Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, Hyderabad

RGIA, Hyderabad is maintained by GMR Group is the second airport in Hyderabad, the first one being Begumpet Airport which caters to VIP needs while the former takes care of all commercial ones. Its quite a beautiful scene at the RGI airport. One of the cleanest I ever visited. Enchanted by the arrangements, took a video which shows its glory!

The pictures below need no caption.

Hungry?

The way!

The sunshine through glasses!

While the airport is cool, the travel is not so bad either! Here's a glimpse of takeoff from Hyderabad RGIA.

After all this, only one thing I must say, its beautiful!!

Have a safe trip guys!!

One day at GVK One

One day got enough time to visit  GVK One, a shopping mall located at Banjara Hills, Hyderabad.  A small group of friends gathered to spend a day together. So, the meeting place decided was GVK One. Its a bright lit mall with a lot of activities going on which attracts a large group of people. The 3.5 Lakh square feet area gives a lot of entertainment for the general category of public who visit there. Yes, there are people who shop around, but ours was a pleasure trip!

The mall also features an enchanting salt water aquarium which probably is the largest free standing unit of its kind in the country.

The Center Water Aquarium

The mall in all its glory!

It was summer and GVK one knew this, so they had summer special program called Summer ONE'der for school children!

A glimpse of that:

That was a fun day!!

Pulimurugan

Last year during Christmas, my brother got an idea to represent himself as Pulimurugan, a character from the malayalam movie with the same name, The name depicts a person named Murugan who is capable of controlling/killing tigers. The character played by Mohanlal, a good sequence of action and pretty good graphics helped the movie gain good market in Malayalam movie industry. 

Initially my brother decided on playing the role, but as the time approached for stage performance, due to lot of issues, it was kept aside. However, just before the program started, he could not control the eagerness to play the role of Pulimurugan and asked me to prepare the audio track for the performance. 

That's it, he wanted to play the role and I wanted to experiment on some audio. We did the audio mix in 1 hour's time and by the time it was time for the program to begin, my brother too was ready with all the skit props and dress and a bit of practice. 

What happened at the stage, follows:

Venue: KCF Christmas programme, Kalol, North Gujarat

Date : 25th December 2016

Skit by : James Thomas

Thanks for stopping by,

Have a great day!!

Buying a domain name

Buying a domain name

How did I ended up buying a domain name with my own name?

It all started with orkut[dot]com. It was the first social media that I was exposed to. The requirement here was to have unique email id. 

Okay, unique! I thought nice.. lets register. But, when I tried registering with my name that is "Jino Thomas", all I got was "Oops, that username is in use, try another one!". 

Well, I had to use the social media site, which was in hype during those days. So, I had to register by adding random numbers to my email id as jinothomas9123987@abcd.com . This was painful. 

All my childhood I thought my name was unique. But alas, it wasn't. 

Then came facebook. I tried to get a username with only my first and last name. But, again, all were registered long back.  So, again, I registered with a unique username by adding few more characters and numbers with my name. 

The trend continued. Yahoo, Google, Twitter, and so on. 

I never got to use my name without adding few characters. 

Then I stumbled upon website registrations. Since this is a costly affair, I guess it was an area not many had explored. Adding to that, the domain name with my name was available.

How would I loose such an opportunity of adding my name on the public space without additional characters? I didn't. 

This was the time. It was on 7th June 2017 that I bought the domain name jinothomas[dot]com .

I had to think over this multiple times, but what would I do if I don't get this at a later stage was the thought that haunted me. 

I had to take a step, and I did.

After registering and making payments, I added my blogspot to my domain name to start with.

And that's how I bought a domain name!!

If you would like to buy one,  drop me an email. I would be glad to help!!

Freedom 251 Website Crashes

Freedom 251 Website Crashes

The website http://freedom251.com which was the official website for the phone maker to sell its latest series of phone which is one of the cheapest phones ever made crashed at 5:55 AM on 18th February 2016.

The website was working till 5:54 AM today morning, however since the hype for the cheapest mobile was on, the load on the website would have increased dramatically. This would have lead to the sudden spike in overall traffic to the website. As such the website was not much attractive to look at and used http instead of secure https for the sale of the mobile.

While connecting to the website, it showed an error :"The requested resource could not be loaded because the server returned an error:
  503 (?)" . 

I tried to access the website through some proxy servers and it opened up, however it couldn't take the load and simply failed to open the buy page.

It would have been better if they would have used some cloud technologies and made the website little more elastic since the hype for the cheapest mobile phone was unsurprisingly high.

I have some screenshots from proxy websites.

The surprising thing was that the actual company website http://ringingbells.co.in/ didn't even show a little detail about the phone Freedom 251.

Lets Hope they fix the website soon.. All the best RiningBells. Lets Make In India

Open Shift by Redhat

For using Red Hat Open Shift, you can start by getting a free account at https://www.openshift.com/

It should not ask anything more than a username, an email id and password to log in to.

After creating an account, you can create an application to start developing your website with.

In my  case, I selected Wordpress, as it seemed the simplest thing to do.

Getting a good sub domain name could be tricky but luckily I got what I required. 

http://wordof-jino.rhcloud.com/

You can find this website online till the time I keep editing it or keep adding content. After a good amount of unused duration, they may delete this website to save storage space at OpenShift.

Multiple programming languages are available to develop the website and web applications.

You can do Wordpress, Drupal 7.0, JBOSS, Java, PHP with ZEND, RUBY ON RAILS, DJANGO, Google Go language, etc.

There's a lot to choose from!

Enjoy your cloud services.

All about gardening in this website!

Everything regarding Gardening at home!

The following website I found on the internet shows all about how to do gardening. All that you would require!!

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mallorymcinnis/thyme-to-garden

Enjoy Gardening!