User talk:Hairyhi

About Me
I am Ankit Jain, a Computer Engineer from Delhi College of Engineering (DCE), graduated in 2008. I am a freelance developer who started taking up projects in the year 2007 and have worked on several diverse projects since then and with people around the world ranging from US, UK, India, Germany and Egypt.

Though I am not that good with designing, but I have worked on several web based projects involving a lot of programming. I have keen interests in gaming too, and I have developed many browser based games too, specially those made for iPhone. Some of my masterpieces are also marked by Apple Web Apps Store. The links to those pages are present in the links section.

Being a freelancer has many advantages, it helps you to come in touch with the latest trends in the world and also helps you encounter some interesting projects which you would have never dreamt of. Obviously there are advantages of meeting highly skilled and experienced people with high degrees of knowledge.

I started Web development about 3 years back when I had completed my first year and felt that there's something extra that needs to be done, something apart from the regular college work. So I did some trying and testing. Started off with learning advanced c and c++ but later realised that this simple programming is old fashioned, so I switched from programming to developing. Again started with learning .net, but meanwhile I landed on developing web applications and with a little effort found a awesome site for learning web technologies W3Schools. From that day I've never looked back.

I learned a lot of technologies like html, css, advanced javascripting, php, mysql, ajax, xml, xslt, asp and have now started off with ruby on rails. Apart from learning these, I started working for our college's community site Dcetech. Helped in revamping the complete site (Dcetech), converting the scripts from ASP to PHP. Made the site dynamic and have helped improving the visibility of the site on search engine. Also for our college fests from time to time, I've developed several online multi-player applications like Online Quizzing competition, Online Stock Market simulation online c/c++ Programming Challenge and others. And for past one year, I have been independently heading the web management group which manages the site Dcetech.

Now I have moved one step above all these. I have started working with APIs. Have integrated Paypal checkout, Google Maps, Google Gears and a couple of other APIs. Have been observing the trends on the web for past one year.

Regarding the job, I have a few job offers right now, but have decided to join Cisco Systems, Bangalore in September 2008.