Hey, this is an article about me, so I have to say something about myself. Sometimes it is hard to introduce yourself because you know yourself so well that you do not know where to start with. Let me give a try to see what kind of image you have about me through my self-description. I hope that my impression about myself and your impression about me are not so different. Here it goes.
In short my self Ranjit Singh Cheema my friend got in touch recently to ask for help on making a career change into web development. They were involved in technology some fifteen years ago—more than me in a lot of ways—but appreciated that things had changed almost beyond recognition, so they would at least need to upskill and were worrying if they should concentrate on retraining and getting an academic qualification. In effect, they were giving themselves maybe twelve months of spare time to become at least savvy enough for an entry-level job in the industry, and wanted to know if I could advise them.
I didn't initially see how I could possibly help them. After all, in terms of web development I'm almost completely self-taught, and a lot of that has been through processes of osmosis and curiosity rather than through any particular grand plan. Also, my career has been one of sideways motion first—DPhil student to LATEX compositor to journals e-publisher to web and CMS developer—and any upwards motion very much later, so it's not as though there was a clear path set down from the start that I could advise on.
In a flash, an idea came to me: if I were reconstructing myself as a web developer—all over again, but this time doing it systematically and with a timetable like twelve months in mind—how would I go about that? How might I build myself, all over again, in the space of twelve months? That's not to say that I'm a perfect developer, by any stretch of the imagination; but I'm a developer of a sort I recognize from the inside out, so it might help me offer advice more coherently. Anyway, I started writing... and writing... and writing.
When I finished, I had a lot of ideas, but I hoped that they weren't too prescriptive.I wanted it to be more flexible than edicts of "do it my way"& doing All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental you can also say its totally GAPP ,hehheheh:);):)
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