My Life is My Passion!

Creating a Wikipedia Infobox

2011-07-17T04:09:00.001-07:00

Folks,

I've done my biggest contribution till date to Wikipedia by creating a Infobox for Wikipedia Campus Ambassador Program. For those who don't know what is an Infobox, this is what wikipedia says about it...

"An infobox is a fixed-format table designed to be added to the top right-hand corner of articles to consistently present a summary of some unifying aspect that the articles share and sometimes to improve navigation to other interrelated articles."

The idea of getting quick and concise information came from few articles mostly biographic.

So I started working on it yesterday and worked quite late, till the wee hours of Sunday(that's today!), got frustrated coz something was not working and I went to sleep :P

I got up and again took it as a challenge and fixed it.

You can see one of the working prototype at following locations:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ramshankaryadav/Sandbox and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:India_Education_Program/Courses/Fall_2011/Data_Structures_and_Algorithms

The template/documentation can be found @

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox_WikipediaCampusAmbassadorProgram

Helpful links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Infobox

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Designing_infoboxes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Transclusion

Please feel free to use it for your respective course pages.

Finally! I'm done with it and that awesome feeling of creating something is here to stay for sure :)

The Joy of Life series

2011-06-26T10:50:00.000-07:00

“..count your blessings”…I’ve always said it to my friends/colleagues/family and whosoever I’m related/connected with at some point in time!

So from today I’m going to start this series of Joy of being something, that something which we either forget or start taking for granted has so many special things attached, and it brings so much of value and enrichment to us. This is my bit of discovering that “special thing” in my life from my experiences…so stay tuned~!

The Joy of Life begins…now!!!

…getting back to blogging(once more ;)

2011-06-21T08:49:00.001-07:00

Just before getting into the blogging mode once again, this is a very short and sweet message for my followers(if any ), that folks you are not alone, I’m coming back with a bag full of awesome experiences to share with you…

…stay tune

Meeting with a CEO

2011-03-09T23:08:00.000-08:00

Yep, I never expected it but today I met Glen Tullman, CEO of Allscripts, the occasion was Allscripts India townhall, and it was Glen’s first visit to Pune after merger of Allscripts and Eclipsys.

My day started in a bit unusual way, yep I skipped my gym to attend the townhall. So reached Hyat, Pune almost on time at around 8:55 am, and the townhall was suppose to start from 9am.

Like usual townhall of a big company, we went thru the introduction of speakers and later a presentation by Glen. Frankly speaking the presentation was sort of redundant, coz as of now I’ve seen no less than 3 webcast of Glen, and he almost repeats the same stuff

So after presentation and before usual Q&A Glen asked people “How many of you feel proud on what you did in past 60 days?”, after a while we seen few people raising their hands, starting with the first answer “I feel proud to be with Allscripts”, yep as it sounds, it was just a buttering answer . Even I raised my hand and got the microphone and told about my achievement of “Creating an augmented reality app for iphone(although it was way before the merger of Allscripts and Eclipsys, but I’m still proud of it!!)”.

After the Q&A there comes the funny part of “virtual inauguration”, yep it only sounds cools, as a techie I thought they will do come ribbon cutting virtually to inaugurate our new building, but the funny part was Glen pulled a curtain on some white board which has the pictures of the new facility LOL

After all these interesting things, we went out in the breakout area for the tea and cookies. As per the feedback tea was okay and cookie was also ummm. So I thought it’s time to leave, so I rushed to take my helmet and drive back to home pickup my lunch and go to office as usual.

While coming back I met few colleagues of mine and we started a small gag session, and suddenly a guy in his suit comes and yes it was Glen Tulman, the CEO of Allscripts!!

He asked about us and our teams, and we did asked a few questions. While he was answering I was observing him and looking on his face and expressions and thought how cool he is!!! We had our chat for around no less then 10 minutes when somebody called him for something, and we dispersed as well!

So what are the takeaways in short:

Energy : CEO doesn’t stand for Chief Executive Officer rather it stands for Chief Energetic Officer. This is the guy who infuses the energy of his thought inside and outside the organization.
Reinforcement : They might sound redundant but they reinforce their vision inside and outside the company.
Engagement : They reach out to people directly, skipping many level and try to seek feedback and clarify doubts(if possible).
Leadership : They lead from the front, for them action speak louder than words.

The list is not exhaustive enough, but I was a great & exciting learning experience(although just 10 minutes).

The inner experience of happiness comes on its own when we meet such an awesome person.

Happy Learning

Shyari…direct dilse

2011-03-08T11:22:00.001-08:00

Dil kehta hai usse poonchu, ke tu kaisa hai,

Kya tera bhi haal mere jaisa hai,

Kya tu bhi dhal gya hai nayee zindagi me,

Jaise maie badal gya hoon meri zindagi me,

Jise bhoolna tha naamumkin kabhi is zindagi me,

Use yaad karna bhi shyad mumkin nahi hai,

Dil kehta hai usse poonchu, ke tu kaisa hai,

Kya tera bhi haal mere jaisa hai!

- ram

Posting from Rumzum(my iPod Touch)

2011-01-20T22:55:00.001-08:00

My first post from Rumzum :)

The “Shit List”

2011-01-12T11:00:00.001-08:00

Yep you heard it right! They call it “Shit List”, the term came in one of our meetings with our Leadership team and frankly speaking I liked it!

So what is a “Shit List”?
Hmm it’s a list of those things which you find really bad! The context here can be personal or professional, but in simple terms it’s a list of things which are blocking us from achieving our goal.

So how you create a Shit List?
Simply start noting down the 5 or 10 most blocking issues. Prioritize if possible.

How can I use a Shit List?
Now lets be pragmatic, we can not all of the problems/issues at once, so all we need to do is to focus on 80:20 rule, i.e., just focus on fixing top 2 or at max 3 issues at once.

Now I’ve identified the top 20% of the issues, how to proceed further?
After identifying the most shitty issues, let’s start writing down their fixes and we need to restrict ourselves to at the max 3! After we are done with the fixes it’s the implementation time, so go ahead and religiously follow your fixes.
After you are done with the top 2o% move back the the Shit List and identify the new 20% shitty items to fix and on and on….

“..repeat and repeat…till you become perfect!”

The important thing to note here is not to identify what works, but to identify what doesn’t work!

Happy Shit Listing / Fixing

It’s my 29th BDay!

2011-01-11T10:29:00.000-08:00

I got up early today, not only coz I’ve to reach office early(I used to go a bit late…11am ) , but also I wanted to live “my day, in my way” , and to be frank “live more”

It’s an amazing feeling on this day every year! As I’m getting older(.. and wiser, I hope ) I never felt like becoming older, in-fact I want to live more, do more, enjoy more…and ….lot of more things which I can’t recall right now. But one thing is sure as one of my professor told…

“..it all lies up there!”

In-deed it does! If I recall the last one year was amazing in few aspects but yep there were few lows as well. All I learnt is that all that matters is the “attitude” to face it!!!

It’s that “attitude” which pushes me every day for better, more and awesome things.

One more thing that I learnt is start celebrating life, there’s no tomorrow! Don’t wait for the “best” future, there’s nothing in this world we can call the “best”, it’s relative. Today’s “best” might become tomorrow’s “okay”, coz the dynamics of life are ever changing.

One last thing and what I think is the most important, “be yourself”, it’s most widely used phrase I know, but the meaning is much deeper than we can think. We have just one life, we can’t end up living it like what others think we should do/live. It starts with taking the responsibility of yourself, and saying ….”dude nobody is gonna fix this, you have to roll your sleeves up and make your hands dirty”, there’s no “Godfather” in this world, you are your own “Godfather”, the sooner you understand this, the better you become as you keep practicing! The world outside is the reflection of your own “inside” yep that you!!!!

My life has changed a lot since last year, and hope that it will keep changing, coz I want it to keep changing, it should change…coz change is the only constant thing

Happy Birthday to me

Adieu 2010!

2010-12-31T09:56:00.001-08:00

It was a year of great up and down for me personally. I lost something which I loved most, learnt few tough lessons from life in really tough ways, and started loving simplicity more than ever before.

Financially it was a rollercoaster and learnt few of the finance fundas thru EPBM(my eMBA course) and practically buy a house and arranging the finances. Lesson was a strong theoretical base does help in planning the future!

Professionally, it was a kind of so-so but the most amazing thing which I did this year was, the iPhone app which does the facial recognition and other cool stuff, it was part of the competition within my company(we are still waiting for the results!). Additionally, I went thru the M&A phase 3rd time(yep the company I join, gets acquired by some big company, hire me…I might be your company’s lucky charm )

Few achievement of year 2010:

Brought my own house
Started paying EMI
Started living with my younger brothers
Went thru my first “BREAK UP”
Learnt to “MOVE ON”
Create my first iPhone App
Bought two domain names:

www.ramshankaryadav.com (my homepage)
www.mylifeismypassion (my blog)

Started reading, and started loving it

whatever good or bad it was, it was an year of happenings for me, and hope the coming years would be more rocking \m/ and less painful.

I would like to thank God/Universe for bearing me~!

Happy New Year

Yet another thought!

2010-12-28T01:46:00.001-08:00

You are the CEO of your Future!

..that stupid resistance

2010-12-08T11:40:00.001-08:00

Today I felt “that stupid resistance” again! I don’t know but this feeling of proving ourselves right and augmenting with n number of excuses always comes whenever someone says something right about us but we don’t like it!

…but what I felt afterwards is that our ego comes right in front as soon as somebody speaks which we don’t like to hear, even though he/she may be right.

So how to handle this?
The answer is simple – “In-Action” , i.e., don’t do anything for while, don’t even react, that thought will keep hitting your mind but after a while wisdom prevails, and that’s it my friend!

Accept it! Take responsibility! Change yourself!

Happy Life

“the one!”

2010-12-07T10:31:00.001-08:00

In our lives we always wait for “the one!”, I mean girl/boy, job, house, car or any thing that we desire. The illusion of “the one!” sometimes fools us and sometimes we don’t realize that our “the one!” is already with us.

Whatever it is but the stupid chase keeps us going what I feel from my experiences with life is that we should act in the same “stupid way”. Things will come and go, in fact “the one!”s will come and go, all that matters is that stupid chase which later on transforms into a sweet smile!

Happy Chasing

Yet another thought!

2010-11-06T09:44:00.001-07:00

As far as you know the direction is right, keep moving!

My first entry using Windows Live Writer

2010-10-29T02:05:00.001-07:00

I hope this works!

Yep it’s working!

Cheers

My first post!

2010-10-28T09:46:00.000-07:00

Howdy!
This is going to be an exciting journey for sure, it's not that I've not blogged in past, but don't know why this kinda passion was not there....or frankly speaking this kinda focused passion was not there!!!!

I'm very much excited to share my view on anything and everything which I like or dislike or at times I don't comment on!

Let the thoughtful journey begin~!
"This is going to be "Legend"....wait for it "ary"!

Stay tuned ~~!