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I guess I have taken my blog header cartoon a bit too seriously.

So with plans to amend this as part of my new year resolutions, here is wishing you a happy & prosperous 0x7DD !

I started following Steven Sinofsky's Building Windows 8 blog when I was working for a product company. The blog provided insights into the building of software which would service millions of people across hundreds of countries. His observations & detailed blog posts have served me to open my horizons as to how I think about product software design. Though the wisdom in the blog could be generalized, the blog itself was very much in the Windows/Microsoft ecosystem ( no surprises given the title :) )

Now he is on Google+ as introduced by Vic Gundotra with a new blog Learning by Shipping.

The blog though only 2 posts old, seems to dwell more on general principles of software rather than experiences of building an OS. The posts lay out the nuances of the art that software creation is.

I particularly found myself nodding with  " Because developing a plan is iterative, the timeline is informed by the plan–you don’t take the plan then go decide what can get down (or how long it will take), like the old waterfall model." in his latest post

Also it is time all the stakeholders in a project would appreciate that, "Even the most straightforward app these days is a front-end/app/UI and a back-end/service and those are often teams (or people). Making sure the product goals are expressed as what those do together, not what they do independent of each other, will also help to bridge the engineering plan and ultimately the business and marketing strategy."

I enjoy the power & convenience of the blogging medium when industry heavyweights succinctly publish thoughts such as these which the lesser experienced engineers like me are subconsciously half-aware.

Add it your readers if you agree!

Hello World!

I am pretty unoriginal at "about me" sections and they do seem a bit of exercise in narcissism to me so here is the same one from my other profiles.

"I am a fiery, mushy bookworm who loves to shop for books, gadgets & handbags and codes to pay those bills."

Now here is the thing which sneaked upon me in the last couple of  years..I actually like what I do to pay those bills. I might not do bleeding edge stuff everyday, though that was the case when I did some mobile apps last year, but nonetheless I do stumble upon things on quite a few days which would make some interesting reading.
Maybe the blog title should be a "reluctant techiesta" or a "techiesta in making"

So here is my "spec" for this blog:

•  Note my experiences with new technology.
•  Share interesting feeds, articles related to technology especially web & mobile
•  Chronicle my "web surfings & wanderings"
•  My experiences with my gadgets.  

And while I am at it..

• relearn the art of making NO spelling mistakes while typing/writing.
• Type as much as possible in Queen's English with the correct voice & tense. (I did type "ur" in an official email yesterday :O )
• Write lucidly with intention (avoid words like "stuff", "really" twice in a sentence).

I have been blogging on and off for the last four years. And people who follow me would be pretty tired by my constant change of blogs. But I switched from blogger to wordpress to try how wordpress works and now going back to blogger because the new blogger seems interesting and well..it is better integrated with most of the other web stuff  I use.
So blog friends, please be kind & patient enough to add this one. And if you are going to just read/link one on your blogs, please point to this one . Thanks a lot :)