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Today is my first anniversary of blogging. When I started out, I didn’t know very much about it and had just read a few blogs. In this one year, I have come to love blogging and visiting blogs and have learned so many new things. I have made some wonderful bloggy friends and I don’t feel my day is complete until I visit them. I thank you for visiting me as often as you can and a special thanks to my daily visitors and commenter. Here is my very first primitive post.

The last year gave a 360 degree turn to my life professionally and personally. There were great changes happening almost each time in my life in between June 2007- June 2008.

Professionally it was the best year of my entire career till date, as I shifted my functional domain to finance and adopted Adobe Flex as my full time passion. I worked with two most wonderful firms Capsilon and Capgemini and they both have Cap J starting with. The later one is the one I am currently working with.

I was overwhelmed when Adobe accepted my feed for aggregation on the very 15th post and in just less than a month time. My blog was a baby blog at that time and I was concentrating on Apple IPhone developments. As I strongly believe in the fact that big responsibilities comes as and when you come to the main stream. And yes I was there in just a months time. I revisited my plans for my blog and started concentrating on more mature topics. I know in the beginning I did so many childish things like copying text, adding logos or might be just pointing to some other site which has the information. In just 3 months time my blog was accessed by 20,000 unique visitors which was itself an achievement.

I feel much honored remembering the day when I first got the call from John Koch, Adobe and he referred me as a community leader and asked me to come and meet him in Mumbai. I met John and Puneet, Product Manager, Adobe and had discussion on various technology initiatives Adobe is planning for Indian developer community.

By the time I was matured enough to contribute actively in communities. And then Raghu, Tech Evangelist, Adobe came with a plan for organizing Flex Boot Camp in Pune. The event was a smash hit (Boot Camp Rocked Pune) and I was nominated as Group manager, Pune Flex User Group. Once again hearties thanks to John and Raghu for authorizing Pune Flex User Group (PuneFUG.org) as a part of Adobe User Groups.

In the meanwhile I gave my Adobe Certification which came again with a great whooping bang, 94% perhaps one of the highest scorers in Flex certification till date. I don’t think this is gonna stop as there are a lot more to come.

Hoping a great post tomorrow on the 2nd Pune Flex Usert Group meet.

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