If you want something done by your team then you need to be the driver.

In a team settings, we all know the importance being a leader, but unless leader is also the driver he will be ineffective. Just like when you plan a outing with your team and you decide to go somewhere, you will take your seat in the vehicle and wait for the driver to take you to the destination. From this point onwards the driver is in power to decide everything about the trip, till we reach the destination.

An effective leader is one who is also the driver of the team, or else have a drive dedicated to his’s vision, otherwise we will have an rubber stamp leadership in team. If driver is missing altogether from the team then it will not move in any direction and it will fail, just like the  above outing if no one is going to drive the vehicle.

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These stories invariably fall into one of the following type

1. I could not do something because of these problems, or
2. I did something despite these problems coming my way.

One of them will make you a hero of your life story, other will make you a victim.

I prefer to listen and tell hero story, what about you?

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I have been thinking about my journey of last three years as an entrepreneur,  and various easy and hard times that I have seen. Wondering what makes few people achieve their dreams while few people fail to achieve it?

What I have come to realize (or rationalize for me ) is that whatever your dreams are, they will always need certain special skills, and hard times are your dreams way of testing to make sure you have the requisite skills to achieve those dreams.

In an entrepreneurial journey you will continuously need different set of skills. Your ability to acquire them will decide how many difficult times you are going to pass through, and for how long.

All I hope is to acquire all the skills needed to be worthy of my dreams sooner then later.

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After a long wait WordCamp is happening in Pune this weekend ie on 23rd and 24th Feb 2013, from 10.00 AM – 6.00 PM.

Day one is focused on Developers and Day 2 is focused on users.

For more details check the website for the event.

Hope to see you there

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Well, the answer is very simple, It is only language that allows even musicians to build sites for themselves.

By the way that is also the reason why WordPress has become the king of CMS and my choice for starting a WordPress development team – WPoets.

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Do you know about ‘The Pune Effect’ which influences all the Tech events in India, if not go read.

And if you are an event organiser then consider Pune as venue for your next event.

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Documentation and Help

1) http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference: This article list almost all the core functions that are available for a plugin developer.

2) http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Action_Reference: This article is a complete list of the action hooks available for use in plugin development.

3) http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference: This article is a complete list of the filter hooks available for use in plugin development.

4) http://codex.wordpress.org/Data_Validation: This article is list all the function are available in WordPress core to help us with data sanitization and validation

5) http://codex.wordpress.org/Site_Architecture_1.5: This article describes the general site architecture of a WordPress theme to help you understand it.

6) http://wordpress.stackexchange.com: This is *the* place to ask questions related to WordPress development, and off course give answers as well.

7) http://iwebask.com/blog/2011/03/16/75rss-feeds-for-web-developers-wordpress-bloggers/: Whole bunch of links that you should follow on your RSS reader, so that you can stay in sync with latest WordPress tips and tricks.

8) http://www.w3avenue.com/2009/09/28/definitive-list-of-free-wordpress-theme-frameworks/:  This article list whole bunch of theme frameworks that you can use for your themes.

WordPress Core Community

1) http://wpdevel.wordpress.com/ : This is the place where people in the core hang out, read it so that you are upto date with latest happenings about WordPress

2) http://make.wordpress.org/themes/: This is where people who review themes submitted in the wordpress.org theme repository hang out.

Well these are the links that i have found very useful, and I spend most of my time there. If you have any such useful link please share in the comments below.

P.S. We are hiring WordPress developers, email me your resumes if you are interested to become part of the team.

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We needed to catch PHP Fatal Errors in the production environment and notify about it to developers, also at the same time, showing our beautiful fail whale page to user instead of ugly error or a white screen of death.

Here I will show you how to do this in CodeIgniter, though credit for this idea goes to hipertracker.

First of all you will need to setup a hook, so update your hooks.php file with following code

	$hook['pre_system'][] = array(
	    'class'    => 'PHPFatalError',
            'function' => 'setHandler',
            'filename' => 'PHPFatalError.php',
   	    'filepath' => 'hooks'
);

Now put the code shown below in PHPFatalError.php file in your applications hooks folder.

This is the simplifed version of what I have done, so please update handleShutdown function as per your needs.

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Event is on 18th Dec 2010, ie this Saturday from 10 AM – 1 PM, at  505, A-Wing, Ground Floor MCCIA Trade Tower( ICC ) on SB Road.

Here is the quick agenda,

1. Why you should care about functional programming – by Dhananjay Nene. His id on twitter is @dnene and he currently writes code for and advises Vayana Enterprises in his role as its Chief Architect.
2. An Introduction to Erlang – by Bhasker Kode. On twitter he is @bosky101 and he is the CEO and Co-Founder of Pune-based Hover Technologies.
3. Clojure & its solution to the Expression Problem – By Baishampayan Ghose. On Twitter he is @ghoseb, and he is the co-founder & CTO of http://Paisa.com

Ohh.. and before I forget you need to register( don’t worry it is free) for the event.

See you guys on Saturday.

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