User talk:Rahulbee

Hey All,

This is Rahul Bhattacharjee.As of now, I haven't contributed anything to Wikipedia , but I am a fan of it. My habbit has changed a lot. I prefer to find my stuff in wikipedia and then google it (if former doesn't give any suitable results). Wikipedia has really changed the way we try to look for something in the web. Even for generic stuffs wikipedia's link comes as the first link in google searches.Knol from Google Inc, is a good attempt from Google to replicate wikipedia , but I do not think that it did well.

Most of the times it works. I am from technology industry (fixing bugs created by someone else and laughing at myself for being an Engineer.). So the nature of job is such that I have do googling for forums and technical articles or else wikipedia is just the right thing for any generic stuff.

For those who want to know whether I contribute to wikipedia ($), then No. I haven't contributed any money nor time to wikipedia , but hoping to do so.

Occupation:
Engineer with a Software company in Bangalore, India.It's my day job and I do something at night too , but not for living.

Education:
I hold a BE degree in Information Technology from National Institute of Technology, Durgapur ,West Bengal , India.Apart from it , I have a couple of certifications from SUN (related to Java) and IBM (related to XML).

Things I like
I like visiting Javaranch, its a forum on java and other related technologies.You can get some great answers to your questions.In programming world you cannot expect to work on a whole set of technologies. One way to be updated is to make proof of concepts of you own and refine that and do lot of experiments with it and for all the difficult implementations and questions javaranch is just the place.

I like to read the blogs by Joel on software.Its also a great place to get some pages on software trends.It's not like other blogs which talks mostly about the markets leaders like Google, Microsoft , Amazon etc , it talks mainly about things from which small companies would get the most.

Note : I have a bad habit of creating pages about myself wherever its possible.

Signing off !

rahul.rec.dgp@gmail.com

WikiProject Java and Portal
I recently posted the following text on Wikipedia regarding the creation of a new computing-related project: 'WikiProject Java is a Wikipedian community that aims to better organize information in articles related to the Java programming language and its platform. Please support this initiative,    A l a i n  R 3 4 5  Techno-Wiki-Geek     18:33, 24 October 2009 (UTC)
 * If I'm cor-rec-to, there are about 900 articles on Java technology in Wikipedia, which may be more than ALL other programming languages articles combined...
 * At least, it's more than for C++, and there IS a C++ WikiProject...
 * And it's MUCH more than the .NET WikiProject with 82 articles...
 * There is also a Ruby project and a Python portal so...
 * Now you can also see a proposal for the Java Portal (temp location).'