Saturday, April 5, 2008

It is time to talk of many things

You are smart. You are intelligent. You know of many things but you never did get to take a deep dive into programming. Now you are in a situation where you have to use information technology. Perhaps you are:

A CXO-type trying to keep pace with a fast changing world
A Sales & Marketing manager in a technology company
A Business analyst working on a client assignment
A Functional Expert working with a software product team
A Civil Engineer working on a E-initiative of your organization
A Doctor working on a Health Information System of your hospital
A Bureaucrat working on a E-Governance project
A Small Business owner trying to expand your business on the Internet

This is your place to start to getting to know the basics. It is not a dictionary of tech terms. It is my attempt to explain – in clear and simple terms – not only what these technologies do but how they work. It assumes that you have been exposed to computers and the Internet. It will help if you have taken at least one college level course in computers and programming.

I will attempt to build this place up with more information as we go on this journey together. If there is something that you are struggling with right now and it is not covered in the material in this site, do write to me at sanjoysanyal@gmail.com and I will try and get a post on it.

So now is the time to talk of many things as in the Lewis Carrol poem:

"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes—and ships—and sealing-wax—
Of cabbages—and kings—
And why the sea is boiling hot—
And whether pigs have wings."

We will know soon enough.

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