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Here is a story firstly: A king of Nepal by name Bhadraka had gone out on shikar(hunting). On his way a bird of omen, perched on the branch of a tree, uttered some significant sounds. On hearing them, the king asked a member of his party who was conversant with the language of birds: "What does the bird say?" The interpreter replied: "King! What the bird says does not concern you. It says that a farmer who is going uphill for cutting grass for his cattle will die, bitten by a snake." Just as he had uttered these words, the party saw a farmer proceeding towards a nearby hillock, carrying a scythe. On seeing him, the interpreter observed: "I think this is the farmer referred to by the bird. Your Majesty may be sure that he will die as foretold." Out of curiosity the hunting party stayed in the vicinity, waiting for the farmer to return. They saw the farmer's silhouette, after some time, coming down the slopes of the hill carrying a bundle of g...

My sister is just back from USA. Needless to say, she bought lots of chocolates. Of all, i loved KISSES. These chocolates are awesome. Just pure chocolate, exactly the way i love eat chocolates. I love them. Many chocolates are mixed and flavored with nuts, dry fruits etc etc. I feel chocolate has to be a pure cacao just lots of cacao and nothing else. Kisses are exactly the same and so i love it. I find Cadbury Silk and Bournville are very near to my taste. Just 9$ for one big party bag!!! This party bag has 3 flavours Milk Chocolate, Special dark and Caramel. Oh my god! The Special dark flavour are just the way i like it....slightly bitter but still the best form of chocolate. And btw, http://www.thestoryofchocolate.com/ has a very good info about the chocolate. May be you like it.

A week back i used my CITI bank debit card at a fuel station to pay. The transaction was declined. I was sure that the account has required balance in it and so i requested the attendant to try one more time. But the transaction was declined again. I paid the bill using HDFC card and left. Soon after a travelling a kilometer, i received a transaction alert on my mobile from citi bank that Rs.400 was debited from my savings account at the fuel station. I rushed back to the fuel station and explained them abt the msg. The head of the attendants stood out and say " Sir! this is a general happening they see day to day and its absolutely nothing to worry. Once you we settle the account of the swipe machine by EOD i.e. 12AM for the day, the amounts will be reverted back to the respective account. We see these things daily. If you dont get money by tomorrow morning, we will any how be here and we will pay you back by cash ". Upon my insistance, he generated a receipt of the succes...

I quote, "GOD struggle for existence" ( I may seem ignorant of many facts or even foolish neglecting something that is very obvious. If so, i would love to learn. ) I justify below: Point 1: GOD is supreme. Point 2: GOD is the one who creates every living being. Point 3: GOD can control anything that exists. Point 4: GOD is kind. The aforementioned are not mere assumptions but the inbuilt thoughts and learned thoughts we have grown up with since you started thinking. These days some questions intrigues me, Why does any living being has to suffer? Why does one has to struggle to get food/shelter or what ever he wants? GOD is the one who made us. He is the one who gave us destiny (we call it VIDHI). He is the one who made ones character as good/bad. He is the one who destroy us. In between, what is all this drama? He creates a person, makes him bad, makes him do the wrong things and finally punish him after death by sending to Yamaloka. ...

Crap....crap....crap. www.jobswalkinindia.com is one bullshit website you will ever come across. "Login" doesn't happen smoothly at one go. Most of the times, login doesn't happen at all. Once you login, there is a link to LOGIN again. ha ha ha!!! Have some common sense atleast.  Don't think of validations. The "Date Of Birth" field accepts even current date and "Email Id" field accepts any crap like xyz@abc.com. No verification or validity of the details. I can end up giving any of my friends email id and mobile number and he will be the victim of this one damn site. Enter the "Date Of Birth" as current date and "Experience" field as 10 years. Site accepts these shit data with grace. And most importantly, data provided for registration or data posted in the resume you upload is never protected. You just google it out and your uploaded resume will be shown to the world. No option to edit your profile. All that you ca...

Man!!! What a song...what lyrics!!! Simply outstanding. I fall short of words to say what i feel about this video. Shows the actual side of Sasthry garu. Sasthri garu explains his perspective about Life.The lyrics are inspirational and can help you get up when you fall in your life. Truly inspirational to keep you ON at all times.                                                 పదాలు ముఖ్యం కాదు, భావం ముఖ్యం. After Nick Vujicic , Sasthri garu rocks here.

After reading about Baklava at my friend Kamal's blog , i had been waiting to taste it. But, dont know why, never actually set out to taste it. On one of the recent saturday evenings, after lazy day, started the craving to taste something new. Had to decide between Mexican food(at Chilis in Inorbit mall) or Baklava or Sithafal Icecream. Finalized on Baklava. Googled the sweet niravana restaurant(where its said that we find delicious baklava), called up to find if they are serving the dish today. And i set out to sweet niravana near madhapur police station in Hitec city. The restaurant was almost empty with just one small b'day party. The ambience was so pleasant. Lot of greenery, serene atmosphere. I knew the cost of the dish already. Its Rs.250/. Yes, you read it correctly. Its a bit on higher price. So, was prepared for it. I order Bakalava and waited for the dish. The dish was served. The first look was heavenly dish honey dripping from the dish, hiding & peepin...

Casual browsing found me this wonderful video on youtube. So inspiring and motivating. Once you watch this video, you realize LIFE is to keep living and that too living happily. If any dead person can speak out what he feels after death, Dead person feels that a person with cancer in the last stage is lucky, that he still has life to live. Cancer affected feels that a person on dialysis is lucky, that he would live more though with some restrictions & medication. Dialysis patients feels that Nick Vujicic is lucky, that he will be able to live normal life though with his limitations. So, being normal is very very very very very very very very lucky. Protect it. Live like a king. Live life like never before and ever again. Be happy and live life to it fullest, who knows today may be our last.

It's been some time since i'm trying to understand the case management in PRPC. The concepts of WorkList, WorkGroup, WorkBasket are most confusing if not understood with some examples. Not to criticize any, i questioned many of my friends who has decent hands on experience in PRPC. But all that i get are vague answers or should i say theoritical answers. Spending lot of time on developer help, pdn etc, here is what i understood. Before i blabber more, let me put down the definitions from PRPC here, A workbasket is a named queue of open assignments that are not associated with an operator. A workbasket is defined by an instance of the Data-Admin-WorkBasket class. A work group is an instance of the Data-Admin-WorkGroup class. A work group can identify a user who is a supervisor, and a set of workers and workbaskets that report to that supervisor. Just have a look at how work group(referred as WG further) and work basket(referred as WB further...

Agile is a software development methodology that can be used in project management. On contrary to many peoples understanding, agile is just an umbrella which covers various approaches, or i should say, various practices which can be run on agile principles. Basic principle of agile methodology is project development in iterative and incremental basis. This is in total contrast of what happens in Waterfall project methodology, an traditional approach to software development. So, following this principle in particular, there are many agile approaches such as Scrum, XP(Extreme Programming where Pair programming, an agile development technique is used), Kanban, Lean software development, DSDM(Dynamic Systems Development Method) etc. Putting it very simple, for example, if i'm talking about the 10 min standup call as part of my agile process, that is not necessarily need to be agile, but scrum will insist it. So agile is not a scrum but scrum is certainly one of many ...

I used to be an ardent listener of Full To Bindaas show on 93.5 Red FM. It was just due to, as Silk says,  Entertainment...entertainment...entertainment . RJ Pratheekha was certainly as reason for this. It used to be a lot of fun listening to her and her spontaneous silly poems etc etc. But since some time, she developed a syndrome of doing stupid talks at the wrong times. I donno if anybody else has find it irritating and its really very very annoying. She used to sound bubbly, but she turned into completely crappy. She used to talk between the songs, but yesterday i was listening to that panch pataka, and in middle of a song she started her crappy talk. WTF? She was RJing not in between the songs, but in the middle of a song. Picchi mudhirindhi pillaki!! Her mad has gone to the extent of shitting out her silly poems on the names in the middle of the song. WTF Pratheeka!! What happened to you? I some times wonder whether these RJs would have any direction like thing for the ...

Client side validation is a very useful and beautiful feature of any web applications. The basic validations and formatting which doesn't require server side action can be done at the client side i.e. browser side mostly, and then the user submission can be passed on to the server. Two useful things of client side validation are, Reducing the serverside action, thus, reducing the burden/load on the server for the simple validations. Increasing the response time of the application. I.e. user need not have to wait for the request to be sent to the user and wait for the server to respond back to just say, " One text field is empty in the user form ". Pega provides rules Rule-Edit-Input and Rule-Edit-Validate for such formatting/conversions and validations. Rule-Edit-Input : This is provided in the advance tab of the property rule form. This performs conversions and not validations. No response will be sent to the user reg. the input validity. This rule performs con...

Exception handling in java methods can be done in many ways. We can log the reason for the exception, the respective stack trace and we can even manage to print the stack trace to your application specific logs(java does that by default though) explicitly using Reflection API or many other mechanisms. Pega also have such mechanism to exception handling in Activity rules. This can be done using standard when conditions named StepStatusGood and StepStatusFail(in @baseclass) in transitions of activities. These when conditions internally uses pxMethodStatus property to validate whether the execution of the particular step is successfull or failure. pxMethodStatus  property will be updated regulary with the status after end of each step execution and before the start of the next step execution. We also have a boolean named hasMessages which informs you whether a page contains one or more page messages. Any page which has one or more messages are treated invalid page  ...

Some very useful activities from Work- class we use very often in our day-to-day development process are listed below.  Work-.Add activity creates a new work object and performs a Commit method (without a cover object) Work-.AddWork activity creates a new work object but doesn’t perform a Commit method Work-.AddCovered activity creates a new covered work object and performs a Commit method Work-.AddCoveredWork activity creates a new covered work object and doesn’t performs a Commit method Work-.AddToFolder activity adds the work item to the folder Work-. ActionNotifyQuick activity creates simple correspondence Work-.CorrUpdate activity updates the correspondence Work-.CorrNew activity creates a new correspondence Work-.StartNewFlow activity starts an additional flow execution on the current work object. Work-.ResumeFlow activity is typically called when a service level deadline or goal is not met, this activity forces completion of an...

Pega screen flow is a flow category option provided by PRPC to gather/collect information from the user in a particular sequence. Screen flow enables the user to go back and forth and edit the information at any point of time till the form is submitted finally. Screen flow can be created from New instance of FLOW rule dialog. The Template field has to be selected as screen flow.  Screen flows cannot create new work object and hence cannot be used to start an application. Because, "Creates a new work object?"  option in the process tab of Flow rule will be disabled for screen flows. This also means, a screen flow is useless unless used in a starter(i mean standard) flow. Screen flows can have embedded subflows. But normal standard flow cannot be added as subflow and only another screen flow can be added as subflow. The available flow shapes for a screen flow are, In screen flow, Flowactions are referenced by assignment shape rather than connect...

I tried booking tickets at Big Cinemas, Ameerpet, Hyderabad through online booking on https://www.bigcinemas.com  on 12 of July'12. The booking process & show/seat selection went on smooth and i provided my credit card details on the website to confirm the booking. After some minutes of processing, its mentioned as " Some technical difficulties occurred during your booking process, Please check your email for confirmation.If you have not received any booking confirmation and your payment is deducted, Kindly contact us at support@bigcinemas.com for your refund. " -- Mind you, i didn't click on Back or Refresh on the browser for this to happen. I immediately mailed to above email id to receive this response on 14th July. Dear Guest, Warm Greetings from BIG Cinemas ! We appreciate you taking the time to contact us and share your query. We are not able to trace the failed transaction with the details received from you. We request you to please forward us your c...