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Being Numero Uno!  Vaibhav Sharma | 8/1/2010 at 1:29 PM

Half a decade into the technology industry, primarily software development, and post working on varied nature projects, with some of the most diligent and unswerving programmers I ever came across, this intends to be a succinct summary of what in essence could assist in being the numero uno in the surroundings we live in. Even though some slices of this post relates to the Information Technology landscape, this could easily map to any other industry or sector you recognize.

Irrespective of the organizations I worked for, there always were few elite professionals that stood apart right from the inception. It was surprising to observe that they just excelled at a quantum pace while all others seem to have had trouble placing their foot in place. There were some common characteristics that could be discovered from their conduct and their supremacy in their relevant world.

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Theme Up!  Vaibhav Sharma | 7/23/2010 at 11:36 AM

With the dawn of the last decade, user-centered design and end-user customization of literally every fragment of an application (web, client or phone) has taken a quantum leap. It has virtually become quintessential to have multiple ways of allowing end users to customize their experience with the software. With the advent of graphics cards and graphics accelerated hardware, pixels literally lit up, giving a whole new dimension to user experience and enabling creation of stunning user interfaces.

Abstraction, which is the dominantly prevailing concept, in every software methodology or framework today, impacted the design process as well, and what once was limited to selection of colors, got somewhat abstracted to selection of themes, even though the underlying idea was to only change the colors and at times, background graphics.

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Reacting to Exceptions  Vaibhav Sharma | 6/27/2010 at 4:38 AM

While preparing my slides for the Community Tech Days at Kolkata, I encountered a very interesting exceptional situation. Just to sync you up, I was evaluating Office 2010, specifically PowerPoint 2010. The very first slide had an effect exclusive to the 2010 version of PowerPoint. Just to check the compatibility I ran the slides on another system with PowerPoint 2007 version installed. To my amazement, the slides ran without any effects. No messages or warnings whatsoever! I went berserk (and FYI when I go berserk, that ends up into a new blog post).

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Heard it somewhere!  Vaibhav Sharma | 6/5/2010 at 11:20 AM

The world it seems, is moving towards an age where an intellectual person will be judged based on the blog posts per week he writes, the tweets he generates (or regenerates) per day, the number of new jargons demystified or created by him per minute and the number of questions he answers per second on stackoverflow.com (think before you rule out the possibility of such a world in near future).

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Let’s Zune  Vaibhav Sharma | 4/11/2010 at 1:31 PM

As a professional developer (don’t care if you disagree) one thing that has always stayed on my priority list is UX (User eXperience). UX is what makes an ordinary app stand out in the crowd and boost its adoption rate. There has been a sudden upsurge in the resources that are now being directed towards designing and developing effective UX.

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