Techtracer » Random http://techtracer.com Tracing the course of Web Technology Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:14:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 http://techtracer.com http://techtracer.com/wp-includes/images/favicon.png Techtracer How I see my Blog after one year from Today http://techtracer.com/2007/10/21/how-i-see-my-blog-after-one-year-from-today/ http://techtracer.com/2007/10/21/how-i-see-my-blog-after-one-year-from-today/#comments Sun, 21 Oct 2007 12:44:29 +0000 nitinpai http://techtracer.com/2007/10/21/how-i-see-my-blog-after-one-year-from-today/ Rishi has announced a contest for his upcoming celebration which marks the completion of 1 year of his blog . The contest entry is to write a post on what do we see our blog as one year from now. The contest details can be found out in this post. Here is my entry for the contest.

How I see my blog after one year from today?

TechTracer is a blog on technology. It relates to a blog on software technology, tough many people assume that a technology blog might be something based on hardware and gadgets. I had started this blog as a resource where beginners might get some kind of relief on any doubts and difficulties in any field of software technology. Of course it might be easier said than done. I did have a tough experience of keeping this blog in all its positive spirits. Somewhere down the line I might have become lazy enough to keep it on its toes. Yet this blog has given me a sense of belief that if you write from the heart then people will read it eagerness. The moment you try to game the audience into reading the blog just for the sake for building traffic or earning through ads, then at that moment your conscience itself detaches from the soul of the blog making it look like a zombie in the hoards of already present to pounce on the poor hapless reader.

In some course during my tenure of running this blog of 7 months I had become traffic addicted and money conscious which almost had killed my blogging intension and I felt lifeless. To revive and start a comeback was very painful which took about a month or two. After this I regained and felt that, unless I have a good intension of blogging to actually help the reader than to help myself it wouldn’t be good for me as well as this blog. I am trying hard to attain this regime of helping the reader in some way or other. Even if my course of work shifts from time to time I will try to serve purpose to this blog by putting content which might have made my work easier. It is very difficult to run a full fledged information site as a part time to your hectic schedule but once it is done, it resounds a pleasure in the mind.

For the next one year, keeping this enlightened thought and the readers necessities in mind, I will try to make this blog a bit more specific to software technology rather than spreading its focus here and there. And this time, my intention to keep it running would be more simpler. I will keep it to help others rather than myself and earn the attention of readers through my blog’s success. In other words, one year from now, I would make this blog get recognition for itself through my words without me having to promote it by hook or crook.

Hope you find my blog useful and your opinions to improve this are always welcome with an open heart. If you have been through some of this articles of this, then I would definitely like to hear your opinions on them.

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Being just a developer, you might sometimes feel that it does not give you good returns in terms of monetary or maturity aspects in the IT industry but being a project manager definitely gives you more power, more prestige, better opportunities and better experience. But it might not always be true that people with better managerial skills tend to take the management positions and leave the technical aspects to the developers alone. I have known many project managers in my fraternity those who have climbed to the level of mangers by starting on as a developer. I would prefer the same approach to becoming a manager or getting to a leaders position.

Technical experience acts as a savior
Of course management and developing skills are mutually exclusive. A professional in application development might not be a professional in management but every individual has a knack of management. It might though not be very staunch. Developers need not fret on this aspect since this actually would work their way. A developer can sometimes become a more better manager than an MBA professional because he has had the roots in the technical field and has borne the brunts during his technical experience. He can not only work in the favor of developers but also can promote the team to a more smooth sailing work environment. This can lead to a better work environment and an enriching experience not only to the manager but also to the developers in the team.

A manager with no technical exposure might have high expectations while proposing solutions to the clients but when the problem is put to the ultimate test of implementation it is the developers who face the wrath. This results in uncanny decisions, hasty alternatives, unjustified deadlines and crappy codes. But on a successful project completion, all the due credit is taken away by the manager who reach the limelight and the team just gets a couple of applauds. On the other hand, a developer who has had a good experience can view opportunities in crises and propose the exact actions which have to be taken while taking decisions much before the onset of a project.

How to strike your chord
In order to take your developer skills to managerial skills it is always essential to follow the code of conduct in your technical routines. This involves improvising on your analytical skills, your time managerial skills, presentation skills and finally your technical skills. The technical skills comes as the last aspect because it is assumed that you would get adapted very quickly in a technical environment which leave out the other aspects i.e analytical, time and presentation.

Even in the smallest aspects of your daily work you must work hard to analyze the work you are doing and come out with better solutions and increase your way towards utilizing the time in an efficient manner. Developers who practice this normally have the tendency to go quickly up the technical ladder and at the same time become a better project manager. So developers, never fret over the plush lifestyle of your project managers but make yourselves move to that level so that you can enjoy the double nature of your life which is being a manager as well as a experienced developer at the same time.

What would you choose?
It’s obviously a matter of pride when you develop something extra ordinary but when you want prestige, a higher position in a company does matter.

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Coming to the web and desktop war I may cite an example. A person would choose a Gmail Talk application built right into the web page rather than downloading yahoo messenger, installing it and then using it. The web apps which are built nowadays and their success stories speak for themselves. Today people want everything to go faster and what could be more faster than opening up a web page and starting your application. People always wish to avoid the regular downloading, installing, using it routine and are wanting to make more work online since it is easy, fast and hardware independent and finally accessible even when away from home.

Stating a quote like “Desktop applications will fade away soon” would actually be 5 – 10 years from now where in the communication networks would have to compete with the speed of our desktop system processors. But from a developer’s perspective everything is fun when the developed product meets the current user’s need. I would be happy to deliver a desktop application as well as a web application only if someone needs it. Developing for the sake of fun is altogether another story. Its just a matter of survival of the fittest!

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