[About XDA developers] theDroidfanatic:
My Journey :D

Well.

I first Signed up in April 2012, while I was googling on how to root and modify my Xperia Play (My first Android Phone) and man, was I enthralled by the number of ROMs.

The support from people was just epic. Ask a question, and bam, you get an answer. At that time, I never really had any intention to make a Rom of my own, but I was very experienced in rooting, hacking, kernels, flashing ROMs etc, so much, that my friends used to give me their phones to do it :) however, I didn't quite have the XDA spirit back then, I never actually chatted with people, didn't post much, and hence, don't remember many people from the Play forums (Except maybe DoomLord ;))

Fast forward to around 4-5 months later, and I sold my Xperia Play in favor of a Black Tegra 3 One X, which I'm currently rocking.

Now, the journey since then, and now, has been a rocky one.

This time, however, I posted a lot, helped people out, took help, etc, chatted with devs, you know, the usual :) in the meantime, I also happened to have a few conflicts (2 AFAIK), but thankfully, those were resolved, and they are pretty much friends :)

After that, I joined the SkyDragon ROM team, and one day, I decided to cook my own ROM, so I took permission from Shnizlon to use OrDroidX as a base, and made it the lightest Sense ROM at that time, and as you probably figured out, I was no longer a member of Team SkyDragon (even though I tried merging once, but, well, it didn't go so well)

Anyways, so now, I have my own ROM, blade. Well, eventually, after some conflicts with the SkyDragon Leader, which were later resolved, and there are no hard feelings anymore (Atleast not from my side :)) and thanks to those conflicts, I moved on to bade Blade on an RUU.

Then, I assembled a team, called Team Blade (very original name xD) consisting of a few beta testers, and a few graphics designers (jorjino2000) and (Jonas2295) especially, when I progressed further, I also added more and much more experienced devs than me, Luiejongen, and Noamsch6.

I also opened a couple of threads, a HOW TO for APK Tool, a couple of general threads, and my best thread yet, the Toothbrush mod (Its hilarious xD)

Then, I applied for Recognized Contributor, but had to be delayed, becuase I received an infraction for off topic posting (when I was a n00b) so now I have to wait till March :)

And now, we have Two ROMs, Blade, the lightest Sense ROM for the HTC One X, at a mere 223 MB, and Blade ExTrimmed, the lightest DESENSED Sense based ROM, at just 128 MB! :D we also made an AROMA package for Blade. Our latest addition to the he team are two devs, wilks3y, and lumpy76. We are now also working on Java based goodies for our ROM ;)

Now, throughout this time, I encountered a lot of awesome people, got to know a lot of devs, a lot of awesome members, recognized contributors, and many others. Namely (Note: I'm naming a few, in no particular order, and please forgive me if your name is not here, I'm just writing the names that popup in my mind right away :))

Shnizlon

RichmondUK

Mwilky

Geko95gek

Floatshow

Seadersn

RawDealer

Goku80

ZeroInfinity

N3ocort3x

And the entire Bladr Team

Everyone else who helped out during my ongoing journey :)
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And these mods for putting up with me, even when I was annoying :P:

Jotha

Broncogr

Orb3000

Whiskey103
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And here I am now, still learning, striving, and most of all, enjoying.

I sincerely thank you XDA, it has been fun, and IS fun :)

This has been mine, let us know about yours :)

Cheers everyone