Short History of This Website

As I am in isolation for a few weeks now, regarding COVID19 pandemic, I have a bit of time between multiple projects I am trying to handle at the same time. So, I decided to review www.TheApplications.Net.

I guess this is on the first international domains I have ever purchased. It was a long time ago, 8th of Feb 2005. Initially, I bought it from “10-domains.com” owned by “Parava Networks, Inc.”, one of the rare domain registrants, that was accepting payments from my origin country. Then, a few years after, (I remember, immediately after paying for a few years as bulk renewal) there was some kind of scandal regarding Parava Networks. So, I was kindly informed that my payments were gone and there won’t be any financial reimbursement. Still, luckily I did not lose my domain. I was further messaged that in future Tucows will manage my domain.

I never utilized this site potential, in the sense of making a platform that will create some kind of passive income, at least enough to cover its own expenses. There is a saying “The cobbler always wears the worst shoes”, and it is kind of true, IT people are quite busy, especially nowadays. But it is reasonable there are so many things to do. I am not thinking about procrastination, but useful things such as new technologies, frameworks, libraries, meetups, fun stuff, DIY gadgets … the present is like a heaven for geeks. You can find yourself so busy that probably extending day to 48 hours would not help.

I guess at the beginning idea was to create a site where I could find clients to do side gigs working on ASP.NET projects. But, soon after finding first, I have found myself in a very difficult position joggling between a full-time job, side gig and daily chores.

Unfortunately, I have not archived those first website designs only left was a mockup from 2007.

Then a year later, cartoonish like design was born, and somehow I still feel it was appropriate. At the time, we started working on some flesh animations, so I guess that work influenced this design as well. Among other things, the world was at the brink of economic crises.

Soon after, I started changing companies, and again being quite busy.
After arriving in the United Kingdom, there was an adjustment period. As soon as I got a bit of spare time at the beginning of 2013, I decided it is a time to revamp web site again. The Medium, was born in August 2012 simplifying things, it was beginning of a hype where people were blogging about technical challenges and ways they solve some particular problems.
At the time I was learning Ruby on Rails and Django/Python, so kind of building blogs was my Hello World application, complex enough to check multiple use cases but again simple enough I do not need to spend a lot of time building it.

I didn’t continue blogging, at the time, multiple web and desktop tools emerged helping us to manage our notes and memories. My English wasn’t at the desired level, so I was often finding myself by not being able to find usually appropriate verb or some expressive word. Sometimes that was utterly blocking and destroying my writing flow.

Seven years after into the present, many things have happened. Now, the world is in the middle of the Covid19 pandemic and lets us see what will future bring.

If you were wondering what is my plan now with this web site?
Frank answer is that I do not have any, but if you have suggestions, proposals or you want to hire me, go to About and leave a comment.

Thank you and stay blessed,
Aleks