One Year of Blogging ...

I was just seeing my older posts and found that I completed a year of my blogging here. I started this blog on 2nd Aug 2006. My topic was more related with Indian web startups and Google. I covered details about emerging job boards, open source in Kerala, Guruji search engine, data on paper, Desi angle to YouTube, Yahoo going regional and AOL in India.

Resolution: I need to be more active here.

Pune is Calling ...

One and half month ago my Post Graduation course got over(results still awaited) and now my last vacation will be over today. Tomorrow I'll start a new journey as a software trainee in one of the biggest corporate house in Pune. By the way I already done six months internship in Pune so this city is not new for me but now I'll work as an employee rather then an internship student.

Wish me Luck ;-)

P.S.: I'll try my best to keep posting here my thoughts and about new startups as and when I'll get time.

My First Experience with PHP Apache and MySQL

Finally I completed a website using PHP, MySQL and Apache web server after burning lots of candles and sleepless nights. I am normally an ASP programmer but always wanted to learn PHP from long time. So after giving much thought I started creating a website in PHP with back-end as MySQL during this vacation time. It took me two days to properly setup PHP, Apache and MySQL on windows XP machine. But after setting up I found that its quite easy, we just need to follow steps properly.

I completed this work in twenty days which i could have completed in around ten days if it was it ASP. Obviously PHP is new to me thats why it took time also I already have many previously built code by me in ASP ;-).

It was nice experience. Now I am getting more deeper into it and exploring more aspects of PHP, MySQL, Apache web server and associated technologies/tools.

and yes I'll appreciate any guidance, suggestions or comments by you to improve my knowledge.

Happy Independence Day

भारत के स्वतंत्रता िदवस की सांठवी वषॅगांठ पर आप सबको हादीॅक शुभकामनायें |

जय िहंद |
दीपेश

Now Check out Orkut Logo

Few days ago I mentioned about Yahoo India Logo celebrating India's 60th independence day. Now its Google's turn. Orkut(ओर्कुट) also come up with a very nice logo in tricolor of India to celebrate India's 60 years of freedom.

So it seems global portals are getting in mood of Indian tricolor.