Few more hours to end year 2008, so this will be my last blog entry for 08.2008 did start with hitting me on our financial status because My wife did quit from her job to take care of little Avin. It was a big change because one income source got stopped completely so we have to change our life stile to match the income. And worst thing is I have to drive to work alone, no more fun at the road while listening to the Yes FM morning show with Renu, no more late night shopping hours after office. So it was a change.
In February I did decide to quit from the job at Ridgecrest to find more time to spend with the family and to shift my gears towards my interest on software architecture. Ridgecrest was a office that I built from scratch that I was the first employee of the company and now it got more than 40 IT professionals working on several departments. I don't want to talk about more on that chapter because it was a bunch of disappoints only.
I was watching IPL everyday without missing a single match.
In March I met Dr.Sanjiva and got the opportunity to join this amazing family call WSO2. For sometime I was looking for a job that Joel Spolsky talking about in his blogs (Smart and getting things done) so I think I found it (will be not talking about it too much will write a complete blog about this).
I got the Apache commitership by September while working on the Apache Synapse project. I did contribute on implementing eventing capability of Synapse and making the FIX protocol a usable business feature of Synapse.
I went to US on September with the best of WSO2 and did a successful workshop with a customer.
I did start playing my favorite game Basketball, I'm back in my fancy game but loosing 60% of my shots (Oh I had more than 90% of accuracy when I was playing for my school), need to improve it...
So it is a challenging, busy but very productive year. And most impotent thing is I got a 10 days break to be with my family without thinking about work at the end.
Out of every thing happen I was watching how Avin is growing and start walking through out the year, Yes now he is walking.
Year 2009 is packed with hopes, plans, will try to archive them one by one. Don't want to think about it too much because everything is unpredictable due to the financial recession and hope will get through the bad times soon.
Wish all my blog fans a Happy New Year 2009.
In February I did decide to quit from the job at Ridgecrest to find more time to spend with the family and to shift my gears towards my interest on software architecture. Ridgecrest was a office that I built from scratch that I was the first employee of the company and now it got more than 40 IT professionals working on several departments. I don't want to talk about more on that chapter because it was a bunch of disappoints only.
I was watching IPL everyday without missing a single match.
In March I met Dr.Sanjiva and got the opportunity to join this amazing family call WSO2. For sometime I was looking for a job that Joel Spolsky talking about in his blogs (Smart and getting things done) so I think I found it (will be not talking about it too much will write a complete blog about this).
I got the Apache commitership by September while working on the Apache Synapse project. I did contribute on implementing eventing capability of Synapse and making the FIX protocol a usable business feature of Synapse.
I went to US on September with the best of WSO2 and did a successful workshop with a customer.
I did start playing my favorite game Basketball, I'm back in my fancy game but loosing 60% of my shots (Oh I had more than 90% of accuracy when I was playing for my school), need to improve it...
So it is a challenging, busy but very productive year. And most impotent thing is I got a 10 days break to be with my family without thinking about work at the end.
Out of every thing happen I was watching how Avin is growing and start walking through out the year, Yes now he is walking.
Year 2009 is packed with hopes, plans, will try to archive them one by one. Don't want to think about it too much because everything is unpredictable due to the financial recession and hope will get through the bad times soon.
Wish all my blog fans a Happy New Year 2009.
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