Determination, Dedication & Discipline= Sourav Ganguly!!!

Finally the prince of indian cricket has made adieu to the international cricket in the late 2008.

We are going to miss him very much. I have been inspired by him very much right from childhood watching him. He is very determined, dedicated & disciplined. His abilities has been questioned everytime throughout his career, but every time he responed with his cricketing skills in a great manner.



I can see 2 faces of ganguly, ie. when he was captain & after losing his captaincy & came back to the squad. When he was captain he was more energetic, aggressive in cricket & off field, but the later part he is aggressive only on the cricketing field & was very calm & composed. I wonder how such an aggressive person can change his thinking & act accordingly. Really i liked his attitude a lot.


Here is what sourav ganguly shares with us on big guns:

Courtesy:http://www.souravganguly.net

It has been an immense pleasure. Sharing the dressing with Sachin, Rahul, Anil and VVS has been a dream come true. Given my background, I led an easy life. It (the game) has been a learning experience, not only for cricket but also for life. MS and Gary, you are the torchbearers of the team now. Over the past 12-13 years I’ve made good friends and made some enemies, but it was all for the good of Indian cricket and, hopefully, you’ve enjoyed walking the path with me.



Sourav Ganguly has done lot to Indian Cricket & its time to return back him with the next world cup 2011. He took us to the final in 2003 world cup but we lost that match against australia, but still the scenes of that match is very much in my eyes, where Sehwag was trying single handedly though his efforts lost in vain. No one can forget the knocking century Sourav Ganguly hit against kenya in semi final where all other batsmen failed, if sourav wouldn't have hit that 100 then we wouldn't have reached the final in 2003.

I dedicate this article to the prolific astute Sourav Ganguly, a legend to be remembered always & please keep inspiring millions of your fans.

Cricket - India's Heartbeat!!!

Today's India can't be without cricket. We talk,eat,fight about cricket & cricketers.
We got independence in 1947, English left us, but they left Cricket in front of us. To be honest 'Hockey' is our national game but cricket overwhelmed it.



Great players like Kapil Dev,Sunil Gavaskar,Mohd. Azharrudin,Sachin Tendulkar,Sourav Ganguly have redefined cricket in india, they have made indians to oversee cricket over hockey.

India has won 1 world cup in 1983 under Kapil's captaincy. MS Dhoni has set new trend in captaining india, the calm and cool customer with consitent performance over a nut shell both as a player,captain & as individual too.



Its very common to see roads becoming empty when india pakistan matches come live on TVs. When Kapil Dev was playing he reached the top spot and he retired when sachin came. Sachin is the only player to play matches with old & young players like Kapil Dev, J.Srinath,Sehwag,Gambhir to name a few. Sachin is termed as the living god by indian fans.




There was a time when everytime he comes to bat, he failed & with his stealthy determination,dedication and discipline he proved again and again. A man who is respected by most of the indians for his aspiring,shrewd,inspiring talent, he is none other than Sourav Ganguly, the king of all kings. He made a flashing 100 in his test debut, most successful captain, jubliant human being. His love for cricket is extraordinary.




Another person who is always patient,persistent & always concentrates single minded. The greatest timer of cover drive. He is the wall - Rahul Dravid, good character,temperament and soft spoken personality. His runs in test cricket is voluminous.


Now the amount of money players can earn through cricket is cubersome. If you are good cricketer then you can make most of all through T20,ODI,Test,IPL,ICL,County Cricket etc..

If you are an indian or in india you can't take off your eyes or ears from seeing or listening about cricket.

The heart beat of india ...C R I C K E T.....

The Real Heroes

I would like to dedicate this article to our lovable freedom fighters of india.

It was before our indian independence, many people suffered a lot in the form of tortures, injuries, pain even some lost their lives. They had all united and were fighting for a single cause, INDIAN INDEPENDENCE!. But in today's world people are never bothered either to give the resepect what our freedom fighters deserve?


Today's generation assumes 'FREEDOM FIGHTERS' as old aged people who get government pensions, get benefits in train tickets etc. But if you go through their lives, they have some thing to tell us.



Even when Subhash Chandra Bose formed military camp, he didn't have any sponsors to give money to buy guns, bullets etc. He organized and brought people and all poor people what they had at that time gave their money and subash chandra bose used that money and he with other soldiers fought for us. Most of them who fought at that time would have been dead now or become very aged. They didn't had money at that time but they had one DREAM! an independent INDIA.



Mahatma Gandhiji who studied law would have become lawyer at that time and could have earned money and could have a led a living, but he didn't do like that he always dedicated his life to INDIA! His speech, his approach etc. everything led to india's independence in 1947.

Because of great leaders, good freedom fighters we today see a SAFE india. But are we giving necessary pride and privileges to those freedom fighters? Its a question to be asked ourselves, if not then we need to correct and saluate them for their efforts.

In return what we can return to our freedom fighters is 'BY MAKING QUALITY INDIAN PRODUCTS, INDIAN PRODUCTS WITH GLOBAL STANDARDS, INDIAN CARS DOMINATING WORLD ROADS etc..' making INDIA respectable in terms of human value and development, so that our freedom fighters would be really happy if we can transform INDIA as developed country atleast for them so that the efforts put by them will get a respect.

Internet payment services for .NET applications

You have put lots and lots of effort to bring your application online. Then comes the main picture, let us collect some money through your application/site. A number of companies and websites do the processing through internet payment services like

2Checkout

ProPay

PayPal

MultiCards

WorldPay

Let us see how we can integrate paypal (which is used more comparatively to other inernet payment services) into our application. The visitor, instead of paying the client directly, pays PayPal using credit card or bank account. The client then uses its PayPal account to get the money received from the customers.

Creating a new PayPal account is free, the fees involved when receiving money can be checked at Display Fees

PayPal Links & Resources:

Website Payments Standard Integration Guide

PayPal Developer Network

PayPal Developers - Forum

Creating PayPal Account:

1. Go to PayPal
2. Click Sign Up link.
3. PayPal supports 3 types of account: Personal, Premier and Business account. Choose your country from the pull down menu, and click Continue.
4. Fill in all the requested information and you'll get an email to confirm the details you have entered from PayPal.

Integrating PayPal and Application:

1. To accept payments we need to include 2 elements to the user interface part of the site.
2. Add to Cart buttons for each product and a View Cart button on the page.
3. For example we have a product Ultimate Doll with cost of $16:



PS: your_email_address - Should the registeration email ID of your PayPal account.

4. The View Cart button:

Open your main page (master page - may be Main.Master) in source view and add the following javascript function under head element.



5. In the Main.Master where you have Search, Reset (buttons for products), just add the below code below the Search button.




6. Next to add PayPal Add to Cart in Product.aspx:



7. Add these below code under PopulateControls method in Product.aspx.cs

//Create the "Add to Cart" PayPal link

string link="JavaScript: OpenPayPalWindow(\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr"
+ "?cmd=_cart " + //open shopping cart command
"&business=youremail@yourserver.com" + //your PayPal account
"&item_name=" + pd.Name + //product name
"&amount=" + String.Format("{0:0.00}", pd.Price) + // product price
"¤cy=USD" + //currency
"&add=1" + //quantity to add to the shopping cart
"&return=www.yourwebsite.com" + //return address
"&cancel_return=www.yourwebsite.com\")"; //cancel return address)

//Encode link characters to be included in HTML file
string encodedLink= Server.HtmlEncode(link);
// Then link to the HTML Server control add to cart image
addToCartLink.HRef= encodedLink;

PS: Be sure with the email id, as that should be correct in order to get money into your account.

Hope the above few lines definitely are, an initiative for including internet payment services in our .NET applications.

Cool Skills

In this fast moving life, we need to be definitely cool with these cool skills. Learn to give respect to each one, learn to respect person not position. Be always learning addict. Try to be kind,soft-spoken with everyone and greet each time. Before trying to start any task, just practice the same in your mind. The reason is you don't (or) make less mistakes, so that your blood will be cool and will keep your blood pressure under control. So be a good visualizer. Visualization helps in real-life to reach great horizons.

Statistics show that those who are achievers do not let anything or anyone make them feel bad about themselves. Don't take failures as the end of the world, may be god will open another good door surely for you.



Choose to be happy, you can either choose to worry about life & what will happen in the future, or you can choose to be happy, to enjoy life & to live life to the fullest. It is a choice. Overtake your worries & fear with all your faith. Have faith in you. Avoid unneccessary arguments, back-bitting strictly in life.



Take each dat as a lesson and try to learn new things. Try to involve yourself in lot of incredible things and keep your mind engaged 100% always. Don't loose your temper and stay focused, positive and keep rocking :)

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Some useful ASP.NET tutorial:

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Stress Management

Stress - This is the word that spoils everything - career,relationship,friendship etc. I had shared my views with regard to stress management, hope you'll find this useful.

Stress is a psychological state that affects the immune system. In this fast moving world, there is connection between stress and vulnerability to viral infections such as colds is widely recognized. For example, cold,fever & flu rates increase among students during exam periods. Can you find why? The reason is due to stress which keeps down the immune system.

Keeping a positive outlook on life can help to overcome the weakening of the immune system. Stress develops depression. Depression affects learning and memory.



So it is essential to manage the stress. Stress can be managed through a healthy lifestyle, including physical exercise, humour which keeps in control the blood level flow which gets increased to brain,muscles and heart due to stress.

Men and women handle stress in different dimensions. While men tend to isolate themselves from others, women will turn to relatives/friends for help to get rid of the stress.



Some quick tips & tricks to overcome this stress:

1. Humor therapy - Keep yourself a sense of humour.

2. Listening to your favourite music which can calm your mind.

3. Exercising daily - in the early morning(Physical exercise helps to strengthen brain cells).

4. Cultivate the habit of learning new skills daily.

5. Commitment to listening plus to teach something you know.

6. You shouldn't make/feel yourself depressed as depressing harms brain function.

7. Also you need to be in your weight -not under/over weight which helps you to think faster (See the people in japan/china who are neither under nor over weight and just see their working potential - japan -2nd in economy, china =hardware)..Slim a bit to think faster.

8. Just try to greet back the people whoever greet you, don't always expect someone to greet you, that shows you are not easy moving. Include some good soft skills within you to improve your career skills.

9. Think before you start anything so that you needn't stress yourself later. Strategically thinking & Visualizing - very important ingredients of life.

10. Proper sleep is essential for acquiring new knowledge and learning new skills. So sleep proper to reach top levels.

Overall if you try to implement full-brain engagement then there is no room for stress.

I welcome your points/views/feedback on the same.

Be stress free! happiness full :)

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