Whew! I am finally writing my second blog post and as you can see, it took me almost a year to write it.  I could have really waited for the first one’s anniversary, but since the last one left people for wanting for more, I decided to do it now.  Honestly, I have made several attempts to get back to blogging(or, get started?), but kept delaying it due to being lazy(and eventually forgot what I was going to write about). I even had a chance  to write a post to convince my good friend, now Microsoft employee, David DeWinter to stay at Extend Health. As much as I wanted him to stay, I also wanted to occasionally use this line in my arguments: “Hey, shut it! My friend told me this and he works at Microsoft!”. Yes, Dave, that is the reason why I did not write a post at that time . Now, back to blogging. I want a place to keep track of various things I learn as a Software Developer. However, I also don’t want to write  long posts explaining those things in details. Thus, I came up with a better idea  for this blog: I will be doing short “Did you know” posts where I will share cool little things I learn everyday. You might say, Sara Ford already does that! Well, Sara Ford works for Microsoft, which makes her cooler than me! The real answer to that question is that she mostly blogs about tricks and features found in Visual Studio. I  on the other hand, am planning on doing it on pretty much anything that I find useful and relative to software development. I also realize it might leave some readers with questions about details. Thus, I expect anyone who reads my posts or is interested in what I write, to say: “Prove it!” or something smart like that in the comments section. It is easier and less time consuming for me to just answer those questions in details when they come up than trying to guess what people want to know more about. Anyway, let’s get started!

Welcome to my blog. I currently work at Extend Health, Inc. as a software developer, specifically in the internal tooling and services team. Although we are not a software shop or an IT consulting company, our IT division utilizes cutting edge technologies and comes up with awesome software. Me and my teammates deal with very complicated yet interesting problems every day and I always wanted to share my daily experiences in developing software. I hope this blog is going to serve for that purpose.

I am currently involved in developing a telephony application for the company, specifically an IVR/ACD system. We have chosen Microsoft’s Office Communication Server 2007 Speech Server to do that. In the near future, I will be blogging about my experience with this particular platform and hopefully, will be providing some useful samples.