The Bigger Picture …

As you can see, we have successfully setup our blog and it seems to be working fine :)

If you look closer, you will notice that this blog is hosted on wordpress.com and not on our own server.

Pah! You’ll exclaim -“Whats the big deal in that?”
You just log on to wordpress.com, fill out a couple of details, choose a theme, edit the custom image and you’re done. Anybody could do that – so what is infact the big deal?

Before I go on, let me explain our dilemma …
The host from which we have obtained our server space, for the ThinkingSpace Technologies website, gives us a lot of options in the .Net package – but extremely poor permissions to run PHP code.

Almost all the major (and cool) blogging engines (including wordpress) are in PHP – and they failed to run on our servers due to the permission settings set by the host.

We then turned our attention to .Net blogs – and came across a few good ones – dasBlog and SubText.
However, this time, the Asp.Net permission issues kicked in and we had trouble setting these up too …

We spent quite some valuable time getting squares to fit through round holes — code (which we had not written) needed to be edited and the entire application recompiled to run on our servers …

And even after this, the results were not what we had in mind …

We pushed on – wasted more time to try and get applications to run on our servers which clearly – the server was not happily letting us run.
Thats when it hit us – we were missing the bigger picture …

The bigger picture in setting up the blog was to provide a channel for us to express our thoughts and views …
We needed a blog – not a blog that ran on our server specifically (though that would be awesome).

Hence, we kept our (geeky) egos aside and decided to go with a blog hosted on WordPress instead of waste more time in trying to set one on our own server. (There was even a lot of talk about writing an entire engine ourselves to host on our servers … but we soon realised that that would be trying to kill a fly with a bazooka).

Hence here we are, with a blog on WordPress – customised exactly to our needs …
With the bigger picture – back in mind…

- Saurabh

Hello World :)

What can I say? I am a geek…
Infact, even though some people will vehemently oppose it, we all are – at ThinkingSpace Technologies …

Which is definitely not a bad thing now is it?
When you know you’re a geek – you know you can get things done (technologically speaking).
Nothing is impossible and no mountain is too high to climb …

So, as all good (geeky) things in the world start, so does this blog with a simple:

Hello World!

Another thing mandatory to do with the first post is to write about what the blog is going to be about …

Well, ThinkingSpace Technologies is a small startup founded by 3 friends from the same class, same college – who quit their day jobs to follow a dream and chase a vision.

Part of the vision is writing extremely simple (shamelessly simple ;)) software which gets the job done and can be used by anyone without much computing experience – thus enabling a greater majority of people to benefit from technology.

What we plan to share with you through this blog is our journey …
The situations we face, our thoughts and perspectives on current trends, why we do somethings the way we do, etc. etc.

So there! :)

Welcome to the ThinkingSpace Technologies’ Blog.

- Saurabh