Ex Myzus

Today, created an egroup (http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/xmyzus/) for all my ex-colleagues who used to work for Myzus (http://www.myzus.com). Myzus is a startup by IIT Bombay graduates, started in mid 2000, after they won a business plan competition at the technology festival of IIT Bombay. I was a part of the initial team involved in involving of Myzus from a student-run-startup to a professionally run company, doing business with Telecom giants outside India. It was the experience of my lifetime that I can't easily forget. It was a great bunch of guys to work with. To date am in touch with most of them. Just wanted to have a place where we all could discuss ideas, exchange thoughts, maybe reach out to others when we need to etc.; the egroup is the fallout.

Inspiration

One of the factors behind this belief of mine into Patterns-and-processes is Martin Fowler (http://www.martinfowler.com). Have been reading his stuff since last 3-4 years. Writes great stuff on technology. Even non-tech stuff (related to processes, offshore development etc.) is pretty interesting; more than anything, it appears to be pure-common-sense-documented!!
:)

One such inspirational author is Joel (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/). I consider both Martin Fowler and Joel in the same genre.