Memoirs of a common man

I've been looking for the book "Khude jajabor istasi" by Sailen Ghosh for at least 20 years and found it recently. The problem is made even more complicated by the fact that the original book was published in Anandamela way back in 1988 0r 1989. So I assumed the current publisher is Ananda. But no, Ananda doesn't publish this book. The book is now part of the collection "Uponnyash Samagra" part 2 by Sailen Ghosh, published by "Parool". Without more words, here's the front page:   And here's the index page: I'm glad if I helped anyone, who was as eager as I was, to find it. Do drop in your thoughts and words in the comment section below. I would also like to know more about similar other books or catch up with book lovers from that era. I believe there is no greater a did than talking about these nostalgic memories over some coffee. Cheers!

It's the same thing which Anakin had for Padme (Star Wars Episode 1, 2 and 3), Jason had for Citra (Far Cry 3), Nate had for Chloe (UC 2). It just keeps coming back again and again, in history, in pop culture and in dreams. When you wake up you are left with a feeling so intense, so emphasized, so full of togetherness that you wish you kept dreaming forever, you wish you never woke up, you wish you never gained back your sanity. Why this dilemma when apparently you have it all, apparently it's a beautiful life? Why, why do you feel like making again...hard choices?

Hello guys, Reading this? definitely had a bad time with AMP on Windows! Worry not. After installing AMP on Windows for the last 8 years for around 25 times, still I get those hiccups. I shall not tell you about the extension directory, about the path to the extension directory, about the possibility of multiple php ini files on your system, about the probability of you being not restarting your Apache or for that matter anything which thousands of posts out there suggests you while you, confounded, tensed and tired of this horrible problem is banging your head, having done all those things suggested by all those experts, still not being able to see the MySQL section on phpinfo(). Right, to the point now. Apache httpd conf needs to know where php is. You need to set the "PHPIniDir" with the proper path of PHP location on your system. Locate the httpd.conf file for your Apache configuration and add the above section in it. And if you have done the other things correctly, t...

Objective: Say my website runs on Word Press (henceforth known as WP) at http://www.abcdxyz.com A post might look like the following http://www.abcdxyz.com/?page_id=21 And the post gets rendered nicely. Say I want to pass a Query String (henceforth known as QS) test=1, based on which I want to show a plain text to user or in other words simple want to hook on to WP rendering technique and modify it. My intended URL becomes http://www.abcdxyz.com/?test=21 Normally if you call this, WP would render the default page to you and simply dispose off your idea of passing and doing something useful with QS. Solution: We have to modify the $query_vars, a mechanism of WP internals, with hook. 1. In your plug in file write the following hooks add_filter('rewrite_rules_array', 'add_new_allowed_qs'); You may define the body of the function as follows: function add_new_allowed_qs( $query_vars ){ array_push($query_vars, 'test'); // return return $q...

Okay first things first, the title may be confusing. Objective: There are two tables, Parent and Children. I'm creating a listing page where I'm fetching the parents and the children count, yes, please note it's count. Structures: Parent: id, parent_name Children: id, parent_id, child_name A single sql is needed which would fetch me the following columns: Parent.id, Parent.parent_name, count(child_name) as no_of_children Say for parent Tomtom there's two children, For Kawasaki there's 3 and for Mickey there's none (no association in Children table, no records absolutely). I want a list like the following: Row 1: 1 Tomtom 2 Row 2: 2 Kawasaki 1 Row 4: 3 Mickey 0 I tried the following SQL: select a.id as parent_id, a.parent_name, count(b.id) as no_of_children from Parent a LEFT JOIN Children b ON a.id = b.parent_id group by b.parent_id The output: Only the record mappings where at least 1 association is present in the Childr...

Hmmm...nice one jQuery code: $('#my_dd').change(function(){      alert('hello') ; }) Surprisingly on change the alert was getting fired twice. Solution: Nothing much, this was more or less my ignorance, put the block inside document ready and everything should be fine Final code: $(document).ready(function(){      $('#my_dd').change(function(){          alert('hello') ;      }) }) Hope this helps anyone. Cheers

Huh, I know why you are here, welcome and all my compassion. I too spent 2 hours to get this out of the most popular light weight framework online documentation and huge fanbase. CI is more sweeter than a piece of Cake (;)), according to hardcore fans, but certainly their documentation is pain in the...well leave it. To the point: I want some data to be always available to all of my views regardless of which page I'm into in. For example it could be a drop-down of states in the right hand corner of my header menu. How do I do it? Solution: Create a helper file, say my_lil_helper.php and keep it under application/helpers. By the way you can do all the good things loosely, usually you do inside your controller, inside a helper. So it could be loading a model, a library, whatever. So you write a function there like this: function return_states() { //Model call to fetch data from db table and return return $state_array; } In you header file, all you have to do is, us...

These days I'm working with the jQuery UI toolkit and facing diversified problems which are quite silly in nature. For example today i was trying to implement modal windows using the UI toolkit, the window was getting generated but it was not draggable. A little investigation revealed that these libraries are not only dependent on other smaller building block files, but also on the order in which the files are included. I altered the following sequence: jquery.ui.draggable.min.js jquery.ui.mouse.min.js to jquery.ui.mouse.min.js jquery.ui.draggable.min.js And it worked like a charm. Hope this helps anyone facing similar problems. Cheers!

Can drive you crazy if it's really in form. Can fuse your every bit of good wits and you can start banging your forehead on your keyboard. To the point: Scenario: I was using jQuery UI datepicker. When I was generating the picker inline to a div, it was working correctly. But the moment I was binding it with a textfield, there you go:- d(a).zindex is not a function Which libraries were used in my header: 1) jquery.min.js 2) jquery.ui.datepicker.min.js The reason: I was selectively using just the datepicker portion from the entire UI library. And the problem was there itself. I overlooked the top portion of the jquery.ui.datepicker.min.js file which clearly stated this file had a dependency with jquery.ui.core.js Solution: I included jquery.ui.core.min.js (it could be jquery.ui.core.js either) among the scripts and there I was escaping the gravitational pull of the black hole namely 'd(a).zindex is not a function' Hope this helps somebody who i...

What? You want to rotate an Image by touching it? iPhone? iPod touch application? Have googled day and night? Got your spine aching, eyes red? Calm down, help is on its way. But I don't promise its bullet proof, but still, at least its working to some extent, and its done my way, my recipe which I tried over and over again so that it could taste the way it tastes now. As said earlier, it's not perfect, but it serves the main purpose, that is rotating an image around it's center by touching it, to some extent. Scenario: I had a View, UIView object. I called it "canvas". I had another view, UIImageView. I called it "imgobj". I was required to rotate it around it's center by touching. Concept: This is only possible when I know the angle between the straight lines made by by the points, center C (cx, cy) and where I touched P1 (x1, y1) and center (cx, cy) and where I took off my finger from the screen (x2, y2). So basically if we can get the difference o...

If you have found this post and reading, definitely you're in a situation where you need that one bizarre type of files to be handled by DreamWeaver. There are tons of template engines in the market and each one ideally have their own extension for templates, tpl, stpl, shtml and the list goes on. Open the file /Configurations/Extensions.txt under from your DreamWeaver installation directory. Add the extension which you need to the appropriate group there. A snapshot might look like the following: HTM,HTML,SHTM,SHTML,HTA,HTC,XHTML,STM,SSI,JS,AS, ASC,ASR,XML,XSL,XSD,DTD,XSLT,RSS,RDF,LBI,DWT,ASP, ASA,ASPX,ASCX,ASMX,CONFIG,CS,CSS,CFM,CFML,CFC,TLD, TXT,PHP,PHP3,PHP4,PHP5,TPL,LASSO,JSP,JSF,VB,VBS, VTM,VTML,INC,JAVA,EDML,WML,THTML,STPL:All Documents HTM,HTML,HTA,HTC,XHTML:HTML,STPL Documents SHTM,SHTML,STM,SSI,INC:Server-Side Includes JS:JavaScript Documents XML,DTD,XSD,XSL,XSLT,RSS,RDF:XML Files LBI:Library Files Once done with this file, locate the next extensions.txt which should be a...

For those who stay in West Bengal, India, Shankarpur is no new name, rather a popular one. For those of you who have never heard of the place, this post is going to be your tour co-ordinator. Shankarpur is a beach town in Purba Medinipur district of West Bengal. It is around 185 Km away from Kolkata, one of the metros of India and capital of West Bengal. There are primarily two ways to reach Shankarpur. Both are easy and cool. First one is orthodox bus ride (the 100% common method to reach Digha until recent times), the second being train. The final destination of both the bus and the train is Digha. For me, I took the bus to get to Shankarpur and train while returning. So have had the opportunity to gather both the experiences. The next thing is: where to stay? The answer is "Nest" or the "Hotel Nest". They are sort of running a monopoly out in that place; and rightfully. Cool, now that you have the mode of accessing it set and place to live decided, lets start put...

For all those have been confounded by this error while downloading torrents, all the available blogs and posts on this suggests, your hard disk has gone for a toss. Delete the existing download, re-download. Kind of frustrating, really frustrating. My experience differs a bit. While in truest sense it is always true, that this error is coming due to read errors from your hard drive, it is not always true that it is a undo-able physical error on your disk. It could be a logical one. This means, there's still chance for you. Breath and schedule a scan on your drive the next time Windows (I was using XP professional, SP 2) starts. This again depends on which drive you got the error on. If its the one which the operating system is having exclusive access to, you have to schedule the check, the next time your OS loads. If its a secondary drive, you can do it with few clicks only without a re-boot. If you are lucky, Windows would correct the error, and you'll have your download back,...

I really don't know if this is worth a post, but the amount of frustration and pain I've endured crossing the infamous 'drawbridge', that I decided to write something here, and frankly I'll take out a lot of frustration against the game makers and the game itself in this post, and you'll find a lot of abusive words in here. So if you are a big fan of the either or you just want to read a decent article with nice and clean language, please stop reading here and go read one of those millions of posts which would leave you with a pleasing impression about the game-play of the game. First things first, I love Prince of Persia, well that's why I play. I fell in love with PoP when I played the 'Prince of Persia 3D'. I loved it because the wonderful levels, the castles, the mysterious Persian structures, and graphics. At that time also I hated few things about it, the camera movements, the way the player was allowed to control the prince, etc etc. Now after...

The following shot is taken by myself with my 'point and shoot', from my bedroom window. There was a time when I was restricted to mingle with kids of my own age, just because they were from different strata of society. I still remember those days when my only friend were books and my parents. Couldn't refrain myself from drawing relevance of that feeling with feeling of the parrot looking at the sparrow.

Goodmorning Kolkata , a new day, a new requirement from the client. His post on basecamp says, though he appreciates the fact that a photo could be directly uploaded to ones facebook album, it doesn't really appeal him much. Why? Ummm... tough question. He wants something simpler, sweeter and less painful (uploading images from external applications to facebook required the user to approve them on facebook before they could go live...extra clicks are painful alright) than the above method. In fact facebook also realizes this I guess and thus offers us exactly what we are looking for: http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php The above URL expects two parameter, 'u' and 't'. 'u' is the link you want to share, 't' is the additional title you want to supply Facebook in case it is unable to crawl through the title of the page provided in the link. So for example a complete link should look something like this: http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://your-we...

Recently I was asked by one of my clients to develop a feature on his website so that a user on that website may click on a button and publish an image from his/her account (on that website) to his/her facebook account. While doing so the system would ask for the users facebook credentials. Sounds simple? Yeaah...apparently its simple but when you start getting your hands dirty you slowly realize you are in deep mess. Particularly if you are a first timer as far as developing on facebook platform is concerned. There are multiple ways to achieve this. Using facebook connect or using a facebook application specially developed by yourself to accomplish the task. I followed the second approach. I'm trying to outline the exact steps you need to perform to get this up and running with least pain. And yes, the following examples would all be in PHP . Login to facebook, click on the developers link available in the footer section of the page and follow the steps so that ultimately you end...