Two books got chance to be in my reading list:

1. The High Performance Entrepreneur, by Subroto Bagchi.
   Well, there is no golden rule which can bring success, and that’s fact! For all you need these books/talks is to keep you motivated, raised, working, rocking; else u may loose your aspiration in very early days. Thank you flipkart for delivering in absolute two days; you guys rock.
2. Software Product Lines: Patterns and Practices, by Paul Clements, Linda Northrop.
   I could not stop reading first chapter. These guys have put a new perspective to my thinking about product lines, they describe very well what is not a software-product-line and what actually it’s. Building a software and serving multiple clients is not achieved by a great software architecture, instead you should think from a perspective of a product line. Just started reading this book. The book describes concepts with relevant case-studies.

 

- Ankit
( Note: Guten Tag is everyday German greetings! )

ankit.tk – free
ankitja.in – paid
enroller.in – paid
ankitJain.tk – free
ankitJain.info – paid
YeMeriLifeHai.com – paid planning to drop this one
AnkitAsDeveloper.tk – free
POLAROID-EFFECT.TK – free

Get your own FREE .tk domain name << and you can have unlimited !!
(the only catch in this offer is you need at least 25 hits in 90 days, I think that you can manage by your own )

- Ankit

[ What is Google Maps?
Google Maps is a web mapping service application and technology provided by Google. It offers street maps, a route planner for traveling by foot, bicycle, car, or public transport and an urban business locator for numerous countries around the world. It also can help find the location of businesses.

I want to be there, but how?
All you need is to contribute via Google Mapmaker. Start tagging places/buildings for the areas you know or lived. And one day you will be listed on Google Maps . It took me a week for ~100 edits.
]

[ Update 2009-07-13: My edits are now visible on Google Maps.. Hurray !!

Update 2009-08-03: Now in search results too. Check D-cabin, Ahmedabad
]

- ankit

purchased a new home
www.ankitja.in
(currently redirects back to this blog)

I always dreamt to have ankitjain.com or ankit.com,
but this one is much cleaner and better.

The concept maps are quite similar to RDF Graphs, where we can explain entities and relate them with predicates only. With concept maps we can related any concept/idea with either predicate, act or relationship (RDF becoming more stricter).

Wish you a very Happy New Year!
- ankit

In addition to those common features, this phone features something new. In this post I’m going to write those specifications which you won’t be able to know unless you buy the phone. Here are a few:

1. Bright display! I can read text even in sun light. The phone comes with preloaded high contrast images, watching those you can see how much color contrast it delivers !!! – far from any other manufacturer in the same prize range.
2. 3.5mm jack support. This allows any kind of head phones to be used with the phone.
3. Text Copy/Paste feature. Handy for coping/writing SMS.
4. J2ME with support of – Internet access, File system read/write access API, camera API, Messaging APIs, automatic start, local connectivity API, running Java apps in background.
5. You can have at max 1000 Contacts, 1000 SMS memory and 380 events/tasks. (~26MB internal memory)
6. 5 alarms, and you can also set FM alarm.
7. Two kind of keypad lights. White for normal purpose and Orange when Walkman is running. The orange light blinks on the beats of the song.
8. USB charging: When you connect this phone to PC it start charging from the USB cable.
9. Flash Menu: The main menu in this phone is built using Flash Lite. You can switch the orientation and look of the menu. Menu items can be tiled, horizontally or vertical aligned, and can have cool animations.
10. Synchronization is one of the most important service that we should use. In short taking backup of the phone data. I sync my phone regularly with PC. The phone supports synchronization via USB data cable, Blue-tooth, or internet server.
11. Stereo Bluetooth, Picture Blogging, Voice Dial + Playing Caller’s name, Big Fonts, Video Ringtone, etc;

Go and get the phone… it’s a worth buy cellphone.

Note: The camera is not good as compared to ‘K’ series (remember it’s Walkman phone, and this is acceptable). Still it supports EXIF, Night Mode, Effects, Self Timer, No shutter sound (in silent mode), etc;

Ankit

But, now Ankit is back with cool and new articles to write. And one promise to the readers of my blog – such absence will not occur again. At least I’ll try to write something about my experiences, my passions, techie stuff.

- ankit

That’s what happened with me. I had a thought of building ‘code-history’, history of each line of source code file. Typically when you look at the source control, you see file history. Actually it’s not directly associated with source code file; it’s first coupled to the change (change-set) you made and then linked to the file. So, the idea was to build Code History by combining two typical file operations: 1) File History and 2) File Diff technology. And drill down till you get the version where selected code was first introduced.

Orcas, next version of Visual Studio, features the same named ‘ Annotate:

Annotate is an Orcas feature that allows developers to inspect a source code file and see at line-by-line level of detail who last changed each section of code. It brings together changeset data with difference technology to enable developers to quickly learn change history inside a source file. You can answer the questions – which version of the file introduced this section of code? or who left this buffer overrun in the code! Subversion users may recognize this as the ‘Blame’ command 

- Explained by Orcas Team

In simple words, I lost it

This is not a single instance, earlier the concept of Flickr Maps stroke to my mind and while I was planning (for few weeks) the scope of the concept, they launched .
No doubt, they are ahead, but not much. I’m just around the corner!

Lessons I learnt:

• Internet is Big Boss that knows every thing. If you have an idea, first search for the same thoroughly.
• If your thought is unique, carry out Proof of Concept right away. I mean “right away“.
• In case you don’t want to implement, write a Blog post’ to claim (or go for patent). Or give it to me I’ll write.
• Think much faster (much much faster at what pace I do currently).

The exponential growth of Internet has made world’s thinking/inventions much faster then what happened in previous centuries. Inventions are much closer to each other with a thin line of separation. The half-life of our knowledge is decreasing and Humans have to survive!

Thanks!

- Ankit

[Inputs from 'Chiku' - aka Chirag Maharaj:

The records breakers are just a second ahead then the runners up then also the money difference in them is more than 10 times and even the glory they receive is 100 times more than runner up; though the diff was just one second!!!

So you to be the winner, you have to be just one step ahead. A little hard work could make u at top!
]

1. http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~ashishchandra/hindi
2. http://khattarkaka.tripod.com/
3. http://hindipatrikaworld.tripod.com/
4. http://raviratlami.googlepages.com/ Remington-Krutidev-Online-Hindi-Easy-Editor.htm
5. http://www.hungamamasti.com/hindi.htm

Thankx to those who gave me back link, and a kind request to others
The worst thing here is, though they have copied content, they stick their (C) copyright message !!!

- Ankit

[Edited on Jan 27, 2007]

People who recommends this tool:

1. http://www.akshargram.com/sarvagya/index.php/How_to_Type_in_Hindi
2. http://sushilbasista.stumbleupon.com/tag/hindi/ , http://artist.stumbleupon.com/tag/hindi/
3. http://priaeducation.org/ohs.php