I had promised to myself that this year, no other programming language but again, I turned myself down .

This year, it is AJAX which I learnt while working on NetAmp.

A Programmer/Coder (whateva as far as you know that you have the capability to become anyone), like me can never get rid of this habit - call it bad or good. But really the name (AJAX) sounds very sexy and I always wanted to go for learning AJAX to create those sleek interfaces. And now, I have learnt it and it has helped me to make myself happy by turning my dream app into reality.

If it was my website in year 2006, it is NetAmp in year 2007.

I am really thankful to Deeps and Raji for helping me getting started with this thing!

The top 6 in 2006 that I did. I have covered lot of my favorites in 40 questions about 2006 post. Rest are here

Tech Things I spent most of the time

1. My Website and Blogging
2. Google Docs
3. YouTube
4. Google Home Page
5. Downloads
6. Photo Editing

Best Photos

1. Photo 1
2. Photo 2
3. Photo 3
4. Photo 4
5. Photo 5
6. Photo 6

Last Posts

1. Top 6 things in 2006
2. Graffiti
3. CE designs
4. 40 questions about 2006
5. My favorite webby things in 2006
6. My Motto

I liked about Gurgaon

1. Cafe Coffee Day
2. Udyog Vihar
3. PVRs
4. Parantha Junctions (GE and Convergys)
5. Malls
6. Sadar Bazar

I didn’t like about Gurgaon

1. Roads (specially Speed Breakers) and Transport
2. Electricity and Water Supply
3. Government
4. Police - typical Jaats with no brains (no offence intended but they literally made me frustu)
5. Most of the local public
6. Night Life

Favorite Songs

1. Khalbali (RDB)
2. Kya Mujhe Pyar Hai (Woh Lamhe)
3. Don Revisited - Midival Punditz (Don)
4. Tere Bin (Bas Ek Pal)
5. Dil Laga Na (Dhoom II)
6. Bhula Do (Raeth)

Last Movies

1. X Men 3
2. MI 3
3. Royal Casino
4. Vivah
5. Umrao Jaan
6. Dhoom II

I came across a post on a not well know blog in blogospehere (just like that of mine few weeks ago!). It is Sheila’s Blog. The post is 40 questions about 2006. Here are the 40 questions she asked and I liked answering them on personal level. Personally I like number 7, so I have tried giving 7 answeres wherever possible (as there is no limit on the number of answers ).

1. What did you do in 2006 that you’d never done before?
   1. Switched my job (of course for first time)
   2. Bought a bike
   3. Created my website
   4. Blossomed up my blog
   5. Bought 3G mobile
   6. Dived into mobile technology - specifically softwares and learned a lot with the help of my bro
   7. Visited Mumbai
2. Did you keep your New Years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
   1. I couldn’t.
      • I am really depressed but that was almost impossible for a guy like me although it was my decision to make that resolution…but I think at that time I was quite frustrated.
      • And my big bro - Krishna also wouldn’t have kept his resolution - I am sure and I will confirm it on new year evening . We had almost same resolution.
   2. I will definitely make one for new year.
      • Because at least, you have always some thing in your mind to achieve and you never feel aimless .
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?

   Yes. Sid - my TL. She is a little cute baby and I remember her DOB - June 13. Here name is Yati. I have posted her photo in one of my posts.
   

4. Did anyone close to you die?

   No
   

5. What countries did you visit?
   1. India
      • But different cities and states
6. What would you like to have in 2007 that you lacked in 2006?
   1. More Satisfaction
   2. And the thing which I missed in my 2006 resolution
7. What date from 2007 will remain etched upon your memory?
   1. 06/06/2006
      • I felt the effect
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?

   My website - my own home over web
   

9. What was your biggest failure?
   1. I never remember them because for me, they happen to be new ways of finding the way things don’t work.
      • One such way was my 2006 resolution!
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?

    Yes, but minor ones and for very little time
    

11. What was the best thing you bought?

    Best things come free in life and I got one such thing - some life-long friends
    

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
    1. My Best Friend
    2. Pankaj’s spontaneous jokes
    3. Anuj’s fascination
    4. Tajender’s companionship in games including Quake III and TT
    5. Gang
    6. Amit and Sid from my project team
    7. Gaurav Bansal - almost unknown personality on my blog but we used to have very sensitive discussions
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?

    One but such names aren’t named in public as the original blogger did but it hurt and they also know that
    

14. Where did most of your money go?
    1. Clothes
    2. Food
    3. House
    4. Bike
    5. Gadgets
    6. Coffee
    7. Recharge

It is inspired from A Few of My Favorite Things on the Web 2006 of Hogg.

I am listing just the names -

E-Mail - Gmail

 

Social Networking - Orkut

 

Office Apps - Live

 

Online document management service - Google Documents and Spreadsheets

 

Image hosting - Zooomr

 

Calendar app - Google Calendar

 

Search Engine - Google

 

Homepage - Google homepage

 

Maps - Live Local

 

Blog - Lifehacker

 

Music Download - Cool Toad

 

Wiki - Wikipedia

 

Online Storage - Box.net

 

Bookmarking - None

 

To Do list - Google Calendar

 

Blog Search Engine - Technorati

 

Online Feed Reader - Bloglines

 

Blogging Tool - Performancing

 

Website Analytics - Google Analytics

 These are all I could recall by now. Will update if I got reminded of any other category.

So the last working day of 2006 is now going to close down. Let me count what we did for last time on last working day.

Obviously worked for last time

 

Had lunch with gang (it was co-incidence)

 

Played Quake-III with Teji and Ashish Ujjwal (well that was for first time when I played with All-India Runner Up of game and it was visible when we 2 were fighting at 7/8 and he was at 20!!). He is bond of this game. It was fun playing the game drinking coffee and eating snacks and crunching the players.

 

Had chat with Luthra in office full of laughs where once again he acquired knowledge from me - for last time

 

One colleague was here for last time - as I have heard…no official news, not even from her side

 

Heard songs on LAN speakers (netamp) as well as over headphones

 

Sent mails

And now leaving as Dhiraj has called for the celebration.