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Sachin's Last Speech : "Life Between 22 yards for 24 years"

Today I saw Sachin play for the last time. though an emotional blog post is due. For now I'll just be content with his words. And a few videos. “Friends please settle down, I’ll get more emotional. It’s hard to believe my wonderful journey is coming to an end, my life between 22 yards for 24 years has come to an end. I’ve a list of names to thank. The first is my father, who passed away in 1999. Without his guidance I wouldn’t be standing in front of you. He said ‘chase your dreams, don’t give up, the path will be difficult.’ I miss him today.  My mom, I don’t know how she managed a naughty child like me. She just prayed and prayed from the day I started playing the game. For four years I stayed with my uncle and aunt when in school, they treated me like their own son. My eldest brother Nitin doesn’t like to talk much but he said, whatever you do, I know you will give 100%. My first cricket bat was presented to me by my sister Savita. She still continues to fast while I ba...

Workshop on "Advanced Python Programming" at UTDallas

I will be conducting a workshop on Advanced Python Programming on University Of Texas at Dallas on November 17th. Everyone is invited to participate. Registrations are taken at  UTD Marketplace . You can directly register for the event at here . This workshop will assume your familiarity with Python and Model View Controller architecture. I will be covering high level introductions and some basic concepts with a very popular python framework named Django. The session will be mostly a hands on where we will be building a dynamic scalable web app using python and Django. At the end of the session participants should have with them their first app. Recommended Pre-Requisites: It is recommended for the participants to have the following skillset to take full advantage of the session Familiarity with python (Participants are encouraged to attend the basic level session first) Knowledge about MVC  architecture Knowledge about basic HTML,Javas...

Workshop on "Java DataBase Connecitivity (JDBC) programming"

I will be conducting a workshop on Java DataBase Connecitivity (JDBC) programming on UTDallas on November 3rd. Everyone is invited to participate. What will be covered are - JDBC Introduction - JDBC Driver types and connections - JDBC Library and SQL syntax - JDBC Statements and Resultsets - JDBC Transactions - JDBC Stored Procedure - Examples and Applications - Intro to Hibernate ORM - Hibernate Configuration - Hibernate Sessions and Mapping - Examples You can get more info from http://www.utdallas.edu/k12/desc/#jdbc