Thursday, December 2, 2010

A long time

So, after a long time i got the opportunity again to share some general happenings of my simple life.

After the dawn of the "new" guy (that is after i went to a short religious trip), things and thoughts changed a lot towards more logical thinking and approach. Until recently things like honesty, courage, standing with your principles even when the worlds against it were impossible to even think. But now things took a different perspective altogether. A sense of responsibility and seriousness took over.


As i mentioned in my previous posts, I was placed in L&T Infotech and it has been a bit over 1.8yrs since i got placed but am yet to receive the confirmed joining date from them. Though they have mentioned a tentative date of mid-December but no perfect dates in hand yet. But you know what, i am not at all worried or even a least bit tensed about the course of events. This is something which is unusual from my perspective too. But something in me tells me that god has some better plans for me.

Lets give you an overview of the recent turn my life took.

First, out of the blue, my current company called me around a year back. And since that time my journey started. First, started with Blackberry SDK. I was informed by the company that i had to work on Blackberry programming but the company doesn't have any experience in this particular field and i was the chosen one to download and configure the SDKs.

Well well well thus started my journey with the uncommon and by gods grace the first Blackberry SDK got installed on my PC. Though the programming i felt was a bit tough but i soon got hang of it and started our first project - (Hang on to your nerves) "An online streaming Radio". As you must have guessed with the name itself, it was tough and required a lot of research and aspirins to understand how it can be done.

After a lot of research and 3strips of Aspirin finally we came to the conclusion that we had taken more than we could have digested and my company gave another blow. They told me to shift my attention to "Android". Something which not many organisations had been successful in. This again required the monotonous task of reading a lot of stuff and the gigantic task of understanding it too.

Fast forwarding a bit, i somehow by gods grace completed the basics of it and we were on our way to make a successful project, kkrrrrrrrrr... Breaks were applied. The Blackberry client wanted the project to progress as he was happy with the turn of events. "Great" was the first word which came to my mind but i brushed it off for a fresh new word "How".

A lot of frantic searches later i came upon a code snippet which to some extent guided me and that resulted in a lot of brainstorming sessions and ultimately the completion of a great project which can by all means be considered exceptional. By gods grace all went well and our project ultimately converted to a real project.

The only problem later on turned out that the client wanted it to be faster than it possibly could be (with us programming it that is). Convincing the client took far more than what we could fathom and resulted in a projected going down the drain. My first project and first for the company too was a failure without any logical reasons (except being a tad too slow).

Not to worry, the Android project was awaiting to cheer me up and it did. Coz in a couple of days i could make things work by gods grace and it resulted in successful completion of one module. The other modules followed just like a herd of Emu(do they really follow each other??). And lo and behold my first project (successful one) took shape and finally finished................