Its done. I have launched a new blog to document my experiences in leading the development of the city portal for Bilaspur.
The link for the new portal is http://my.opera.com/WebDevMan/blog.
I look forward to pen down my experiences and share them with the development community at large.
I only hope I enjoy posting in the new blog as I have over here.
Friday, March 2, 2007
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Development of a Portal
I have been working on web-sites for more than 5 years now. I have developed several dynamic and static web sites hosted on the Internet and on intranets. I have always enjoyed the experience of delivering information to people in distant locations on the click of a mouse.
All the sites done so far were for clients - on order - where neither the nature of content nor its quality and quantity were in my control. But, leading the development of our own web-site - an intended portal in the long run - is a different experience altogether. There is so much that can be done with web-sites.
I think, I shall start a new blog to publish my experiences in this line of work.
Meanwhile, my team have started gearing up the site for the upcoming Cricket World Cup 2007 schedule to start in March 2007 in the West Indies. The list of teams and schedule is already up. We are waiting for the teams to be announced.
We hope to provide easy to access, rich, cross-linked reporting on the event.
All the sites done so far were for clients - on order - where neither the nature of content nor its quality and quantity were in my control. But, leading the development of our own web-site - an intended portal in the long run - is a different experience altogether. There is so much that can be done with web-sites.
I think, I shall start a new blog to publish my experiences in this line of work.
Meanwhile, my team have started gearing up the site for the upcoming Cricket World Cup 2007 schedule to start in March 2007 in the West Indies. The list of teams and schedule is already up. We are waiting for the teams to be announced.
We hope to provide easy to access, rich, cross-linked reporting on the event.
Friday, February 16, 2007
Information Site for Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India
I would like to alter the old adage "practise makes perfect" to "practise makes confident".
Well! It is certainly so. Thanks to this blog - gajendhir.blogspot.com. It is here that I started all out on my writing spree.
Don't judge me by the amount of posting you see here. I agree it may not seem enough to many. I have done much more writing beyond this site. I am personally satisfied with the amount of writing work that I have already done and it is just the beginning.
Very little of my writing is on-line, some can be seen at...
Well! It is certainly so. Thanks to this blog - gajendhir.blogspot.com. It is here that I started all out on my writing spree.
Don't judge me by the amount of posting you see here. I agree it may not seem enough to many. I have done much more writing beyond this site. I am personally satisfied with the amount of writing work that I have already done and it is just the beginning.
Very little of my writing is on-line, some can be seen at...
Each page I write, my confidence is increasing.
Meanwhile, I have started work on one more web-site last fort-night. It is an Information Site for Bilaspur. Bilaspur in Chhattisgarh, India is where I live and this site is devoted at providing on-line information about the region. Presently the beta can be seen as a sub-domain of my official web-site.
We are targetting at providing a complete picture about the district covering all aspects including...
- Administration
- Commerce
- Education
- Health Care
- Tourism et al
We are receiving good feedback from the local population and are sure to come up with an useful, informative site.
The site is fast taking shape and soon it will be ready to be transfered to its own domain.
Friday, February 2, 2007
I have completed my first paid writing job
Writing has always fascinated me. I have always been impressed by people whose work has been published. I have been regularly trying my hand at writing and have been published several times. All of the writing work that I have done so far has been for free.
Let me try to list out the different types of writting works that I have done so far. I have...
- Done translation work for a local newspaper - translating articles and news from English to Hindi and vice-versa.
- Written technical articles on the Internet.
- Done ghost writing
- Written and published my own book - titled "Community Based Rehabilitation - An Introduction" - in Hindi.
I have nurtured the love for writing for quite sometime now.
Last week was different. It was the first time I did freelance writing work for which the writing fees were negotiated and finalized before the work was started. Though the amount was not much - still it is important because it was the first time I had taken up an assignment for writing on a commercial basis.
The work was a small one page article for a local business who wanted copy a brochure that he wants to get printed. The work has been duly completed, submitted and submitted. I can attribute part of my confidence in taking up this assignment to this blog. It has given me an opportunity to write out to my heart's content and get over the mental block.
I now await the payment and hope I get it before the excitement for it subsides.
I am really excited and looking out for more such assignments.
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
The bungle has been resolved.
I would like to dedicate this blog entry to all those who wished me luck in resolving the problem I had got myself into last time. (See previous post for details.)
The issue has been resolved. The web-site is up and running fine. The new feature that was the source of the problem is also up and working as planned and anticipated on the drawing board. In fact, now I am in a position where I would say that the error was a blessing in disguise. But for the problem, I would not have explored and research ASP.NET, the development platform used, to the extent I did, at least not in the near foreseeable future.
Once again thanks to all my well-wishers.
The issue has been resolved. The web-site is up and running fine. The new feature that was the source of the problem is also up and working as planned and anticipated on the drawing board. In fact, now I am in a position where I would say that the error was a blessing in disguise. But for the problem, I would not have explored and research ASP.NET, the development platform used, to the extent I did, at least not in the near foreseeable future.
Once again thanks to all my well-wishers.
Monday, January 22, 2007
Today, has been a bad day at work.
Yes!
I spent more than 4 hours at a stretch sitting in front of my computer trying to update an existing feature on a web-site developed by my company. The targeted exercise was supposed to be a minor tweak that was to be completed in 10-20 minutes. It was actually a programming short-cut aimed at optimizing the code to reducing system overheads and that in-turn would improve performance.
Now, after spending so much time I am back to square -1. Yes -1. The feature that was working fine is not working any more. I think I have bungled up in a big way. The bungle is very big because it has effected the working of the entire site. Many features are not working now. To top it, I don't have backup.
I think, I have tweaked some common system setting of the site and I don't remember which. Out of the 4 hours I have spent the last 2 trying figure out what went wrong.
I am going to quit for the day and go home to my wife and kid. Hope the change will rejuvenate me and refuel me for the debugging session tomorrow.
I really hope I don't have to start from scratch. Wish me luck. I am going to need lots of it.
I spent more than 4 hours at a stretch sitting in front of my computer trying to update an existing feature on a web-site developed by my company. The targeted exercise was supposed to be a minor tweak that was to be completed in 10-20 minutes. It was actually a programming short-cut aimed at optimizing the code to reducing system overheads and that in-turn would improve performance.
Now, after spending so much time I am back to square -1. Yes -1. The feature that was working fine is not working any more. I think I have bungled up in a big way. The bungle is very big because it has effected the working of the entire site. Many features are not working now. To top it, I don't have backup.
I think, I have tweaked some common system setting of the site and I don't remember which. Out of the 4 hours I have spent the last 2 trying figure out what went wrong.
I am going to quit for the day and go home to my wife and kid. Hope the change will rejuvenate me and refuel me for the debugging session tomorrow.
I really hope I don't have to start from scratch. Wish me luck. I am going to need lots of it.
Friday, January 12, 2007
How to make money online?
It has been some time since I have written on this blog. Almost two weeks!
Well! I have been busy. I have been exploring ways for making money on the internet. There is certainly a lot of material in free float that discusses on this topic. Some of the content on this topic is so loud that it certainly has made me skeptic and suspicious.
From the very beginning I have been taught the value of money and how one must offer some product or service of equivalent value in exchange for money. There are some folks promising that you will make money, and that too lots of it, online without having anything of equivalent value to deliver in exchange. I agree that valuation is a relative concept. Different people may have different parameters of measurement and arrive at different values for the same product or service. These ideas certainly did not measure up to the desired mark in terms of value. Some of the ideas that I came across sounded and felt like a scam; even if they may be well within the legal framework they sure as hell will not be sustainable over a period of time.
I must hasten to add that not all the discussion on this topic was suspicious or dubious in appearance. There were some ideas that sounded fair and square. But, they did not appeal to my line and style of work so I have filed them away for future reference.
Meanwhile, I think, I must keep exploring until I come up with something of sustainable value, plausible and easy to delivery in exchange of the money that will be earned.
Well! I have been busy. I have been exploring ways for making money on the internet. There is certainly a lot of material in free float that discusses on this topic. Some of the content on this topic is so loud that it certainly has made me skeptic and suspicious.
From the very beginning I have been taught the value of money and how one must offer some product or service of equivalent value in exchange for money. There are some folks promising that you will make money, and that too lots of it, online without having anything of equivalent value to deliver in exchange. I agree that valuation is a relative concept. Different people may have different parameters of measurement and arrive at different values for the same product or service. These ideas certainly did not measure up to the desired mark in terms of value. Some of the ideas that I came across sounded and felt like a scam; even if they may be well within the legal framework they sure as hell will not be sustainable over a period of time.
I must hasten to add that not all the discussion on this topic was suspicious or dubious in appearance. There were some ideas that sounded fair and square. But, they did not appeal to my line and style of work so I have filed them away for future reference.
Meanwhile, I think, I must keep exploring until I come up with something of sustainable value, plausible and easy to delivery in exchange of the money that will be earned.
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