If you want to make a promise to someone, there is a new website that might help you send your promise/message across in a way that your loved ones will remember and can actually keep with them.
The website is called Bank of Promises.
Here is a brief from the site itself :-
About the Bank :-
The Bank of Promises allows you to send an alternative to, and hybrid of, a greeting card (birthday, Christmas, Valentines etc) and a gift – it’s a card with a Promise Note included.
About the Note:-
The Promise Notes are a similar size, and have a similar look and feel, to bank notes but instead of stating “One Pound”, they state “One Promise”. Each Promise Note is printed with a unique serial number so that no two are ever alike.
And for those who are interested, yes, I have been involved in developing this website and I have thoroughly enjoyed working on it. This is basically a phase 1 of a much larger plan but for now, its out there and ready for people to send out promises to each other. Please feel free to spread the word across.
I was assigned a task, recently, whereby I was given a list of about 100 domain names and I had to create all those websites on a fresh installation of IIS 6.0. Naturally, I started looking for some kind of tool that would do this for me. After spending some time on search and asking a few people, I realized , there is no such tool (correct me if I am wrong here).
So, I thought of writing a little ColdFusion script that would do this for me. Turns out it wasnt that bad at all and it worked like a charm. More »
I haven’t really blogged about this before, but approx. 1.5 years ago, I decided to quit my permanent job and start taking up only contract roles. I was a bit worried about this whole contracting thing, when I initially decided to take this route. I was concerned that what if I don’t get a project for an extended period of time etc and all those worries that any newbie would have. But it has been good so far.
I have been getting different roles throughout, not necessarily without a gap, though. My main skills are ColdFusion and Flex/AIR and out of the 3 contracts I have done in the past 1.5 years, one was purely ColdFusion, one was purely Flex and the third one was a mixture of both. It takes time to find contracts and there is almost always a little gap in when you finish one and start another one.
Coming to the reason of this post, I would like to announce that I have managed to setup my ltd company’s website . Yes, that’s the name – Ansh Consulting. I have tried to keep the website a simple and informational one. That’s how I like things to be – simple and straight forward. Feel free to have a look and feel free to do any constructive criticism as well. And without a question, feel free to send in any project queries that you would like to hire us for. No job too big or small.
Its been a couple of months I haven’t really posted anything at all here. It has been a really busy period for me. I have taken up a new Flex role and the project is quite interesting and demanding. I spend literally all my time on this project and finishing off some other commitments in any extra time I get.
I have got a lot of useful information I have learned in the past 2 months and I hope to blog about them pretty soon. And yeah, I have been following all the ColdFusion Builder and CF9 related posts, lately. Pretty cool Stuff! I will be back in the blogosphere soon, guys!
Happy Coding!
I have been working on this project for the last few months and we have been successful in launching this on time as per the schedule.
The URL is http://www.mazdausedcarlocator.co.uk/ – It has got both a Flex version and an HTML version. I personally love the Rich Experience (Flex version) as it provides a really smooth interface for anyone who is looking for a used Mazda car. The HTML version is no less either.
For those who are interested, this is all ColdFusion and Flex with some jQuery love attached to it.
I would like to thank the whole team at 2ndByte for being supportive throughout and making this happen. It was fun to be part of this project.
It has been snowing heavily today here in the UK. I went to work in the morning and had to come back half way as most of the trains were cancelled.
This is how my back garden is looking at the moment.
View of Back Garden
I normally don’t take up such tasks, but I was recently tasked to migrate an old Wordpress installation to a new server and a new version. This sounded like a pretty simple task to do, so I took it up. Upload the files, export data from the old one, import into new one and thats it! Well, thats what I thought until I found out that the new server was not running Apache. Instead, it was running Zeus webserver. Wordpress uses .htaccess (mod_rewrite module) to build pretty looking URL’s (without the index.php in the URL) and unfortunately, just copying the Apache .htacess to a Zeus webserver won’t work. Took me over an hour to figure that out! More »
This post is just to say Happy New Year 2009 to everyone. I know I have been completely inactive here for over 2 months now but that’s because of several reasons. I had a good 4 weeks holiday (much needed holiday) and I am now back to routine looking for some new consulting assignments. I am hoping once the holiday season is over, I will be abe to get hold of something and be active in blogging once again.
Happy New Year once again!
I went for my first ever Bungee Jump today, I thought I’d post the video here. By the way, it was an absolutely amazing experience. Having a free fall from such a height and then getting pulled back up right when you are about to reach the ground level, WOW!. I was so nervous, the first time the guy asked me “are you ready?” I instantly said “No!” 
Anyways, Enjoy! More »
Well, thats a question I keep asking myself. And it has been very frequent in my mind, recently. You know, the more you read blogs and articles, the more you say to yourself “I need to do this” , “I gotta have this in my skillset” (well, if you are like me).
I work as a fulltime ColdFusion developer (with occasional Flex/AIR). And there is so much in the CF world that I want to bring to my daily routine (leave aside other languages) e.g. I am not using any frameworks at work, no unit testing and no design patterns. Definitely not the way to go, I would say. Those are just few of the things I want to do some work on. More »
