Hey there. Welcome to my site!
Introduction:
My name is Shreyas and I have a passion for working with computers. I am a Computer Engineer by training. I am currently working for Pfizer at their Research Technology Center based in Cambridge, Massachusetts as a BioInformatics Developer. It is indeed a privilege to work for Pfizer especially knowing how much impact your work can make to the lives of millions of people all over the world!
shreyas.me’s evolution:
If you are frequent visitor, then yes, you are right. I am trying to set a new world record for the maximum-number-of-times-a-person-can-change-his-website. This site has evolved from a simple html based one (that was hosted on my school’s web server) to a fairly dynamic one (with JSPs and cool, really cool Ajax features) to until recently, a site based on drupal.org‘s (open source) blogging software. I completely fell in love with drupal. It’s a really neat blogging package, takes some time to get used to, but really powerful, and I used it for a couple of months. This brings us to the present. I’m currently using the free version of wordpress.com for my blogging needs.
I didn’t mention this earlier, but I host everything on a refurbished $300 lenovo desktop that lives in my living room and use Dynamic DNS to make my server available to the entire world including hackers. Redundancy? Availability? I don’t think I understand your point. And I keep changing apartments all the time. Having everything on a home server implies that I have to wait a couple of days before I get a new internet connection and bring my server back online. This is a significant downtime given the number of unique visitors I get everyday, i.e. 3. WordPress.com takes care of hosting, upgrading server systems and what not. I have been using it for a couple of weeks now, and must say how pleased I am with the usability and the level of control/administration it provides right out of the box. I am going to stick with WordPress for a while. I think. Probably.
Wait, let me google and see what the latest blogging tool is. Be right back.
