Password Management

Most of us might have faced situations when we are unable to remember the damn password that we gave. Stuck! Not now, after you read this 

Choosing passwords is very important as it should be hack-safe. For eg, if you use your (or your girl/boy friend’s) name as the password, it can be easily guessed or hacked as many tools use name-dictionaries along with common dictionary words as a feed to break the password.

To keep everything in control, just follow a few easy steps:
Choose a base for the password. Any word or a combination of words of 8-24 characters is idle. For example, let me choose ‘raresouls’ (rare souls) as a base for my password.

Next, replace the alphabets with similar looking number – like – replace I by 1; S by 5; O by 0; B by 8 and so on (use a bit of imagination/phonetic alphabets here).
After applying this, my password becomes ‘r9re504l5’. Let me call it final-base and this one seems to be damn strong.

Again, using the same password everywhere is a risk and using different passwords is not convenient. So, how do we solve this problem?

Just add a prefix and suffix to the final-base for every account you give the password.
For eg, suppose I was to use my password for a Gmail account, I would give ‘gmr9re504l5ail’ (to break up final-base - final-base between gmail - here its like gm-r9re504l5-ail ).

Have a rule about giving prefix and suffix. Like say, for prefix, give first 2 characters of the site-name and for suffix, next 3 characters following prefix.

That’s all!!

Not all Minds Work in the same Way

We often get many ideas in and around our mind all days. We share some; we discard some, while some we keep it to ourselves.

Ideas and thoughts are things that should not be kept in vacuum, they should spread and be discussed freely. In this space, I will share my ideas and thoughts and you are also welcome to do the same - Sharing is Surviving - we can help and construct something innovative and out-of-the-box by maybe, forming a community.

I was thinking of developing a plug-in for Microsoft Word. A few days back, I wanted to take printout of a single page of word doc, but not in usual manner. I wanted the print to be split into 2x2 pages i.e. 4 pages. I searched the internet for any plug-in or so, but there was none available. For this, I might have to use CorelDraw or something similar, but I thought that doing it with MS-Word would be great. I call it ‘Doc Slicer’. Lets see, if I get some time, I will try something by downloading development tools for Ms-Office from Microsoft site.

Lets share our ideas and thoughts, filter them, enhance them and mature them through this space. After all, not all minds work in the same way!!

Whats BPM

BPM - Business Process Mgmt - is the practice in which I am currently working. Often a big enterprise has various divisions / departments which use different IT solutions built upon different platforms and packages as per the demand.

But, at some point, there is a need to integrate these solutions in order to optimize business. This is where BPM comes in.

I wont go in details to explain the basic work-flow methodologies and life-cycle mgmt of the practice. Just go thru this link for more information.

For the current project, we are using Savvion Business Manager as the development tool. It is a very powerful and well-known tool in the BPM space, but to learn using Savvion is a bit tough - implementing any new functionality is like a challenge.

Although intial days were tough, I must admit that I thoroughly enjoyed it.