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What Are You Missing As a Developer?

June 18th, 2010

There is a well known verse in software engineering that says “eat your own dog’s food” or “dogfooding”. Meaning, use your own product you make. That’s true for developers and company itself no doubt. In my opinion, as a developer

  • if you don’t study, then you are missing something.
  • If you don’t try something new to learn then you are missing something.
  • if you don’t follow the current trend then you are missing something.
  • if you don’t share your ideas/thoughts with other developers then you are missing something.
  • if you don’t work with a better developers then you are missing something

BUT,

to me, you are missing MOST important thing IF you don’t communicate or stay in touch with general USERS who are mainly eating your product! I’m lucky enough to work on some exciting projects in my short career. Most of them had thousands of daily active users. I had chance to stay in touch with those users and communicate with them. Specially when i was in tripperlabs. But poor me, i was such a lazy ass who never took that chance seriously.

And,

I wouldn’t realize this truth until i worked on NoobFeed. I worked on this project for 3 months and i must say that was a great experience for me. I can assure you that it wasn’t my best work but it was one of the best experience in my career!

Why?

because this is such a project that opened my eyes different way and gave me the idea that interactions with the users is one of the most important things for a developer. I would read users feedback everyday, i would reply their queries everyday, i would share my own ideas [which wasn't the same as i would share with a developer] and all these interactions gave me such feelings that i never got from anywhere else before. They would criticize for any mistake and they would appreciate for any kind of good work! This is such an experience that made me thing how important it is for a developer to interact with the users. Because you will get a PURE idea by this about the real environment and you can imagine how your own product going to work in the market.

So what about you?

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A *Failed* Journey Without Mobile And Money

January 30th, 2010

As I planned to spend 7 days without mobile and money, literally failed to maintain it. I was truly determined and well I still think it’s very much possible. Something went wrong and emergencies come first right. So I gave up…coming to how I gave up but let me tell you how I started. As I said in my previous blog that I would write down everyday how I spent the day eh…following was my first day and I couldn’t manage time to write on 2nd day and well failed on 3rd day…

Jan 26 01:13 AM : Today was my first day of “without mobile and money” life. I walked to my office and came back home same way. Had a feelings that I could do it everyday without taking any rickshaw and walking in the morning was nice but again after getting home I realized my laptop had much weight that I didn’t notice before. That’s it, I didn’t face any problem on first day…

That was my first day writing. On second day I started feeling pressure for cellphone. I was receiving emails from my friend, ex-colleagues to open the cell or why my cell was off. I kept replaying that im always online so please email me for any kind of need. Some of them came online and talked to me…so it worked somehow…

BUT, main problem occurred on 3rd day evening when I received an email from my younger brother like “grandmother is in comma, they have been calling you….” I wasn’t prepared for that at all. My mobile was locked at home and I didn’t even have any body’s number memorized. Most stupid thing happened when I asked my wife Tamanna (online) for my mom’s number so that at least I could call. I know im a moron…i can’t even memorize my mom’s number!

So ran to my home here in Uttara and turned ON my cell and talked to my mom first to know about the situation. Plan was to leave dhaka right away for Sunamganj if she was still in comma. Then I talked to my cousins and them in my dada bari to know everything in details. Thank god she was better than the night before….

And, when I turned ON my cell I found lots of miss called alerts and few of them were called more than 15 times. I realized how people suffered for this and how that was important as they had to call more than 15 times! Whoa…realized that im more dependent on cell phone than money…i didn’t have any problem for that at all. I loved walking to office and hopefully from now on I will walk to my office everyday.

But one thing I asked myself, how urban people lived away from their families when there weren’t any cellphones, laptop, email etc and their grandmother was in comma?

Hmm…we must be thankful to these electronics devices, certainly it’s making our life easier (and complex too).

Anyways, am I gonna try to experiment it again? Yes i’m! I cannot fail and I know its very much possible. By the way, I have also noticed how my friends think I can’t live without INTERNET! So that will be my second challenge for sure….

Thank you!

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Posted in Bangladeshi Village, For me, Friends, History, Inspiration, Mobile

Is It Possible To Spend 7 Days Without Money And Mobile?

January 23rd, 2010

I can remember I did similar thing in 3rd year of my university. Kept myself in my house for 10 days without going out. It was possible because that time I had semester break and instead of going to my hometown Sylhet I stayed in Dhaka. I used to write every night how I spent my day. Unfortunately, I lost those notes as I didn’t blog that time. Feeling like to do similar weird thing again for 7 days and this time I want to stay away from Moble and Money!

I’m going to write every night how I spent the day without money and mobile and what difficulties I faced. And then finally I will post all those notes in my blog here after finishing 7 days. Starting this weird journey from 25th January, Monday. So keep your eyes on this blog, you can expect all those notes here on 1st February :)

So what difficulties I might face?
My family in Sylhet whos around 450kms away from me, my wife whos around 11,000kms (flight distance) away from me. I have already got my wife’s support yay! And im gonna talk to my mom, hopefully she won’t get freaked out he he, and without money? Hopefully it won’t be a big deal as I can walk to my office from my home…

Why I want to do it?
Getting off from all these dependencies of life! Recalling all our old people who lived their life without all these and preparing myself for bigger adventure in near future.

By the way, if I can do it successfully, my next target will be to spend 7 days without laptop! This gonna be most difficult for sure…

So let’s start it from next Monday :)

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Posted in For me, Inspiration, Mobile, Society

Welcoming All Bangladeshis to “Amra Positive”

November 8th, 2009

I promised to release “Amra Positive” soon, today i’m announcing the release of this small application that is developed for Bangladeshis. Let me give you some ideas about the application first…. [i'm just coping the “about” page from the application]

“amra positive” is a place for Bangladeshis to leave good and positive news about Bangladesh, friends, family, events etc. no pressure, but it’s up to you to leave something good behind within 150 characters. there is no moderator to modulate your posts in this application. if you don’t like to post or don’t have anything to say, you can still vote on others; posts. so let’s have a look what you can do here…

  • you can post a message about the country, your friends or family, events that you liked or think is positive

  • you can vote on your own posts and others’ posts. currently there is no commenting system. you can only vote positive or negative about a post.

  • you can tweet a post if you like. links will be automatically shortened, you don’t have to worry about that.

  • you can check posts that were voted the most positive from users from “top10″ tab

  • as an owner of the post, you have access to delete it

  • you can check all your past/previous posts by clicking the “authors” tab or by clicking your nick name

  • clicking on a message will show that specific post in an individual page

  • you have to use your gmail id to sign in. please note: that password is not shared with the admin of this application, only the gmail id is shared. so there is nothing to worry about

  • all text in this site in lowercase to make it look a little bit more different.

    Home page of Amra Positive

    Home page of Amra Positive

in addition, you can subscribe to the most recent and top 10 posts by clicking on rss button. there is currently no feedback system right now. but if you have any feedback, comments, suggestions or concerns just email me at junal@junalontherun.com

p.s : this is a beta version of this application. looking forward to hearing from you. report any bugs in the application and let me know whatever is on your mind by email. thanks for your patience and support with this idea!

Link : http://amrapositive.appspot.com/

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Posted in Bangla, Bangladesh, Google App Engine, Inspiration, Python

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“Amra Positive” is Coming Soon…

November 3rd, 2009

Story behind this work was a little bit different. I wanted to learn python and thought best way to learn something new would be doing something practical with it. So decided to develop this application called “Amra Positive”. 

What is Amra Positive?
A small application that is being developed for Bangladesh community. 
And what it does? 
Amra positive is a home for people of Bangladesh who are hopeful about this country, about their life, about their friends/events…etc. Who is tired of all bad news and really in need of some positive and good news. I hope this name is enough self explanatory but still let me tell you as an user what you can do with it….
  • If you have any good news about the country, friends, family, events pay a visit in this app and sing in with gmail id and then let the world know. 
  • Share your hopes and dreams within 150 characters 
  • If you don’t even like to post anything, you still can vote on others’ post to get them on top list news 
  • And well, tired of hearing bad news about everything that is going around ? Visit here, because this is the home of all good and positive stuff about you! 
is there any moderators of your posts? 
No! not for now…nobody is going to moderate your post. Personally i will leave this judge on you. 
But what the hell, where is the link of this application? 
It’s ready and coming “soon”! Soon means soon….i promise it will come live pretty soon. Just keep your eyes on here in this blog and of course you will have more clear ideas once it goes live. 
Thanks for your patience….

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Posted in Bangladesh, Friends, Google, Inspiration, Society

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