Tuesday, February 3, 2009

U.S. tech unions call for law against offshoring

As MNCs cut jobs in big numbers to rein in costs, IT workers and their unions in the U.S. are now up in arms against offshoring work to cheaper locations like India, reports The Economic Times.

Microsoft, which announced first job cuts in its history, and IBM are among those facing a backlash from tech worker unions and policymakers. Washington Alliance of Technology Workers and Alliance IBM are two organizations of IT workers at the Big Blue running a campaign against the proposed 2,800 job cuts announced recently.

Lee Conrad, national coordinator of the Alliance, said, "The Alliance is strongly urging IBM not to go forward with a new round of job cuts and to stop the off-shoring of US workers' jobs."

Consulting group Challenger, Gray and Christmas said last month that electronics, computer and telecommunications companies in the U.S. have cut their workforce by around 186, 955 professionals in 2008, up almost 75 percent from 2007. According to the US Department of Labor, the unemployment rate during December last year rose from around 6.8 to 7.2 percent with almost 2 million workers losing their job between September to December.

On the other side, IBM employs over 70,000 professionals in India and has plans to increasingly serve its global customers from the country. "There is a growing concern among employees that IBM will accelerate the off-shoring of our jobs. To offshore U.S. jobs in the middle of an economic crisis and rising unemployment is simply unacceptable," said Tom Midgley, Alliance president in a January statement.

"We will work with our elected representatives to push for legislation that protects U.S. jobs and calls for the full disclosure of IBM's offshoring and outsourcing of American jobs."

At the same time, policymakers in the U.S. are already proposing new regulations to curb offshoring. In his letter to Microsoft's chief executive Steve Ballmer last month, Senator Chuck Grassley asked the company to give priority to American workers. "My point is that during a layoff, companies should not be retaining H-1B or other work visa program employees over qualified American workers," he said in his January 22 letter. "Our immigration policy is not intended to harm the American workforce." Microsoft plans to cut around 5,000 jobs in the U.S.

However, experts such as Partha Iyengar, vice president at Gartner say that unavailability of required IT skills remains a key driver for offshoring.

By siliconindia news bureau
Tuesday,03 February 2009, 09:43 hrs IST

Sunday, February 1, 2009

Aamdani athanni kharcha rupya

Everyone knows that February is the smallest month of the year. Still budget of this month is double of other months. Actually one of our roommate left this flat because he is going to marriage and want each and everything new "naya ghar, nayi gadi... badhiya hai", My best wishes for him "Happy Marriage Life Dear". Now i come on the main topic, He went with TV, some kitchen equipment and others.
So, we purchased a Samsung LCD color tv on that day and purchased kitchen equipments, because these things were very much required. After this we have purchased some things for interior decoration of our flat. "Sab kuchh badal dala, jhinga lala..... hahahahha".
When we calculated how much expenditure of this month then got double of other months.
In this Recession period i can say that "aamdani athanni kharcha rupya"

Monday, January 26, 2009

REPUBLIC DAY OF INDIA

Republic Day is India's great national festival. It is celebrated every year on January 26, in New Delhi with great pomp and pageant and in capitals of the States, as well as at other headquarters and important places with patriotic fervor.

India became a Republic and the constitution came into force on January 26, 1950. The Constituent Assembly was convened and appointed a committee with Dr. B.R.Ambedkar as Chairman to draft the Constitution. India declared herself to be a Sovereign Democratic Republic. The Indian Constitution, the longest in the world, consist 397 articles and 12 schedules which provides for a single citizenship for the whole of India.

"The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles" :
M.K Gandhi

I Wish you all a Happy Republic Day of India.

Sunday, January 25, 2009

About My Collage "NIT Calicut"


National Institute of Technology (NIT) Calicut is one of the premier institutes for technical education in India. NIT Calicut was formerly known as Calicut Regional Engineering College. The institute was established in September 1961 as the ninth of regional engineering college of India. In June 2002, Calicut Regional Engineering College was accorded the status of Deemed University and was renamed as National Institute of Technology Calicut.



Contact Address:

National Institute of Technology Calicut,
NIT Campus P.O., Calicut - 673 601.
Ph.No. 0495 2286101
Fax No. 0495 2287250
URL: www.nitc.ac.in

check username availability in ajax and php using jquery’s fading effect

Html Code :

User Name :
input name="username" type="text" id="username" value="" maxlength="15"/>
id="msgbox" style="display:none">

Css code :
.messagebox{
position:absolute;
width:100px;
margin-left:30px;
border:1px solid #c93;
background:#ffc;
padding:3px;

}
.messageboxok{
position:absolute;
width:auto;
margin-left:30px;
border:1px solid #349534;
background:#C9FFCA;
padding:3px;
font-weight:bold;
color:#008000;

}
.messageboxerror{
position:absolute;
width:auto;
margin-left:30px;
border:1px solid #CC0000;
background:#F7CBCA;
padding:3px;
font-weight:bold;
color:#CC0000;

}
.messageboxhold{
position:absolute;
width:auto;
margin-left:30px;
border:1px solid #CC0000;
background:#F7CBCA;
padding:3px;
font-weight:bold;
color:yellow
;
}

Javascript code :


$("#username").blur(function()
{
//remove all the class add the messagebox classes and start fading
$
("#msgbox").removeClass().addClass('messagebox').text('Checking...').fadeIn("slow");
//check the username exists or not from ajax
$
.post("user_availability.php",{ user_name:$(this).val() } ,function(data)
{
if(data=='no') //if username not avaiable
{
document.form.username.value=null;
document.form.username.focus();

$
("#msgbox").fadeTo(200,0.1,function() //start fading the messagebox
{
//add message and change the class of the box and start fading
$
(this).html('This User name Already exists').addClass('messageboxerror').fadeTo(900,1);
});
}
else if(date=='yes')
{
$
("#msgbox").fadeTo(200,0.1,function() //start fading the messagebox
{
//add message and change the class of the box and start fading
$
(this).html('Username available to register').addClass('messageboxok').fadeTo(900,1);
});
}
else if(date=='amit')
{
$
("#msgbox").fadeTo(200,0.1,function() //start fading the messagebox
{

$
(this).html('Plz enter Username ').addClass('messageboxhold').fadeTo(900,1);
});
}

});
});


Php Code:

$existing_users=array(amit,abhishek,kumar);
$user_name=$_POST['user_name'];
if($user_name==null)
{
echo "amit";
exit();
}
if (in_array($user_name, $existing_users))
{
//user name is not available
echo "no";
}
else
{
//username available i.e. user name doesn't exists in array
echo "yes";
}