Career : First thing was, left the career’s first job & joined other. Second thing was, stayed for about 7 months there & left that as well & joined a new one. I was always satisfied with the changes. And today when I am writing here, I am very happy with the decisions I have made for my professional career. 2009 ending was not that much good, anyways thats now history.

Health : Now I am gonna write here about Health. As I am going to focus more on Health in 2011, you will find this post mostly health oriented. So if you are find it boring just leave.

Sept-Oct-Nov 2010: Enjoying life, working for the money & tummy. Being an IT professional & computer addict, most people (including me) wont care about health. For the people like me, every morning we find ourselves shirtless in front of the mirror making weird postures. I then have to say, Ooops, my ugly belly is really looking ugly. Boss its time to loose some now.

It took couple of months for me to decide when to start with the workouts to get rid of those extra kgs & inches gained. After all made a decision & on mah b’day I started going nearby Gym. As heard before, the gym was much better compare to others in my locality. These days my workout routines include cardio workouts as well as strength trainings. Today when I am writing here I have already lost more then 5 Kgs & may be an inch from the belly. Eating habits also changed now. But still cant help myself on Sundays. May be many people will call it diet, but no its not diet. Its a lifestyle change. No other kind of resolutions coming in mag mind, these are some health resolutions for 2011, started following some of them already since month.

Eat more, Eat less : Eat more in breakfast & (very) less  in dinner. I learned that, the main reason behind gaining weight is more eating at nights.

Cut on Sugar, Oil : Say no to sweets. Make sugar an enemy. Have less sugar in Tea. Eat only those food made with no or less oil. Its really challenging to follow it in wedding season. In spite of wedding season, I am quite satisfied that I followed this up to some extent in last couple of months.

Run at least 365 km : This gonna be real fun. Yes, I’m gonna do jogging/running 365 km at least for 2011 on Treadmills, Roads or on Tracks. Time to take advantage of nearby Sport Complex having running track facility. Happy to say that already doing avg. 6 km/week. May be will buy a Nike+ running kit, if possible.

Get Motivated : Its not easy get motivated always. Nobody can get motivated if the results are not in his/her favor. Measure almost everyday before & after workouts & see results, where you stands. If the results are not right, find the reason behind it, what you eat, what you did the previous day.

Loose, Maintain & Never gain again : This is going to be the health mantra for the whole year.

When I will be writing the similar post in the end of 2011, I want to see myself in the mirror & want to say.. Yeah, my ugly belly is really looking awesome

But what’s the way to type the currency symbol using your existing keyboard ? Well, in future the Indian keyboard manufactures will give a way to type it. That’s for sure.

For now, there is a font available: Rupee Foradian.ttf. Which allows to print the sign ‘`‘ by typing ‘`’.

What about the web ? Say you want to display the symbol on your site in some content. But the end user may not be having the required font installed on its own computer system. That will not make any sense.
But still there is a way to do it. You can generate the Font Squirrel kit to make it displayed on your websites. However knowledge of CSS will be needed.

As you can see below, I am using the same kit to print the Indian National Rupee symbol. If you are able to see the correct symbol below, the kit is working perfectly.

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Most-discussed addition is the new ability of the software to run multiple blogs like WordPress MU.

Just watch the video below to get introduced to it.

This is a new place for this blog. I have migrated the older version of this blog (blogspot) to WordPress now.

Change is good.

Lets have a recap of the Year 2009.

Family & Friends
Some incidents in family drawn my family in a bit trouble. It was the hard time. But as time passed, all got back to normal.

I lost my Nana this year. He got paralysis attack. He was aged. The good thing was, we took the initiative for Eye donation. We donated his eyes to the Eye bank. I wrote about it here earlier: Eye Donation: Our little efforts will give someone new life

Apart from that just few months back I lost one of my close friend, Jatin. He got an heart attack & passed away. Just few months back from that time, we used to go office together on a bike, as his office was at the little distance from mine. We were in contact since we were in primary school. RIP Jatin.

Just after few days I lost him, I heard about the death of one my colleague at my office. She worked at my office, but she left long ago. We were not in contact since long, and all of a sudden, Dhaval, who was the common friend with her, called me & gave the news that Jignisha died in Dubai due to food poisoning.

Health
Beginning of the year was just good. Me and Rahul joined the health club thinking about loosing some some kgs. We joined in the end of 2008, but we were succeed to continue with it in 2009 as well. achievement huh.. . It lasted till the middle of Feb. You will feel good when number of people tell you that,”Oh Jignesh, you really looking slimmer.” And it feels really good when girls say it. I was lucky to get those comments. I lost near 2 inches from the tummy. Satisfactory. But for some reasons we failed to continue it for long.

Only Salad in Lunch for consecutively about 8 months !! Yes, thats true. In those span of 8 months, 90-95% of my lunch Salad only. Having lunch with mates at my work place is always a fun. Those days, when I had salad & others having ordinary food. I had to answer everyone in office, why I am on it. Some of the comments I got from others were very interesting. Some of them were like:
“Are you sick? Has doctor asked not to eat anything else ?”
“Are you going through some Ayurvedic treatment or what ?”
“You are one of healthiest people here. C’mon.. share your food with me. I need it. You take my food.”
“I got now, why your skin is so fair, because you take lots of Salad a day. Salad keeps you skin shiny & healthy, keep it up.”
But apart from all above, the Truth is, I decided to have salad in Lunch to avoid the sleepiness after heavy lunch and good thing was it really worked.

Magento
Since I joined the current organization, I never worked on the Magento E-Commerce. But this year I got an opportunity to work on it. It was hard, was totally different from the other frameworks I worked earlier. But Hitesh, one of my friends & colleague in my Team helped me a lot to start with. I’m very much thankful to him and the other people who supported me. I bought a domain: jigneshpatel.co.in & I started a blog on Magento: Magento Coder. Based on the statistics my blog was getting good number hits. Getting comments from other developers & replying to them has became part of daily activity.

E63
After a long time, I was able to buy a new Handset. After spending a good amount of money for body and battery still I was not satisfied with the reliability with my old mate Nokia 3230. Finally I handed it over to my Uncle and got the new one. Since I needed a Wifi enabled phone having qwetry or touch keypad, Nokia E63 was the perfect choice for me as the price was also near the budget. Hoping for an iPhone in near future.

Magnet
Magnet, my current work place, I joined it more than two years ago and I’ve seen lot of things happening in here since beginning, but 2009 was a bit unexpected. Upper level management decided some bigger changes in Management. The upper layer has been changed totally. Company had gone through some tough times. For me, the bad thing was.. some best friends left. At some point of time I felt, I was alone. Gone were the days which will never come back. Because of some reasons I have decided to leave Magnet. Just after few days route to my work place will be changed.

Google Public DNS (8.8.8.8; 8.8.4.4)

However from my point of view, Ubuntu 9.04 does provide much better font smoothing. After seeing that Ubuntu, I would like to have the same on the Windows Xp as well.

As a solution I was able to find a library named ‘GDI++’. Just google it & you will get the download link easily.

I tried out, not satisfied with default settings. So I did make some changes in ini(s) settings file & it worked. I was able get the satisfactory results after spending around an hour on it. The screenshots are as below for the font smoothing on various Operating Systems. Have look, which one you like?

Windows Xp – Cleartype Fontsmoothing

Windows Xp – GDI++

Ubuntu 9.04

Mac OS X Leopard

Note: This post is for the people who understand the font rendering/smoothing.

It all depends on the header which is being sent from the web server to the client browser. By default, the browser can open the images i.e. .gif, j.pg, .png & some other file as well like .swf (for FF especially).

This is how it can be implemented with Content-disposition. For example I want to force to save the .swf file.

The PHP code will be:

<?phpheader('Content-disposition: attachment; filename=filename.swf');header('Content-type:application/x-shockwave-flash');readfile('pathoffile/filename.swf');exit;?>

Nothing so say here. Have a look at the features.

Prices & Date of launch not declared yet. But this one will be the major attraction at the Nokia World to be held in Germany.

After looking at that Why people search only negative things for americans?