However, I use their USA server and it was not quite good, maybe too much overloaded, though for my blog I use their Indian Server and since it is new server and probably not so much loaded yet, it works great for me from last 3 months. They have down time of about 10-15 minute here and there, maybe server just get too overloaded at time, been a shared hosting server, but otherwise it is normally a good speed. My clients are happy that my project management system finally works for them, and this is great achievement in itself.

Anyways, my new working environment is going solid. Increase my productivity a lot just waiting for good results to come with time.

Though it doesn’t seems as comfortable now, as the difference between me and my dream has grown bigger. My dream is around building a team of technical person help or work with me to achieve goals we set. We want to achieve the standards we set over other counterpart of ours. Though the term team seems to be the biggest challenge to get at this stage. With economy going no where, finding good person is becoming equally hard. About 18 months ago, you will find all sort of talent around you, but now I see a downside which is effective by two things mainly:

1. No one is willing to take responsibility of work. It is not that this is uncommon thing to human, but it has increased a level where you just cannot trust your employee to any degree. Even if you pay them double the salary, but they know they are just employee and one day they use your double salary to get hired in another company with even more money.

2. Freedom from work, eventually you will read on internet or articles in magazine that people look for freedom at work, but I said they look for freedom from work. If you don’t ask them to follow your well tested methodology and don’t ask them to finish in time, they are happy to work for you, but otherwise they says we need freedom to work our way and hence they don’t like you.

These unfriendly act of candidate here leave me in two mind to go with them or not to go with them. I see some of them does has good thinking brain, but they are not willing to work. I can make good software but I am not god to make good human.

Always in search of good developer who help me go along, but I decide not to work with one who is not more than an employee. I will now work for great peoples only, either they are my client or my team members.

Coming back to topic, here are reasons why I hate VPS now:
1. VPS is said to be cheaper, But for whom? You or hosting companies? Companies with good reputation or resources gives a VPS starting at $60 per month for just a 1GB RAM, with 30GB HDD. IF you compare it with Dedicate server with low end they ends up with 160 GB HDD and 2 GB RAM. for about $100. But to get that configuration you need to spend over $100. So comparatively they are not cheap.

2. When I buy a VPS I read that my VPS will be hosted on Cloud network and hence if a VPS fails for some reason it get up again on next node in network and reduce the downtime. Unfortunately my VPS Hosting GRID failed and it dump my data for 48 hrs, before they can fix the node. I was not alone but all people having their VPS on that grid lost valuble 48hrs waiting for their server. Later it took 15 days to get my hosting to move my VPS to new GRID as even after 48 hrs they said they still need to do few maintenance and my VPS will do roller coaster during that time. If I have Dedicated server and if some hardware fails it took less than 2 hrs to get it up live. But if VPS grid’s hardware fails who grid gets overloaded from other VPS and reduce performance. Plus changinge their hardware wasn’t easy. This is what I had experience on my server and unfortunately on client’s hosting when their Hosting [different my mine] fails for them too.

3. VPS should not be confused with Cloud Hosting. VPS are virtual machine, and even if they are hosted on Cloud Network they are not Cloud hosting for your purpose, they are as good as dedicate machine. IF your VPS fails, or shutdown, your website will be down. You won’t get shifted or reboot, becuase machine is down not a network. It is like notepad crashing on your computer. It do not effect computer otherwise. Cloud hosting are like shared hosting, where multiple computers store data, and a data replication happens on fallback node. then your webserver runs on different hardware on same grid and other application as well. So if say one web server fails there are other webserver available to take load of your application. But this is note the case with VPS machines. IF you take VPS you take a 1990′s computer as server don’t expect too much.

4. VPS is a concept of running more than one Operating system on given hardware. Like running Parallel to run Widows on Mac. Though it is been said that they share resources, but actually if you have a computer with 4 GB RAM running 2 VM with 2 GB RAM. do you think you get full 2GB RAM performance? the answer is NO. because at 4GB RAM there are 3 OS running. and one is using 4GB, while other 2 are using 2GB each, so they need 8GB in total, but it is not possible because we have 4GB. So the host operating system scarifice some of his RAM, maybe 3GB but it still be a 5GB. Same happens with CPU processing, Same with HDD. A HDD writes a 1xX speed if it has to write it for 3 OS will it write faster? no it still write 1xX and each os get only 1/3xX of speed.

In nutshell, if you are trying to save money by using VPS, then you better reconsider using a Shared hosting or a Dedicated server. Hosting 10 site on VPS will cost you $6 per month with no performance, where as shared hosting from decently good host will cost your just about same, but much better performance. And if you have enough money why not a Dedicated server or a Cloud hosting like Microsoft Azure, or Amazon S3 like services ?

This affects the business very badly. Since developers are less, their prices goes high and this results in price up at client end too. Will India start losing job to other emerging companies? Quite possibly. So, what I should do is the question arise to me? Not hard to find the answer once you desire. I got some plans workout, hope those remain in good effect until this shift is settled. My main target as of now is to remain in business, and I know how I can do it. So, let us wait and see.

The answer remain complex and in nutshell it is still unanswered. With this post I try to answer it for me. Maybe you find it helpful for you as well. They all are talking about the speed of browser. But what does it mean to me? If a browser loads a web page at 200 millisecond or 300 millisecond, does it make a difference to me? I mean I am not that fast to make difference in 100 milliseconds, even if it took 1 -2 extra second what I am going to loose ? If they talk about Javascript heavy load is faster with new engines, hmm let me check that. does my banking site use javascript, no. Does my email client use javascript, yes google and yahoo does, but in IE 6 or firefox 2-3 they still load in 20-25 secs and that is because my internet speed is that slow, so my browser anyways sit idle. Yet again, I got a bottle neck, my internet connection speed. So a speed doesn’t matter to me since it is been very little difference for a common man to feel it. However to speed up things they use cache which sometime does create problem for me that I have to clear my cache more often then in early days. Ah no body not that difference for me.

My Internet habit includes surfing of website after searching them in google and then opening the page in new tab. I love the more screen area all browser provided, and Firefox does it best of all for me. But I still see no difference at least considerable in my surfing habit because of new navigation structure. However i found it hard to “refresh” pages when they are still loading but got stuck due to my bad internet connection. I have to first stop them and wait a couple of second before old request was canceled and then reassign the new Open request. I miss that “Refresh/ Reload” button a lot. I need it back. Also in new UI, most browser make “Forward and backward” button big but they remove the refresh and reload button, man Website is suppose to visit LINK by LINK and not by move back and forward. When I move back and there was a form submit, it often get me stuck with it. So why they are promoting that back habit ?

Yet again, those new changes comes with some change in habit for making people not follow LINKs but use quick way of loading cached pages. Not a good idea for me.

Another change I note about browser is support for third party tool, hmm this is interesting. now I can share anything with my friends easily. Hey but why I want to share each and everything ? At work I don’t see it make sense at all, infact it is security risk as those 3rd party addon that help share might steal my bank account when I type it. Or maybe they just parse the page for no reason, slowing my slow internet yet again. I better switch those plugins.

On above someone give a note that I might consider the SAFE browser mode then, but hey why I keep switching things? I was on phone and my client want me to check my accounts, shall I ask my client hey wait I have to switch to safe mode first? or I better just type the name and go ahead.

But whatever it is, I am excited to see the growth in browser and love to see it more fruitful in future for me. I am a developer all those make sense for me as developer when I read benchmark reports. But it doesn’t make sense to me when I get involve with web as normal user. My choice of browser is not on what browser can do what, but I now make a habit of having 3-4 browser in my machine. Each one for each purpose. One for game, one for official/bank works and one for searching and surfing. So, I vote for each browser they are all equivalent and are same for me. It is just choice between what color of car you like to drive .

So let us join and really try to make a beautiful world. Help Human and nature ..

It was really a nice decision to choose WPF. It is not only easier for me to learn as I already have some experience in HTML and web programming, but it give me control which is best suited for programmer of my culture. With no efforts I am now able to create a better looking UI. Ofcourse I didn’t test the UI on Windowx XP yet, but otherwise it looks great. I am not going to test it on Windows XP anyways as we don’t going to support it. Once I have the UI ready. I need to now communicate with Online database. So for this I already know the solution called as Web Services. But where will I found the Web Service in Visual Studio 2010 .. oh I think they rename it as WCF.. nope, they make a new concept altogether called WCF. Hmm.. with past experience of webservice I know that it was the perfect solution for me, but again WCF is almost similar no difference to code, so what harm it does to use it. Afterall it bring some new security measure and ease. So I again learn WCF and it took me 1 hr to cover the difference between Web Service and WCF and I am up and ready with my solution.

Making game UI is really so exciting that I am now looking for opportunity to upgrade my Chess game to WPF interface. Programming is really fun with those concept of programming and tools that I learn in recent past. It was complex then before in planning, but easy to implement. However the attitude of programmer is they need something ease to plan and implementation they are not bothered. I must suggest using WPF and WCF in your project where you need them. I haven’t try but they says WPF and Silverlight has same code or reusable. Well if that is the case then surely I will start giving Silverlight solution in next quarter or so.

Though MVC looks promising but I feel it is not probably not very mature or maybe not a good idea for big projects. I feel it little complex to make architecture of application with MVC as compare to transition event driven programming or procedural programming of old PHP. But yes it is way to dynamic and based on naming convection and assumption/concepts. Which make it cool. At first it looks good to me, but my second thought came in, if dynamic binding is that good then why we need Strong Data Type in applications? Why .NET or Java strats like that and why PHP is going for OOPS programming which again become strong data type somewhere? Isn’t it slow to use dynamic binding then to static binding?

MVC is good for Expertise in either programming, designing or database handling. This make it good choice for enterprise software but definiately for a Geek programmer I feel it is not upto the mark. BTW why a geek programmer care about what is buzz in market, he do his job perfect anyways.

I am confused about MVC , I am not sure if I will adopt it in my future programming yet or will wait for something better to come up. Any advice.

However the JQuery is good in itself, but I realise that it depends on few things, and one of those is good HTML, if you are using Javascript especially with these libraries make sure you first validate your HTML. You don’t necessarily need to validate using HTML validator such as W3C validation, but a symmetric HTML is what you need. With Libraries like Jquery, I really wonder if we need Flash and Silverlight anymore ? Though I love to work on silverlight, never got a chance to use that in my project. But from Banner Flash to Jquery Banner, I opt for Jquery Banner, because they are simpler and faster to work. It took me 2 hrs to ingrate Paypal on HTML site, without making any new public page on site, as I just use Jquery Dialog to show the form and proceed with order. Client didn’t expect that and they are excited to get it that way. It make their money worth, and it ease out my work to make a form in template. which is indeed quite a work as compare to plain HTML form with no style at all.

If you are looking for web programming career, Javascript is must to learn with HTML. Without this if you want to be a programmer, then you won’t be. If you want any help on concept I am happy to help as it also help me learn more and more.

Coincidence is that both of these projects are in .NET, which means my great softwares will be now 80% done in .NET and rest are in PHP. Having said I doesn’t mean to say PHP is not fitted, but it just happen, probably because I love .NET more than PHP. However I still wait for my dream project to arrive to me, guess what with success on this project probably the path for my Dream project will be more clearer and nearer to me than what it is now.

However during these years of development I never realise I had handle so many good software, but suddenly when talking to these new clients I realise I had a great list of software behind me. Working on Linux Based Web hosting management system with automation of Web hosting process, then working on Sound Engineering application with interface for analysis and reporting. About the completion of Video Conference using Peer to Peer connection [no intermediate server is needed once connection is established, saving lot of bandwidth to make World Internet faster] and now build a Online database for Windows Desktop GAME client. Yes, I am now working on a Online Game. It is based on Client server architecture and will involve all good technology idea, like using DirectX or Web services. Once we grab this technology, we can then make even more killing games.

I am so excited, but worried on quality of developer I can found to assist me on these projects. Over the time I have experience rather a downfall in existence of common sense in developer and work attitude. It is getting harder day by day to find better developer. But I know I will achieve my goal irrespective of such hurdles and that I am committed to achieve my dream project sometime in near future.

It has almost everything you need to write a blog article. Allow selection of category, add tags, select dates. Hmm what is missing then ? I didn’t see the Meta information section. Does it support the Plugin for wordpress ? Yet to find those answer. But in all it is good for my need so far.

It was beautiful screnery outside when we cross Madhya pradesh and when we are in Maharashtra. all over it is green land and hills. I really love the scene from my window of moving train. Not much to mention about the travel, but it was relaxing and little different as I was not using my computer from last few hours when I was still wake up.

Once we reach shirdi, we take a hotel room. Get fresh and went straight to Sai Baba temple, from outside I thought we were going to be among the few devotees, as queue for visit looks empty. But as soon as we enter the temple, my thoughts proves to be wrong, we were standing in a queue of atleast 500 people ahead of us. It took us about an hour standing and waiting for turn to enter main temple. But when we enter main temple its beauty again impressed me. The walls were covered with thin Gold sheets all over, with white marble Sculpture of Sai baba in between. After the devotion, we came to temple premises, it was even bigger then main temple, it can easily accomodate more than few thousands of people at once. We return to our room at about 7 PM and was very tired as we walk alot and remain in standing position for last few hours. 

The Next day we start our travel to visit Nasik and near by temples, it was again a full day trip as Nasik is about 120-125 KM far from Shirdi. It was another fun day while traveling on our rented car to nasik. All Green land, hills are so beautiful to watch. But again when we reach Tryambakeshwar Temple, it was so croweded and yet again we are standing at the end of 500+ devotee queue, yet again it took about 1 hr 30 minutes to reach temple. But today we are standing under shades in rather a warm day. I was little concern as Aaryan was getting thirsty and there is no way we can get water for him, but luckily it won’t be problem at last, as we get out in good time.

On our way back to Shirdi, we take lunch at really a good resturant, they develop it like a small village and food was tasty of all we eat in trip. At night we revisit the Sai Baba Temple, this time we visit at night and got about only 100 other devotee in queue. Next day our return train was at 9 AM and railway station was about 1 hr away and since we are new to place we have to go little early to find our way and transportation. So we wake up at 5 in morning. Than about 21 hr travel on train we reach Delhi back, tried and with closed eye. I have to attend my office as it was already 2 off for me, and hence I go office yawning.

It was fun taking break from work. I love to take more such break in near future and rather more frequently. I cannot forget this trip, it was fun, little discomfort due to change in environment. Though I enjoy it.

People are most challengeing to manage specially when they are not ready to take responsiblities. I have always been told by my seniors and parents that all people are not capable or deserve the growth. I do agree with them on later part, but I learn that they are try on first part too. People are indeed not capable of getting success. It is easy to get successful though, but most people want success at cost of doing nothing.

Last night I heard the phrase again for me, that I have been very unlucky as against the amount of hard work I put in my work. This time my wife says that to me, Already heard that from few clients in past. But is it really my bad luck or some bad discussion I might have taken as manager of company ? I believe it is later part I surely have done something wrong as manager that results in no fruits for me right now. I don’t know what wrong I might have done, but I know I have lot of things to improve and I am dedicated to improve that.

Programming is not a easy task, you cannot make programmers out of student, they are always natural. You cannot teach anyone a mind job, they has to be born with that attitude or at least they should work out their skills for years in School and college before they go to professional life to be a programmer.

I always looks for great programmer, better than me. there surely exists a breed of programmer better than me, I will find them one day.

On the other hand, if I create a page on facebook, I still can put same comments there and in return my friends can comment on my individual page that are visible to all. On Twitter if I post 10 comments, I cannot see all reply in a “Group” of conversation, but on Facebook it looks better organized. Managing multiple accounts is really hard for a day to day professional, if they are not marketing with their friends.

I am also surprise by the Privacy issue that occur in those public social networking site. But I want to tell that if you are doing Social Networking, then people will learn about you. Don’t they start knowing you when you meet a strange everyday while jogging, or when you meet friend of friend of friend in some meeting or get to gathers. If you are using some public website [especially at no cost/free] you can expect them to use those information for advertise or other stuffs. Why you share most personal stuff there ? Just use it to a limit of been public or don’t go Social at all.

Anyways, Twitter needs to improve its functionality the idea was good, but with like of Facebook, myspace having their own status message with commenting and “like” feature they are more useful as compare to twitter. Twitter account is good if you link it to get auto update from all other site, other than that there is no use of it.

Hmm I check my Admin, it has new color theme, but what is new here except that ? They says it is major release I didn’t see any big difference. Go to Change list of WordPress. My god they fix more than 1200 bugs… I was using that bugging software.. or they mean over the RC release of WordPress 3.

My theme is very old, probably I should get a new, as it is doesn’t have latest features from wordpress 3.0. But one thing in Change List that excite me is “Menu” or “Custom menu” Nice utility, and shows that wordpress developer did realise that wordpress is more than just Blogging software. It is a Complete CMS now [I install wordpress for more than 50 clients as CMS only in last 2 yrs].

I read about MU merged in WordPress but not really very excited. I am not a SEO guy to build 100 of site to promote my $20 product. But it is good if you are one. I don’t see any real use other than that for MU wordpress. Maybe as a company owner I should use it to allow my developer/team to start blogging..hmm that is nice option for that feature.

Anyways, this is my first post after upgrade hope it works fine when I submit this. Let see how it goes.

BTW GOOD WORK Guys !!! WordPress really worth a shot anywhere everywhere.