My buddies are blogging ...

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Yesterday I messaged the above quote to few of my office buddies. Why? Just to inform them that I blog some tech stuff and those who are interested can drop by.

Also, summa oru suya vilambaram dhan :)

Only then i came to know from Srini that he has also started blogging recently. I was glad to know that. I immediately started going through his posts and there waited a pleasant surprise for me. I saw Vignesh and Prathiba name listed in his blogrolls.

Short note about them:

Srini -- I interviewed him a year back. At that time he was a fresher and I was impressed to know that he was having vague idea about VS 2005 and SQL Server 2005. Nice guy and the first impression I got about him is "he is willing to learn". Srini correct me if I am wrong :)

Vignesh -- I was one of the person to interview him. The day when this guy came for interview to DBS center in Nungambakkam .... I initially thought one another guy. But when he started answering we were really impressed. There was a point when myself, Raju (our then tech mgr) and another guy where throwing questions at him just to make him say "I am sorry, I don't know this". At last after a hour or so we succeeded in that mission :)

Prathiba -- If my memory is right I interviewed her also. I read few posts in her blog and they are really interesting. She has good writing skills. Keep it up prathiba.

I know the freshers who joined us last year are really sharp ppl. But I seriously didn't expect them to have writing skills as what they have showcased in their respective blogs. Great show guys. I have added you guys into my blogroll. Expecting lot (bit of technical blogging :) ) more from you all.

[Updated @ 12:46PM] -- It wouldn't be fair on my part if I didn't mention about Santhi. She is a pretty close friend of mine and one of the few level headed person i have met in life. I was really touched on seeing the "About me" section of her blog :)

One thing which I like as well as dislike in her is she never changes her mind after deciding something. For example, I have asked her many times in past 2+ yrs to "leave a space" after a period or a comma. She hasn't changed her habbit till now (you could check it for yourself in her About me section :)

Script table as - ALTER TO is greyed out - SQL SERVER

One of my office colleague recently asked me why we are not able to generate ALTER Table script from SSMS. If we right click on the table and choose "Script Table As" ALTER To option would be disabled or Greyed out. Is it a bug? No it isn't a bug. ALTER To is there to be used for generating modified script of Stored Procedure, Functions, Views, Triggers etc., and NOT for Tables. For generating ALTER Table script there is an work around. Right click on the table, choose "Modify" and enter into the design mode. Make what ever changes you want to make and WITHOUT saving it right click anywhere on the top half of the window (above Column properties) and choose "Generate Change Script". Please be advised that SQL Server would drop actually create a new table with modifications, move the data from the old table into it and then drop the old table. Sounds simple but assume you have a very large table for which you want to do this! Then it woul

AWS fatal error: An error occurred (400) when calling the HeadObject operation: Bad Request

While using AWS and trying to copy a file from a S3 bucket to my EC2 instance ended up with this error message. Command Used: aws s3 cp s3://mybucketname/myfilename.html /var/www/html/ Error: fatal error: An error occurred (400) when calling the HeadObject operation: Bad Request The error goes off if we add the region information to the command statement. I am using Asia Pacific (Mumbai) so used ap-south-1 as the region name. Modified Command: aws s3 cp s3://mybucketname/myfilename.html /var/www/html/ --region ap-south-1

[Non Tech] Want to know the recipe for Omelette :)

Fed up with Bread - Jam and Curd Rice, today i wanted to eat Omelette. Interesting part is I wanted to cook it myself :) So in the first picture you see all the items which are needed for preparing an Omelette. When I had a closer look at the eggs I see that almost all the eggs are broken. But believe me when I bought it couple of days back it was in perfect condition! I was wondering whether the eggs have become rotten or pretty old to consume! I tried taking an egg and break it but couldn't break it at all :) Since I have kept in the freezer all the eggs have frozen and looked like a iron ball :) After trying for few minutes of trying i removed the shell of the egg and then kept that iron ball :) into a bowl and placed it within Oven. I heated it for 1 minute and checked. It melted only to a limit. So i just set it for another 2 minutes and checked it later. It has melted but the part of the egg white has become a Omelette :( I didn't leave it there. I took the bowl out of

Prathiba Venkatesan said…

Hi Vadivel,

Thanks for taking time to go through my blog.
One correction:
I was interviewed by Santosh Sinha. Sampoorna was the one, who was interviewed by you.
And thanks for the publicity too.

9:33 AM, May 14, 2006

Vadivel said…

Oh yeah ... i forgot that. Anyway thanx for dropping by.

11:43 AM, May 14, 2006

Vignesh Kumar said…

Hi Vadivel,

I cant forget the day when i attended the interview in tat DBS Centre, it was a memorable moment..

Thanks for mentioning abt me in the blog.. Felt nice.. :)

2:12 PM, May 14, 2006

Thanks for dropping by Vignesh :)

5:19 PM, May 14, 2006

Srini said…

Thanks Vadivel,

Thanks for the post and thanks for the blog rolling too :) Will sure catch up on the technical side too.

Even I remember the yester year precisely the same way :) What a day that was !!

7:36 AM, May 15, 2006

Santhi.M said…

Anna,
Unna..Thanks anna for saying abt me.Its nice to have tht characteristics.You do only what u like which makes your life happier ever. :)
But i stopped blogging for quite sometime and u knw the reason.Will keep on posting..Cool..

9:00 PM, May 15, 2006

Santhi, thats why I told that I "Like as well as dislike" it :)

10:11 AM, May 16, 2006

Deepak Vasudevan said…

An interesting update on our bloggers' circle.

Also, you can link your ThinkingMS blog too since there are a lot of interesting posts that you have been updating out there.

8:54 AM, May 20, 2006

Deepak thanx for ur comment.

Its there in the right navigation of the site. But still offlate i am not blogging there due to various reasons.

9:05 AM, May 20, 2006

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