A Pixel born out of a Code

Been working for last three years with RIA platforms, it was hard to share stuff at personal level with the community, though I was posting at my company’s blog engine, satisfaction never came. The thought of creating a personal blog site has been around for last one year on my mind, but work always kept me away from thinking and organizing ideas for the blog. Finally this month (my workload was a bit at ease, thanks to slowdown), I made up to have one in place.

The first thing to work was on the content theme, what will I share with the community and how will I organize it ? It was not easy for me to figure out because by profession I work in capacity of Project Director for RIA domain, but by virtues I design apps and hardware interfaces, and sail out the development. So the managerial and developer instincts contradicted within me.

Finally after some help from friends at work in form of a brainstorm session over the coffee table helped me shape the blog. Right from domain name to tag line, to content, I had to evolve my thoughts around the end users. Because whatever you do on web has to be shaped according the user’s perspective, even if it gonna be your own personal blog. User centric thinking has always helped me to architect and deliver the right solution to clients, and I believe its gonna be the same story here. If I can’t deliver content according the user’s need then I don’t think this blog should exist. What disturbs now as I write is, “Isn’t blog suppose to be medium of personal expression ?”, and the justification my mind throws to me is “Dude you are not working on a social blog, its gonna be technical, only place where you can express is in the Design category”. This is fine with me, in coming time I would bring out my thoughts on design and development here and I wouldn’t be satisfied till there isn’t any feedback, which I believe will help me refine my content. So kindly comment and lets have meaningful discussions !!!