Progress or change is an important notion. And this statement can be construed as a point important to be noted to understand and know a person like me
I am a good friend at heart and a good engineer at work. Being a Capricorn, I am an overvaulting ambitious person, much organized and have tremendous energy to work. I am a very religious person and never forget to thank God for all that Ive got today.
I love traveling and visiting new places and am very fond of driving. I drive a lot and never miss a chance to take my car (A Hyundai Santro Xing) to every possible place. I have my own ideas about love, duty and social life / social status and I manage them well.
My Books
Appl. Dvlp. With Oracle And PHP On Linux
Visual Basic 2005 For Beginners
MySQL 5 For Professionals
PHP 5.1 For Beginners
Ajax For Beginners
Java Server Programming For Professionals
Java EE 5 For Beginners
Java Server Pages For Beginners
I do
Music for hobby and computers for work (sometimes hobby too!)
A lot of technical writing especially to document the R D Ive done
My area of expertise
Technical Writing
Systems Design, Validation Development
Project Management
I have authored and published several books focused on:
Open Source application development
Commercial application development
This is what I believe
I believe in testing myself in every stage of my life
I robustly believe that the only way one can stand out is by executing what one genuinely is fond of
I believe that there should be a business purpose to every fragment of software that is written
I am enthralled by the way computers and software technology can be used to solve problems and improve the world
My line of work
Currently I am an Analyst Designer and a Project Manager of two reputed software development houses in Mumbai, India, working on projects, trying to improve myself continuously and giving form to my idea. This has brought me rich experience which I hope will keep gathering more wealth :-) and make me author more books.
I have worked in the software industry for about 5 years. It has been mostly in Commercial Application Development domain, but for past 2 years, I have been associated with Open Source technologies. I got introduced to PHP, MySQL, Joomla - A Content Management System and I have taken a liking to its concept. I have been lucky to get introduced to multiple technologies at work and my personal research, which has enhanced my learning ability and so my confidence.
Technically I have worked on Apache, PHP, Perl, MySQL, Oracle, Visual Basic (along with VB 2005) and Java on Microsoft Windows as well as several flavors of Linux (Fedora Core being my favorite).
With the gradually gained focused knowledge of various facets of Application Development domain and an expert team as my base, Ive designed, developed and deployed several IT products and solutions.
My Attachment With Open Source
I have developed an attachment to the Open Source products which has brought me experience on different products such as:
Wordpress (is installed here on my site @ blog.sharanamshah.com)
Typo3
Joomla (community development split from Mambo)
MediaWiki (is installed here on my site @ wiki.sharanamshah.com)
I read a lot, majority of it online. There are a lot of sites that I read everyday to power myself. This helps me to keep in touch with the latest Open Source Products and try them out practically, thus adding them to my list of products that I know.
You can reach me at www.sharanamshah.com
