Roobaroo

Well the orkut fever had started to grow big on this world. The social networking sites had grown so much out of proportions….. there was Hi5 (where I first registered) offering full customization of the content you can add..i.e. videos, sparkles, custom html tags… well all that just started to ruin the interfae they had and I no longer like this site. Myspace which has its domination since long long years I don’t even remember.. Myspace has also been a platform for the local artists to grow, xzibit their creations, songs, documentaries etc……..

Then the Orkut……. Orkut have this scrap feature I really like. Get in touch and talk to other people…just leave a scrap and they will reply you. Prettty much like the voicemail on Telephone I’d say..but isn’t that what already existed on various IMs….but that’s the beauty of social networking sites.
You can not only talk, but search through the users that are present… search the content in their profiles and check whether they really are your old lost friends. and oops even if they aren’t the ones ….. make new ones in the processs..

So this was what I took up….. create our own social networking website—- ROOBAROO —- with not some dynamic out of world features.. but just test our capabilities if we could actually create one!!

So it was decided, we were making a social networking website as our ___Minor Project___ for college. Me and my team partners Rahul and Anupam started off with some designs on how the site must look in the first case…. Then we added the sections that I would say as features… The Create your Profile, Edit it, Scrap feature, Testimonials, Recieve/Send Frnd Rqsts… well that pretty much sums up the functionality that we were looking for.

After this started the process which many find very boring (fingers crossed) programming (fingers crossed).. Hey but not us!! (After all we would have lost marks had we done so :)… So the databases, the HTML markup, the CSS… yep we were learning all of these for one single project. So by the time our application had started taking shape “the SQLCommand.ExecuteReader was all over us”.

So after around a period of 2-3 months which included our 9-5 classes at college + some desi masti which we did… our project had finally taken shape and was working perfectly after all the bugs had been removed, constraints added, cross browser testing done and visually attractive and easy layout made.

Now it was time for making it online…Our team guide had repeatedly asked us to this and this was really a great idea from him. So since as usual we were low on money we searched for some free website that could provide us some temporary .Net server to make our website online… and thanks to —vwdhosting.net— we were able to publish the website well in time before our final presentation of the Project was held.

ahhhhh A —–they lived happily ever after—- end to the story!!

Keep Trying,
Prashant!!