Start Your Own

For a cause which we want to really dig, it's never too late to become a part of it. Same if we're trying to launch a new venture , the best thing we can do is just listen.
Communicating, Control & Customization are the best catalyst for success. Ning has networking platform which offer users the same kind of ownership.
Take medium as a challenge nor the so-called limitations at face value.
There is a famous words that “We're never too young to start our own company”. And particularly if we write software, our own web site can be relatively cheap.
In corporate sector, look for a role that will suit us,is not only sufficient, we have to find a company that will help us to grow also.

Creativity

A new idea is a combination of old elements. Being able to devise new combinations depend on your ability to discern relationships between seemingly disparate items.
Creativity is the juxtaposition of ideas which were previously thought to be unrelated. Its our ability to combine ides in a unique way to make useful associations among them. There is virtually no problem, we can not solve, no goal we cannot achieve, no obstacle we can not overcome, if we are creative!! We don't have to be special kind of person to be creative – every one can do it, its not about who you are, its about what you do. Its about making new synergistic connections.
For that we need to start looking for multiple solutions rather than setting for just one. Give yourself permission to be playful & inquisitive, flexible & versatile.To invent new connections, the maintenance of uncertainty is important for a time.
Love what you are doing?
Practice every day.
How often should you practice if you wish to win a gold medal in Olympics : once a month? once a week? or everyday? How often should you exercise your right brain creative muscles if you wish to master your creative skills : once a month? once a week? Or everyday? The good news is that creativity is a skill and a talent that can be learned & developed through practice.
Take a different view, force ourself to re frame the problem, break down it into components & then assemble them in a different way. It requires an inquisitive mind. Try asking all important Why? Unless we asks lots & lots of Why? & What if? questions we won't generate creative insights. Try getting ideas in motion, be the best possible.
Highly visible people are seen as resources only. We have to use what we know about one field on another.
The creative minds plays with the objects it loves. The creation of some thing new is not accomplished just by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity.
Creativity – Coming up with ideas.
Innovation – Bringing ideas to life.

Innovation

Innovation is about creating value & increasing efficiency. Creating value through the application of knowledge. Innovation needs the spirit “to make best thing in the world”.
Research has a major role in innovation. If you are going to withstand relentless global competition, you need to radically change the way of doing business.
Innovation is systemic – it arises from complex interactions between many individuals, organizations & their operating environment.
True innovation happens when a company jumps to the next curve or better still invents the next curve, so always set our goal high.

Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneur is a person who habitually creates & innovates to build something of recognized value around perceived opportunities. Here creates means starting from scratch & bringing into being something that was not there before.
Always start with small, try to do one specific thing. For true success its very necessary that we should ask ourself Why?, Why Not?, Why Not me?, Why Not now?
We have to build habit for asking searching questions. With an incomplete understanding of the problem it is very easy to jump on a wrong conclusions.
“Why - to discover the roots of the problem”.
“How – to discover routes to significant improvement”.
Keep freedom to experiment, fail & begin again more intelligently. Only creative people can reach the moon. For this we have to indulge ourself in continuous innovative activity. Focus on opportunities not on problems. Results come from exploiting opportunities, not solving problems. See changes as the norm & as healthy. Go for change, respond to it & exploit it as an opportunity.
Do commit, & be a idea generator.
Business demands business “BLISS”.
B – Balance
L – Leadership
I – Innovation
S – Synergy
S – Speed
Leaders lead improvisation, Managers provide structure, & their resulting synergy is a jazz of innovation.

CodeMunch on Orkut

Orkut is one of the popular online community in India. Few months before Google released an OpenSocial APIs for adding different applications on Orkut.
CodeMunch - A Resume Builder, is also an one of the application in Orkut application directory.
Basically, with the help of CodeMunch we are able to make our professional resume social.
Its too good now that with CodeMunch we guys from Orkut will able to reinvent our resume, will able to give our resume a new makeover, will able to showcase all our skills and potentials by building & updating our professional cum social resume.
We are free to share or recommend ours as well as others resume with a cover letter with anybody (like recruiter's, friends etc.) from Orkut.
We are also able to invite with this app any of our Orkut friends to join.

Happy Munching :)

Toolbar extension environment for Firefox

A toolbar extension for the Firefox web browser isn't difficult, although some basic programming knowledge is required. There are three basic areas, that we should be somewhat familiar with: XML, JavaScript, and CSS.
Several software tools are required to create a Firefox extension, and all of them are freely available.
As such, we will need a good text editor.
The second tool we need is a zip-file utility.
An extension's framework is used to tell Firefox about the extension: how its files are structured, who created it, its GUID, etc. The user interface portion of a Firefox extension is created using XUL (pronounced "zool"), a markup language used in creating, you guessed it, user interfaces. XUL can be thought of as a "flavor" of XML, simply because XUL is nothing more than XML that makes use of predefined elements (also called widgets). The beauty of XUL comes through the use of what it calls dynamic overlays. A dynamic overlay allows a developer to modify the behavior of a window's user interface, without having to change the original interface's code.
All toolbars in Firefox should live within a toolbox. We need is a file to point Firefox to our extension's location on our hard drive. We will do so through the use of a "pointer" file.
A "skin" is a collection of styling rules and images that get used to change the appearance of the toolbar we are building.
Firefox extensions are usually driven by JavaScript. Firefox chrome's DOM, which allows us to access the individual elements of our toolbar. The id attributes for our XUL elements needed to be unique across the entire browser system, so too must our JavaScript variables and functions be unique. All JavaScript included in a browser overlay is global, hence this unique name constraint. Our XUL markup needs to be told where to find the corresponding JavaScript.
We have to package everything up into one installable file. The biggest mistake that people make when packaging the file is omitting the relative path names of the files.

Six months with CodeMunch

CodeMunch - A Resume Builder.
A smart way to manage your Resume.
Resume management with taking care of your skills is really a headache, but on CodeMunch we had tried to make it fun for you.

On CodeMunch we are covering 47 different domains, we are providing for all of them a different UI and functionality. It means a guy of any domain can easily register himself on CodeMunch. We are asking with user only the relevant data in a very precise manner, definitly keeping in mind its domain. I think it would take hardly 10 to 15 minutes for a user to fill these data on CodeMunch. Instead of on the basis of the data which he had provided, we are providing him his social resume, known as his “SkillMunch” page.

Once your profile has been complete 75% or more than this then you can download your resume as a clear, robust & in a well formatted template, just free of cost. You have not to spend a single penny from your pocket for your standard resume.

Now come to the big one, recently we had introduced a very useful feature called Group module. Group module is so interesting and equally helpful for freshers, as well as for professional ones. It really helps to enhance your knowledge, and to show case your skills.
Actually on CodeMunch, Group is an individual entity which has its different forums. Any body, can post a question there, reply for a question.
We are also asking from users to suggest new group. CodeMunch team will definitely help you to create the new one.

On CodeMunch we have a motive to make your resume social, make your skill set relevant to the world you live. Therefore, CodeMunch adopts a unique social resume model to achieve your professional resume with the help of peer ratings and comments by others.

It provides you a facility to send message individually to any of the CodeMunch users.

You can put badges provided by us on your blog or on your social profile page.

We had extended our search functionality also. Now not only with username, you guys can search with username, realname, location and of course with technical info.

You can invite your friends who are not registered yet on CodeMunch to join CodeMunch, and also you can invite your friends who are already on CodeMunch to join CodeMunch groups.

We had got feedback from different users that, picture uploading is so hectic on CodeMunch. Therefore we had removed so many constraints from there, now its so easy. You can upload any size of picture easily on CodeMunch.

In the upcoming release we are going to work on total UI of CodeMunch. We will try to make it more catchy and attractive. Apart this we are also going to bring three, or four different templates for resume download. While we are also in a designing phase for recruiters section.
In the Meantime the process of making CodeMunch more robust, more user friendly, will carry on according to the suggestions and feedbacks obtained.

Hope to see you all munching there. :)

http://www.codemunch.com

CodeMunch : Patch Released

CodeMunch becomes more robust & user friendly.
We had removed one more curtain from CodeMunch. Now CodeMunch shining much brighter.

Instead of taking care of three domains (IT, Non IT, Non Engineering), now CodeMunch covering 47 different domains. Means you are of any background, any stream, any discipline, CodeMunch take cares of you to generate proper UI and functionality for your section.
It will ask you only the relevant information from your field to create your profile more professional in front of the global world.
To make registration more easy and user friendly we provide PHP as well as AJAX validation.
Not able to recognize Captcha, just refresh the page again.
Values will retain in the fields after getting error also.

You have a chance to be at top among the CodeMunch friends list. by just updating your profile actively. Apart this newly registered user will also be at the top among the CodeMunch user list.

Advanced search on the basis of domain, will show the projects which are performed on the selected language by the user.

User who had made the comment and the user on whose profile the comment was made can able to remove the comment, if they feel that was irreverent.
Comments will visible in LIFO order on the users SkillMunch page.
To avoid accidentally removal of projects, picture & comments javascript confirmation has been added for the user.

Functionality added to distinguish the currently running projects with the over ed one.
Framework, APIs and Role field added to cover the projects in a more standard way & to make the users SkillMunch page more professional.

URL Security added. Now, an error page will be displayed while altering the url.

All these features definitely make CodeMunch more robust & user friendly.
So, Go fast & Check it out !!
Leave your old & boring resume. Give more professional and standard look to it.

Happy Munching at http://www.codemunch.com

Cheers
CodeMunch

How to achieve Goal/ maintain Quality?

To achieve goal or to maintain a quality of a product, I think following steps are very necessary.

Go for a controlled brainstorming session about the topic. Try to understand the purpose behind the concept. Here by controlled brain storming session, I mean, try to get as many as ideas are possible from different people but analyze them in such a way that it could not be a "Black Hole". There should be a limit for analysis and implementation of ideas too.

Mentally refine the concepts gather in step one.
Match our skill set to the task & commitment.
Expand the amount of creative tools and content available.

Collaboration is very important. Generally the process lead folks to work alone, and the collaboration happens most at the end. We have to see should any how we can encourage people to join at start.

Drum up the feedback and remixing them any way we can.
Try to keep somewhere the source always.
Make milestone with deadlines & set reminders to the list.

Finally, Don't stop all of these process. always keep iterating, always try to continue evolving and developing a full suite, till any themes left.
Try to create & maintain team. Show great examples of "Team Work".

Its very necessary that our product should be received very positively in front of the community, & in front of the media.
Make the mode of getting contribution from the end user, so easy, & Try to ask for his comments with his ideas too.

Hope the above content will definitely help you to achieve your "Goal" and maintain your product a "Quality Product". !!

Importance of Local Commerce

Entrepreneurship is lot like investing. If you want to get good returns, you have to invest when market is down, & sell when it is on high.
Ambition & ability to identify growth areas are the essential ingredients to start any application. First of all before going for any service, Its very necessary that we should spot the need for the service in today's scenario. Is it more contextual to the users in the locality.
There is an important requirement for an attractive and successful service is that, its model or content should be unique & local relevant.
Always we have to look at the quality picks only, & for that we can't ignore the potential of the local commerce.
Local commerce is the thing which makes the application more functional & utilitarian.