About
DISCLAIMER : This is my personal Blog, please treat it that way. All the views expressed here are my own and don’t necessarily reflect the views of the projects/companies I am involved in.
Thanks for visiting my blog. I think its about time i should restart blogging after I lost my old blog.
I intend to post regularly here. Stuff im doing….stuff im interested…or even something nice i come across while digging the web.
Btw im Sajal Kayan ~25 years old and into some software programing and web development. And almost always work as a freelancer.
Ill put in more content here later (i promise).
Skills :-
- SEO
- HTML
- BASIC programing - Had quite a good command on it while at school
- Perl - Learning by experience
- C/C++ - Learnt a little out of touch now
- PHP - can copy paste and some hacking
- Graphics - Light manipulation
Visual Basic, .NET and .NET compact framework programing - Back when I was a M$ fanboy- Joomla
- Wordpress
- Drupal - Recently acquired interest.
My profiles on external sites
Portfolio :-
- Some coding jobs at RentACoder
- Personal Projects - Will try to release to public once presentable (didn’t even name them yet)
- A perl script to automatically get wordpress posts, gets keywords from Yahoo Tag suggest API and edits the posts. uses metaWeblog XML-RPC API
- A perl script to check latest posts in wordpress and sends out tweets in the popular microbloging platform twitter. Searches the post for specific keywords and sends tweets accordingly.
- A perl base web scraper to log into a particular website, uses cookies and fetches pages then fetches new links, scrapes contents off new pages and posts to wordpress. NOTE: I’m not palgarising content.
- BarCampBangkok - The first BarCamp in Thailand
- One of the organizers.
- thaindian.com (Current) - A website for Indians in Thailand
- Partner and Co-Founder
- Business development
- Community Building and PR
- Setup and maintain server
- Making and maintaining the website (Joomla + wordpress + perl + php)
- Occasional writing
- Photographer
- Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
- In charge of online monetization
- Adopt A Tree Today (current) - A new concept to reduce global warming
- Technical Lead + webmaster
- thaivisa.com - Expat forum in Thailand - Largest online expatriate community in the world
- Setup Joomla website
- Setup and maintain new server for few months
- Setup and ran the sms service at sms.thaivisa.com
- Super Moderator for a few months
