikhil Nanal.
- Mahesh Karve.

Playing Cricket and celebrating all festival with them was real fun and I am really missing Kanga activities and Hawk’s gang

# School Days (Anant English School, pass out batch 1995)

- Hemant Gurav.
- Pranav Bhojane.
- Abhijit Divekar.
- Sujit Kadam.
- Madhusudan Walimbe.
- Revati Deshpande.
- Amit Kulkarni.
- Mandar Joshi.
- Dipti Kulkarni.
- Amol Zankar.
- Sagar Khurd.
- Pallavi Katdare.
- Amita Wathare.
- Ketki Parundekar.
- Sheetal Sumant.

# College Days (Y.C.I.S., pass out batch 1997)

- Priyadarshan Wagh.
- Bhushan Godbole.

# BCS and MCS (Modern College, pass out batch 2003 and 2005)

- Kamalkishor Garg.
- Abhijit Fulambrikar.
- Vivek Shinde.
- Charudatta Kudalkar.
- Chandrashekhar Deshpande.

# Room mates

- Suhas Sathe.
- Suhas Jedhe.
- Jayandra Desai.
- Harshal Mistri.
- Santosh Wadikar.
- Raj Patil.
- Kedar Jagtap.
- Amit Salunkhe.
- Shailesh Sabale.
- Tushar Sabale.
- Shailesh Dandane.
- Sunil Kawale.

# Educe Solutions Pvt. Ltd. (Aug 2003 – Jan 2004)

- Sachin Agarwal.
- Samjad Ahemad.
- Amit Kulkarni.
- Sharayu Gorewar.
- Archana Kaul.
- Gauri Aragade.
- Ketki Sathe.
- Rucha Sathe.
- Nivedita Kshirsagar.
- Rupali Nigam.

# Q-Soft (Jan 2003 – Jun 2003 & Jan 2004 – Jun 2006)

- Abhinandan Shete.
- Amit Borkar.
- Benu Varghese.
- Somesh Bartakke.
- Benny Varghese.
- Ayub Pathan (sir).
- Anil Raskar (sir).
- Prasad Mete.
- Manish Baruah.
- Mohan Badgujar.
- Rajesh Bahushetty.
- Dipti Bahushetty.
- Sujata Kulkarni.
- Suraj Somwanshi.
- Anil Deshmukh (sir).
- Pravin Nalavade (sir).
- Sunil Dingane (sir).
- Pratap Thorat.
- Swapnil Dagade.
- Sachin Pisal.
- Sandip Pisal.
- Sunil Dalavi.
- Rajiv Naik (sir).

# e-Zest (Jul 2006 – May 2007)

- Ranjit Salunkhe.
- Vishal Parbat.
- Pallavi Kakar.
- Sujata Paste.
- Manjusha Patil.
- Priti Lohogaonkar.
- Makarand Kurkute.
- Roselin Marian.
- Mrunal Tembhurnikar.
- Swati Shinde.
- Saket Kumar.

In e-Zest our gang popularly known as Shashi’s and I enjoyed best time in my life with e-Zest.

# WhiteHedge (May 2007 – Sept 2009)

- Mohini Kurpe.
- Neha Shaikh.
- Sunil Gondchar.
- Komal Patel.
- Parag Deshpande.
- Prajakta Thete.
- Manjiri Kulkarni.
- Yogini Mahadik.
- Pankaj Marulkar.
- Sujit Rajhuns.
- Aniruddha Dasare.
- Madhuri Gokhale.
- Gauri Vaidya.
- Amol Kokane.
- Sachin Samant.
- Shripad Shinde.

# Friend’s Friend

Ravindra Mahangre, Tushar Kulkarni, Yogesh Kulkarni, Yogesh Satpute.

All these nice peoples touched my life and became part of my life.

Next task for me is to collect contact information of all these friends and to be in touch.

Thank you all for being always there…

In the last week I saw Amir Khan’s latest movie “3 Idiots” based on Chetan Bhagat’s book “5 point someone”, movie is typical Amir Khan movie with perfect mixture of Fun, Drama and Emotions, my rating for the film is 4 out of 5. The most entertaining part of the film (I fill) is Chatur’s speech, here it is as is:

Chatur from 3 Idiots…..Hahahahaaaaaaa

Adarniya sabhapati mahodaya …atithi vishesh shikshan mantri shri R D tripati [tripathi] ji ..maanyaniya shikshagan aur mere piyaaare [pyare] sahpatiyo [sahapathiyon] …aaj agar I.C.E aasmaan ki bulaaandiyo [bulandiyon] ko chhu raahaa [raha] hai ..to uska shreya sirrf [sirf] ekinsaan [ek insaan] ko jaataahai [jata hai] shri veerusahastra buddhe ..give him a a big hand ..he is a great guy really ..

Peechle buttis saal se inhone nirantar is college mein balatkar [balaatkaar ] pe balatkar kiye ..umeed hai aagey bee [bhi] karte rahege [rahenge] ..hamine to aashcharya hota hai ki ek insaan apne jeevan kaal mein itni balatkar kaisi kar sakta hai …inhone kadi tapaasya se apne aapko is kaabil bunaya [banaya] hai ..waqt ka sahi upyog ghante ka purna istemaal koi inse seeke [seekhe] ..seeke inse seeke ….aaj hum sab chaatra yaha hai ..kal desh videsh mein fail [faael] jayenge ..waadaa hai aapse jis desh mein honge waha balatkar karenge I.C.E ka naam roshan karenge …dika [dikha] denge sabko jo balatkar Karne ki shamtaa yaha ke chaatro mein hai wo sansaar ke kisi chaatro mein nahiii ….No other chaatra No other chaatra

Adarniya mantraji namashkar aapne is sansthaan ko wo chees di jiski hamein sakht zaroorat thi …sstunn ..stunn hota sabi [sab hi] ke paas hai ..sab chupa ke rakte hai ..detaa koi nai …aapne apna stun is balatkari purush ke haat mein diya hai…ab dekiye yeh kaisa iska upyog karta hai..

Sloke…..

Utamamm dadh dhadhattt padam……..
madhyam padam thuchuk thuchuk……..
khanishtham thudthudiiiy padam……..
sursuria pran khatkam..!!!!

Keep smiling and Enjoy 2010

As always, new resolution for the year but this time something interesting and helpful to my blog readers also.

From this year I am planning to post a blog on day to day learning and you can read the posts daily on my blog under category “What I Learned Today?”

Please don’t expect technical stuff each time but the purpose behind these write up’s are to share day to day learning with you all beautiful peoples. So keep reading.

Any suggestions / corrections are always welcome.