Patna Marathon 2012

Bihar is rising and to showcase this phenomenon we are organizing Patna Marathon 2012. This event will be held in Patna on 26th Feb 2012. It is being organized by several NRBs(Non-Resident Biharis) from across the world with the help of several NGOs like Bihar Society, Karma Society and individual volunteers. This event will bring Bihar to the worldmap of growth and show the unlimited potential in Bihar and its people. More details are available at its website: wwww.patnamarathon.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/groups/patnamarathon/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/patnamarathon We invite you to be a part of this event by funding, volunteering, sharing your ideas! We also invite companies, NGOs to sponsor or partner with Patna Marathon!

About Bootstrap - Twitter's new HTML, CSS magic

Twitter launched a new toolkit for HTML and CSS layout - Bootstrap and so far, it's amazing! More info about Bootstrap at Github page: http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/ Take a look at this HTML page with almost insignificant CSS:

After inserting Bootstrap CSS, it looks like this(with better page layout): Magic, huh?

Diwali Mela 2011 in Jersey City, NJ, USA

Enjoy these links to see Diwali Mela 2011 in Jersey City, NJ, USA: http://youtu.be/m2rjeci__kg http://youtu.be/pFlFoCPnvdA http://youtu.be/YktbOGAAYxc

NYC4ANNA movement in Times Square, NY

We couple of volunteers organized NYC4ANNA event in Times square, NYC on 9th Apr 2011 from 12-3pm. We rose to show our silent solidarity to Anna Hazare who was doing fast to protest against corruption rampant in India. There were some 400 people gathered to support and sign the petition against corruption.

Some media people covered our events and one such link to coverage of this event is at Rediff: http://www.rediff.com/news/slide-show/slide-show-1-harzares-anti-corruption-wave-sweeps-new-york/20110412.htm. It was successful event with a lot of Indian people talking about corruption and showing banners to support Anna and remove corruption.

Link to video of our event: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGbNIzR3nGA .

I ask everyone to stand against corruption in India, whether it is done by some bureaucrat or any politician. If we have to make India free of corruption then we have to start at our home. We have to promise ourselves that we will rise to the occasion and free our country of corruption.

We are World Cup Cricket Champions..2011!!

It's celebration time in India and everywhere for Indians!! We have won ICC cricket world cup 2011 and with a thumping victory over Sri Lanka in Final match on 2nd Apr 2011. Its the proudest moment for all of us as India has won this cup after a gap of 28 years..long time..

This victory has again proved that perseverance and hard work always pays..we have a amazing cricket team with Dhoni at its helm. Including Sachin, known as God of the cricketing world!! He has smashed or created new ODI and test cricket recrords..and he speaks with his bat..and I guess other team members have also learned this unique technique from him..

Critics should always be silenced by your hard work not by your words..as always, work is more powerful than words!! Kudos to Indian cricket team, who gave us a chance to celebrate any victory in a long time!!

Happy Bihar Day!!

Happy Bihar Day to every Bihari!!

I celebrated Bihar Day last weekend on Sunday with some of my Bihar Society friends..watched some online videos of Bihar Day celebrations at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/bihar-divas.

Webdriver - Automated testing tool

Last week, I attended a seminar on Webdriver in Google New York office. It was presented by Simon Stewart on wednesday, March 16th 2011. Webdriver is an automation tool used to test codes written in Java, Python. It does not support PHP, which was a disappointment.

Webdriver is based on Selenium 2 with better GUI and features. More on Selenium at selenium.googlecode.com.

PHP NY Unit Testing seminar slides - Jan 25,2011

Check out this SlideShare Presentation:

Clean code

View more presentations from Bulat Shakirzyanov.

Snow pics- NYC - 26th Jan 2011

Bihar and Andriod Phones

Today I read an interesting news which re-affirmed my faith in Nitish Kumar. This is about (Link: http://www.zeenews.com/news680910.html) Bihar road construction department using Android phones to monitor the progress of road making. Bihar, once said, can not change. But people of Bihar, led by great leader Nitish Kumar has shown that not only Bihari can change but also make use of new and advanced technology in infrastructure development. Kudos to Nitish Govt.!!

New York & Bihar

Very snowy night yesterday..Jersey city got almost a feet of snow..trains are late and so, I worked from home. Better to stay home warm than travel for an hour or two commuting in this cold weather to New York City..

Read a very inspiring story about use of Husk technology for electricity generation going on in Bihar(Link - http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/in-bihar-turning-rice-husk-into-electricity-78639). Bihar really needs such kind of cheap and useful technology. Millions of people still live in darkness in 21st century. Nitish govt. is doing what it can. But I suppose time has come for educated people like the one in the article to do something for Bihar.

Thousands of business, IT people from Bihar are all over India and world, who can contribute so much for the upliftment of the poor people. I, myself, have a lot of plans about doing business in Bihar. Lets hope I implement them in near future because Bihar needs us!

3 years at DL

This month I completed 3 yrs in Dynamic Logic. Long time..feeling better as this is goes into my resume. About these years, started by learning from scratch..and I feel like I still need to learn a lot. Life is like that too..you never stop learning. I remember, when I was a kid, I used to think about why people need to learn even after having a job. But I get it now..it is a continuous process that makes you what you really want to be. It is a never ending journey.

Today, in NY everybody is scared about winter storm that is predicted to put upto a feet of snow. Like last Christmas weekend snow storm, this is going to be another big storm and may cancel trains, buses etc. Bad day for commuters like me. But, on the bright side, I may get to work from home, if this goes really bad.

My wife is in India, enjoying her stay with close ones..but I miss her!

Today, I have decided that I will devote more time learning PHP and some testing automation tools this year..kind of this year's resolution..lets see if I can keep it!