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Saddle-billed Stork – a portrait!

tariquesani — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 06:36:27 +0000

This bird is represented in an Ancient Egyptian hieroglyph that had the phonetic value “ba” Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddle-billed_Stork Tweet

Oriental Pratincole

tariquesani — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 05:58:32 +0000

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The Oriental Pratincole (Glareola maldivarum), also known as the Grasshopper-Bird or Swallow-Plover is a wader in the pratincole family, Glareolidae. Their most unusual feature of the pratincoles is that although classed as waders they typically hunt their insect prey on the wing like swallows, although they can also feed on the ground. Tweet

The “Houbara” twitch

tariquesani — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 03:20:46 +0000

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Twitch: a British term used to mean “the pursuit of a previously-located rare bird.” Wikipedia During our previous visit to Kutch, Gujarat, we had manage to photograph almost all the major bird species, however, the Houbara Bustard (Chlamydotis undulata) had eluded us. Yes, we had managed to get a sighting but I was not happy [...]

Last month @ SANIsoft blog October 1, 2011

tariquesani — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 03:01:55 +0000

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[CakePHP] Build javascript widget for affiliate sites using CakePHP Recently I had a requirement from client. Additionally, it went on, that the snippet should be very simple like PLAIN TEXT HTML: <script src=”http://baseurlhere/test/test”></script> Simple I thought I will just document write an iframe and be done with it but quickly discovered that if you want [...]

Valparai, Part 2 – Picturesque speechless

tariquesani — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 06:25:00 +0000

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P.S. You may want to read the Part 1 if you have not done so already Tweet

Valparai, Part 1 – a wet dream to remember

tariquesani — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 05:27:55 +0000

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Honestly till some time ago I had never heard of Valparai. It was Kalyan and a few others who mentioned it on twitter off and on. Being creature of arid or dry deciduous forest, I had resisted the rain forests for a long time. Seeing the lush green, HDR without the HDR kind of landscapes [...]

Last month @ SANIsoft blog August 1, 2011

tariquesani — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 07:01:36 +0000

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[CakePHP] A slightly modified QRcode Helper I was working on a project where I needed a helper to create QRcode by various methods. After searching I found a good CakePHP QRcode Helper by Max Dörfler which helped me a lot but few functions were still missing in that, like generating QRcode for Wifi network. The [...]

zarinasani.org goes online

tariquesani — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 05:34:13 +0000

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Today we would be celebrating my mom’s 75th birthday. I knew my mother, Zarina Sani, for just 15 years. I knew that she was a writer and a poetess I also realized that that she was fairly good because she had been awarded by the State governments of Maharashtra and Bihar for her work and [...]

Last month @ SANIsoft blog June 1, 2011

tariquesani — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 07:01:03 +0000

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[CakePHP] Organizing themes in sub-folders CakePHP offers a wonderful built-in theming solution. However, the only shortfall is that all themes are to be kept in a single folder and there is no direct way to organize them in sub-folders. This post assumes that you are familiar with CakePHP Theming concepts. If not, then head on [...]

17th Anniversary: Tadoba trails…

tariquesani — Mon, 16 May 2011 06:16:10 +0000

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A very hectic work routine at the office, Aasim on a Himalyan trek – it looked like we were going to spend our 17th wedding anniversary doing mostly nothing. However on the flip side was an invitation from Kalyan who is shooting for National Geographic in the jungles of Tadoba. To hell with everything we [...]