"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. - Albert Einstein"

After working for 8 years for different companies including Travel Companies, Software Development and Web Development, now I feel a lot restricted by the rules and regulations they impose on their employees. Sometimes, you have to do the work that you do not like to do. In these years I have worked on more than 50 big small projects in different technologies including Visual Basic 6.0, ASP, JSP, PHP, RoR and HTML & Javascript. I got exposure to all of them in different span of time. In all these different development languages I liked PHP a lot because of its simplicity and power.

PHP was developed from start keeping web development in mind. All other languages are basically branches of mainstream software development languages adapted for Web like ASP and JSP. As I said PHP is simple and powerful language using which one can develop any kind of web application, enterprise portals and mission critical applications. It uses comparatively less server resources then RoR and Java it gives one the power of quick and easy development.

And if you need help then the web is flooded with open source free scripts, help, knowledge-base and tutorials. You will never feel alone in the crowd, and this open source community is the most powerful force behind the success of PHP.

I have developed several small to medium applications using PHP and MySql and are now confident enough to finish any task in hand using it. Be it Yahoo Store, Facebook applications, open source content management system like Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, Mambo, Zencart, OsCommerce etc OR enterprise applications needing custom development from scratch. So I thought to leave my 9 to 5 job and start working on independent projects.

Thanks to the freelancing websites, they provide people like me the opportunity to work from home and earn enough for living. Currently I am active at Elance, oDesk and RentACoder. You can view my profile at Elance, oDesk and RentACoder by clicking on the links.

If you have any requirements/work for me then please feel free to contact me at: help AT nirvaat DOT com.