A Hectic Sunday
Today was a hectic day for me. Had some pending work since last few days and wanted to finish them all today. Yesterday also, though it was weekend, my day was fully packed. We went to Urjit’s school to attend his students led conference. There was a long to-do list in Urjit’s plan for his mom and dad. He wanted us to see his activity book, the IB book, his best dance, he wanted to draw something for us, wanted to show us his singing talent and at the same time, he was eager to show us his skills on computer as well. And I had already a meeting scheduled at 11.45 am and the guy was waiting for us. Finally I had to convince my son that we will make it next time and then after leaving him at my sister-in-laws place we headed for the meeting to meet a logistics guy who was interested in getting an application done for Logistics.
Later in day, Ajay visited us from Delhi to discuss about his website. After dropping him at station, we headed to my mom’s place for dinner. I had planned to work on the database for this new site called Gigabo. But it was quiet late so thought of doing it today. There are more than 2 million records which needs to be properly imported in respective tables with their constraints properly in place, so this morning after a quick b’fast of one mango milkshake, I started my work. I was uisng the Import Export wizard but the task was taking ages to complete… I just kept on waiting to let it finish, but it never finished. In the meantime, I was trying to entertain my son as well… as he gets very upset if I don’t spend time with him and don’t pay attention to him. So we logged onto youtube and he wanted to see his favorite song for TZP, bam bam bole and while the song was playing, he was doing lip-sync and was busy dancing and enacting. See the cute video here.
While the query was running on the remote computer, I also finished transferring one of the blogs we worked on earlier. It was a long pending task. The client had requested me to do it in Feb and I was so busy, but he kept waiting for me. So finally I had to agree and accepted the work. Sometimes you have to accept some work just because of your relationship with the client and the trust they show to you.
I am also happy that I was able to go though all the emails for the KidsandBibs.com photo contest entries, resize the images, upload them and update the contest blog. There were more than 80 entries this month. The site and the free contest is becoming more popular day by day. How all of us love FREE stuffs 
Though I feel, close up shots are more appropriate for contest, today while resizing the images, I loved this photo of Veronica. I was thinking if I was sitting in her place. The place looked so nice and calm. See the photo.
If you love looking at cute baby photos, like me, then do check out this lovely baby photo gallery.
That’s all for now. Have a great week ahead!
VistaDb - fully managed and typesafe embedded SQL database
VistaDb 3.2 is the world’s first fully managed and typesafe embedded SQL database engine built for Microsoft .NET, Compact Framework and Mono.
Managed code represents source code that executes within the .NET memory space and that is managed entirely by .NET and the Common Language Runtime (CLR). Managed applications let .NET protect a computer or device by preventing rogue or malicious code from directly accessing a computer’s resources such as memory or hard disks where damage can be done. Typesafe means that an application uses the native .NET data types. In other words, no pointers!
VistaDB is the lightweight alternative to SQL Server 2005.
It was during Rojit’s business development work that we came across this person Anthony Carrabino, owner of VistaDB. Since I was also there working on some project at that late hour, Rojit asked me to join him and we both had a good talk with Anthony and we never felt that it was our first chat with him. We just introduced ourselves and he was so good, so responsive and he was giving us tips on how to go ahead in our goal. He told us about his company, how he started it and how he has been fully involved in marketing vistaDB. He was so kind us to send across one copy of vistaDB to try it out.
I remember the last time we spoke to him, it was before he joined Microsoft, he gave us the news and he was quite excited and he told us that it has not been announced officially yet, but he has planned to join the company. I am sure Anthony, you must be enjoying the new company.
