Ashish Sheth's Blog

India has not many online bookstore. I just came across this one:  FlipKart.com . Seems good.

Globalization is the process of making the application able to handle different culture and regions, while localization is the process of customization of the application for a specific culture and region. You use resource files (.resx) to localize the resources in your application. You use classes in System.Globalization namespace to make your application culture aware. The main class in Systme.Globalization namespace is the CultureInfo class. It contains many methods and properties to identify different cultures and configure your application to use a specific culture. You use System.Threading.Thread.CurrentCulture and System.Threading.Thread.CurrentUICulture to configure your application to use a specific culture setting. So how do you set which culture to use with your application? The System.Threading.Thread.CurrentCulture property is used to set a specific culture for the application. This property mainly defines how the application will format the datetime st...

Good news for all the book lovers in the CV Raman nagar and Kagadaspura area in Bangalore. Just yesterday I came across this library called Brainvilla at 6th Cross, Kagadaspura. It is just started and a small library offering Books and toys. One can borrow books and toys for 15 days and also can buy them as they have all the new copies of books and toys. The library claims to have almost 2500 books (and counting) on almost all topics like fiction, self-help, reference, children's books. Although I am quiet disappointed as they don't have computer and IT related books as Bangalore is IT city and almost majority of the readers will be Software professionals. They have 3 different plan availbale in 3 different categories where minimum is a one month plan for Rs. 149. However, I found the tariff at little higher compared to other library like British Library at Kasturba Road. One can opt for a monthly plan which is minimum or a six month or a yearly plan. All this plans a...

Just now I came from RTO where I went to take a written test to get a learner's license. And I spent there four hours without taking the test. Now you imagine. Not everybody spent four hours to get their driving license. So on average, I think people might be spending two hours. Based on the rush I can say there were more than 500 hundred people for various reason. I did little calculation on how much productivity we are loosing just at various RTOs in India. 500 people spent average 2 hours per day: 500 * 2 = 1000 Man-Hours 5 Working days per RTO: 2000 * 5 = 5000 Man-Hours 52 weeks: 10000 * 52 = 260000 Man-Hours There are  1019 RTOs in India : 1019 * 260000 = 26,49,40,000 Man-Hours. Now, not all the RTOs are as busy as the one where I went ( I went Indiranagar RTO in Bangalore). But there might me many RTOs which are more busy then this one like in Mumbai, Delhi and Kolkata. So I think that 500 people visiting RTO everyday on average is a reasonable guess. Now just guess a...

Well, in setting up this blog I did a considerable search on how to setup a blog. So thought I would write something about it here. First things first. You need to have a domain name and a hosting provider. Both can be the same company or different companies. The advantage of having the same company as your domain name provider and hosting provider is, it is easy to setup your site then if they are from different companies. The disadvantage is that if the company goes down or suddenly disappears you loose both your domain name and hosting space. You also need to take care of your renewals because if some company can became a nightmare for you if you don't renew in time then they may block both your hosting space and domain name. And domain name is actually your brand and you don't want to loose it. So be careful. The above disadvantage is not there if you have domain name from one company and hosting space from another company. But in this case, once your hosting ...

Well, so I have setup my blog and this is my first entry. Earlier I used to blog at  http://dotnetcapsule.blogspot.com/ . From now onwards I will post on this site but I will keep that blog alive. Welcome to my new blog!!