Some time back on a Sunday me a Abhay (colleague) went for an English play “An Idot For A Dinner” and it was laugh riot.
It seems the play was a translation from French Play Le dîner de cons and The hindi movie Bheja Fry was also an adoption from the same play.
Bangaluru has good crowd for plays I was surprised to see the number of the people attended the play. I was expecting some 200 people but I think there were more than 400 I guess thats a huge crowd. the play was at Good Ahepherd Auditorium Residency Road. staged by Evam and the Boardwalkers.
I was laughing like anything for the entire play it was superb and they acted very well. specifically the golden group’s character is tooo good.
Here are some the Pic’s from the play.
May be because it was my 2nd of third play I was watching after very very long time i found it so good. but i can say one thing that its not just worth money but a lot more and good entertainer. if you know the story of the bheja fry it is more or less the same but performed on the stage thats it. I did not watched beja fry before thats also one of the reason i enjoyed it so much 
The one standing at the right most is golden gopu.
First of all let me tell you how i got to know about this event that is been organised at iim. i was following a guy called ajay mohan reddy on twitter he is an entrepreneur based in hyderabad and work’s on a startup in google maps for trips and adventures so he posted it on twitter that he will be attending the meet at IIIT Hyderabad so i googled about it and i immediately got to know about startup saturdays which are orginised on second Saturday of every month at differnt locations across india by headstart
So got up early in the morning at is 9:00 and had shower and rushed to banargatta road and to IIM . as expected the campus is beautiful huge buildings and greenery every where. i reached in time there and the meeting started .
Here is the agenda of the meet.
Event Agenda:
- 10 – 11:00 AM – Lightning Pitches
Lightning Pitches as the name suggests are quick presentations for a duration of 2 minutes or less followed by a Q & A session with the audience. They can help you in various ways including providing with a valuable audience to gain feedback, suggestions, and ideas to move ahead in your business.
Presenting startups in this month’s LP session:
- Printisfun (www.printisfun.com)
- Noesis Info Services (www.noesistec.com)
- DonateYourPC.in
- Beezang (http://www.beezang.com)
- Vpe Knowledge Solutions Pvt Ltd (www.vpeksolutions.com)
- Indian Drinks (By Anirudha & Nivedita)
- Campus2Hire (www.campus2hire.com)
- ZimZim
- Sportskeeda (www.sportskeeda.com)
- Almechants Systems LLP(www.almechants.com)
- 11 – 12:30 AM – To be or not to be an Entreprenuer
Session and Moderated discussions by Surya covering
- Pre start up
- Firming up the idea
- Formation of the team
- Boot strapping
- When to raise money
- How to reach cash stability
- When to call quits
About Suryanarayanan:
Surya, a Chartered Accountant by qualification, is the Chief Operating Officer at the NSRCEL. He is also an alumnus of the International Masters Program in Management of IIMB.He has over 28 years of professional experience, both as a corporate executive and entrepreneur. After spending the initial years in the finance function at Union Carbide and Nicholas laboratories, he joined a family run pharma start up company, Recon and served as its Group Finance Director. His stint as a serial entrepreneur started in 2000 and since then he has successfully founded, funded and exited healthcare ventures including MedyBiz, a disease management company and LifeKen, an organized pharmacy retail chain.
- 12:30 – 1:00 PM – Questions and Networking
minutes of the meeting
the initial session of the meetup was some thing like each team form different startups have come and told about there startups and how its gone a work from them. some people raised some doubts and they ware answered some people gave suggestions and some critics as well.
- The print is fun guy is really crazy in his looks as wells as there business check out there portal. its kewl.
- Beezang people are addressing a really different problem i have some doubts as to how they can make profits out of it but its UI is good. I have talked to them and got email contacts of the developers.
- some glance about what people are doing in the health care industry and products developed.
- Indian Drinks (By Anirudha & Nivedita) these are the two people from ISB there business model is like trying to sell indian drinks like suger cane juice or lasi or butter milk in a very hygienic and great ambiance like the one in CCD’s and MecD’s they plan to open up outlets at universities campus, petrol refill stations, and software companies like that. they said they are building a wending machine to serve indian drinks. quite a number of people have ask some serious censerns about the viability and business model.
- There is one non profit working on collecting old computer parts from people who are willing to donate them and assembling them and give them to schools of orphan ages .. he said they do it in there spare time and with a little money.
the second session was given by Surya
it was very very good i have learned so many things and the way he delivered the lecture was excellent. here is the list of thing i got form his speech
- common pit falls of a startup
- How not to give shares to partners of the startup’s at the early stages and how to evaluate how much each one is owns in the startup. i.e based on the value they are bring into the enterprise.
- How to deal with mentors and how important they are.
- Difference between mentor and a advisor.
- what to expert from the employees of your startup its like how u can motivate them to work. that is selling a dream and driving there passion.
- the main differance between a manager and a entrepreneur
- opportunist and entrepreneur
- and lot more
after this two people from Microsoft have spoke about how Microsoft is going to help startup’s in india in giving there software licences for free and stuff like that..
and in the networking session i met the Co-founder of headstart that is Akash Mahajan very kewl guy and very approachable and got some suggestion regarding an idea. i also met a guy called freeman he is having a venture frim like y combinator here in india and Bangalore i.e upstart.in if you guys have any ideas post to him may be u will get a good mentorship or support. he said he is ok with any platform and what actually he looking at is passion to do and the idea. he also said currently they are working in telecom, education sector and some other .
at the end i took some pics here they are :
i am not that good at my English but i tried my best. if this was of any useful for you guys in any ways please post it here. that way it motivate me to write such thing in the future.
“iWoz: From Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It.” The book, co-written with Gina Smith, a journalist, and published by W.W. Norton & Co.,
Iwoz .. its an autobiography of Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak , Read this book to get to know about american Geek life. BTW this book is not a technical book, it is quite entertaining, light reading. it tells about the thrill of invention and the purity of entrepreneurship. the best part of this book is about his pranks and college life.
i woz book cover
These are some of the things i learnt form the book
- How Wozniak played the great role in Personal computer revolution
- Apple was largest seller of PC’s in the world before IBM made its PC and Apple IPO made over night millionaires
- Lot about Apple and Steve jobs.
- the greatest engineers of our time worked as cartoon character at shopping malls for part time job and for some money.
- Some insight about how American’s felt about Vietnam war and there government at that point of time.
- College life in America and Drugs
- about ham radio and some of the pranks he played in college and work. i really love them they are toooo good.
- Woz effort bring Russians and Americans together and how crazy to spend 12 millions for US Festivals for 2 times both time he lost most of the money.
- How he left apple and he worked as teacher for 10 years teaching at school.
Nonetheless, in my opinion iWoz is still a book worthwhile reading. The book is quite entertaining and presents an important piece of computer history and a great revolution of our Era. Steve Wozniak’s experience can be a great source of inspiration for all engineers and Geeks out there.Every engineer—and certainly every engineering student—should read this book.
Sree ram, Srikanth and Max this is must read for you guys…
Today i attended a meetup at jayanagar (Binary Vibes Information Technologies Pvt. Ltd) and it was a Brief discussion of naming conventions for databases, tables and columns led by Sudheer. I got the news about this meet up through the site meetup.com which i joined just 1 month back.
first of all jayanagar is dam good place man good town planning , after some 20 mins of searching i finally got the address. thanks for chai walas and auto guys for guiding me to the right place.
There ware 6 people attended the meetup including me, sudheer, prun, and one more guy from AP and 3 of them are enterpnuers in different areas some have products for hospital management and parun is into media and advertising and one lady who was a instructer for web techonologies and other guy works for a online based auction company and all these people i met for the first time
I found the meetup useful for me in 2 ways one i got to meet some good geeks and second i got some good insite into the Entrepreneurship world of Bangalore, as i told you sudeer and the AP guy was into products for Hospital management system and some products for SME’s sudeer is mostily into opensoure and LAMP and AP guy was dealing wiht Java and Stuff. sudeer was truly a geek in linux and PHP (lamp) i dont exactly remember but he has good portfolio in Opensoure technologies. he contributes to fedora project and Lamp commmunity ,he told he will be sharing some of the quick and handy tools for LAMP developers. prun was the one who organised the meetup.
Minutes of the meeting
1. Introcustion with what kind of buniess they are into
2. sudeer presentation on naming convension ( Here is the link to his presentation)
3. people shared some of there project experiences and best practices ( this was the best part of the meetup)
4. discussed about these thing which was new for me : Rihno (java script engine),fling ( its like ANT for PHP), ORM’s PDO’s, Zend nite and many more
5. some planning on the next meetup and came up with some Topics
After the meeting we had a tea there i talked with the guy who was in the online auction company, i asked him what is the business of online auction in India i expected it was very marginal or even negligible what to my surprise he said it was tooo good and his company has got many deals every day Trucks, bykes and lot of such stuff.
Then i took a Bus to BTM …..
( About the pic. the one who is giving the presentation is sudeer and the one u can see on left is Andhra guy and the only head in front of the cam is me. the other one on ur right in the pic is Software guy working for auction company, lady is missing and prun is one who took the pic).
This weekend I went to infy campus with swathi. seriously the campus is god damn good, superb, awesome. i think the Infy people have created really marvellous campus out there. i got to hear that in infy the pay hikes are little slow and the very limited allowances are there, may be they are putting all that money into this infra structure building but whatever it is, infy campus is awesome. I cant explain you the feeling but when i was in the campus it was like i was in some US University or some thing. The auditorium is tooo good . and they have one huge building for just library and they have many cafeterias like one for telugu people ,one for bengalis and so on. And i was awestruck when i saw the sports building they have 2 rows of 10 Pool tables in each row and big gymnasium, laundry, swimming pool, basket ball, tennis court, every thing is great. If u happen to be in bangalore do check it out!!!!!!!!!. Its really worth it.
Hey if any one know any good open source log file Analyzer please let me know. i am badly in need of it
Today i was searching for a log file reader or you can say Log file analyzer. I tryed sourceforge.net and google but i could not find what i wanted. this is what is my requirement, see i have an applactions that is going to update around 10 log files, that applaction is going to process some records which will travel around 10 processes and each process will produce one logfile so when the record is lost some where, i will be able to figure out where it is struck in those 10 process by looking at the log’s. but the problem is now the log files is plane text format so it a little bit difficult to look and find. so if there is any good GUI based log file anlayaser please please comment here or email me
I have found one log file anlayaser which i would like to share it with you may be you may find it usefull for your applactions, but the thing is not doesn’t fit my needs.
Chainsaw v2 is a companion application to Log4j written by members of the Log4j development community. Like a number of Open Source projects, this new version was built upon inspirations, ideas and creations of others. Chainsaw v2 has it’s roots from the original Chainsaw utility written by Oliver Burn, and with inspiration from the Log Factor 5 utility contributed by ThoughtWorks Inc.
Basically what this tool does is it sits like a demon and read all the logs that the application produces and display in a very color full way in a GUI , for this to work you need to configure your application log4j.xml to the settings show in the documentation of the apache chainsaw tool. But in my application there is no log4j.xml to configure, instead it has some proprietary code for writing log’s so i cant use this tool 
Here is the screen shot of the tool (click on the pic for the larger view)
Quite some time back I was on a trip to places near banglore on a weekend.I had gone cruising through these places in an cab with kamesh, Japa, Venkat.
Out of all the spots I have done some adventures as in White water rafting. It was awesome man, It was strating from Bheemeswari running down till a remote place 2km away from Muttathi. It was a rollercoster ride of about 9km for about 2.5 hours. We seriously had gr8 fun after long weekends in the Office for these specific reasons,
1. The boat was a small one which fits only four of us and a Captain(Guide). (Rest all others were having 8 + 1) 
2. Mukhesh, the Captain-guide was very supportive we did full hangama in the river
Thirdly the best part was when we had encounter with a real croc ( supposedly an alligator) sitting still as a rock there quiet and we crept in near her/he (not sure) as detectives closing in their thieves and actually took in on our tapes. All of a sudden it jumped into the water and we were really scared of even looking at the water we were rafting in. check out video
But Mukhesh (Captain – Guide) assured us that it will be as scared as we are, and we continued to raft like hell in the gushing waters of Riv.Cauvery. At one point there was Onam going on early in that river, we were competing with our small boat with the others in our group. We were allowed to float in the water for a while when the water got calmed down and you guys can have glimpse of it in the video below.
The tour video
Then we went to sivanasamudram it was toooooo good water fall and at that time too much of water also was gallopping through, infact the waterfall is split into two….. you can see in the video man, I cannot tell u in words but the feeling itself was amazing and later we continued our jounrney to the sandy ranches of Riv.Cauvery again at Talakad. There is a temple there which is half immersed in sand and we could not see it as it was getting very late and there was heavy rain we just saw the beatuful Riv. Cauvery and Round boats in which people were having their rides.
The road from Talakad to NH209 was completly screwed up. And I would like to add an very interesting yet controversial point here. When we were passing through lakes of the country side we saw the beautiful sky filled up with stars and suddenly we saw a falling star.
We had a very great weekend & I was filled with so much of joy for seeing so much of Greenary and beautiful River Banks of different kinds, unlike the concrete jungle that I was there for almost an year……..
Thanks Kamesh for writing this to me and for the image work )
hmmmm good patriot of dark side of India and its economic growth.
Its a story about an uneducated son of a rickshaw puller turned amoral entrepreneur and killer, I cannot write a review for this book now but i can say its good book Go and give a read
