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After finishing college I started working in a company that its main focus was web development. So I started getting familiar with different aspects of web development and design. ASP.NET was new back then and I decided to give it a shot and I think I liked it because I am still using it!

After spending two years in that company I decided to move to Tehran and work as a freelancer. Being a freelancer has its own pros and cons and the best thing about it is that you are your own boss!

In past two years I have been working as an offshore developer for a foreign company. My main task has been developing a Web 2.0 website that its main focus in online storage and collaboration. For some reasons I can’t tell you what is the website and that really sucks! You have been working on something for 2 years and you can’t tell anybody what it is. Well, that doesn’t matter because I really like what I have done so far.

Here is a list of things that I think I know:

• ASP.NET (I use Microsoft .NET Framework as my major development platform. It is easy, I like it!)
• XHTML and CSS (As a web developer you should know these two. I'm good with CSS)
• JavaScript (I have been using a great deal of JavaScript in my projects recently)
• AJAX (I use ASP.NET AJAX most of the time but I have been using EXT Framework a lot recently and I am starting to fall in love with jQuery)
• Microsoft SQL Server (I have never been very good with SQL but I have been using it for a while. LINQ to SQL makes my life a lot easier when comes to working with database)
• XML, XML Schemas, XPath, XSLT and SOAP (They can come handy for any web developer)
• Object oriented analysis and design (More you know, easier your life would be!)
• Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Fireworks (I do most of my design work in Adobe Fireworks and I think it is more appropriate for Web Designers than Photoshop)