Trade Union.....No More A Distant Reality

I don’t know, How many of you have felt the heat of the slowdown in your working environment or ambience. But the reality is that it is changing gradually and eventually becoming harsh every moment going by. Now I wonder, can this event coin the term “Labour Union” in White Collar and extremely sophisticated industries like IT industry too. Let me just cite you an example, in my organization half yearly appraisals are in process and the situation is like this for even things as small as accessing internet, an employee is threatened to be terminated. Is this not the extreme? Is it not the situation which corporate houses are cashing in? I think it is. Every single employee can be considered as the building block of the Service Sector industry like IT industry, so he should get his due bite. “Termination” and “Sacking” have become the major contents of the grapevine these days. Labour Union may seem to be a distant reality right now but take my words if this situation persist then it has to break out this way only. Is there anything wrong in it? Look when you toil yourself all day long for your organization just to hear that you can be terminated any moment sounds morally wrong and here comes a group or union consisting of assets within who should fight for their share. So guys pull up your socks, we are ready to bear the heat in the form of no increments, no promotions but we cannot work under threatened conditions. We are the One who transformed the way they do business, we are the one make them global, we are the one that is why they exists. So why should we always be at the receiving end. I think this is the testing time and time for some introspection.........

Demand for IT skills down in first 3 months of 2009

A new study shows that demand for IT skills is down slightly in first three months of 2009.  Pay for both IT certifications and non-certified skills fell 0.5% overall during the first three months. Out of 371 skills and certifications considered in survey, 60 skills and certifications declined in value and 46 increased in value.

As per the survey by Foote Partners, LLC, demand for IT skills went down but depending on the specialization, pay is still rising for niche skills and certifications in IT Security, methodology/process, networking/systems, database, and enterprise apps. 

The survey has come up with the Hot List for IT Skills and Certifications. In IT Skills category(non-certified), JAVA EE, SE, ME were the hottest followed by Linux, Virtualization, and Microsoft .Net.  Business Process Management/Modeling/Improvement stood at #6, Security at #8(IDS/IPS, forensics, identity/access mgmt, compliance, firewalls, threat/vulnerability assessment and mgmt), Project Management at #10. Various SAP flavours are in the list ranked between #11 and #27 with MySQL(#22) and PHP(#23) in between.

Among IT Certifications Hot List, HP/Accredited Systems Engineer walked away with numero uno position. It was folllowed by GIAC Certified Incident Handler. Citrix Certified Integration Architect stood at #4.

To get command prompt on the right click

1. Open regedit.exe from Run menu

2. Navigate to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Classes/Folder/Shell

and create a key called "Command Prompt".

3. Set the default string to "Command Prompt" or simply "CMD", since this text will come when you right click on a FOLDER.

4. Create a new key within the newly created command prompt named "command," and set the default string to

cmd.exe /k pushd %1

5. Refresh By pressing F5.

PS: This works on NT based System. Also, the right click should be on a FOLDER. If you open the folder and the click on the screen area, then it won't work.

JavaScript -- How to perform certain tasks on closing the browser?

Many a times we want to perform certain tasks on closing the browser. Here is a simple code to do so:-

Social Media - Journey towards a New Era - "Webhood"

Social media has come a long way. Some people have just used it and some have misused it. And few have gained too. Social Media can be a powerful tool if used effectively. Many Social media sites like Facebook, FriendFeed, and Twitter (list is not exhaustive) help you to reach millions. Social Media has gone from the days of Orkut, where you had your personal page on World Wide Web to the stage of Market Networking, giving you a strategic platform to reach millions of audience without or less expenditure and in lesser number of minutes spent.

The major reason that why Social Media has been a huge success is because the people who indulge themselves in this area believe, either knowingly or unknowingly, in ALTRUISM. The basic reason for the success of Web 2.0 is its altruistic nature. The desire to help and be helped. That is why I, and many others, like to call Web 2.0 as Altruist Web.

Blogging(Wordpress, Blogger) and Micro-blogging(Twitter) have helped people to say what is in their mind and reach out to millions.

Bookmarking sites have helped people to share links of an article they liked.

In short everything which comes under Social Media realm is running because of altruism.

After centuries of feudalism and then attaining nationhood, we are marching into the era of "Webhood". I just coined this term. It is powerful, more powerful than Nationhood. In Webhood, people belonging to different caste, creed, race, religion, and nation come together to form an altruist society which may or may not meet physically but are involved in sharing, helping and networking resources available with them with the society.

Let's hope that Webhood will bring masses from different nations together and help in bringing the beautiful earth - Our Mother, more beautiful.