Pavan Gayakwad

When an educator start searching for question paper generation software, he/she will find plenty products claiming they are the best in automating paper setting and generation process. As the number of similar type of software is more, complexity to settle down to one product increases. Let me put some helping points to simplify software selection process.  Software price tag is bit more expensive than your planned budget   -   but wait!   Many of us feel that software price is fixed and not negotiable, In-fact, some companies do offer discounts if they are selling product under promotion period . so make sure you check with them regarding the discount. It's a customer right to negotiate, nothing bad about it! You checked features list, all competing software has all-most all features! Which one to pick for analysis?   - Really, this is a puzzled situation. In that case, Look for the product screen shots or ask for a demo. Take a scenario, such as, how...

"The true leadership is not given, it should be earned and consistently demonstrated." "A true leader creates more leaders and feared ones create blind followers"

When it comes to programming, I noticed most of the super programmers share similar attitude and thought process. I started identifying similarities whenever I took interviews. After meeting 3000+  potential candidates (thanks to all my previous companies choosing me as interviewer), I dared to have a quick points to spot a 'Super Programmer' from the pool of programmers. When I shared these points with my colleagues, they found it useful during their interviews. Please note These points are strictly valid for 'Rock Star Programmers' only. If you apply these observations to a good programmer, you may loose him.  I always don't follow these points very strictly in interviews as there will be many other aspects to consider, However these can just be used as indicative pointers if you feel good.  So here it goes, They may be little nervous in the beginning. When you ask them about their interesting project, their eyes glow and for a moment they...

If you want to design a webpage with stylish font. There are few important things to consider before using graphical text images. If you prefer search engines bring traffic to your web page, it has to be  Search engine friendly , as of  now crawling engine ignore text written in images. (BTW, can search engines improve to extract text from image and index? like  Quick Quest  does ;) The font should be rendered and displayed consistent across multiple browsers . When viewed through mobile browser, it should wrap (as normal text do) to fit the small screen. Its now old fashion to choose the most common font (either Times New Roman or Arial, that are for sure exist in users computer) and design the page accordingly to stay safe. Things have changed, so the approaches. To respect above points, HTML font embedding became essential need to design impressive web page ( SrushtiSoft.com  home page is using font embedding. Its live now!). Bac...

"Relationship shouldn't be complicated, if it so, then its time to look at it from a different perspective and attempt to resolve challenges, if that doesn't work at any cost, put a period and move on." Well..I have one more view to share which may sound bit contradictory to what I expressed above, but its indeed an unarguable truth! "Move on - is the simplest one to say and most difficult to go through!" :)

Are you planning to create long running background process (in C#) and thinking to build a Windows service? Then wait for a moment! Windows Task scheduler (Start->Programs->Accessories-> System Tools-> Task Scheduler) can also be a decent choice! "Windows Vista and higher windows (server) operating systems are offering matured Task scheduler with many advancements like Triggers, Actions, Conditions, failure recovery, email notifications, security and much more." Its obvious that many programmers think Windows Service is easy to maintain and what it can do, task scheduler can’t . But now, it’s time to look at Windows Task Scheduler [also at Microsoft white paper ] and see what great features it is offering. When to go for Windows Service? Okay, let me try to answer this popular question in one line.  Windows Service is suitable for receiving service request ' anytime ' and process ' instantly '. Just think of anti-virus scanner, netwo...

I wanted to track download count of Quick Quest demo version hosted on SrushtiSoft through Google analytics. I faced obstacle during the implementation process and wanted to share here, hoping to save your sometime if you are also trying to do the same for your website or blog. Google neatly guide you how to do it, http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55529 with a slashing message "This article is for the latest version of the tracking code". But it just doesn't work at one-shot!  I had to spend sometime to find a way to troubleshoot "pageTracker is not defined" javascript error . Finally, the post on StackOverflow puts you on right path: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3503511/google-analytics-pagetracker-is-not-defined Though google talks about the approach in detail here: http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/asyncUsageGuide.html chances of it going unnoticed is more.