Monitor Feed Generation

If there are hourly feeds that are being generated based on time, the we can use the following snippet to go back in time for 2 hours and generate the filename based on requirement.
$timenow=time()-(2*60*60); // Gives the time 2 hours before.
$consfeed= strftime “data_%Y_%m_%d_%H_00_00.xml”, localtime($timenow); // Constructs the filename to be looked for 2 [...]

MogileFS – Platform to Store / Retrieve Files

Storing files/images/binary data into the database involves lots of performance issues. The more widely recommend solution for such a scenario is to push the files onto disk and store the metadata about the file and its location into a database. This has its pros and cons. If you have such a need and dont [...]

10 Commandments to tame Oracle Database

1. Is index always the best way.. Should I really use the index or just do a full table scan.
2. Use bind variables everywhere. Parse once execute many times.
3. Should i partition the table ? What type of partition ? (range,list, hash etc)
4. What can be done in SQL is better done in SQL, never [...]

Artland Creations – My First Venture

Artland Creations is a computerized embroidery company. It is equipped with 12 head Barudan embroidery machine.

It is an effort to satisfy my entrepreneurial instincts and of course to make some dough

Tug of WAR !!! Life is the Prize

During my 4th Grade in school, my school was closed for a day for an unusual reason. One of my schoolmates in 9th Grade died. He died in a peculiar manner. He was having is dinner and simultaneously watching a comedy show. There was a hilarious scene and this guy laughed and that was his [...]

I dont believe in coincidence !!!

When my delite friends invited me to come to my friend Elis’s church inaguration function, i really had no clue what part i was going to play. Our Delite team was one of the three teams that were going to lead the worship there. I had no clue about the songs that was [...]

Trip to Chennai – A Thriller

It all started when Chari asked me whether i will be able to acompany the recuirtment team to Chennai Anna University. Had to skip a couple of linux training sessions to do that, was initially a bit reluctant, but decided to go. The cab driver called me around 6.30 in the morning. The [...]

Man Proposes God Disposes

It was a hot and dry month of May. I was busy getting ready for my 12th grade. Preparations were in full flow. I was returning back home on my bicycle, a couple of kilometers to reach home. I was crossing a three road junction, all of a sudden something happened. The next thing I [...]

Is Love Blind

No Love is not Blind. There is something even more blinder. That’s my faith in the Lord. In any situation whether good, bad , worse, worser or worst i can always say my Lord is doing it for my good. can you ? The Lord says blessed are those who believe without seeing. Since i [...]

Some interesting commonly used words in meetings

Synergy, strategic fit, core competencies, best practice, bottom line, revisit, expeditious, to tell you the truth (or the truth is), 24/7, out of the loop, benchmark, value-added, proactive, win-win, think outside the box, fast track, result-driven, knowledge base, at the end of the day, touch base, mindset, client focus(ed), paradigm, game plan, leverage.