A long walk to freedom - Nelson Mandela

A must read book for anybody especially our current generation who are living in such a free country. The book is an autobiography by Nelson Mandela about the struggle of the people of South Africa on fight against apartheid. It showcases how the white minority suppressed the native black community for more than 3 centuries.
The book highlights that even during the modern days, racial discrimination was so rampant that there was parallel system for everything from transportation, job, land ownership and even for education. Even in prison where Nelson Mandela spend 27 years of his life there was differentiation between the white, black, Indian and coloured communities no matter what the crime.
The book also speaks about ANC the African National Congress and its role in uniting the people under one umbrella to fight for the right to justice.
Nelson Mandela and his comrades had struggled a lot for South Africans to live the life they are living today. A lot of sacrifices where made by these leaders both professionally and personally. It was indeed a long walk to freedom !!!

Entrepreneurship - Some thoughts

Below are some thoughts I like to share. I may add, edit or delete things in the future. I should actually.

Entrepreneur should

1. Keep oneself up to date about the his field
2. Always keep networking and meeting new people
3. Never give up - A company takes at least 5 years to mature
4. Find happiness in smallest of the achievements and celebrate
5. Surround oneself with smart people
6. Never assume anything and never take things for granted
7. Attach yourself to the company and not the product
8. Never be obsessed with your position it may change over time
9. Believe in yourself but believe in your partners more 

10. Spend money wisely.
11. Hug your wife not your company. Sell when opportunity is right.
12. Last but the most important - Dream big !!!

Hunan the Chinese

I am late writing this blog. Should have written two days back when I had a great dining experience from Hunan the Chinese restaurant. It is a dining place near here at Sanjay nagar. I don't know whether it is a chain of restaurant but it does provide some of the awesome food I ever had from where I ended up having a three course meal.
The moment we took our seat a waiter came over to us and lit the candle on the table and gave us all the menu card. We were finding it difficult to decide upon which dishes to order so the waiter stood near us and explained to us each dish we fired upon him so that we could decide better and we ended up ordering a 3 course meal. We started with soup one crab and one veg don't remember the exact names. Next a vegetarian tofu. I never knew paneer could be prepared like this. It was as soft as cotton and the spices they added was excellent. We had fought over it if the waiter had not distributed it evenly.
The main course consisted of four different kind of noodles. Nithin ordered dragon noodle, Prathi Singapore glass noodle, mahesh I don't know what and me ordered a Malaysian thick noodle. All were great. We ended our meal with the best desserts anybody could have.
We came out of the restaurant with tummy quite heavier and wallets quite a lot lighter. Have a look at the image below, it explains everything.

The kid inside every person

We always think that it would be great if we could relive our childhood or wish we could be born again and never grow up. Feel that we should be able to do all the crazy stuff that we used to do when we were child - run around, shout out anywhere, climb trees, play from sunrise to sunset and so on. But what do we do to make this happen. NOTHING - Yes that is right nothing.
We just keep wondering that's all we do. But now I have a friend who has proven to me that he will always be a kid and one never has to grow up. One can always be immature and live the life we want no matter what. I call him today The man with the plastic gun. Even though the name is funny it is how everyone wishes to be but never attempts to be so.

What an awesome launch !!!

It was great to know that my company Amidray was selected as one of the 18 top startups at the startupfestival launchpad. It even felt better when we launched our product in front of a big entrepreneur community. What a wonderful experience.
The launch went well and many came to congratulate. Later after the event many came to see us and gave a good review for the app. Developing a product is an awesome experience but seeing people use it feels even better.
Thanks to all for a great support and really like to thank Daniel and all the startup festival crew for helping us out and supporting us.
That is CEO of Amidray Technologies launching zimzim

Launch of our app

Launching our app ZimZim Today. It is a big day for us here at Amidray as we got an opportunity to launch it at startup festival. We are looking forward to the launch. Just finished with the PPT and final preparations going on for the presentation tomorrow.
We are really thankful to startup festival team especially Daniel for helping us with our product launch presentation. They were of greats help. We have a great team with us now and I am sure it will not be too hard for us to overcome any challenge.

We hope to achieve more and we are constantly working hard towards the goal.

Quick steps to Joomla Installation

First step in Joomla is ya you guessed it right to download joomla from the joomla website. If you have already not done that then here is the download link.
Please make sure that you download the newest joomla from the the site. Unzip the files into a local folder and name it joomla and then upload the contents of that folder into your server using your favorite FTP client like cuteftp, filezilla, or smartftp you can get most of them for free just google it and you will get it. I use Filezilla and i am pretty happy with it. Easy to download and easy to install.

Steps in Joomla installation

Step 1

Now go to your browser window and enter your respective url followed by where you uploaded the joomla files in your server. The URL should look something like this: http://www.yoursite.com/nameoffolder. You will be asked to select the preferred language of your joomla installation and english will be checked by default. Refer the following image for more details.

Step 2

Then click on next. Then joomla will perform a pre-installation check to check whether your server has got the required configuration to install Joomla on your server. A snaphot has been attached below to help you with this. If your page looks like this then you can go forward with next step. Just click on the Next button.

Step 3

This is not actually a step you can call it a stage if you want since it does not involve much work in here. You can just browse through the license if you want to know more about it.

The next page is the license agreement. Joomla is given under GNU/GPL license which is perfectly free. It just states that you have to provide any change that you make to Joomla free of cost to anyone in simple words.

Step 4

The next step requires you to provide the database details where you have to install the database for your joomla installation. These are the details you need to know before you can continue with this step. You need to know your :

1. Database type (mysql or mysqli)
2. Host name (which will probably be localhost for most of the hosting providers)
3. Database username (You can select this according to your wish)
4. Password (Make sure you make this strong enough and easy to remember)
The database type and hostname will be provided by hosting providers
If you scroll downwards you will see advanced settings. In that if you select drop existing table then any old table from previous joomla installation will be deleted and replaced with new database tables. You may also select back up old tables to backup the old tables. But the tables will be replaced with new one. Another method to use is by changing the table prefix so that you need not replace the old database from the previous installation.

Step 5

Next comes the configuration page where you need to enter your e-mail and password. The page will also ask you whether you want to install sample data which will bring to front some features of the joomla site. Other wise the site will look empty once the site is deployed. Press next once
you are done. You can also enter your sitename in this page.

The installation is now compete and you need to delete the installation directory once you are done. Joomla wont allow you to access the administrator back end till you delete these files. This too can be done using your frp client. Press finish to complete the setup. You can access the the login page or administrator back end of joomla. Your URL will look something like this. http://www.yoursite.com/administrator. So enjoy your joomla experience and give me your feedback.