SCM

Most of the people have confused about Software Configuration Management (SCM), because may be they are not aware of SCM systems and processes or not known its significance and importance.

The below is the perfect explanation about SCM for all the IT people to get clear vision and clarity about the SCM systems and processes.

Did you know that CM systems back in the day were basically people? This is where the term “check-in” & “check-out” comes from- it refers to the days when there where actual software librarians would record peoples changes and check them in and out like books on disk or punch cards. It’s mind boggling to think of software this way.

If I was to ask software developers today what “software configuration management” was, they would probably say “SCM? Like Subversion?” Incorrect! SCM is not the same as a version control system. Yes, your version control system is an SCM tool (confusing?) but SCM is a broader discipline and technique that encompasses the management of change in software.

The introduction to the IEEE “Standard for Software Configuration begins with:

SCM constitutes good engineering practice for all software projects, whether phased development, rapid prototyping, or ongoing maintenance. It enhances the reliability and quality of software by:

Providing a structure for identifying and controlling documentation, code, interfaces, and databases to support all life cycle phases

Supporting a chosen development/maintenance methodology that fits the requirements, standards, policies, organization, and management philosophy

Producing management and product information concerning the status of baselines, change control, tests, releases, audits, etc.

Let’s be clear- all of the things on this list do not fit under the heading of your version control system.

Many of them will require practices and policies to maximize your development efforts and methodologies. With version control, release engineers will still have to perform some of these SCM related functions:

Merge early and often

Enforce a workflow for development teams to follow

Record and have full visibility into all of the changes that were made

Write build and compiler scripts

Automate builds, deploys and tests

Understand the dependencies between projects and code

Maintain the development environment for a team

Be responsible for the final product going out the door

That’s just the tip of the iceberg. A talented release engineer or SCM expert can do all of those things independently, but his or her job would be a lot easier with SCM tools that can automate and facilitate the necessary practices and processes. (This includes version control, compilers, debuggers, editors, continuous integration machines, automated deploy, and the ITS system.)

At its core, SCM answers the question “Somebody did something, how can one reproduce it?”

In addition it’s about understanding and establishing relationships among items that are likely to change. It’s a tricky job, not one that’s easily understood. We have to understand the relationships between versioned artifacts, like code, hardware, documents, design models and even directory structures. In addition we have to do all of the necessary things to make those versions valuable to our organization. We have to design process, workflow, and automation, build automation, reports and security.

With all of this, don’t tell me that SCM is the same as version control. Trust me on this one!

WHY TO VISIT TEMPLES ?

WHY TO VISIT TEMPLES ?
(Scientific Reason)
There are thousands of temples all over India in different size, shape and locations but not all of them are considered to be built the Vedic way. Generally, a temple should be located at a place where earth's magnetic wave path passes through densely. It can be in the outskirts of a town/village or city, or in middle of the dwelling place, or on a hillt

op. The essence of visiting a temple is discussed here.

Now, these temples are located strategically at a place where the positive energy is abundantly available from the magnetic and electric wave distributions of north/south pole thrust. The main idol is placed in the core center of the temple, known as "*Garbhagriha*" or *Moolasthanam*. In fact, the temple structure is built after the idol has been placed. This *Moolasthanam* is where earth’s magnetic waves are found to be maximum. We know that there are some copper plates, inscribed with Vedic scripts, buried beneath the Main Idol. What are they really? No, they are not God’s / priests’ flash cards when they forget the *shlokas*. The copper plate absorbs earth’s magnetic waves and radiates it to the surroundings. Thus a person regularly visiting a temple and walking clockwise around the Main Idol receives the beamed magnetic waves and his body absorbs it. This is a very slow process and a regular visit will let him absorb more of this positive energy. Scientifically, it is the positive energy that we all require to have a healthy life.

Further, the Sanctum is closed on three sides. This increases the effect of all energies. The lamp that is lit radiates heat energy and also provides light inside the sanctum to the priests or *poojaris* performing the pooja. The ringing of the bells and the chanting of prayers takes a worshipper into trance, thus not letting his mind waver. When done in groups, this helps people forget personal problems for a while and relieve their stress. The fragrance from the flowers, the burning of camphor give out the chemical energy further aiding in a different good aura. The effect of all these energies is supplemented by the positive energy from the idol, the copper plates and utensils in the *Moolasthan*am / *Garbagraham*. *Theertham*, the “holy” water used during the pooja to wash the idol is not
plain water cleaning the dust off an idol. It is a concoction of Cardamom,*Karpura* (Benzoin), zaffron / saffron, *Tulsi* (Holy Basil), Clove, etc...Washing the idol is to charge the water with the magnetic radiations thus increasing its medicinal values. Three spoons of this holy water is distributed to devotees. Again, this water is mainly a source of magneto-therapy. Besides, the clove essence protects one from tooth decay, the saffron & *Tulsi* leafs protects one from common cold and cough, cardamom and *Pachha Karpuram* (benzoin), act as mouth fresheners. It is proved that *Theertham* is a very good blood purifier, as it is highly energized. Hence it is given as *prasadam* to the devotees. This way, one can claim to remain healthy by regularly visiting the Temples. This is why our elders used to suggest us to offer prayers at the temple so that you will be cured of many ailments. They were not always superstitious. Yes, in a few cases they did go overboard when due to ignorance they hoped many serious diseases could be cured at temples by deities. When people go to a temple for the *Deepaaraadhana*, and when the doors open up, the positive energy gushes out onto the persons who are there. The water that is sprinkled onto the assemblages passes on the energy to all. This also explains why men are not allowed to wear shirts at a few temples and women are requested to wear more ornaments during temple visits. It is through these jewels (metal) that positive energy is absorbed by the women. Also, it is a practice to leave newly purchased jewels at an idol’s feet and then wear them with the idol’s blessings. This act is now justified after reading this article. This act of “seeking divine blessings” before using any new article, like books or pens or automobiles may have stemmed from this through mere observation.

Energy lost in a day’s work is regained through a temple visit and one is refreshed slightly. The positive energy that is spread out in the entire temple and especially around where the main idol is placed, are simply absorbed by one's body and mind. Did you know, every Vaishnava(Vishnu devotees), “must” visit a Vishnu temple twice every day in their location. Our practices are NOT some hard and fast rules framed by 1 man and his followers or God’s words in somebody’s dreams. All the rituals, all the practices are, in reality, well researched, studied and scientifically backed thesis which form the ways of nature to lead a good healthy life.

The scientific and research part of the practices are well camouflaged as “elder’s instructions” or “granny’s teaching’s” which should be obeyed as a mark of respect so as to once again, avoid stress to the mediocre brain

Applying Passport Online :

How to apply passport online: 

The process for applying new passport online is very simple.

Please follow the below steps to apply passport online. I feel this information may useful to the people who are lack of knowledge on applying passport online.

Steps:

Open internet explorer and type the below website detail and click enter.

www.passportindia.gov.in

As a first time user, everybody who is applying for passport online needs to register their details with the site mentioned above and create a User ID. (Click on “Register” link under the Online Application Filling Section on Home Page)

Once you completed the registration process, login to passport Seva portal with the User ID created above.

Then, Click Apply for Fresh Passport/Reissue of passport link.

Please keep your id proof documents like certificates, ration card and election ID card to enter your details.

Please enter the details very carefully, if you did any mistake there may be a delay in processing your passport.

Once you have filled the online form, either you can upload all of your supporting documents online or you can show these at time of in person appointment with the Passport Officials.

Please fill the form and submit.

Then, click on “Manage Appointment” link on Application Home Page to schedule an appointment at a passport Seva Kendra (PSK).

Then click the “Print Application Receipt” link to print the application receipt containing Application Reference Number (ARN).

Visit the Passport Seva Kendra (PSK) where appointment has been taken, along with original documents.

Only emergency/medical cases may visit PSK without appointment. Service will be provided at the discretion of PSK in-charge/Passport Officer. 

Minor applicants below 4 years of age need to carry a passport size photograph (with a white background) while visiting Passport Seva Kendra (PSK). Other applicants need not carry any photograph as photograph will be captured at the Passport Seva Kendra (PSK).

Resubmission of application form is required, in case the applicant does not visit the PSK within 90 days from the online form submission.

People who are belong to Krishna, Guntur, khammam and prakasam districts can submit their online form and book the appointment in Vijayawada Passport Seva Kendra.

People who are belong to Chittor, Ananthapur and nellore districts can submit their online form and book the appointment in Tirupathi Passport Seva Kendra.

People who are belong to Nijamabad, Adilabad and karimnagar districts can submit their online form and book the appointment in Nijamabad Passport Seva Kendra.

People who are belong to Hyderabad, Medak, Rangareddy, Warangal, Kurnool, Nalgonda and MahaboobNagar districts can submit their online form and book the appointment in Hyderabad Passport Seva Kendra.

  

Passport Seva Kendra’s will work from Monday to Friday only.

Please use the phone number 1800-258-1800 to find out the status of your Passport application.

Alternatively you can check the status in online aswell.

Online Payment has been made mandatory for booking appointments at Passport Seva Kendras under some of the Passport Offices.
Click here to view the list of such Passport Seva Kendras/Passport Offices where Online Payment has been made mandatory. For remaining Passport Seva Kendras/Passport Offices, Online Payment will be applicable for scheduling appointment in due course and will be notified accordingly.
Online Payment can be made using any one of the following modes:

• Credit/Debit Card (MasterCard & Visa)
• Internet Banking (State Bank of India (SBI) and Associate Banks Only)
• SBI Bank Challan

Applicants applying under Tatkaal need to pay only the fee as applicable under Normal Category while making Online Payment. The balance fee as applicable for Tatkaal will be payable in "Cash" at Passport Seva Kendra/Passport Office, once Tatkaal application is accepted by Passport Officials.

To pay using Credit/Debit Card or Internet Banking

Step 1.	Click the "Schedule Appointment" link, select the appointment quota (i.e. Tatkaal Quota or Normal Quota (required only for Tatkaal ARN cases)), select the desired Passport Seva Kendra, and click the Next>> button.
Step 2.	Click the Pay and Book Appointment button to redirect to State Bank of India's Multi Option Payment System (MOPS).
Step 3.	Select the Mode of Payment (NET BANKING or CARD PAYMENTS), follow the instructions and make payment. Please do not click the Back button or refresh the page, as this may lead to failure of transaction.
Step 4.	Once the payment is successful, an appointment will be booked automatically for the selected Passport Seva Kendra and the "Appointment Confirmation" screen of PSP Portal will be displayed.
Step 5.	Take a printout of the Application (ARN) Receipt, and carry it along while visiting the Passport Seva Kendra on the given appointment date/time.

To pay using a Challan

Step 1.	Generate and print SBI Bank Challan through the "Pay using Challan" link.
Step 2.	Submit the Challan along with indicated application fee at the nearest  SBI Branch after at least three hours of Challan generation.
Step 3.	Payment will be reflected after at least two working days of depositing the fee in the SBI branch. Click the "Track Payment Status" link to track Payment Status.
Step 4.	If Payment Status is displayed as Success, click the "Schedule Appointment" link, to schedule an appointment.
Step 5.	Select the Appointment Quota (i.e. Tatkaal Quota or Normal Quota (required only for Tatkaal ARN cases)), select the desired Passport Seva Kendra, and click the Book Appointment button. An appointment (if available) will be booked automatically for the selected Passport Seva Kendra.
Step 6.	Take a printout of the Application (ARN) Receipt, and carry it along while visiting the Passport Seva Kendra on the given appointment date/time.

Online Payment will remain valid for one year from the first appointment date. The paid fee will be forfeited if applicants do not submit application at PSK within this period.

Chargeback/Refunds:-

No claim for refund, return or exchange of fee will be entertained for passport related services. In case of multiple payments for the same ARN, for Passport related services including miscellaneous services, the claims for refund will be dealt with as per extant policy governing them.

• Reschedule/Cancel an Appointment
• Once an appointment at Passport Seva Kendra is confirmed, it can be rescheduled/ canceled only twice within a year of the first appointment date.

Hope you may helpfull with this information.

My Graduation Friends

My Graduation Friends :

Writing is a big task, because we need to think a lot before writing it. Anyways Today I took a chance to write some thing about my graduation friends. Before telling about my friends let me introduce about my graduation. It was a great course introduced by Ex –C.M of our state and it is Bachelor of Computer Application. Any one can apply this course irrespective of their intermediate, any one from arts or science or maths students can apply this course. who ever is applying for it they should get admission based on test, followed by counselling.

My parents were suggested me to do this course and hence I have joined in Superwhizz Vijayawada for coaching to clear the BCA admission test. I have tried a lot to get a seat in Vijayawada but I couldn’t able to get that because of reservation issues. Anyhow I have got a seat in Sri Vidya Degree College, Gudivada. So this is the background story of my graduation college.

First day at college.

While going to college, I was just thinking about my college, and college campus and the facilities of the college.  I was just assuming my college will be the good and best one I have opted for doing my graduation. Not only myself have this feeling and who ever opted to do their graduation in this college has come to the college with the same feelings.

Here it comes the full comedy, who ever is coming to college for their joining, all were directed by college staff to sit at one place. and that college didn’t have any buildings rather than it has some huts. We all are in shocking mode after seeing our college it has nothing no campus, no proper lab and even no proper lecturers as well.

What to do, everyone was started changing their college and approached university. but no one got the exchange facility. So we have started studying there it self. This is what about my college.

About my class,

We are 40 people class in that 10 of them are girls, most of the people from our class are non locals and they have opted our great college hostel facility as well. Luckily i will come under locals group so that I have escaped to opt the hostel facility. days are moving with new things, places and studies. Our class people also enjoying the day to day life in college with new things about studies and looking at girls (this is common everywhere in world). We all were having very good time in our first year where everyone will be very friendly and jovial more helpful.

I have unique presence in my class, where I was sitting in back bench with some other rascals( Nagraj, Sasi and Ravi) and vijayprakash(VP), infact they are my best friends. We Always through comments on girls and  try to make some fun out the of the class. We have never forget our lecturers especially RAVI sir for C language not only C. yes, sir was trying hard to teach us our subjects but everyone’s concentration was girls out side of class and and someone’s concentration was  on girls inside the class. And we never hurt any one in our class rather we have made our class with very good fun oriented class where everyone is really liking our fun activities.

In our class we have some singers as well and they are also supported us to make more fun in class.

So it’s the time to prove our talent about your first year performance and finally time has come to prove ourself. Every one is busy with their studies and finally completed the exams but only few of them were qualified in first year results.

Second year has started and I have found a drastic change in my class, where people were behaving like strangers to each other and some of them are make gangs like hostels alone one gang and locals alone one gang even girls all are one gang, and we rascals are alone one gang, where every one is trying to avoid us including girls. We don’t know the reason behind this and we are keep moving with our day to day routine life.

And after some point of time, don’t know what happened to all of them suddenly they have started talking with us and started making some fun with us. Yes, as part of this I was started teasing one girl in my class. And she is very beautiful and nice girl. Her voice is very cute like kids and I have some interest on her. Let me tell you one small funny thing between her and myself, in my college we used to ask everybody like what’s matter? ( Enti Sangathi). She said baby is crying ( Papa Edchindi). Then I told her oh is it our baby who is crying and her name is JAGANMAYI, and I told her take care of her don’t let her to cry anymore and I was keep on telling something to her and in my class everyone is laughing like anything. That’s one fun incident in my life I never forget it.

In this year there were lot of changes, every one is silent and hiding all the things about the class. More over started acting being as friends with us. We are unable to identify the root cause, but later on we come to know that there are some LOVE affairs going on in our class, so we have been avoided by them. Anyways we have never hurt any one in their personals though they were scared to share things with us.

As usual its time for exams, for second year and everyone was busy with their studies and every gang was busy with their combine studies. Finally exams got completed and got the results as well. I have one backlog in my second year that was maths. I don’t know  how to pass this exams and it was very tough to me to pass this exam. And everyone of my class has a great opinion about me that I have never complete or pass that subject. I was bit scared and I am just started thinking that how to pass this exam, the main reason behind my worry two of my rascals had passed this exam and that was causing me a lot.

Finally, I have found the solution to my issue. simple I have one childhood friend, Suresh  in my hometown and he is also doing his graduation in science at that time and he helped me a lot. He teach me all maths formulas and showed me how to solve the problems as well. The funny thing here is, I was cleared the exam with help of Suresh and I am the first In my class in that subject. Thanks a lot to my friend Suresh.

Third year,

When we come in to third year, every one got changed like really strangers. The sad thing is, we have considered everyone of my class is our friends and we are behaving with same feeing with them, though they have started acting as friends with us. In addition, some more pressure from college management. We have got irritation on our class and choose to not to go to college at all. So we didn’t go to college at entire final year. And that was the good thing I have done in that year. Once in a month we used to go college to know the things at college. One time when we reached college everyone in my class were started asking us to fill the slam book. Its again fun oriented session. Somehow I have filled some of my classmates slam book. And I am the idiot I don’t have any slam book to maintain it. Anyways I have joined in one institute in Vijayawada. Other wise I am not sure whether I can able to clear my exams or not. Its a coaching centre for BCA final year students for their final year subjects and their Post Graduation course (MSc[Information Systems], entrance test as well. Luckily I have cleared all of my graduation subjects and secured first class. I was very happy after results have been published. 

 Finally we all were conducted one farewell party before leaving the college. I really don’t understand one thing that how could people can forget their friends?

The best solution for my question that i have found that, when someone walks out of your life, let them. There's no time on people that leave you. What you make of yourself and your future is no longer tied to them. Yeah, you may miss them, but remember that you weren't the one who gave up.

I would really like to meet all of my friends and classmates to have some good time, I hope some body can respond to this post after seeing it.

This is a just brief about my graduation and my friends and classmates.