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Finding a rented flat in a new city (Pune) in four days - and understanding about business relationships!

Last week, I joined TW and relocated to Pune. And I had to find a flat as quickly as possible. How do I approach this problem? What are the choices? I was able to do it in a record 4 days, and here is my experience of the same. Fortunately, I was able to narrow down a few choices. Send an email to my colleagues in my company, Thoughtworks. Talk to as many people as I can. Finding the right timing is important, since most of the people are busy in projects and asking a question like " I am looking for a flat..blah..blah" during a business meeting is not good for relationship building.  Look for a portal where colleagues publish information about rented houses. The contributors could be owners or brokers. And if the owners are from TW's , then nothing like it. Find out about the online sites which cater to users looking for a rented flat in Pune. Meet the brokers - professionals who earn their livelihood by taking one month's rent and providing you a wide

Learning C#

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I am planning to revise C#. What better way to learn than learning it from videos hosted at pluralsight?

The best free and Paid Online courses for Software

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Free courses The best free course website would be  coursera https://www.coursera.org/ It provides courses, assignments from the leading universities of the world and it is is free. Paid courses http://www.pluralsight.com/training Plural sight provided training on latest software technologies. With bookmark feature for each lesson, and ability to provide training through videos which can be played on any browser, this is a training website you do not want to miss.