Meeting

February 1, 2007 on 8:47 am | In General | No Comments

January 28, 2007



Anil & Neelam, Arvind & Geeta, Ashish, Dinesh &, Pushpa, Deep & Anajana, Dolly, Gaurav & Benita, Mukesh & Anita, Nitin & Kaajal, Pandu, Rahul & Ruchi, Rahul, Subahsh & Sunita, Sudhir & Babbi, Uma Bhabhiji, Utkarsh & Ruchita and Vince & Devika.



Thanks for coming, joining and productively participating in your function’s future and prosperity.



This is a brief missive summarizing the decisions we made at the meeting.



Dedicated volunteer for each event:



We will get the volunteers each year for two annual functions, the summer picnic & the Dewali function and they in turn will have their support team. The existing team will be available for any suggestions, advice, help to this dedicated team, as and when required.



Dine & Learn sessions:



It was agreed that we will hold these “Dine and Learn” sessions, as detailed in the agenda of the meeting. The frequency will be once in three months (four times a year) on subjects of common interests to the community members. The sessions will be held at a volunteer’s house. The day preferred by the majority is Saturday evening. Each person will pay $5 to attend the session out of which $4 will be earmarked for the Mathur association and $1 for a charity to be agreed upon at a later date.



The simple dinner will be coordinated by the host, prepared and brought by some of the members; like we do in our meetings.



It was decided that Rahul Srivastava/ Ruchi Srivastava (Mathur) will be the prime coordinator for this new effort and they will be supported by other volunteer members including, but not limited to Rahul Raizada, Arvind Mathur and Bob Mathur.









Philanthropy activities:



Arvind talked about the possibilities of participating in charity runs to support a good cause like breast cancer, Parkinson’s Disease or a cause that is close to our community.



Based on past experience, it was decided that Vince & Devika will spearhead this event.



Some of potential concepts discussed are:



•School supplies for needy children: Vince & Devika

•Clothing drive for disadvantaged communities: Vince & Devika

•Participating in a good cause run in NY/NJ: Utkarsh & Ruchita

•Volunteer for 3rd Saturday lunch service in a soup kitchen: Bob & Preeti



For the last activity, Rahul & Parul, Nitin & Kaajal and Bob & Preeti have already volunteered. It was encouraged that individual members can also find similar soup kitchen activities in their local areas and can support this cause locally.



General Activities:



Dinesh & Pushpa volunteered to coordinate a social event for a table tennis and a carom tournament.



The meeting finished with a vote of thanks, appreciation and gratitude to Arvind and Geeta who had volunteered to have this meeting at their house.



We would like to once again welcome and felicitate the younger group who have joined the volunteers and are demonstrating enthusiasm, commitment and sincerity towards the common goal of the betterment of the Mathur Association.











Members who have already volunteered :



Summer picnic 2007: Rahul & Parul Raizada

Dewali function 2007: Deep & Anjana Narain



Dine & Learn sessions: Rahul & Ruchi Srivastava,

Arvind, Rahul Raizada and Bob





Philanthropic Activities: Vince & Devika



Participating in a good cause run: Utkarsh & Ruchita



Soup Kitchen: Nitin & Kaajal , Rahul & Parul, and Bob & Preeti



General activities:



Social events : Carom/table tennis: Dinesh & Pushpa



Regards

Verbally yours!

May 12, 2006 on 5:18 am | In podcast | No Comments

This brief introduction to myself is my first offical audio blog. Thanks Mack and Anshu for your feedback on my last one. Hopefully, this will now be a regular feature.

 

 

Me in Hoboken

May 12, 2006 on 4:16 am | In General, hoboken | No Comments

Thats me in the corridors of my office building in Hoboken. The backdrop is a painting that symbolizes all that Hoboken is famous for. Thats Frank Sinatra to my right! Hoboken is known to be the birthplace of baseball.

Some of Hobokens firsts

I will be blogging a lot more about Hoboken and its history, so stay tuned!

My wish list

May 10, 2006 on 5:39 pm | In General | No Comments

So I have put up my wish list on the sidebar. I would love a silent benefactor My Birthday is July 13th, just in case!

Congratulations BBR and Mack

May 10, 2006 on 5:36 pm | In General | No Comments

http://blog.mackburnett.com/2006/05/09/yes-we-finally-launched-the-radio-show/

 And I am glad I had a part to play in this!

My first audio blog

May 10, 2006 on 4:34 am | In podcast | 2 Comments

This is my first audio blog, so please bear with me. If anything please give me feedback!

 This is it

flowers in my patio

May 6, 2006 on 5:51 pm | In General, Our home | No Comments

The wife loves flowers. We do not have a garden , so she uses the patio to its fullest. And I was armed with my new Canon SD550! So took this photograph using the Color Accent feature!

Scaling web aps

May 4, 2006 on 5:53 pm | In php, mysql, webdev | No Comments

FuzzyBlog » Blog Archive » The Promised php|tek Podcast – Scaling Ookles

Great podcast, as expected!

A few questions/comments for Scott (included as comments on Scott’s blog)

1. ORM. The reason I liked ORM was that I could avoid the slurry of SQL statements everywhere. I guess you do have some sort of a database abstraction in the framework, which does not follow the ORM paradigm. Would love to have more details of it if possible.

2. You have mentioned Brad’s memcached in an earlier podcast. maybe it was me, but I think you did not touch on it in this one. Was it just an oversight, or is it something that you have not embedded in your framework? I was hoping you had, cause the danga.com site barely mentions php and memcache in one sentence!

3. While on Brad and livejournal, the link to his presentations is http://danga.com/words/2005_mysqlcon/mysql-slides-2005.pdf.

4. Single Databases. You mention this as a reason for staying away from ruby on rails and django. Are you saying that you have incorporated multi database support within OWF ?  Will appreciate details

5. Replication Hell. I agree that an Alter table statement can really cause havoc with replication. But what I fail to understand is why would you have an alter table statement on a production system? Maybe some maintenance needs might require you to add an index or two, but do u need to base your design on such a infrequest need? I find it difficult to imagine a production system , where table structures are changed on the fly.

6. What is your opinion on the Mysql 5 centric features like stored procedures, triggers and views? Have you used any, and if so, can you share your expereiences? I personally come from a sybase background, and have used atleast the first two a lot. Unfortunately my shared host just has mysql 4, so have not been able to test these out on my own.

 

  

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I can see clearly now.. the rain is gone!

May 3, 2006 on 4:32 am | In General, php | No Comments

Thank you pro::php podcast, and Marcus! The panel discussion with proponents of symfony/zend/ezcomponents/pear was fantastic! I think I know exactly the path that I need to take! It is going to be symfony, using the bridge to hook onto zend and ezcomponments. Pear is still mainly php4, so will go to it only if there is something that is not available any where else!

 

mermaids

April 30, 2006 on 7:48 am | In General | No Comments

Awesome glass painting! Any buyers?

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