Saifur Rahman

Now I am at Chittagong, enjoying my eid vacation here. Normally I use broadband at my home at Dhaka. But I am so much addicted in Internet that I can’t pass a single day without it and also I can pass all my time without eating or drinking if I get Internet. So, I faced a problem here that is my sister use GP Edge and I have to use this as alternate here. But I use Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 in my laptop and I don’t have any other OS. I never used any phone as modem in Ubuntu. I could have used my sister’s laptop but I didn’t feel comfortable as I will miss all my personal settings in which I am used to. So I started looking for how I can install the mobile set in my
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Hurray! I got an offer to work as remote developer for an US company. First I thought it could be fraud but later on I have searched and knowing about the company and their working style I have decided to work. That company has no office in Bangladesh and they have such kind of teams in several countries. I am the first person working for that company in Bangladesh. My working time starts at 7.00pm (local time) and ends at 3.00am (local time). My manager assigns my daily tasks online and I do those from home. We have meeting online using IM. It’s really a new and uncommon experience for me.

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Why not we try Ruby as the whole world is suffering from Ruby fever. As I thought I had started playing (here I used word ‘play’ because I became fan of it) with Ruby on Rails.

Firstly I started reading one of four books named ‘Springer Ruby on Rails for PHP and Java Developers’. The book is so good and in fact perfect for me as I know PHP and Java.

There I found that once you install the Rails it will create and make your small application one-third done. OK let me share from the beginning what I did.

1. First of all I have downloaded the installer of Ruby from site for WIndows and installed it according to the instruction.

2. Then I
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Hey guys! Ever tried to develop a FB Application with PHP or Ruby? I did and succeeded. It’s just a simple application showing latest blog post of one of my blog (বাংলাদেশ ১৯৭১).

The link for the application is My App

You can try it. It’s not a spam and none of your personal information will be hacked. After adding the application you also can send invitation to your friends.

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People of IT Sector in Bangladesh often suffers from Job Security and this mostly happens in case of small companies. There are hundreds of small software companies in Bangladesh and their business depends mostly on the online bidding sites (i.e. Odesk, getAcoder, etc).

But highly skilled and experts don’t prefer to work in those companies as organizational structures are not well formed and stable in those companies. And from my personal experience I can say those small company often fails to utilize their skill and knowledge.

Working under a junior is very dangerous and harmful for anyone’s career and also those who knows very little but thinks himself a
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I am just writing this article for my self interest. This is nothing but my own saying. I am an IT professional in Bangladesh. Doing job in a software company as software engineer. But I don’t feel this sector in Bangladesh is matured enough. And also this sector is not growing in a speed which we expected. There are some reasons behind this. As, I am not a very experienced person my assumptions might be wrong. I have identified few reasons behind this.

The first and most important reason in my opinion is education. We, in Bangladesh, lots of students go to the university to achieve the degree. University is the highest educational institution in a country. But what we learn
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