3 wonderful years with Tekriti!

Today I have completed 3 wonderful years with Tekriti. After reading the first sentence, it sounds like Tekriti is my girl friend. :) Actually Tekriti is my company where I am enjoying my life!

It's been really wonderful experience so far. Since yesterday, I am just remembering my last 3 years and it feels like a great time with Tekriti. Celebrations are part of work here.


Remembering few of those moments.


Teknokrats






Potluck




Mafia and Villagers




Lunch with Marc Canter




Jaipur Trip




Holi Celebrations




Birthday Celebrations






Party at Charcol




Playing in the office






Working on my comp




My better half




Tekriti's Aniversary




Cafeteria




Whitepaper Contest




Yeh dil maange more..




2 years with Tekriti!!

Today I have completed my 2 years with Tekriti. When you are enjoying your life then it looks too short when you look back. The same is here with my 2 years in Tekriti. I look at my 2 years with Tekriti as having great fun and doing lots of challenging work.

At the last I would like to say only one thing that I will not consider myself doing good job unless I, with the help of my team, take the GoingOn to the list of well known social networking platforms.


One year with Tekriti...

After Nibha, Isha, Viplab, Sunil and Ratika one more TeknoKrat has completed one year with Tekriti. It's me.

It's really a great experience.

Some Positive Points: :-)
1) I am working with genius people.
2) I am working on one of biggest project (GoingOn) of the company.
3) I like the concept of 1:1 sessions, TekInnovate day, Tekfriday, Sharing forums, Moral events, Birthday celebrations.
4) I like the company culture as we have the option to grow as much as we can and there is no politics involved.
5) We have the option to do personal emails, chatting, listening to music etc as far we are doing our work on time. Not all the companies allow this.

Some Negative Points: :-(
1) Company shifted to far away from my home. Initially I reach within 5 minutes now it takes around 20-25 minutes.
2) I miss my 1:1 sessions.
3) I haven't done almost nothing except my work for the company.
4) There should be more stress killing activities in the company like games etc.

Think beyond you

We can grow by doing good work but we also need to think beyond us. Our work is bare minimum, which is expected from us to make you stand. We are supposed to do much more than the work given to us. Everything else matters. For example how are we adding value to the company, our team and others in the company. We need to think beyond ourself to grow at the speed we want. Otherwise we will grow at the speed what others think.

We should keep trying to analyse and experiment various things for the growth of all around us. Even a smal contribution done by us makes a lot of difference in others life. This will also give us personal satisfaction. I think, we as an individual can never grow if we don't think about all around us.

100 reasons to worry, no reason for happiness?

In our daily life, we have hundreds of reasons to worry. If we say it in another way, there are so many things which make us tensed, stressed. Most of time, we are in stressed mode. We just keep worrying about this or that thing.

We all have so many things to worry but don't we have even one reason to be happy which may keep us happy all the day, despite so many reasons of worry. We might need to learn how to live in this streessful world. Whatever you say, but at the of the day, if you compare, how much time you felt happy or worried then in most of will found that life is full of tensions. Even single issue can keep us worried for whole day.

I just want to say that despite all the worries of life, we should keep searching for reasons of happiness and try to be happy most of the time.

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People are making money or Loosing culture

Today, we, Teknokrats, shared our thoughts about this topic in Sharing Forums. The conclusion was that we are adopting new culture as per the need rather loosing it. But later, this thought came in my mind, which I think can be related with this topic.

I think, most of us have fallen into the race of making money. Everybody wants to earn name and fame very quickly, so, everybody is doing more and more work. But as a result, we are not finding enough time for our relationships. Or you can say, money making has taken higher priority than relationships. So my feeling is that we are loosing our culture to make more money...

I think, we all need to think again that where we are going. Is this what we want?

Growing with Tekriti

Here are some of the achievements / experiences while working with Tekriti since last one year.

1) LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) - I have almost never worked on Linux before. So it was little difficult changeover from windows to linux as I was working on windows from last 8 years. But now I get used to working with linux and feel comfortable developing web applications on it.

2) CMS Training (Drupal) - When I joined Tekriti, I don't know much about Content Management System. But now, I know sufficient to provide training sessions on CMS to new joinees in Tekriti.

3) Strict Coding Standards - I have initiated the process to follow strict coding standards (w3c, code formating) as some of the developers are not following it. Our GoingOn team was first to announce that GoingOn code follows 100% W3C standards.

4) Web 2.0 - In my last company, I was working with the traditional way of web development. But at Tekriti, I come to know about web 2.0 technologies (ajax, rss, social networks, cms etc.). Here we are using web 2.0 technologies in our web applications and also integrating with other third party web 2.0 technologies like Newsgator, Salesforce, Opinity, Eurekster etc. in our web applications.

5) Client Communication - Tekriti has given me an opportunity to interact with clients. I do written communicate with client using e-mails. I think, it's bit difficult to write an e-mail to client than code because you can't do hit and trials there.

6) Working with Genius People - Last but the most important, yes, it's true that I am working with genius people. I think, this is the most important thing in any body's career. If you are not working with right people then you can't grow with the speed you want. You get lots of energy, enthusiasm and passion when you are working with genius people.

I would like to specifically mention here some of the names who are directly responsible for my growth are Ashish, Gaurav and Manish. I also like to thank all the Teknokrats for my growth.

Technorati Tags: Tekriti, Career, Genius, Experiences, Achievements

My Biggest Achievement

I think my biggest achievement in my life is my true friendship with my friends. I can say proudly that I have true friends in my life. I know friends are born not made. But we just can't say that achievements are only related to materialistic things. I think whatever we earn or get in this life is our achievement. Not everybody has true friend in his / her life. You may have good friends but it really matters if they are truly yours. There is nothing like having a true friend in your life.

May God give everybody a true friend for whole life...

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What do I like most about GoingOn

The best thing I like about GoingOn system is that I can set up my own social networks on the fly. I have the option to configure them the way I want. I think it's one of the best feature of GoingOn. I have the option to invite editors so that they can write good content and administrators so that they can manage my network, if needed. I have created two social networks there Help (to help GoingOn members) and Pics (my hobby to collect nice pictures).

As a design prospective, I like member page of the members most. Because I can see all details of the person there like his profile, connections, networks, blog (GoingOn / External), interests, media gallery, testimonials, comments by him on various posts, tags, blog roll, flickr / del.icio.us feeds and so many other things. Look and feel of the member page is really cool. I just love it.



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