Tuesday, May 28, 2013

12 Things/Lessons you should learn from 'Angry Birds' !

Dears,

It's a Sunday time, after playing the role of cleaner and sweeper, I am moving to see my mobile whether it has any SMS/emails/Missed calls. I see nothing but an unclosed 'Angry Birds' game which I had left unfinished.

I am not really a game geek, game follower or fond of games really. To be honest, this is not what it should be. You should be playing games which has many advantages if you ignore the disadvantages. There are many, but mainly I like the most is 'Alertness'.  I'll annotate the other ones in detail once I get time to wrote on those. For now, I am very much focused and impressed by one game, 'Angry Birds'! I feel I am late to like this game. This game has taken the world by storms.


Recently I have been into the 2 games, one is Counter Strike, the credit goes to Vishal Rajpurohit and the other is Angry Birds, the credit of which goes to Husen Daudi. The latter is the one which has impressed me the most and I am learning many untold lessons after analyzing this game for more than 2 weeks.

When I am back to home at late night and when I finish my dinner (This is normally midnight of next working day), I spend 15-20 minutes for this game. This does not happen daily due to massive workload on recent work I'm into. Since last 2 weeks, I have been observing this game closely and I am learning many things / lessons from this game.

Doesn't matter you are a student, an employee, an employer, a sportsperson, a politician, an engineer, a manager, an unemployed or whatsoever profession you belong to; this game is going to teach you many lessons and will make you think about your abilities, your skills, your team's abilities and its potential. Please don't tell me I am doing a marketing of this game, I am just putting my experience and thoughts on paper. (But I would really love to marketise if they pay me ;) )

I have a good habit to find meanings in trivial and unique things. As I have read somwhere '1. Observation is the cheapest way to learn' !

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There are many lessons we can learn from this game. My observations are here:

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2. Never Giving up Attitude : 
You are new to the stage, so you don't clear it on the first go! You try again, not all the stages are easy to go through and you don't give up. You are trying to kill the pigs and clear the stage min 5-10 times if the stage is little tricky. For easier stages, you might take min 2 attempts. Though, you have learnt not to give up even you failed once. Edison had failed 1000 times before finding the right approach to generate the light. Failures are the part of life. Trying again is the only alternative to quitting !




3. Being Calculative :
On the first attempt, you start the stage and start releasing your birds and try to destroy the pigs and buildings. At each upcoming attempt, you see the game closely and organize yourself to kill which pigs and section with which bird. Sometimes you have to hit the right brick with precision so it gives you maximum possibility to kill the pigs and demolish the buildings too, like hitting right into the base. This particular habit makes you very much calculative. You are now thinking twice before applying any of your steps/ideas into action. You can learn calculative risk taking too.


4. Break your own record :
Even if you've cleared the stage, if you are willing to finish as the superstar winner, you will still replay the stage until you get top score and get 3 stars on your name. This gives you a virtue of beating your own record in your performance. Doesn't matter you get success in your plans, you will still look within and say yourself that you can still do better! Don't compete with others. Compete with yourself, self-assess daily. You have the capability always to improve and do better. Comparing yourself with someone will simply be the insult of yours, your capabilities, your uniqueness.


5. Integrity :
"Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not." - Oprah Winfrey.
Doesn't this say it all? You simply do not play '2 player' here. Its only you. The battle is between your past and your presence. You always try to make the best use of your past and want to make your present better. You learn dedication here. You simply don't have any supervisor to observe your game but you still want to give your best shot in each release of bird. You become honest.



6. Be resourceful - Not everyone has the same skillsets :
You have played many stages, many versions. You very well know what a bird can do with an individual ability. The red birds are simple, stones are separated into 3 shots, Bomb birds are best for bricks and stone, the yellow birds are speedguns, the eggdropping birds are useful too. Same way as a Leader if you think closely, each member of your team has different skills and shortcomings. Learn how to best engage them accordingly. You cannot ask a fish to climb the tree. Utilize the skills of your members well and get them into action at the right time. Using the red bird to break the whole building is a useless dream. People succeed best when their unique talents are recognized. Always highlight the talent of an individual, rather pointing to one's mistakes repeatedly. Different problems require different specialists.


 
7. Be Creative and experimental and then Strategical :
It's very obvious that you will not hit the pigs right on first throw. You have to try various times, but wait...not the same patterns, approaches, but a different one each time. You try the same things differently when you face failures. Do experiments, there is no limit of no. of attempts. Each failure gives you a new dimension to learn and gives you the opportunity to rethink the strategy.  A partial success will boost your moral and you will now plan your attacks well.


8. You can’t recover from a really bad start :
You know the game well now. If you don't start well, it will be hard for you to recover. This is just like the game of cricket, if your openers do no give a good start in powerplays, you seem having hard time scoring big.


9. Be Goal-Centric and have a core objective to achieve at least efforts:
Like the Arjun of Mahabharat, eye only to the target. Only see the pigs and find loopholes in the building to reach and hit the pigs hard. While you might be having a number of resources, as a manager you must always think about achieving your target with the minimum resources. In Angry Birds when you do so you get three stars, called an appreciation.


10. There are more than one ways to win :
You can kill the pigs in multiple ways by deciding which one to kill first out of the ones you see. You can always get the plan executed in multiple ways. You can always look for possibilities to reach to the target. If it looks hard or impossible, break down into multiple possibilities. More options you explore, you will see the light at the end of the tunnel.


11. If you enjoy, you will succeed :
Love what you do, do what you love. No doubt if you dedicate some time for your goal, no one can keep you away from success. Managers have to involve everyone in workplan and have to manage to keep the environment alive by some little fun and prank to keep the interest of everyone in the plan. If you are engaged well into your goals, you delivery the best always!


12. Celebrate each win :
When you clear a stage, isnt your confidence doubled ? You celebrate. When you complete the subtask, task, or a little assignment, its necessary that you celebrate the victory. This not only gives you a feeling that you are right on track, but also gives an insight to the team that they can surely achieve. Separating a big task into milestones and celebrating after each milestone will enhance your positivity.


Huff...how much have I written?  Guys, we can still write more on this.
Lets cut this short for now.

I am sure this post will make you a more positive, a fighter and a winner in your problems. It should create a leader in you and if you are a leader, you will become better.

Hoping for the best things to happen for you.

Your feedback will surely be my food for the next post on motivation!

Thanks,
Jay Vora.

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Worthy - Vardhi!

I may not be 'worthy' man, but I am sure I am a 'Vardhi' man! (Enjoying #RailwayStation and #Airport 6-7 times a month ! ) #Analysed

Thursday, May 9, 2013

SerpentCS Releases Mass Editing for Tryton, GNU Health!

Dears,

As it is said by someone,’Never Leave a chance to Thank anyone’. Let SerpentCS take a privilege to thank the Tryton community for keeping the world of OpenSource Alive.

Here we are doing a little and attempt to contribute to Tryton, a three-tiers high-level general purpose application platform under the license GPL-3 written in Python and using PostgreSQL as database engine. Tryton is spreading its leg smartly among the OpenSource lovers. Tryton has its own foundation now and going stronger and stronger with each release with the recent release has been Version 2.8. The Tryton community is backed up by highly qualified and big players of OpenSource ERPs.

This is also an aim to let you know about GNU Health, a free Health and Hospital Information System developed with the base of Tryton. SerpentCS has a privilege of being a partner, the only one in the Asia Region.

Here we represent one of the most useful features in ERPs, called Mass Editing. The aim is simply to edit/remove some values of more than one records at the same time, on the fly.

Here you can find the Mass Editing module and the document for the how-to of the module! We are not yet experts in Tryton programming, but a good beginning is half done! We will wait for your feedback and hope to get this contribution added in upcoming version.

More screens can be seen in the document as mentioned above.

  • Tryton Mass Editing


  • Tryton Mass Editing

  • Tryton Mass Editing

  • Tryton Mass Editing

  • Tryton Mass Editing

  • Tryton Mass Editing


Thanks,
Serpent Consulting Services.

OpenERP Technical, Functional Training in India : June 2013

Dear Aspirants,

We feel proud to announce that Serpent Consulting Services is organizing a Functional and Technical Training on OpenERP version 7 which is going to rock the floors of ERP Market. We have chosen to be the DJs.

Serpent Consulting Services successfully completed 14 Training sessions of OpenERP Technical and OpenERP Functional Trainings for the year 2012, and 7 Training Sessions in the year 2013. It is a tremendous achievement for any company. The satisfaction of attendees and feedback can be seen on our testimonials page. We deliver the best quality in very less fees, you can search around for any check.

Our Facebook Profile shows all pictures.

Serpent Consulting Services feels immense pleasure to announce back to back OpenERP Technical and Functional Trainings Respectively.

Special attention this time is discounted Training Fees :-

1. Single ( Individual Trainee) : 830 USD per trainee.
2. Group (between 5 to 9 Trainees) : 730 USD per trainee.
3. Corporate (10 to 15 Trainees) : 680 USD for per trainee.

OpenERP Functional Training June 2013 :-

This Training is dedicated to partners, integrators and end-users who want to get a better functional understanding of OpenERP. This training is meant to give an overview of the OpenERP features allowing for a general understanding of the software.

The 8th Training programme will be OpenERP Functional Training version 7 to be held on 10th June to 14th June 2013. Aspirants join us for Training, and come out as expert after the completion of Training.


Training Outlines can be found at :-

OpenERP Functional Training

OpenERP Technical Training June 2013 :-

The technical training is a unique opportunity for anyone, who wants to develop and customize his own modules! This Training is exclusive to partners, integrators and new developers who need to gain knowledge of the OpenERP development process and also for IT professionals eager to learn more about the OpenERP technical aspects.

The 8th Training programme will be OpenERP Technical Training version 7 to be held on 17th June to 21st June 2013. It brings occasion for you to attend in India. We come with various new additions to the normal Training.


Training Outlines can be found at :-

OpenERP Technical Training

Duration : -
Both Training will be 5 days training. 8 hours each day.

Facilities:
Daily drinks (tea / coffee) and Lunch
Training material

Both of these Trainings are very important who are new to OpenERP world. SerpentCS organizing OpenERP Technical and Functional Trainings every month with a good success ratio is resulting in confident smiles of attendees.
We will be pleased to welcome you at this training!

You can also Contact Us for Remote and Onsite Training, OpenERP Support, OpenERP Offshore,OpenERP Migration and Tryton Services.

Register your seat at contact@serpentcs.com.

Recent News :-
  1. SerpentCS Releases Mass Editing for Tryton, GNU Health!
  2. SerpentCS Analyzes that United States is Moving to OpenSource !
  3. Multi-Company Configuration in OpenERP v7
  4. Attrs in OpenERP
  5. OpenERP Technical and Functional Training in India : May 2013
  6. OpenERP Module Recording : A Complete How-to for XML/YML.
  7. How to Install OpenERP 7 on CentOS & How to Install OpenERP 7 on Ubuntu.
  8. OpenERP 7 : Multi Company Bug is fixed !
  9. Its official now : OpenERP 7.0 has been released!

For any news and updates Regarding Serpent Consulting Services, visit here.

How to run 2 or more OpenERP Servers on same machine?

1+ OpenERP Servers on same machine

Hello Readers,

If you are an OpenERP Developer Or you might wish to run OpenERP Test, Dev, Production servers from the same machine…Don’t get stuck! In such a situation, we have an option to do this in simple manner. This article gives you a solution to use 2 or more OpenERP server instances running at a same time.
Simple solution is to use different ports for all the server instances you wish to start.

Let’s see the example:, We want to run OpenERP 6.1 and OpenERP 7.0 at the same time.

One server is OpenERP 6.1 and second server is OpenERP 7.0.

OpenERP 6.1 server start with like this:


After Hit the “ENTER”, the 6.1 server will start.


This is about the simple thing to run a single server but when we want to run another server on same machine we need to use different port. second server of OpenERP 7.0

Start as below screen-shot.

OpenERP 7.0 server with different port. Added –xmlrpc-port=1800


After hit the “ENTER”, the OpenERP 7.0 server will start on 1800, with localhost:/1800


Here we started a second server of OpenERP 7.0 with port number of 1800 using  ‘–xmlrpc-port=1800′.
 
Both the server started on a same machine at same time.
Adding a trivial case where you wish to hide databases of one server to another server even the machine is same. The simple solution is to use different database users for each Server Instance.

For more Information you have “–help” command, and you will get more options. In any Case for OpenERP Functional and/or Technical Training

SerpentCS will prove as the best choice for you. See our Customer feedbacks for OpenERP Services.

Thanks,

Hope this Post will help you for your OpenERP Implementations.

SerpentCS analyzes that United States is Moving to OpenSource !

Hello,

Since last 3 weeks, Husen Daudi and Jay Vora are observing a growth in the no. of visits of our blogs and website.

1. SerpentCS’ Blog !
2. Husen’s blog !
3. Jay’s Blog !

Serpent Consulting Services works on various OpenSource Products including OpenERP, GNUHealth, SugarCRM, vTiger, Alfresco, Liferay and Tryton.
It’s usually seen that Europe and Asia have been the only continents using OpenSource products and tools. But what recent results have shown to us, is very merry-making to the OpenSource projects, editors, communities, integrators, implementors, service providers and developers. United states of America which is well-known for the usage of Proprietary softwares has been looking for OpenSource Solutions.

Following are the images proving it.

Visits on our OpenERP Blogs recently by Day, week and Month. 

By Day

 

SerpentCS : OpenERP Visits per day

 

By Week

 


SerpentCS : OpenERP Visits by week

 

By Month

 

SerpentCS : OpenERP visits per month

The possible reasons are the searches made on search engines for the search topics as:
1. Opensource benefits.
2. Low cost and effective ERP solutions.
3. OpenERP Training.
4. OpenERP Technical and Functional Training.
5. How to Learn OpenERP.
6. OpenERP Support and OpenERP Migration
7. OpenERP version 7 easy to use.

United states of America is an Economical and Technological Super power. Getting motivation for OpenSource from that part of world is a great news for Opensource believers. We don’t mean bad for proprietary softwares, but the competition will be tough and outcome will be the quality of products, quality of services.

You would be amazed to know why Cisco, skype, Teamviewer, etc. are enemies for many Airlines now a days. For an unbelievable reasons the airlines of all parts of the world are angry due to the services provided by Online meeting tools as mentioned above. The simple reason is you get everything at your screenstep (doorstep, usually used). Without buying the expensive tickets, you can enjoy whatever you wish to learn from home and that too at your desired time. This is the savings of time and money.

We at SerpentCS have been offering the remote support, trainings and development assistance for many United States’ software firms for Liferay, OpenERP and SugarCRM. OpenERP Offshore and Trainings are among the hot trends!

GOD bless opensource world and lets welcome United states of America.

Thanks,
Serpent Consulting Services!

Serpent Consulting Services Pvt. Ltd. does an MOU with LD College of Engg !

This is a moment of pride!



This makes us feel proud to announce that Serpent Consulting Services Pvt. Ltd. has done an MOU(Memorandum of Understanding) with L.D. College of Engineering (LDCE), one of the oldest engineering colleges in India.


L.D.College of Engineering, Ahmedabad is a premier engineering college in Gujarat State set with the objectives of imparting higher education in various fields of engineering. The institute is affiliated to Gujarat Technological University and administrated by Department of Technical education, Gujarat State. Sheth Shri Kasturbhai Lalbhai established institute in 1948 with generous donation. It is situated adjacent to Gujarat University and at nucleus of various national level institutes like PRL, ATIRA, ISRO, IIM etc. The campus consists of buildings for various departments, offices, hostels and library with 64,565 sq.meter builtup area. The institute made a modest start with 75 students for undergraduate programs in 1948, post graduate programs in 1954. At present institute runs 14 undergraduate, 17-post graduate and 4 part-time programs.




We have done an MoU for 5 years which includes various activities, collaborations both ways for the betterment of OpenSource. Our Special thanks to Prof. D. A. Parikh who guided us throughout our meetings and discussions.


In the Software Industry, price and licensing is a major concern. The concept of open source technologies has got momentum recently. Apart from being freeware, open source has become popular for study purpose too, as we get the accessible source code. With this understanding, it has become essential to make the technical educational institutes aware of open source technologies.

LDCE will help SerpentCS in the following areas:
1. On campus placement for providing technical manpower.
2. Technical up gradation on SerpentCS employees.
3. To provide the consultancy and help for efficiency improvement.





SerpentCS will facilitate LDCE for:
1. Regular Industrial visits for Undergraduate and Postgraduate students.
2. Facilitate the students to carry out their trainings and project work in various It trends.
3. Delivery of expert lectures and sharing industrial knowledge to the Undergraduate/Postgraduate students and staff of LDCE.
4. Regular seminars/workshops at LDCE for the knowledge upgrade.
5. Will support for curriculum revision/ updating of different courses of LDCE in the areas of Computer Engineering / IT.
6. Will Organize sessions on various subects students study in the semesters.
7. Will empower students on various aspects which need to make them a true IT professional.




We are sure this collaboration will help various Opensource products getting skills and help the world more open, collaborative and reach to every individuals.

Thanks,
Serpent Consulting Services Pvt. Ltd.