Very Inspiring Article

I suppose it would be every programmers dream to meet with the top guns of Microsoft but love the innovation put in by these participants. Very Inspiring piece
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/2014/jul28/code-is-the-universal-language-at-imagine-cup-2014.aspx

Sweet and sour sui

His edition
Hubby made sweet and sour sui...and he complains that I experiment too much...it was just delicious only needed tomato sauce ginger and garlic and tinned pineapples with juice. Who knew!

Christian camps

The reality and how important it is. Guess thats why the devil is making sure it dies out

Such a bold declaration

And for the first time I have ever known Hillsong to move away from secular music like song to boldly declaring its Jesus always has always will be the reason we exist for him by him and through him and the crosd and this is why we sing

Being married to a technician

You have no say about which gadgets show up on which part of the house or which wires get thrown around the house.

My first Jhoomla site

complete with photo gallery Simple Image Gallery Plugin

JQuery Datepicker fix for version 1.9.0

  Just paste the code below at the bottom of Jquery file and it starts working again

  // Limit scope pollution from any deprecated API  (function() {        var matched, browser;    // Use of jQuery.browser is frowned upon.  // More details: http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.browser  // jQuery.uaMatch maintained for back-compat      jQuery.uaMatch = function( ua ) {          ua = ua.toLowerCase();            var match = /(chrome)[ \/]([\w.]+)/.exec( ua ) ||              /(webkit)[ \/]([\w.]+)/.exec( ua ) ||              /(opera)(?:.*version|)[ \/]([\w.]+)/.exec( ua ) ||              /(msie) ([\w.]+)/.exec( ua ) ||              ua.indexOf("compatible") < 0 && /(mozilla)(?:.*? rv:([\w.]+)|)/.exec( ua ) ||              [];            return {              browser: match[ 1 ] || "",              version: match[ 2 ] || "0"          };      };        matched = jQuery.uaMatch( navigator.userAgent );      browser = {};        if ( matched.browser ) {          browser[ matched.browser ] = true;          browser.version = matched.version;      }    // Chrome is Webkit, but Webkit is also Safari.      if ( browser.chrome ) {          browser.webkit = true;      } else if ( browser.webkit ) {          browser.safari = true;      }        jQuery.browser = browser;        jQuery.sub = function() {          function jQuerySub( selector, context ) {              return new jQuerySub.fn.init( selector, context );          }          jQuery.extend( true, jQuerySub, this );          jQuerySub.superclass = this;          jQuerySub.fn = jQuerySub.prototype = this();          jQuerySub.fn.constructor = jQuerySub;          jQuerySub.sub = this.sub;          jQuerySub.fn.init = function init( selector, context ) {              if ( context && context instanceof jQuery && !(context instanceof jQuerySub) ) {                  context = jQuerySub( context );              }                return jQuery.fn.init.call( this, selector, context, rootjQuerySub );          };          jQuerySub.fn.init.prototype = jQuerySub.fn;          var rootjQuerySub = jQuerySub(document);          return jQuerySub;      };    })();

Chrome tool to test APIs

No need to find and download softwares to test your API. Chrome now has its own tool:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/postman-rest-client/fdmmgilgnpjigdojojpjoooidkmcomcm

You

Read this quote today from one of the readings I get in my mail.

Because you did nothing to earn your place in God's family, you can do nothing to lose it. 
It stands on the verse: 
"Dear friends, God the Father chose you long ago and knew you would become His children." (1 Peter 1:2 LB)

God chose you long before you were born, long before you decided to even think about him. Like that verse in Philippians 1 you were predestined a long long time ago right when God was creating heaven and earth he had you and me in mind. He had everything about you all planned out that means no matter what you are going through today know one thing he had you in mind then, he has you in mind now and you will always be in his mind so its a sure shot that he has a plan and a purpose for you. 

Long before humans walked the face of the earth, long before God decided he would make heaven and earth he knew he was going to make you. He knew how he was going to make you and what you he was going to make you into. so just 'stand still and let God move' He knows what he is doing.

VS 2013 in brief

Has a background theme that you can choose on first time use and it stays that theme for every other time you open visual studio. A copy of google theming which mozilla was the first in the game.
Everything including my active window content is black and I  cannot figure out how to change it back. Will leave it for later.
When you press F5 the project is running and stays in debug mode even if you close the browser. I hate having to go back and press the stop button. Yes stop and play button where have I seen those before?
There is alot of creating of classes, thankful for all that I picked up from Colin for the PushAPI project. I am now learning models and connecting to db direct from application-alot of what Colin had done in the Push project adding his database everything in one project but as different views; I suppose MVC hopefully I can figure it out after these tutorials.
I am loving bootstrap. Its so so sassy is the word that comes mind hopefully I can understand how to implement it. Once I am done with this I want to be able to apply it to my Dynamic Rates project.

Visual Studio 2013

My first Visual Studio 2013 windows forms tutorial- well part 1 of it. 

VS 2013 has a feature called bootstrap which allows you to change your layout and designs to a more appealing colourful and flexible on browsers way. This is a Twitter feature and is HTML5 code so learnt vs2013 and HTML5 all in one day.

http://www.asp.net/web-forms/tutorials/aspnet-45/getting-started-with-aspnet-45-web-forms/ui_and_navigation

Can't wait for tomorrow.....

PEPSICO CEO interview

This is so true!

 

 

While interviewing Indra K. Nooyi, the CEO of PepsiCo, at the Aspen Ideas Festival Monday*, David Bradley, who owns The Atlantic, asked two questions that elicited as frank a discussion of work-life balance as I've seen from a U.S. CEO. Below is a lightly edited transcript. The second question was preceded by a brief discussion of Anne-Marie Slaughter's "Why Women Still Can't Have It All."

Q. You come home one day as president of the company, just appointed, and your mom is not that impressed. Would you tell that story?

This is about 14 years ago. I was working in the office. I work very late, and we were in the middle of the Quaker Oats acquisition. And I got a call about 9:30 in the night from the existing chairman and CEO at that time. He said, Indra, we're going to announce you as president and put you on the board of directors ... I was overwhelmed, because look at my background and where I came from — to be president of an iconic American company and to be on the board of directors, I thought something special had happened to me.

So rather than stay and work until midnight which I normally would've done because I had so much work to do, I decided to go home and share the good news with my family. I got home about 10, got into the garage, and my mother was waiting at the top of the stairs. And I said, "Mom, I've got great news for you." She said, "let the news wait. Can you go out and get some milk?"

I looked in the garage and it looked like my husband was home. I said, "what time did he get home?" She said "8 o'clock." I said, "Why didn't you ask him to buy the milk?" "He's tired." Okay. We have a couple of help at home, "why didn't you ask them to get the milk?" She said, "I forgot." She said just get the milk. We need it for the morning. So like a dutiful daughter, I went out and got the milk and came back.

I banged it on the counter and I said, "I had great news for you. I've just been told that I'm going to be president on the Board of Directors. And all that you want me to do is go out and get the milk, what kind of a mom are you?"

And she said to me, "let me explain something to you. You might be president of PepsiCo. You might be on the board of directors. But when you enter this house, you're the wife, you're the daughter, you're the daughter-in-law, you're the mother. You're all of that. Nobody else can take that place. So leave that damned crown in the garage. And don't bring it into the house. You know I've never seen that crown."

Q. What's your opinion about whether women can have it all?

I don't think women can have it all. I just don't think so. We pretend we have it all. We pretend we can have it all. My husband and I have been married for 34 years. And we have two daughters. And every day you have to make a decision about whether you are going to be a wife or a mother, in fact many times during the day you have to make those decisions. And you have to co-opt a lot of people to help you. We co-opted our families to help us. We plan our lives meticulously so we can be decent parents. But if you ask our daughters, I'm not sure they will say that I've been a good mom. I'm not sure. And I try all kinds of coping mechanisms.

I'll tell you a story that happened when my daughter went to Catholic school. Every Wednesday morning they had class coffee with the mothers. Class coffee for a working woman — how is it going to work? How am I going to take off 9 o'clock on Wednesday mornings? So I missed most class coffees. My daughter would come home and she would list off all the mothers that were there and say, "You were not there, mom."

The first few times I would die with guilt. But I developed coping mechanisms. I called the school and I said, "give me a list of mothers that are not there." So when she came home in the evening she said, "You were not there, you were not there."

And I said, "ah ha, Mrs. Redd wasn't there, Mrs. So and So wasn't there. So I'm not the only bad mother."

You know, you have to cope, because you die with guilt. You just die with guilt. My observation, David, is that the biological clock and the career clock are in total conflict with each other. Total, complete conflict. When you have to have kids you have to build your career. Just as you're rising to middle management your kids need you because they're teenagers, they need you for the teenage years.

And that's the time your husband becomes a teenager too, so he needs you (laughing). They need you too. What do you do? And as you grow even more, your parents need you because they're aging. So we're screwed. We have no ... we cannot have it all. Do you know what? Coping mechanisms. Train people at work. Train your family to be your extended family.

You know what? When I'm in PepsiCo I travel a lot, and when my kids were tiny, especially my second one, we had strict rules on playing Nintendo. She'd call the office, and she didn't care if I was in China, Japan, India, wherever. She'd call the office, the receptionist would pick up the phone, "Can I speak to my mommy?" Everybody knows if somebody says, 'Can I speak to mommy?' It's my daughter. So she'd say, "Yes, Tyra, what can I do for you?"

"I want to play Nintendo."

So she has a set of questions. "Have you finished your homework?" Etc. I say this because that's what it takes. She goes through the questions and she says, "Okay, you can play Nintendo half an hour." Then she leaves me a message. "Tyra called at 5. This is the sequence of questions I went through. I've given her permission." So it's seamless parenting.

But if you don't do that, I'm serious, if you don't develop mechanisms with your secretaries, with the extended office, with everybody around you, it cannot work. You know, stay at home mothering was a full time job. Being a CEO for a company is three full time jobs rolled into one. How can you do justice to all?

You can't. The person who hurts the most through this whole thing is your spouse. There's no question about it. You know, Raj always said, you know what, your list is PepsiCo, PepsiCo, PepsiCo, our two kids, your mom, and then at the bottom of the list is me. There are two ways to look at it. (laughing) You should be happy you're on the list. So don't complain. (laughing) He is on the list. He is very much on the list. But you know, (laughing) sorry, David.

skills

Bought this on ebay for $60 fijian. Took 6 weeks to get to Fiji now to figure out how to buy the cartridges or how to download the apps. Not going to spend $52 just for one cartridge from Cost U Less

Windows Azure

Trialing azure with Visual studio ultimate 2013, Bill has finally agreed for us to move onto Azure after speaking to Rob. it is now a must. So have downloaded and installed Ultimate 2013 and it sleek as it is so black, have to figure out how to change the colour theme although I have a feeling black might be the best of colours. 

Adorabelle

Thats the name of our startup. Adorabelle Investments. Finally got it registered now to get the business license. If only I could do this full time. One day mafatu

This Baby

Well lets just say totally transformed the living room for sure.