Random thoughts

From here on i will quote my random thoughts in this post and will keep adding as it comes:-

* After a year of working in various organisations in different development fields, I practically learnt lot of things apart from development.
       i) Practically to survive in a tough development field where your every work is not often appreciated. the mantra to survive and succeed is simply staying calm and leave it to fate. The solution to a complex problem is sometimes takes days together or sometimes its solved in a giffy, Even though you are unaware of how you did it. Though your managers levitate insane dead lines just do your thing. calm eases mind and does things.  am sticking on to it.   

Life has a programmer (journal entries)

After my Engg in Computer science from RIT, things changed and begin to scramble, life for the first time became topic of interest. The coolness and carefree life in the college all of a sudden became serious and distracting.

          The only thing which was popping in my head was what next? (this is common syndrome in most of the students in final year). I too was suffering the same.

     Well am fortunate that few things are already planned(though most of the part is screwed) so finally I got into a company were I  am fortunate enough to learn. With no work. With salary quite more then my pocket money I used to get while in college. :-) :-) 

      During initial days I thought myself php fairly by my colleague who is expert in php but I stopped after I found that it's not that powerful and it's vast. But before leaving I made my self confident that I can manage any projects on php. 

   Well while in college java was every ones favorite programming language and mine too I dreamt of learning and mastering it. But as said time is wat decides were and what one becomes.  I unfortunately end up in learning c# r say visual c#. 

     I don't know much r say not even pebble of it.  But while in office I found out that It's a powerful language and what best is with a tool like visual studio we can build any thing by using inbuilt  framework.  Few saw that library is so wast that almost any code is available for any project you plan or might plan and no need to develop from scratch that's really augumistic and me being a noob thought might I have a future in that.  More over I found out that there's lot of hiring going on in c#.  Me being desperate of job may find a place to work.

Well I thought I had a trainer in this but one colleague of mine though he is expert he is not a good trainer.  So I thought to train my self from scratch instead of rushing like most of things in my life.  I will start this from basic.  In order to keep track of mine experience or say to know where am heading to I will post day to day as a programmer r say learner.  Let's see where this goes... 

      This week I started. 

Day 1: it was all about analyzing the depth and far reach i am going to approach. I tried asking my colleague what should i do, teach me something. in summary whole day just messing up in knowing what i am planning and what i need to achieve.

Day 2: whole day was spent on knowing what  is the difference between visual basic and visual c#. I thought all was same and later found out that they r both different programming languages. basic is older one while c# is updated one. though both r powerful and does the same c# is quite preferable cause the syntax is simple and straight forward. so i will move on with c#.

Day 3: in order to learn myself i have to study myself and in order to do so i thought of downloading a eBook. that teaches from basic and get started in no time. so i started searching with crazy search strings for ex "beginners c#" "c# for dummies" "learn c# in 30 days" quite for every search i came up with lot of unheard eBooks. i got confused. so i gave up search and started consulting few friends who are already in it. all suggested few books. still confused i started searching forums where the legend programmers responds i posted few questions and i found few on simple search. i started noting the book names, out of which i found a book which was suggested by most of them it was from wrox publications with title "professional_asp.net_4.5_in_c#_and_vb".  I downloaded pdf and even i converted to kindle format for my note. i made sure that i will start over from tomorrow.

Day 4:  whole day i read from introduction part. Now i can realise how efficient visual c# is, how powerful is the tool and what all the possibilities lies ahead and the scope of it. well i guess now i understand what am i dealing with. A quote is reclaiming in my head when writing this "Never underestimate your enemy unless you know them". its cent percent true. well i am not underestimating my enemy(c#) and with hope i can say i will tame it one day for sure.

My work station

Day 5: Guess what?? its 22nd august and its my birthday. well whole day just was indulged with friend phone calls FB  whatsapp wechat gtalk mail. No mood only, just ruined time and just enjoyed whole day. after all whats birthday is for, cos its my day and i am making  all out of it. lets say C# ke liye ek din ka chutti.

downlaoder is nick name of mine

day6: After a exiting weekend back to office. today i am working with CSS and  few basics on how to work in visual studio. such as how to create tables, set style of a sheet etc.,

day7: today i felt that am bit lacking in concept of c# and thought focusing on it. instead of reading Ebook which is very boring and my eyes were burning yesterday, so thought of downloading some video tutorials which gives the basic idea. i knew lynda tutorial is best when it comes to video tutorial, so i found a video tutorial named  "c# Essential Training with JOE MARINI" has lynda is not a open source need to subscribe for the course, i googled for other sources and found a site sharing it for free [link]. Guess its a worth video tutorial and has helped in understanding basics.

me & myself

Its quite astonishing to see quite traffic flow in my blog. I wonder how people land on my page when i haven posted link on outside world expect my facebook profile page or in turn asked any one to see my blog, but any ways i write for my self.
          One of my friend is quite a geek, human behaviour and relation expert, he once gave me a good advice, A way to keep occupied when things are not running fine. Instead of getting wasted boozing, locking up and living alone with loud music, gaming all time, load of movies etc etc out of many advice's one effective suggestion was to "write things what ever you feel about you on what ever with pen on dairy, scribble pad or laptop. Dont worry if some one reads and laugh, let them go to hell, all it makes is to realise you, your present sense and it helps in evaluating yourself. i bet you".  Damn he was right that makes real sense, a person can see himself 360 deg and he can understand his present state. well then i feel i am in a need of doing some writing which is in sense keeping up this blog, has i have all the above symptoms of getting wasted.
            Well this year 2012 was quite fine, happened to be best year. there was lots of odds then downs thats quite sweet, I learnt lot of valuable things which i had to learnt way before. but i am keeping my spirit saying better late then never.

well signing off....
         

  

That's PHOTOSHOP

The other day i was messing around with photoshop on one of my portrait image. When finished the layers showcased the process it took to finish. Well am not professional but bit skilled and here is the AV i did that deplicates the process.

PS: This is just for fun.

Sher-lock

I usually name my post at end after writing, same goes now too. I spent most of time watching Sherlock a TV series which is being aired on BBC one. I am great fan of Sherlock Holmes and its creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,  i grown watching or reading in either ways. but this was quite interesting because this Sherlock is a updated one 21st century consultant detective (in his words "only one in this world invented by me") he uses modern technology to solve the crime. I became a great fan of  Benedict Cumberbatch who stars as Sherlock  he is awesome. In this version Sherlock owns a website the science of deduction and his friend "Dr. john Watson" personal blog can check those all in real.

                          Am really excited to see the one in real. well this sort of things really make me happy. The things which keep me interested is fiction, technology, deception, futuristic, brilliance etc. If Sherlock  existed in real then his IQ would be unmatched. 

                    The way Education system in India implemented creates a bunch of hypes. there can never be a word of innovation, entrepreneurship. One has to go rouge daring everything to achieve different.     

Collage

The other day, i was messing around with my lappy formatting and arranging things.
          Few 5 years back the lane when the computers costed high, @ that time having 320 gigs of hard disk was the real luxury any one can afford. I remember my friend used to say "my friend have got a high end computer with pentinum 4 processor 21 inch CRT monitor 320 gigs of hard disk space, that guy keeps stuffs ranging from different kinds of movies, songs, games etc. its a huge collection cant find any thing missing".  Back now a days a 320 gigs means nothing, according to me its nothing but a tiny sack.
        Now a days, day by day files are getting bigger, HD,blue ray sizes are huge. but ironically pic images are also getting heavier. My sony cybershot every images weighs 5-10mb, Every time i take it out for capturing for function or event then there will be at least 60 -70 images and the whole takes gbs of memory.
       while arranging i faced the same annoying thing where i couldn't afford space to transfer pics from my camera to the hard disk, as its over loaded though i have kept a dedicated drive especially for images of 25gb its been loaded by images (holy crap images filling the entire partition).
       Now i am out of option and cant afford to loose the files or no room on hdd partition, so now decided to burn it on blank dvd's, because as of now i cant afford external hdd. so searched for few good deals of blank dvd pack on ebay and ordered it, waiting for its shipment.
         Mean while i came up with the idea of picking few best images of all those folders and collaging it. Its really fun as it gives the highlight of whats there (editors point of view). But for me it highlights the best moments of my life. Its really fun to collage, here what i got collaging.

  
                        

project carnival 2k12

Ever since childhood i was very much interested in photography, according to me photography mean "capturing real time instances for life time ever". It all started when my aunt gifted me a Kodak film roll camera. Ever since i have handled devices with cutting edge technology, thus pulling deep making my most favorite Hobbie.

                                     
                 
                    Recently in my CS branch we hosted a farewell party. I planned myself to capture this event in a bit professional way ( sorta experiment). I geared up with the resources i can afford at that time. Practically resources was too limited and for sure i can no way cope with the oncoming requirements. instead it was just make over. Any ways we managed to come up with two cameras (thanks for ujwal 2nd year for Panasonic hd camera). I knew this couldn't work out well as these two cameras are far apart in terms of specification and resolution. Sony seems to capture home video type low resolution amateur video while Panasonic had a way beyond resolution with clear picture with which you can watch HD videos on your home HD TV.
      So in order to use resources well i planned up to use both of these in some what better way. I placed Panasonic HD camera to shoot main event on stage while to use sony handy-cam to capture behind the scene events, audian's etc, well now settled with those cameras. Now needed a tripod ie, a stand that is used to place cameras and shoot continuous shot. This tripod is not an ordinary one it ways back costing more then a digital camera it costs around 8 to 10k. Thanks to rashmi, She arranged bringing one on rent.
        With 30k panasonic camera, 18k  sony handycam, 8k sony cybershot, 8k tripod,  thats make total of  64k equipments, with which i needed to accomplish the planned task.
             Professionals use audio equipments such as wire less MIC or wired MIC sometimes which will be placed in various places to capture speaker as well as audian's voices over time which will be clubbed to get the finished form. But i wasn't able to afford one. So i did shooting without the aid of one. prepared to obtain video with much distortion and noice.
       
On Farewell Day:-

                                     
As planned before i was able to shoot event using those equipment and everything went right. Sony handy cam was given to one of the junior to shoot. He did decent side capturing, while panasonic HD camera was handled by me and i shot from beginning to end, though i found bit confused to handle at first, i managed to make over and cope with the equipment and did a finest shoot. At first we found an issue where we found difficulty in unfolding tripod, later some how unfolded after trial and errors. and when program started we found that the camera was crippling and was not tightly adjusted to tripod, This was bit challenging because we had to fix the problem while camera was rolling, this was bit tricky because camera used to shake and rotate while tighting the nut, this may lead to loosing the event and it will be a blow as there is no retake and i was in no way prepared to loose any of the event, by the expertise of ujwal this problem was fixed with minor distortion which was later negotiated in post ediiting. I also found difficulty in placing camera in front of stage, has i had no clear idea in what distance it needed to be placed, the problem was not with zoom has the camera was equipped with 26x zoom with which i can even shoot dust on a screen but the problem was with zoom out or a wide angle of the stage. If i place in front of the i couldn't cover wide angle shot, but has i dint had audio equipments i could capture voice of the speaker on stage with less noise from crowd has it is bit far from crowd but nearest to the speaker.but if i had went back there i could cover whole stage in wide angle shot but has it was in between crowds there was more possibility of voice recording would be lower of the speaker and filled with crowd noise (later in post editing i found out that crowd voice was too high and it was crossing the minimum threshold level which used to make buzz noise when play backed) there was also possibility of my voice being recorded (it happened many times) has i was behind the camera and much louder has i stand behind the camera very closer nearer to inbuilt mic system. All these factor would ruin the video and it may seems random shot, just an amateur video. editing would take lot of work to rectify these ( I will write about my efforts to rectify sound distortion in later pages) .
              Camera placement became a headache as i needed  to shift depending on scenes, some used to stand in very front while some at back, some times placement was based on the audians view, as i was blocking there view standing at center. few times i moved tripod to cope but wasn't rectified and i ignored there pleas.
              Rest apart was a piece of cake but physically challenging has i had to stand whole day from morning to evening. My legs where really falling. I was literally tired when i went back home. In certain events like "minute to win it" i kept camera in a wide angle covering whole table and kept it to roll and went back and sat behind but this didn't paved much.
         

             



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