I love reading HeroPress essays in my free time. It’s a source of inspiration. Sometimes you come to know about people who faced similar challenges like yours. Sometimes you come to know of people who have failed and worked hard to succeed. It’s always interesting to read these essays and learn from how things can…
Year 1994 “What do you want to become?”, asked a teacher. “A Software Engineer!”, replied a boy Teacher: “Why?” Boy: “My Mom wants me to become an engineer!” Flash forward … Year 2010 A postgraduate from NYU in Computer Science got placed in Time Inc. as a Front End Developer! He calls his mom and…
Being born in a middle class Indian-family, you won’t always be the one to make your life decisions, usually it will be your family. It’s really simple; if you are good at science, maths or computers, you will try your best to crack IIT, and if you’re good at accounting/commerce then you will have to…
Writing 7yrs of journey in one post is very tough for me. There are lot of learnings & memories associated with WordPress. Without WordPress I don’t have an online presence & the simplicity of publishing has provided me a voice that is heard. Whenever I am heard I got a response from the wider community…
History I look back and remember FrontPage, Macromedia & wonderful Geocities – I think it’ll be safe to call it WordPress of 90’s! I was a young kid and was really fascinated with the web and more so in how it was built and Geocities left a positive mark which gave initial kick start to…
I developed reading habit very early. In fact I can’t recall my childhood without memories of Chacha Chaudhary comics and Champak. During high school (in 8th class), a new teacher, Kunal Sir, joined our school. He wanted to re-open school library which was closed since a long time. I volunteered for this task and as…
When Topher approached me to contribute my story on HeroPress, I was overwhelmed. I felt that I had lots to learn before I could even think about contributing. I decided to decline. As I was preparing to write to him, I decided to browse through the site and that’s when I came across a line…
ByRamya
This is a story I’ve told many, many times before. Only, I’ve never been asked by anybody within the WordPress community. So far, my stories have always been for my readers. My name is Ramya Pandyan but I’m better known as IdeaSmith. My first brush with blogging began in the late 90s when the internet…
The first time I came across the internet was back in 1995 when an uncle showed how he sent to email to connect with his sons who were studying in the US. In those days, the PC was not a common place in India. Internet was via dial up and expensive. About 5 years later,…
Act 1: For the love of Poetry It all started in 1999 in Bombay. A PC was considered a luxury; very few people had one and OS and Windows were synonyms. I was eighteen and a prolific poet, having fallen in love with poetry at a young impressionable age. Like all creators of any sort,…
