First birthday Invitation of our Daughter

Having a kids is the best gift ever, this is the most happening thing of the life. 

As our daughter turns one, we were so happy and want to do the best birthday celebration for her.

So we started with the birthday Invitation which is based on a theme (Minnie) party .

So here is the birthday Invitation which we made,

Going on onsite trip???

Every time I travel onsite, I feel like forgetting something. So, I thought of writing a post as reference for people who need to travel on short term trips (anything between 2-6 months).

Few things to consider while preparing this list:

• What type of accommodation you are going to get
• Search the surroundings near the accommodation
• Are you going to cook?
• Season when you are going to travel
• Distance between office & home

Things to check:

• Weather & Temperature: Do a bit of research on the temperature & the weather for your trip. You may refer various websites like Accuweather, The weather channel, etc. Carry clothes based on the temperature. 
• For summers, don't forget to carry your sunscreen lotion
• For rainy season, don't forget to carry umbrella/raincoat.
• For winter season, do carry Jacket, woolen cap, gloves, muffler etc
• Commute options: Check the distance between office & home using Google Maps. 
• Do check for the commute options. If you going to commute by bus, do check for the fare options (mainly one time fare).
• Most of the commute options don't refund you change. So, keep the exact change with you
• If you going to commute by railway system, check for the weekly/monthly ticket systems. Some places don't accept credit card for weekly tickets. So, do carry sufficient cash on the first day travel.
• Things to see around: Unless you are a internet freak, you would prefer to roam around and see different places (Who would not want to see the new cities ;)  ). Search for the sight seeing locations of the city & around city.
• Some places like Statue of Liberty have a pre-booking. Check for the waiting period (when I went to New York, waiting was 3 months :( ). You may also want to book before you actually reach the city.
• Some places/tours are operational only during certain seasons/months (like Maid Of the mist on Niagara falls)
• You may want to search for the coupons/sightseeing vouchers for various places in city. Some of the options you may consider are CityPASS, City Sightseeing, etc
• Do search options on Groupon, AnyCodes, etc
• Plan your visits properly based on weather
• Food joints: If you are not open to variety of food, or if you are a vegetarian, do search for various options near you.

Some of the important things to carry

• Currency change
• Shoes (sports & formal)
• Umbrella
• Woolens
• Snacks items
• Maggi/noddles
• Cooker
• Ready to eat food
• Shaving Kit
• Socks - 4+ pairs
• Detergent powder
• Medicines
• Hair oil
• Shampoo
• Deodorant
• Extra pair of glasses
• Sunglasses
• Nail cutter
• Tooth brush/tooth paste
• Shoe polish
• Rice
• Dal
• Spices
• Sugar/salt
• Sugarfree (sugar substitute)
• Handkerchief
• Extra pair of undergarments
• Grooming kit
• Headphone
• Camera

On Airport, you need to have sufficient change:

• To get trolley
• To call someone who will come & pick you
• If you have a break journey, try to arrange change for that currency
• If u have infants/kids, do take extra water bottle before you get out of flight
• Coloring book, toys & snacks for kids during travelling

Once you reach hotel/apartment, do get some change.

My first Icy Canada Winter 2013-14

Like many other people I had a dream to live in snow/icy place for a long term...

As when you are in vacation on this climate, your soul purpose is to make fun. But you can't imagine what kind of fun/trouble are facing by the local peoples who live there.

Fortunately, this year I got a chance to feel the icy winter of Canada... In initial days, I was very eager to see the snow fall. I was feeling very happy to roam in snow fall (It feels like cotton udh rahi ho). I never put my leg on bunch of snow (Now you think I am stupid but actually I personally feel that I should not scattered the design of snow). Wherever I saw, whether its tree, road, lake, hills or roof everywhere I found snow. It feels like I am in heaven.

 Sun & Snow

But within 2 weeks my charm of snow had finished. As I had to go for grocery in this weather without any vehicle. Now you can imagine, why I am saying this (wearing 4 layers on body and 2 pair of socks didn't attack on weather plus carrying heavy grocery on hand becomes me penguin)

View from my balcony

Things were not stop here, I was feeling very helpless when snow converts into ice (It is the condition when snow melt in day due to sunny weather and it convert into ice in night due to fall in temperature). Initially It looks very good but roads become very slippery on this time, many times I fall and injured myself.. 

In the starting of winter people said to me this was my first winter here that's why I was feeling too cold but at the end of the winter, same people told me that this winter was very severe. But the reality is, this winter was actually very cold as it breaks many past records. You can imagine my condition when you know that Niagara falls were also frozen for 2-3 days. So how sever the winter was...And this was my first winter in Canada... 

 

How to change OpenCart URL

In the world of website management, most of the times, we need to create website on a test link before they are ready to be published on web. In several other cases, host name of the company is changed resulting into change in the website URL.

So, we can say that it is very common to change the URL of website installations.
When we work on any CMS (Content Management System) tools, this may not be so easy and you may get tangled in the intricacies of CMS tools to achieve this.

After struggling a bit with OpenCart  , I decided to write this article as reference to others.

Change Home URL

Changing home URL in OpenCart is very easy. Just a few steps and you are done with it.

For Front End (Front Store)

1. Access installation files of your OpenCart instance (using FTP or the FileManager in your cPanel) and go to the root folder of your installation
2. You will find a file named config.php
3. Open this config.php file in an editor (If you are using FileManager, you will have something to edit the file in browser)
4. Find for the properties named 'HTTP_SERVER' & 'HTTPS_SERVER' in the file:
   
   // HTTP
define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://vibhav.com/');

// HTTPS
define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'http://vibhav.com/');



5. Change the existing host name (highlighted above) to the new URL name and save the changes
6. After this file, the front store will start working well. However, the management backend (admin panel) will still not work after these changes.

For management backend (admin panel)

1. Access installation files of your OpenCart instance (using FTP or the FileManager in your cPanel) and go to the /admin folder of your installation
2. You will find a file named config.php
3. Open this config.php file in an editor (If you are using FileManager, you will have something to edit the file in browser)
4. Find for the properties named 'HTTP_SERVER', 'HTTP_CATALOG', 'HTTPS_SERVER' & 'HTTPS_CATALOG' in the file:
   
   // HTTP
define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://vibhav.com/admin/');
define('HTTP_CATALOG', 'http://vibhav.com/');

// HTTPS
define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'http://vibhav.com/admin/');
define('HTTPS_CATALOG', 'http://vibhav.com/');


5. Change the existing host name (highlighted above) to the new URL name and save the changes
6. Your OpenCart URL is changed and your website will function on your new URL

Isn't it so simple?

Happy New Year 2015

Wishing you a very Happy and Prosperous year 2015...