The journey Just the word ‘picnic’ brings a cheer and smile to the face of everyone, whether simply going to a park or a historical monument or any other place. The atmosphere is one of excitement, fun and frolic. The…
The Nordic leaf fairytale
I always dreamt of seeing snow since as far as I can remember and seeing snow covered peaks as a birthday gift, well that was pretty special! The journey to the Kingdom of Norway began on 13th day of October,…
Language Barriers
Overcoming Language Barriers in International Business Have you experienced a language barrier in business? In most businesses, language barriers can have a dire affect; however for others it can benefit their business. Language should not stop us from doing business.…
The Oranje journey
25th October 2012 while working on a project I get a Skype pop Up “Blog about First on-site visit” which took place from 22nd September 2012 till 29th September 2012. That was a week filled with excitement, enjoyment, work and…
HR principles @UMANG
Human Resource Management in simple terms is the management of an organizations, human resources or the employees. The Role and Function of Human Resource Department includes 1. Recruitment of Employees This one is the most important role of HR in…
Space age : software programming
Space age : software programming Since the beginning of time man wanted to go to space and explore it’s the vast reaches and emptiness. Since man started to look up into space, we have tried to be there and aim…
The Android Guide – Part 2
The first part had brief information about the Android history and installation. The second part of the Android guide will deal with the coding, good practices and Android versions Activity life cycle Methods 1)onCreate() Called when the activity is first…
The Android Guide – Part 1
The Android Guide Android History Android is a technology which has developed so fast that we have Android all around us. Initially developed for mobile devices like mobile phones and tablets Android has now made its way to wrist watches,…
Java – The Basics
Java When we hear it first thing that comes into our mind is Platform Independence and Object oriented programming. So now let us see what is actually present in java programs (Structure). package PackageName; import Statements; class classname { variable…
The College Diaries- a walk down the memory lane
The College Diaries College started as usual in mid of July every one was excited and looking forward to meet their classmates and to experience the feeling of being seniors in the college (yeah that’s what everyone dreams of when…
Women Empowerment
Women Empowerment Empowering women in India was something that I had been thinking a lot about after getting inspired from one of the Television show titled “satyamev jayate ” ….based on political ,economic, social issues of our country, and I…
Software Development Best Practices
What is ‘Best Practices’? Method or process followed to deliver results successfully and effectively The process differs from organization to organization. In software programming it could used for gathering requirement, maintaining code, debugging code, or delivering the…
Days to Deadline MIDI world
It was May 9th and my colleagues were busy with work, I was also doing my pending project work .One of my colleague was struggling with something called “MIDI”. Which I had never heard of. Out of curiosity I looked…
Hypertext Preprocessor
I was done with my project in python……. was in its UAT (User accepting Testing) stage…… Feeling relaxed…. Was called in the cabin…got one more task of learning new language Hypertext Preprocessor….PHP (Yeah..!! bring it On) Was just aware of …
Database dumped, Dedication restored
It’s a pleasant day, 3 months passed joining as fresher, no much of workload everything going smooth. Until a Skype message pops on the taskbar. Me:”Na, nothing to worry, will be just a status inquiry or things of such sort.…
Delphi XE2 and FireMonkey… 3D Application Development Review
While browsing through Embarcadero tweets, I just came across the word ‘Firemonkey’. I had heard about Firefox, and Seamonkey, but whats this FireMonkey all about?? I was curious… ‘FireMonkey’ -The Next Generation Business Application Platform. Imagine a next generation platform…
Trip #3 to 21°10′N 72°50′E
Trip #3 to 21°10′N 72°50′E Oh almighty hardware..!!, programming a software which controls hardware is never easy, lack of hardware at hands is even more tricky…So hence my journey to 21°10′N 72°50′E was decided. Multi million Rupee hardware cutting down…
Confrontation with Python
Confrontation with Python It was December and we were gearing up for Christmas and New Year Celebration at Umang office, when a message from my boss popped up on skype “How much do you know about Python Programming???”. I was…
c0d3 t!ll y0u Dr0p
c0d3 t!ll y0u Dr0p On the 13th day of February Umang Software Technologies organized ‘Code till you drop’ a team Coding competition for the employees of the Umang family. The competition was a hardcore coding contest to test the…
Our New Adventure
Team : UMANG A Chinese proverb says ‘Journey of a thousand mile begins with One step’, so hence the journey of Umang began with Uma and Mangirish on 15th day of September 2009, armed with a laptop, a whole lot…