Begin With Disbelief

Getting things done -the Benjamin Franklin Way

2012-05-06T11:15:00.000+05:30

Here are 14 action-inducing lessons from him: Less Talk, More Action Don’t Procrastinate Be Prepared Don't Fight Change Get Moving Avoid Busywork Give Yourself Permission to Make Mistakes Act Quickly on Opportunities Continue to Grow Keep Going Know Yourself Don’t Self-Sabotage Don’t Give Up Wise...

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Is that a Problem?

2012-04-22T20:39:00.001+05:30

For 20 years Prof Edwin R. Keedy of the University of Pennsylvania's Law School used to start his first class by putting two figures on the blackboard: 4 and 2. "What's the solution?" he would ask. A student would say, "Two" but Keedy would pass him by. Another would say, "Six". Several people would shout the final possibility, "Eight" and the professor would shake his...

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If you want to be happy, be -Diogenes and Alexander

2012-04-21T17:55:00.000+05:30

When Alexander the Great was coming to India he went to meet a fakir named Diogenes. Diogenes used to live naked and did not even keep a begging bowl; he had one but threw away one day when he saw a dog drinking water from the river saying, “I must be mad! Why I am carrying this bowl with me? This dog is more sensible than me. If he can do without bowl then why can’t I.” He used to live in...

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Never give up- the life of Karoly Takacs

2012-04-20T09:27:00.000+05:30

Failure is only a fact when you give up. Everyone gets knocked down, the question is: Will you get back up and how quickly? - Anonymous In 1938, KarolyTakacs of the Hungarian Army, was the top 25 meter rapid fire pistol shooter in the world. He was expected to win the gold in the 1940 Olympic games scheduled for Tokyo. Those expectations vanished one terrible day...

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The General and the Duck Herder

2012-04-19T09:46:00.000+05:30

Once, there was a General who wanted to cross a river. He was unsure of the depth of the river, and whether his horse could make it across the river.He looked around for help and saw a little boy nearby. He asked the boy for advice. The boy looked at the size of the General’s horse and paused for a moment. He then confidently told the General that it is safe for the General and his horse to...

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How to set Visual Studio to Split view?

2010-12-07T23:16:00.000+05:30

A lot of people get tend to the way they prefer to have their IDE. I prefer to keep my aspx page in split view in Visual Studio(2008 and 2010). I tend to write less aspx code and try to accomplish my task using the Design window. So having them both open simultaneously helps me a lot. Earlier I was fumbling to set this but later I did the settings change in the IDE and this solved my problem...

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Declare multiple variable of same datatype easily in c#?

2010-12-07T22:39:00.000+05:30

Recently I found this tip which helps in declaring multiple variables of the same datatype in C# using minimal code. First I was using this code to declare the variables of type Double double dblOpenTrades=0; double dblDebtor=5; double dbltotal=1789563; double dblexcesslmt=17; Then I found this faster way of writing the same code as below 1: double dblOpenTrades = 0, dblDebtor,...

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Show Empty cells in Table using CSS in Internet Explorer

2010-12-07T22:02:00.000+05:30

Recently I had designed a table in an aspx page in Visual studio 2008. The table contains two rows of data. But under certain conditions only one row of data will be available for showing. In this scenario the other row and the empty cells where not showing up while the page was rendered and it looked odd to look at The business requirement was to show all the cells even if no data is...

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What is new in Android 2.2?

2010-05-21T20:39:00.000+05:30

Google yesterday announced the release of the version 2.2 of its popular mobile operating system Android. Though released by Google it will take weeks to months for the device manufacturers to come up with devices featuring the latest OS. Developers can download the Android SDK and NDK (native development kit) from the Android developer site. Samsung recently released a firmware upgrade to 2.1...

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Facts about SMS

2009-09-29T23:03:00.000+05:30

We cant imagine a life without SMS(some of my friends can survive without air or food but not without SMs). The cute little thing which we take for granted does a lot of work for us. In a voice call We dont finish the call after we communicate what we wanted to. One leads to another and the call ends after 15mins. There are cases where we forget why we called for .But an SMS is a time saver(at...

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Mock objects and implementing Mock objects

2009-05-24T11:15:00.000+05:30

Hi all I recently presented this session at the Bagalore Dot net user group. I promised the attendees that I will upload the source code and presentation ppt in my blog but I have to go to office today so will not be doing today(24 May 2009).will try to do it by EOD. so if you would like tobe informed of the upload leave a comment here or just subscribe to my email subscriptions. (expect a update...

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Why I named my site Begin With Disbelief ?

2009-02-19T20:46:00.000+05:30

I was hunting for an apt name for my blog. I dished out a lot of them but could not settle at anyone of them. Then while going through the complete works of swami Vivekananda I came across one of his works called HINTS ON PRACTICAL SPIRITUALITY( Delivered at the Home of Truth, Los Angeles, California ) The session was interesting and I found that even after 100 years whatever he has said holds...

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What is recession and who is responsible for it?___Part 1

2009-02-19T20:38:00.001+05:30

What is recession?Where did recession start?How is it going to affect us Indians? R ecession if you haven’t heard this word until now in your life you must be toddler. The impact that this word has brought upon our life is unimaginable. Print media, television, the Obama’s and everyone is speaking about this new phenomenon. The corporate world in the US especially those from the financial and...

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