Philosophy

Few Words From A Fresh MVP

Mohammad Ashraful Alam — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 04:39:00 GMT

One of the famous quotes of Socrates that drives me all the time is: "Know Thyself". Around the world there are lots of things which might be in your interest on not. Knowing yourself doesn't only mean to find your choices, it also includes the facts, which don't belong to your choice as well as!

Knowing what I don't know

Well, so I need to know myself. As a technical guy, how do I know where I can be the best fit or where I can be comfortable to explore my ideas to create new but necessary things? One of our favorite poets, Rabindranath Thakur told "It's very natural to be ignorant about something. But it often happens that, we don't know what we don't know!". In this very dynamic era of technical world, it is very much true. Technology is changing very frequently, so as professionals, always we need to find out best fits among all of the changes. To knowing about "what I don't know" was my first step to go forward. Of course, community contents, such as forums, articles, blogs, newsgroups was a great resource for me in that case, by getting informed what the experts and professionals are thinking about the latest software releases and development practices. Going thru among those, I got the basic idea about what I don't really know!

Learning in-depth where I can be a best fit

After experimenting and picking my choices, the next phase starts! I need to learn those in more detail. One of my most favorite quote about IT professionals is "To fit with current tech trend, we need to know something about everything and we need to know everything about something!". In real tech world, the term "everything" can't be limited within a specific boundary. So it's better to consider the term, "everything" is "as much as possible".

Implementation

Now the third phase to explore as a good professional, appears. Use what you have learned in your projects/works. But apart from simply putting the learned things should not be the "only" concern for a developer. While implementing any external content that I just learned, I tried to keep my eyes open to examine it's affect in the production environment.

Turning to personal contribution over the contents

Either comparing with other alternative solutions or analyzing the solution with respect to other dependencies, I often got some new ideas, thoughts, techniques to modify the used solution for the current project or for the future project with different context. This process not only makes me intimate with the contents in more details, but also opens several doors to provide the best solution in appropriate context. Apart from my personal usage, these alternative or better solutions can also be a valuable resource to my community friends, along with providing them a way to think more about it!

The four phases, which I just mentioned are my usual way to expand my knowledge (and thus myself) in most comfortable scenario. Thanks God, technology is changing very frequently, and thus always I can discover myself in an infinite loop!

My MVP 2007 Award

Once upon a time, I was a freelance newspaper journalist. I first used PC when I was in the second semester in my Bachelor in Computer Science degree! As usually, I was a bit afraid, whether i will be able to fit in this "unknown" area. The continuous process to knowing me opened doors for me to find myself to be fitted here. Besides my reference books, my community friends were a great resource for me.

Passing previous 7 years was a great adventure for me! Getting matured with the community contents and tutorial stuffs, one day I found that, besides getting, I can put my contents to my community friends as well as. The most interesting thing I felt, that, besides getting contents from the community, there is a big "joy" to share own contents in return.

Microsoft awarded me first time as a MVP "Most Valuable Professional" in "Visual ASP.NET" category for 2007, with respect to my community contributions over the last year 2006. My MVP profile can be seen here.

Of course it was a big surprise for me to find myself in an expert community. Apart from other benefits, I feel the best thing, to get a broader scope to get in touch with the Tech gurus. Thanks to Microsoft to provide me a new path to go forward with more perfection!

Cheers!

The Small Ocean

Mohammad Ashraful Alam — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 18:14:00 GMT

Small things are not that much small in life. Small honesty, small patient, small devotion, small dream makes a person to be fitted with bigger canvas, with a greater strength, by building lots of blocks for the basic foundation of life.

Sometimes big accidents, incidents makes a person to be frustrated enough to ignore these small chuck of blocks of life, which could return him/her back to a greater success that s/he just missed!

Trust

Mohammad Ashraful Alam — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 18:45:00 GMT

Trust is a fact on which you should not be blind. It should be built like building blocks, based on your observation and intelligence to discover your trusted person. The more you have skill here, the stronger will be your trust on him/her.

Honesty

Mohammad Ashraful Alam — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 18:44:00 GMT

Sometimes honesty might turn to foolishness, due to wrong place, to be a victim! Well as a proper honest person, you MUST wait to find (or ceate) the appropriate scope to put your honesty.

Sometimes to be dishonest is NOT only for you, but also due to the person to whom you wanted to be honest. For a honest relation it's a team work!

Any way honesty is the best policy, which gives you power, of course you need to be that.

Parts of Life...

Mohammad Ashraful Alam — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 05:44:00 GMT

Every part of your life is best, if you can know yourself and thus create your life like an artist!

Beauty and Love

Mohammad Ashraful Alam — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 04:54:00 GMT

You are beautiful, this is not the only (or any) cause for that I love you. I love you because I feel me so beautiful, when i get in touch of you, which doesn't happen to anybody in this world.

Falling love with somebody is basically another form of falling love with myself.

Greed and Desire

Mohammad Ashraful Alam — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 04:46:00 GMT

Whats the difference between greed and desire?

For greed you can't wait. But for a desired thing you can wait. Waiting for it patiently makes your heart ready for the true relation for the thing ... thus to have the opprtunity to have a long term, natural relation with it, when it comes!

Towards the Perfection...

Mohammad Ashraful Alam — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 04:36:00 GMT

When your decision has taken (specially major), put concentration on your decided issue. There were few alternatives while making decision, don't be bother about those, after taking the decision. Always, there are some good and bad things on every issue. When you taken just look on what you have decided about and try to pick the 'good' things from that, don't be upset about the negative issues of it!

You took that! So it's your thing, make it great, that's it!