Yearly Archives: 2007

Paypal is planning own Development Center in India


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Thos who have seen my profile on Orkut, must be knowing that it is a dream for me to work with Paypal. Surprisingly, I was never bothered to work for that project due to “w/o leaving Mumbai” thing. FYI, Covanys is the only compnay where PayPal have outsourced and it is real big. Due to blah blah concern, PayPal project people (around 500) have a seperate building. Covansys have many big projects but no client has so specific requirement. Though eBay India is housed at Mumbai (ebay.in account required), PayPal has no presence anywhere in India. But they plan to take away all people from Covansys to setup IDC very soon.

Here come the MicroStrategy twist. There are several clients that have “direct” control over the development/feature development of MicroStrategy. PayPal is one of them. If PayPal wants then they can alter MicroStrategy. Well, don’t be surprised. These compnaies (Permium clients ap er MicroStrategy iternal lingo) are the testing bed for all things created and the feedback and feature request. What suits this bigs, must suit even small compaines. That’s how it work.

Update 5th April 2008:
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For more updated info about this kindly go here.

Life is zingalala


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I had seen TATA Sky DTH service at Ashwin’s place. I was very impressed by the quality of reception and features provided. SO even I booked a connection. I knew that was like buying enmity with local cable operator.

The installation guys came at the time as planned. They had all the equipment to fit the dish, but the helper seemed to be a new guy so the main guy was a bit pissed. Specially, when an important screw was missing. Still, I must say everything went smooth and within 2 hours it was done. I must say, it was really damn nice seeing the TV after the connection was setup. It was amazing. Life is really a zingalala now. TATA is not better as far as pricing, schemes and features is concerned but it beats in picture quality and customer satisfaction. My main reason to buy TATA and I feel I was not wrong. Hope everything goes well.

Oye Pappe….Isko lagaya to life ekdum zingalala…

I hate MicroStrategy, Inc.


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MicroStrategy Inc, Personal

Well… I had rightfully access to machines of MicroStrategy while working at Cybage. Not to forget that I had privilege for lot of things. I downloaded the GA build and tried to use Internal Serial Key, but it didn’t work. What does it mean? It means the GA builds are made not to accept the internal keys. If you have internal key, you can install everything… Generally the serial key itself decided what you can install but with internal keys you get all. You need to get the server activated for sure. I remember once Manisha gave the GA build to her friend. I was shocked and she acted as a routine. It is highly illegal. Specifically, when the copies of software available to Cybage are unrestricted. As far as I know, I’m still work with Cybage. I really regret not having got through the interview with IBM as I could have met Fransis Chao-Gay and probably Gurvinder Singh Chhatwal. BTW, Mr Chhatwal is the man behind the misadventure of Elston Pimemta. For all those who don’t know, I was asked to leave for being authority over my PL (Parmajeet Singh Sidhu) during my notice period. WTF, SP3 was going to be released just 2 weeks ahead. He tried to play mind game during that 5 minute talk. Bastard, held my release letter for quite some time. I received it only after I wrote to CEO and new DH/PM of MicroStrategy project. I must say I was lucky. I wouldn’t forget the way I was harassed for release letter. This is this the way they behave with the undisputed Tester. Who made #2 feel #1.

A joke that reminds me of Cybage


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A man is flying in a hot air balloon and realizes he is lost. He reduces height and spots a man down below. He lowers the balloon further and shouts, ‘Excuse me, can you help me? I promised my friend I would meet him half an hour ago, but I don’t know where I am.’

The man below says, ‘Yes. You are in a hot air balloon, hovering approximately 30 feet above this field. You are between 40 and 42 degrees North latitude, and between 58 and 60 degrees West longitude.’

‘You must be a programmer,’ says the balloonist.

‘I am,’ replies the man. ‘How did you know?’

‘Well,’ says the balloonist, ‘everything you have told me is technically correct, but I have no idea what to make of your information, and the fact is I am still lost.’

The man below says, ‘You must be a project manager

‘I am,’ replies the balloonist, ‘but how did you know?’

‘Well,’ says the man, ‘you don’t know where you are, or where you are going. You have made a promise which you have no idea how to keep,and you expect someone to solve your problem.’

B1…. Be One


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Life is full of jinx. Something I would not like to discuss. But in short I got my B1 visa interview through. Getting up early .. I hate so much.. but I had to get myself visa so as to be here at Covansys being billable… It has been 5 months having worked in my core competency… But I’m not complaining.. I’m enjoying this (professional) life less challenging. god.. I must have killed the CEO for keeping me on bench for more than 2 month and I’ve been 4 months on bench here.

So I finally reached US consulate at 8:10 and by mistake breached the queue. There were two queues. ONE Current and TWO anything other than current. If the 8:15 “appointment” is going on, then there would be two queue people for 8:15 appoint and rest. The 8:15 queue was not cleared till 9:30. I wanted to eat something even though I had eaten on way to consulate as well as home. I happen to get in talk this guy of Accenture. We went together for tea. I entered consulate at 11. Really puzzled cause of not having updated information on the notice boards in the interview waiting area.

I didn’t believe when the interviewer said “Visa will be sent to your offer, sir”. I didn’t last even a minute. Wow is Now!!!

Reached office by 1:10 and sent mail to concerned person about the visa having being approved. Here I get a bombshell. APS is not considering the onsite requirement.