Working late everyday!

Hello there! It's been like a miracle that I can blog here. To tell you all the truth, I have been busy with my new work. The technology I used there is ASP.NET with C#. Well, programming is not really an issue for me there, it's just that the adapting to their methodology is quite a bit of challenge. We're using ASP.NET 2.0 with NHibernate. So basically, it's not pretty straightforward anymore. If I want something from the database that doesn't contain in the Data Access Layer, then I have to create it. After that I have to create the Business Logic Component, and finally I can use it in the Controller, and this Controller will be used by the respective page. Woah.

Right now I'm really not in a speed mode, as I have to understand everything first, the system, ASP.NET, Yahoo! UI, yui-ext, then I code. So for anyone who knew me said that I am fast at programming, well, right now I'm as slow as a snail. It'll be somewhere in next month that I will go back to fast lane again. In the meantime, slow lane for me.

Just today my new task is to make the system compatible with firefox. well, that's really frakking challenging as the system was only catered for internet explorer. So have to recheck all the pages in the system. Good thing the system uses MVC ;-)

Okay, off to bed!

Hi in two months

Hello there! It's been a while, but I have changed to a new job. A lot of experience in two months accumulated. Learn .NET (again!) and versioning control (Visual SourceSafe) and Ajax (using Yahoo UI, Jayrock and yui-ext). Anyway, the reason I haven't blog is that I haven't had a time to open the internet during work, and during the TMNET dark age (Earthquake kill the internet line), it was impossible to access this blog.

Alright, till another time.

p/s: I've successfully integrated Eclipse, symfony and Subversion.

Wireless in Kuching

I brought my Aztech DSL-600EW home to Kuching, just to test it capabilities, whether or not it is feasible to use wireless in this big house. Apparently, it is feasible, because right now I'm in my old room, which is at the end of the house on the 2nd floor, with the door closed, and I can still surf the Internet, with my Intel PROSET telling me that I have excellent signal.

To a geek, that's cool. I even sold this modem to my parents, so that they can use this wireless in this house. And probably my mum will bring back her laptop home so she can surf the Internet in her room, and probably my dad will probably buy a new laptop, but I think he need to have approval from my mum first. Probably my sisters will appreciate this most, as both of them have laptops, and will be pretty convenient for them not going out from their room.

So the first thing that I will do when I go back to KL is to buy that same modem, because the modem itself is so cool. Just hope that the price will not go up. Or worse, sold out!

WiFi in my room

Hi all. I am posting from my laptop, which right now is in my bedroom, wirelessly. I use the DSL600EW Modem/Router/WiFi which rocks by the way. The interface is quite good, and a lot of features for me to play with. RoXxY!

DELL Inspiron 640m

Hello there. I'm good by the way. It's been a while but I have been very busy with work. Usually less work at the end of the year, but where I work, this is not the case. This is my final month in my current company, so feeling a little sad. But to move forward, we have to leave something behind. And that's true, since there have been good memories, and wealthy experience

Anyway, I'm writing this post here using my first laptop. Seriously, I never had a laptop for myself. The first laptop that I remember was my dad's, and it's a 386. The screen was very small (and I was small then...) but the laptop is not that big but it's very thick. Ah, yes, the laptop was a Texas Instruments. The second one was also my dad's, and it's a COMPAQ. Lasted for one year plus, just after the warranty ended. And because of that my dad did not buy a laptop since. And the third one was my sister's. An ASUS laptop. I've bought this laptop (not financially of course) for my sister's birthday, and I was amazed by it's specs. A Pentium III 1.13 GHz Tualatin, 256MB RAM and 15GB HDD, Mobility Radeon, which was impressive even for a Pentium III class desktop. But that's the thing. The first lesson I learn, don't buy a laptop purely because of its specs. The laptop was so damn heavy! And buy from a respectable brand.

Mine is a DELL Inspiron 640m, or internationally known as Inspiron E1405. The reason I picked a DELL was not because of it's brand, but rather because of it's online store. I customized the laptop to fit a Core 2 Duo T5500 (1.66GHz), 1GB of DDR2 667, 60GB Seagate Momentus.7200 (yes, you assume correctly, a 7200 RPM notebook hard disk) and a 14.1 TrueLife with WSXGA+ (1440x900 resolution rocks!). Well, the TrueLife is actually a glossy LCD by the way. Oh, with an original Windows XP Home.

Actually one of the things I regretted was not picking Windows XP Media Center Edition, as right now Microsoft is promoting a free upgrade to Windows Vista if you use XP MCE or XP PRO. But including that in my purchase was a no as my budget does not permit me. But what the hell, XP Home is not that bad anyway (unless you are planning to develop Oracle Forms/Database, then we have a problem)

I'll be using this laptop for "work" ;-). I'll leave that to you for the interpretation. Till next time.

Multi File Batch Compression

I was working today when suddenly I have a warning on my taskbar, stating that I am low on disk space on drive D:. This was actually contributed by the MySQL data backup that I scheduled everyday. Before I store these files to the main server, I have to compress them in zip format. So when I saw these files, I was stunned because there was a lot of files. Gigabytes. Compressing all of them into a single file is unacceptable, and compressing them one by one is a tedious task.

So what's my solution?

Batch compression
I'm not really good at Windows BAT file programming, so I use Java to act as a batch script(aka console application) to compress the files individually. Quite simple really. Get the files in the directory, filter it by .sql, called a command line compressor and compress it one by one.

I used ConTexT for my editor, and the 7z.exe executable to compress the files one by one. Nice eh? Probably I will post the source code tomorrow.

Maybe I can use the same concept to rename my Anime into another naming convention of my own: [DB]_Naruto_-_208_[FEDFED].avi to Naruto 208 [DB] [FEDFED].avi. Well that something to consider.

Symfony and Eclipse

Probably you've seen that I haven't been posting regularly for the past few days. Well, it's the end of the year, and jobs keep coming. Anyway just want to share something with you.

I've been researching symfony, which is by the way a php framework that is totally cool for a lazy developer like me. It introduces the removal of the thing that I hate most in PHP programming, code repetition. In symfony, we will concentrate more in business logics, rather than other things such as session management. Sometimes I feel like a fool, doing everything again for every systems that I have done. Well, that's how you learn I guess. In order to appreciate symfony, you need to do all the manual PHP programming, again and again. In my case, after I have finished my system at work, I have to maintain it. That's the hard part.

And for editing the source code, I use an editor called ContexT. It looks like Textmate, which is by the way available for Mac only. Textmate is used in the screencast in symfony, so I decided to use ContexT as it is the closest thing to Textmate. But I feel that I need a more powerful editor

Enter Eclipse. This is the IDE that I have been using for learning Java Struts. I find it complicated, steep learning curve, but what the hell, it's free to download. It looks professional, full featured but a system hogger (most probably contributed by Java as the IDE is fully Java based). I cannot use the IDE at work(I only use 2.66GHz P4 with 256MB RAM) unless I only use the IDE! Any other application must be off, oh and Windows Classic Theme all the way. So i integrate Eclipse with symfony, so that I can use the IDE for developing symfony based application. How cool is that? Intellisense anyone? Man it saves my life. Probably in the future I will post a guide to integrate symfony and eclipse although you can find it here. Chuunnnla...

Amyway enough of my rants. See you all later.

Hello There!

I'm in Kuching right now! It's my hometown by the way. I'm celebrating Hari Raya here. It's been a while I've been here. The last time was when my sister got married. I'll try to blog as frequent I can. Till then. Going to sleep now...

Iftar Burger King 6

 

Iftar Burger King 5

 

Iftar Burger King 4

Iftar Burger King 3

Iftar Burger King 2

Another one

Iftar Burger King 1

Iftar at burger king klcc. had a great time meeting my friends there.

My Avatar!

Actually this is my Avatar in friendster. I was feeling photoshop that time. Im using picasa to upload this pix. Nice program!

Woot!

The redang vacation was awesome man. Seriously kewl. Now back to work.

Finished the Pre-Event module for the marketing system. Quite relieved. Now the documentation to use for it...

Finally

The system I solely developed for Cosmopoint called Marketing System is finally converted to a more professional interface. All the manual AJAX coding has also been converted to a much easier AdvancedAJAX. And it works in Opera. Well most of it. The functionality is unharmed, its just that certain interface need to be fixed. Now i can start with another module in the system.

Tonight I'll be on my way for vacation in Redang. Can't wait.

Programmer's Life

Hi all ;-). It's been a long time since i updated my blog. Don't have the time really. Busy with my work that i dont have time to do any blogging. Just research and development until my hair falls off. The thing is, the systems that i have been developing is using some method that is not used in traditional web based application that we used in the past two years in cosmopoint. I opted for the more efficient way which is Asynchronous Javascript and XML. yada yada yada. Probably we heard a lot of AJAX tech in the web. But it promises the client server like responsiveness. Doing pure AJAX application is not my field, but creating AJAX based forms is. It is not hard once you get used to it.

That's all my blabbering for today. Peace.

p/s: onFinalization: function() { getBackToWork() }

hello world

actually im feeling sick right now, cannot think. probably i need something to do, like programming. Implementing AJAX in PHP is really complex. we'll wait and see...

ive been thinking getting an official domain name, so that i can put it in my resume. and that also, wait and see. found a hosting which is very kewl in terms of features and price...

Its the end of the year!

still at work, starting next year we will have alternate saturdays... heh. should leap for joy eh. anyway we have managed to get an ftp server for our next project, a multipurpose linux machine. we'll see later...

me getting hungry...