Pavan Gayakwad

Windows Vista never ‘wow’ed me. Office 2003 installation did, when I was fiddling around MS office 2003 advanced installation options. I got to see 'Works for Windows 7.0'!!! Did Microsoft have intuition about Windows 7 operating system in the year 2003? Before I think too wild, the description helped me to understand that 7.0 is the version of ‘Microsoft Works’ ;)

I was too far from my home by the time I realize that its gonna rain nicely now. Its 7 eve and it’s my routine walk time. Weather turned darker. When I turn around, I saw slight panic in people’s eyes. It started raining. Those who were walking started running, two wheelers stopped near shops or big trees for shelter. People in car were closing windows. Many were kind of worried about getting drenched. It's getting everything wet including me. I am standing looking up at the sky. The rain drops are falling on my face and I shut my eyes. I am feeling cold. My heart is more lively and warm. I am flying free. Thunder and lightning didn’t change what I'm feeling. I kept my walk as usual and as simple as it can. Many were looking at me strangely, some with a question mark on their face and few with confusion. They all had one common question-“Are you mad? It’s raining!!” I just laughed at it! I couldn’t stop walking in the rain and so my thinking. We became so much ‘civilized’ that ...

Some relations created to break. Despite your highest level of honesty to them, they just break.

Carefully and painstakingly crafted movie - The Godfather. Incredibly strong script, cut throat decisions, lasting moments, nerve breaking sequences, chilling twists and extremely sharp dialogues makes me to watch this movie often. I have captured some of the very thoughtful and deep impacting dialogues from the characters of 'The Godfather'. "I am going to make him an offer he can't refuse" "Why did you go to the police? Why didn't you come to me first?" "Never hate your enemies, it affects your judgment." "Fredo you are my older brother and I love you so much, but never take side with anyone against the family ever" "Some day, and that day may never come, I will call upon you to do a service for me. But uh, until that day, accept this justice as a gift on my daughter's wedding day" "Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer." "Never let anyone know what you are thinking." ...

DotNet Windows service is a long running executable, registered with windows operating system and do its work behind the scene. It gets activated when system boots, acquire its own windows session and start working without giving any clue to the user. Since windows start and manage these services, we have to register windows services in operating system. I noticed it many times, the windows services which does simple operations, some of us having habit of writing code in the service onStart() event or write a private method in the same file/project and call it in the onStart() event. The problem with this approach is whenever we modify logic or functionality of existing windows service, we have to re-register executable with updated one. Doing this kind of geeky stuff on production server does not seem reliable. The best thing to avoid this situation is, write all code in a separate class library project. Generate a DLL out of it, refer it in windows service and call the DLL public ...

Behind vehicles... Intel Inside, Idiot Outside. (Written on a car) Who said I ride faster? I am just flying... See we met again! Don't drink and drive, drive after drinking Don't Honk, Earn your way! Don't follow me, follow GOD I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens If your wife wants to learn to drive, don't stand in her way! It is not desirable to travel faster than the speed of light, cos my hat keeps blowing off If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough On T-Shirts... Girlfriend always comes with an expiry date Education ruined me He Who Laughs Last Thinks Slowest Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder If you want to look young and thin, hang around old life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it Whatever it is -- I didn't do it! Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife I believe in dragons, fairies, good women and other mythical creatures! Coffee isn...

I was keep checking chrome website to download Google’s new browser. It was night 12:19AM when chrome was available for download. I installed it and used for half an hour. My first impression was - “Neat”. I pretty much liked the way tabs are placed by pushing URL bar inside each tab, wider space for HTML page display making status bars small and toggling, download utility with resume, unified search and URL bar, all menu are grouped under two buttons sitting next to the URL bar, good speed, I didn’t find any web site ‘breaking’…I just felt it was worth waiting till mid night. Chrome handles tabs different than FireFox. Each tab in chrome is hosted on separate process; this makes browser stand stable even one of its tabs crash. New Internet Explorer 8 is also handling tabs this way under the hood. My next observation was on memory consumption comparison between Chrome, IE8, FF3.1 for given same set of web sites. Chrome used Approx. 62 MB, IE8 Approx. 89 MB, FF31 Approx. 56 MB. Differ...