India is out of ICC Cricket World Cup 2007

India is almost out of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2007. The only hope left of it making into the Super 8 series is that Bermuda should defeat Bangladesh with a good margin. The way both Bangladesh and Bermuda have performed in the recent past this seems highly unlikely.

This shabby performance of Team India has disappointed us.

Everybody around us is talking of all the bragging that the players shamelessly did in the media. The loud advertisements where the players left no stone unturned to convince the Indians that they would certainly return with the ICC Cricket World Cup 2007. We have also come across a group that is planning to run a pledge campaign where they are asking the people at large to boycott use of the products of the companies that contributed to the media hype that was created throught such advertisement, at least of a short period of time.

It is time the corporate world took notice of the resentment in the market and stops playing with the sentiments of the people. It could lead to a negative impact on the sales of their products.

Meanwhile, our city site has been shifted to its own domain - http://www.merabsp.com. The beta site at http://bilaspur.dataspec.info was receiving decent traffic, we are keeping our fingers crossed and are continually hoping that web site keeps receiving better audience.

Gajendra

Just unable to write.

Since the day I put up my last post, I just am unable to sit up and write.

It feels so strange. One day everything was smooth with me devoting a little time for all the activities lined up for the day then all of a sudden everything goes hay-wire.

Our group decides that we should put up something related to cricket on our site. With the mega event of Cricket - ICC Cricket World Cup 2007 - round the corner it would be inappropriate if the site does not have anything on the issue.

There goes the peace into thin air. Setting the database and the software and compiling the data - phew!! One hell of an assignment and very little time to accomplish all this. However, we did it. The cricket section is up and running fine. There is still lots on our database that can be shown. If you are interested the URL is http://bilaspur.dataspec.info/Cricket.aspx.

Some customers got angry because we had neglected them. But I must say, it certainly did us some good. It has brought some steady traffic to our portal. Some search engine has got us indexed in some good position. Our logs are showing a steady inflow of new hits on the Cricket page of our site.

Now we have to do some thing to maintain these hits after the world cup is over.

Gajendra

Blog on my experiences as a portal developer

Its done. I have launched a new blog to document my experiences in leading the development of the city portal for Bilaspur.

The link for the new portal is http://my.opera.com/WebDevMan/blog.

I look forward to pen down my experiences and share them with the development community at large.

I only hope I enjoy posting in the new blog as I have over here.

Development of a Portal

I have been working on web-sites for more than 5 years now. I have developed several dynamic and static web sites hosted on the Internet and on intranets. I have always enjoyed the experience of delivering information to people in distant locations on the click of a mouse.

All the sites done so far were for clients - on order - where neither the nature of content nor its quality and quantity were in my control. But, leading the development of our own web-site - an intended portal in the long run - is a different experience altogether. There is so much that can be done with web-sites.

I think, I shall start a new blog to publish my experiences in this line of work.

Meanwhile, my team have started gearing up the site for the upcoming Cricket World Cup 2007 schedule to start in March 2007 in the West Indies. The list of teams and schedule is already up. We are waiting for the teams to be announced.

We hope to provide easy to access, rich, cross-linked reporting on the event.

Information Site for Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India

I would like to alter the old adage "practise makes perfect" to "practise makes confident".

Well! It is certainly so. Thanks to this blog - gajendhir.blogspot.com. It is here that I started all out on my writing spree.

Don't judge me by the amount of posting you see here. I agree it may not seem enough to many. I have done much more writing beyond this site. I am personally satisfied with the amount of writing work that I have already done and it is just the beginning.

Very little of my writing is on-line, some can be seen at...

• retailsurvive.blogspot.com
• My official web-site

Each page I write, my confidence is increasing.

Meanwhile, I have started work on one more web-site last fort-night. It is an Information Site for Bilaspur. Bilaspur in Chhattisgarh, India is where I live and this site is devoted at providing on-line information about the region. Presently the beta can be seen as a sub-domain of my official web-site.

We are targetting at providing a complete picture about the district covering all aspects including...

• Administration
• Commerce
• Education
• Health Care
• Tourism
et al

We are receiving good feedback from the local population and are sure to come up with an useful, informative site.

The site is fast taking shape and soon it will be ready to be transfered to its own domain.

I have completed my first paid writing job

Writing has always fascinated me. I have always been impressed by people whose work has been published. I have been regularly trying my hand at writing and have been published several times. All of the writing work that I have done so far has been for free.

Let me try to list out the different types of writting works that I have done so far. I have...

• Done translation work for a local newspaper - translating articles and news from English to Hindi and vice-versa.
• Written technical articles on the Internet.
• Done ghost writing
• Written and published my own book - titled "Community Based Rehabilitation - An Introduction" - in Hindi.

I have nurtured the love for writing for quite sometime now.

Last week was different. It was the first time I did freelance writing work for which the writing fees were negotiated and finalized before the work was started. Though the amount was not much - still it is important because it was the first time I had taken up an assignment for writing on a commercial basis.

The work was a small one page article for a local business who wanted copy a brochure that he wants to get printed. The work has been duly completed, submitted and submitted. I can attribute part of my confidence in taking up this assignment to this blog. It has given me an opportunity to write out to my heart's content and get over the mental block.

I now await the payment and hope I get it before the excitement for it subsides.

I am really excited and looking out for more such assignments.

The bungle has been resolved.

I would like to dedicate this blog entry to all those who wished me luck in resolving the problem I had got myself into last time. (See previous post for details.)

The issue has been resolved. The web-site is up and running fine. The new feature that was the source of the problem is also up and working as planned and anticipated on the drawing board. In fact, now I am in a position where I would say that the error was a blessing in disguise. But for the problem, I would not have explored and research ASP.NET, the development platform used, to the extent I did, at least not in the near foreseeable future.

Once again thanks to all my well-wishers.