My Wishlist...

› to modify my mobile's UI the way i want...
› to work at office which is just at 10 mins walkable distance...
›

Laxmi Golden Temple Timings: 8am to 8pm

We visited Sripuram over the last weekend and reached there at 8.10pm and found that temple was closed at 8pm, due to this we changed our trip plan and stayed back overnight to do abhishek darshan in the morning. I hope following information would be useful.

Timings:
General Darshan: 8am to 8pm
Abhisek Darshan (Rs. 108/-): Starts at 4:30am (buy tickets from PRO at 10pm) - Unlimited Tickets
Full Darshan (Rs. 3000/-): Starts at 4:30am (buy tickets from PRO at 9pm)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sripuram

ITsAP Technology Day 2013

Expecting a wonderful start for a year 2013 by attending ITsAP seminar on 5th January 2013.

They will cover a vast gamut of topics of interest to the Industry and Academia, including, Current Technology trends and directions, Emerging platforms and frameworks and Market opportunities. 

Speakers from the Industry, the academia and the Analyst community will add flavors to it. Hands on Tutorial on Mobile Application Development on Windows Phone 8 and Android Platform would be the best toppings.

SOURCE:

http://www.itsap.org

Dabangg 2 Movie Review (2 out of 5)

Dabangg 2... Sirf Naam hi Kaafi nahi hota ;)
I had some expectations and not too many expectations from Salman Khan Starer "Dabaang 2" Movie but I was disappointed after watching 2nd half of the movie. Chulbul Pandey character is classy by itself and only Salman Khan can give a total justice to that character. Still he needs to learn "how to cry". Most of the dialogues were repeated from earlier movie. Plus, movie is just of 2 hours and after interval movie ends without any thriller scenes & funny dialogues. Overall they should have properly used Prakash Raj as a Villian.

Still i think media will say its super hit and broken all previous records which will be nothing but marketing gimmik.

To me it was not so Dabangg this time. I would rate it as a nice to see it one time movie.
Movie Rating: 2 out of 5.

Upgraded my LinkedIn Account to Premium User

I just wanted to see how LinkedIn's Premium Account will benefit in real world to me.
So far it looks good to me.

Google kills off seven more products including Wave

Google has announced that it is dropping seven more products in an effort to simplify its range of services.

The out-of-season "spring clean" brings an end to services including Google Wave, Knol and Google Gears.
It is the third time that the US firm has announced a cull of several of its products at the same time after they had failed to take off.

Experts said the strategy might put off users from signing up to new services.
Google announced the move in its official blog.

"We're in the process of shutting a number of products which haven't had the impact we'd hoped for, integrating others as features into our broader product efforts, and ending several which have shown us a different path forward," said Urs Holzle, Google's vice president of operations.

"Overall, our aim is to build a simpler, more intuitive, truly beautiful Google user experience," he added.

[Source]

Cleared PMP on 23rd May 2011

I was happy to clear PMP (Project Management Professional) Certification from PMI (Project Management Institute) on 23rd May 2011.

It was overall a fascinating journey while Preparing for PMP exam. It took almost 8-9 months. I will be writing more on what study process I followed under the guidance of Pradeep Dhanaraj. He is more of Mentor and close friend to me than a office colleague.

PMP Study process or the approach which we took will be published very soon.

Minimum Viable Product

Just saw one of the youTube videos of Marty Cagar on Product Management. This time his topic was on Minimum Viable Product. Based on his opinion it is smallest possible product that really meets 3 criteria:

1. VALUABLE - Users will choose to buy/use it...
   
2. USABLE - Assuming they want to use it, they should figure out HOW to use it...
   
3. FEASIBLE - If it meets above 2 criteria we/company should build and use it when it is needed...

Generally the evidence of Minimum Viable Product is collected using prototypes (user prototypes & live data prototypes) and user testing (face to face or split testing).

Water Usage Calculator

http://thameswater.co.uk/cps/rde/xchg/corp/hs.xsl/536.htm

While surfing came across this useful website on how to save water and to check water usage.

-Prash