Wednesday, December 27, 2006

My Journey in UK – Part 8

I took holiday for 2 weeks so I could go and travel anywhere that I wanted. My first journey begun at 27th of December , on Christmas and Boxing day the transportation was closed, to go Stirling. I just only went to William Wallace Monument and Bridge of Allan. The monument is good and very historic. You can see and take picture of William Wallace's Sword and also can climb to the top of monument that it's almost 248 steps. About Bridge of Allan, this place is very good , but unfortunately I didn't get further interesting in here.

Edinburgh for second times at 28th December. I was aware that I missed many nice places before and finally I have visited most of them. The another best place that I found was The Palace of Holyroodhouse. This place is second palace for Her Majesty of Queen Elizabeth after The Buckingham Palace and The Palace for Mary Queen of Scots. But I still missed to visit Edinburgh Zoo because I didn't have much time. As follow were the places that I visited in Edinburgh :

1. The Palace of Holyroodhouse and Queen Gallery

2. St. Gilles Cathedral

3. Museum of Scotland

4. The Scottish Parliament (not came inside)

5. John Knox house (not came inside)

6. Royal Botanic Garden

7. Edinburgh Harbor


29th December was a bad day in my traveling, because the whether was very bad, the transportation wasn't good enough and the most bad luck was my digital camera broken. Where was that place ? Loch Lomond :(. By the way in my opinion Loch Lomond is really nice place to see beautiful view and panorama. There are Loch Lomond Shore, Gateway Centre to The Trossach National Park, Sea Life Aquarium and still have many places that I haven't reached yet. If you're real hiker or backpacker, I recommend to visit and stay for several days in this place. And also this place is little near with Glasgow, it's around 45 minutes from City Centre.


Long traveling using private car at 30th December, it's almost 9 hours on street and just only 1.5 hours took a rest and visited some places. Starting from my flat at Bridge of Weir, I would go to Inverness city. For your information, Inverness has motto that is “Inverness is the best small city in the world”. I departed use following route : Glasgow City Centre – Loch Lomond – Crianlarich – Fort William – Loch Ness – Inverness. When I returned use other route : Inverness – PerthStirling – Glasgow City Centre. I saw many good places along trip especially for Highland area.

Loch Lomond, see my journey before

Crianlarich, there's good panorama around. After here you can continue to Fort William or Oban (Some people said this is good place but I haven't visited yet)

Fort William, it should be many attractions in summer like Jacobby Steam Train (Harry Potter) and Cable Car Nevis Range. Unfortunately, I went in winter so there weren't no attractions anymore :(

Between Fort William and Inverness, I could see best view of mountain that's covered by snow. This place are known Highland Area.

Urquhart Castle in Loch Ness. This is one of the best castle attractions in Scotland. So I've visited all of the best castle in here, there are Edinburgh Castle, Stirling Castle and Urquhart Castle.

Stirling, see my Stirling journey

  • Inverness is good city but I couldn't much enjoy because that was rain


Saturday, December 23, 2006

My Journey in UK – Part 7

Hello Manchester, I'm coming. I have spent 2 days at Manchester and actually this city is very good for modern activities like shopping, entertainment, sports. There are many places to doing those activities, so if you wanna see ancient places this place isn't recommended. But the most important thing to do in here is see and come inside Manchester United Stadium, the biggest football stadium in UK. I had new experience that stayed 1 night at the youth hostel, a cheap hotel for backpacker purpose and also share room with other people, also known as bed and breakfast. For your information, the transportation in here is good. You can use tram, train, or bus to reach all places. That was easier than Glasgow but a little bit harder than London. There are list of modern places that you must visit in Manchester (based on my listing :p):

1. Manchester United ,Theater of Dream, stadium, I took stadium and museum tour and that was very great

2. Old Trafford's Town Hall, you can just take picture while pass it before stadium

3. All these places that near with St Peter's Square Tram station : Manchester Central Library, Town Hall, The Bridgewater Hall, Gmex Centre, Manchester International CConvention Centre and Manchester Art Galleries

4. Urbis (Modern Museum) and Manchester Cathedral are near with Victoria station

5. The Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester

6. Manchester City Stadium, It's also great for me because it's just only me that took the tour so it's like a private tour :p

7. Trafford Centre, It's very very big shopping mall that I've ever seen before

8. The lorry and Imperial War Museum, I missed all of these

The another thing was I found Mosque in Manchester and finally I could pray to my GOD in Mosque at first time for I've been in UK. And don't forget to be carefully in Manchester, because there is the gay village near with chorlton bus/coach station :).




Saturday, December 16, 2006

My Journey in UK – Part 6

Stirling, one of good city in Scotland, was my next destination. In here I've planned to visit Stirling Castle, the second best castle after Edinburgh Castle. This castle is smaller than Edinburgh has, but The King and Queen of Scotland chose this castle for favorite place to stay. There are palace building and cathedral inside this castle. After that, I went to Argryll's lodging where The Earl of Argryll stayed for long long time ago. Continued to Old Town Jail, scary place for me :), was the prison on 18th century. I also look for Stirling Old Bridge. But There is one missed place , there is William Wallace Monument. And I will go there to see the monument of Scotland Guardian

Friday, December 08, 2006

My Journey in UK – Part 5

That was the busiest weekend for me. I was really tired after done some of Christmas parties. Beginning on Friday, there was developer lunch till evening. Continued with drink party together with development and deployment at pub till midnight. Then me and some of people joined private party at Bamboo, the club in Glasgow, till morning. After I took a rest for a day then I prepared to go my company Christmas Party on Saturday night. That party started at 7 pm until midnight. There was something special for my experience because I meet almost all my company employees and I could get some stories for them. So, that weekend I absolutely not traveled and fortunately the weather was too bad to hang out.


Saturday, December 02, 2006

My Journey in UK – Part 4

Two days I spent my time to go to museums and Paisley town. Kelvingrove museum has many collections (almost 8000 collections) from ancient things, fossil and also galleries. If you're in Glasgow, I recommend to don't forget visit this museum. The second museum that I've visited was Museum of Transport. In here , you'll get vehicle collections from several years ago. You'll see steam train, old bus, old car, old bike and also old motor cycle. Therefore you can see the history of transportation vehicles.

There was nothing special in Paisley ( because it's just only a town) , except for museum, town hall and cathedral. And I also could not enjoy because in that day there was rainy.

Saturday, November 25, 2006

My Journey in UK – Part 3

My weekend journey continued to Edinburgh, The Capital of Scotland. I went together with my manager from Indonesia and the trip from Glasgow-Edinburgh took 1 hour by bus. In my opinion Edinburgh has better whether compare with Glasgow, there was not too cold and not rain :).

There were list of nice places at Edinburgh :
1. Edinburgh Castle , the best Castle in Scotland and absolutely amazing
2. The Scott Monument, I've already got a certificate after climbed 287 steps to the top of Scot Monument
3. Some of museums (not yet for all)
4. Edinburgh zoo (not yet also)

On Sunday, I also took a tour around Glasgow. There were many nice places at Glasgow especially for museum, science and entertainment


Saturday, November 18, 2006

My Journey in UK – Part 2

The second week I went to London, the biggest and the busiest city in UK, by bus. There was almost 8 hours long travel and finally I stayed at Wisma Merdeka (owned by Indonesian just for Indonesian) for 17.5 pounds / night (that was very cheap for bed and breakfast, might be the cheapest one in London). I had 2 days for traveling around London and I was really enjoyed because there were good and easy transportation like London Underground which covered almost all areas in London.

There were the places that I've already visited :
1. Madame Tussauds
2. Buckingham Palace
3. Big Ben
4. London Eye (The longest admission queue that I've ever seen)
5. Wembley Stadium (not came inside because it's being renovation)
6. London Bridge
7. London Tower (not came inside and I'll try for second chance)
8. Sailing on Thames River
9. Greenwich ( still not found where zero degree is, and still believe will find for second chance)
10. Chelsea's Stadium (not came inside because the time already 5pm)

There are the places that I must get in second chance :
1. Go inside London Tower
2. Find Greenwich zero degree location
3. Chelsea's stadium tour
4. Arsenal's stadium tour
5. Watch premiership football
6. Westminster abbey


Saturday, November 11, 2006

My Journey in UK – Part 1

This was my first journey at Glasgow, Scotland. On weekend, I went to Glasgow city center just to look the busiest city in Scotland. Most Scottish hang out for refreshing after worked in weekday. Almost hundred people walked, spoke each other , and just sit down for a coffee or a cake. I also watched movies at Cineworld (The highest cinema building in the world). I remembered those movies were Saw III and The Prestige. In my opinion Saw III was very disappointed because it was less spectator. But for The Prestige, I really recommended for you all.

Wednesday, November 08, 2006

First Work Day at Glasgow

Today my first day working at Head Office of my company. After come to office then I introduce myself to other members. After I have announcement that I join to development team , I am very happy. Then my leader give me an architecture and some point to get my new work. Fortunatelly, he's very nice person and have good communication to me.

Lunch session is free for me and again the portion is unbelievable (very big portion). Actually I just take main course, how do you think if I am also take appertizer and desert :).

The work time is exactly 8 hours working day. I leave office at 5 o'clock and arrive at home at 5.15. I go out for a while to buy some stuffs beacuse I already get some money from finance's people. It's time for shooping some stuffs and I spend my money more than 30 pounds. It's just for buying toothpaste, shampoo, soap etc. I am not forget to buy food for dinner and I choose to buy at Indian's restorant. 16 pounds for lamb ala indian, it's very good taste compare with Scotland's food (without any taste). Then doing some talk with my flat mate around 1 hour and finnaly before I sleep I write down my own blog and watch my favourite anime "Naruto". Because I'm missed almost 20 episodes from 190 until 209.

I hope the next day will be nicer and be better for me. And I have a nice plan for 2 weeks later, that goes to London :)).


Long and Tireness Trip

Two days ago at saturday I have begun long trip from Jakarta to Glasgow. My plane departed at 22.00 in Indonesia's Time. There are severals transit place for my plane (Emirates), Jakarta - Kuala Lumpur - Dubai - Glasgow. Almost 20 hours I was in the plane. It's very tireness for me, but when I have arrived at Glasgow my spirit has appeared again.

After accompanied by my friend to the my flat, then we go out all of a day. I have to go to some place to lunch and shooping. FYI, I bought KFC for 3.99 pounds to get 5 chicks and 1 softdrink. Really expensive and too big portion for Indonesian people. But I remembered that was one of the smallest package which is sold in here. I just think the portion of Scotland :p

We back to home using bus, I saw there was really tidy and easy transportation. All of bus have fixed schedule time and we can stop at every place with "Bus Stop" symbol. I paid 2.5 pounds to go my flat at Brigde Of Weir. I felt the weather was very cold for me, It's 10 celcius :(.

After arrived at flat home, the I ordered some foods for dinner. I ordered from Chinesse food restorant, because I must be carefully to buy foods in here, too may ham seller. For all my order I paid almost 12 pounds, finally I slept without comfortable :(. That's my first day in Glasgow.


Thursday, November 02, 2006

Art of Life

I've been roaming to find myself
How long have I been feeling endless hurt
In the pain I'm waiting for you
Life is lost, Flowers fall
If it's all dreams, now wake me up
If it's all real, just kill me

I tried to drown my past in grey
I never wanna feel more pain
Ran away from you without saying any words
What I don't wanna lose is love
All existences I see before I must be wiped out
Dream, Reality, Memories, and Yourself

My lust is so blind, destroys my mind
Nobody can stop my turning to madness
No matter how you try to hold me in your heart, why do you wanna raise these walls
I don't know the meaning of hatred
My brain gets blown away hearing words of lies
I only want to hold your love

Try to break all truth now
But I can't heal this broken heart in pain
Cannot start to live, Cannot end my life
Keep on crying
And what? For love?
What am I supposed to do?

Dreams can make me mad
I can't leave my dream
I can't stop myself
Don't know what I am
What lies are truth?
What truths are lies?

I believe in the madness called "Now"
Time goes flowing, breaking my heart
Wanna live
Can't let my heart kill myself
Still I haven't found what I'm looking for
Art of life
I try to stop myself
But my heart goes to destroy the truth
Tell me why
I want the meaning of my life
Do I try to live? Do I try to love?

Art of life
An Eternal Bleeding heart
You never wanna breathe your last
Wanna live
Can't let my heart kill myself
Still I'm feeling for
A Rose is breathing love
in my life

Monday, October 30, 2006

Different Result

Yesterday, Nicky Hayden won his first motoGP championship. This broken off Vallentino Rossi's hegemony in motoGP class. I belived that Rossi is unbeatable but he lose by himself, with high preasure the holder couldn't handled this game. He slipped down from his motor, althougth he could continue until finish but the game was over. Hayden deserved this title because he gave all his ability to beat Rossi. Really unlucky day for Mr Valle "Lucky Man" Rossi. Congrats for Hayden.

But different result goes to AC Milan which was beaten by their rival, Inter Milan. As a fan of AC Milan, I thought this was Carlo Ancelloti's mistake. The strategy was very poorly and no creativity by this coach. But I was really happy with all AC Milan's player which are given the best performance and work hard to reach a win. But until final whistle , Inter won this match and deserved it. Ancelloti still have too much home work to make AC Milan better and the best, If he cannot prove it, I think fired him will be the best decision for Management.


Thursday, October 19, 2006

Idul Fitri, Forgive Me, Minal Aidzin Wal Faidzin

Several days ahead we , moslem people, will celebrate our big day that is "Idul Fitri". So , in this holy month, i would like to say "Minal Aidzin Wal Faidzin" to all of moslem people around the world. I've already sent my e-card to my friends but if I missed some of you , please go to this link to view my nice e-card http://www.hallmark.com/ECardWeb/ECV.jsp?a=0881122054506M000000N

God bless you all


Monday, October 16, 2006

Naruto Anime Mania

Since 2 years ago , I was a member of narutocentral to get the newest naruto anime. But during that time I feel something not good enough for me. It's about the movie/anime quality. Because I was a free member so I just got low quality of anime. FYI, this anime has size around 30-40 Mb for duration 20-30 minutes long. So, as you know this is very painful.

But now all painful will vanish, now I get new site which provides naruto anime with high quality. For same duration , the file size is larger than before. With file size around 170 Mb , you will get movie quality as same as DVD quality. What is this site ? please check out from narutochaos .Just signup as free member then you will get what you want. No free stuff without any caveat, in here only one caveat that i get is you can only download three Episodes from a media server every 24 hours.

Still finding other nice site for naruto mania :p

High-Tense MotoGP

I wanna say congrat to Mr Valentinno "Lucky" Rossi who finally got first-rank-championship rider. But the game isn't not over man, he must give all of his power to get the champion at last grand prix. Althought I am not a fans of neither Rossi nor Hayden, but I wish Hayden will be a champion in this season. Because my reason is I am like a challenger instead of a holder.

I am also will give "Golden Knob" award to Dani Pedrosa, althought I am a fan of him. With "kamikaze" action, now Hayden have very hard burden to get his first championship. But actually I am very like with Dani's performace in this season and of course with younger age and with brilian talent I believe in next season he will give push harder to the holder. So no one doubt that he choose as Rookie in his first motoGP class.

The amazing performance has been shown by Toni Ellias who finished in first podium. From other Rookies (Stonner and Pedrosa) only Toni who is never got podium before. But finally, at Estoril he deserved to get it. The unforgotten action is he always use sliding-style to catch up the leader. I believe if he can hold on current his performance , it's possible he will call "King of Sliding". As far as I know currently only Gary McCoy hold this nickname

OK, The last grand prix at Valencia will determine who will be a champion. Let's see, what will be doing by Rossi, Hayden and Dani. Very very high-tense MotoGP season

Thursday, October 12, 2006

Nice day

I think today is very nice day for me. After waiting for long time about visa request, finally my visa has been approved by UK embassy. I don't why it's direcly approved and doesn't any inteview again. But whatever about all, the important thing now is I go to head office as soon as possible. Horay .. Approved...

Hacker Cheat :p

A colleague of mine sent me this link http://www.freestuffhotdeals.com/hacker/1.html, and being a puzzle addict myself I happily answered the riddles but that fuckin ojofuffo kept me stuck in page 19… anyways I finally got to the last page and saw granny dancing.

Below are the answers to all the pages:

The first page gives all the hint you’ll ever need, and you have to be really dumb if you cant get to the next page. Just replace 1 with 2.

Page 2 has the word “two”, follow the pattern to go to the next level… replace 2 with three.

To get to page 4 just replace three with iv. Think that’s self explanatory, since iv is the roman numeral of the number four.

You’ll get the word ruof which is the number four spelled backwards. Since the next page you want to go to is 5, you have to type the word five in reverse as well, so type in evif to go to page 5.

You’re in page five and have this ffiivvee glaring at you. You just have to see the pattern; you want to get to page 6, double every letter and you’ll get ssiixx.

666666. No its not an evil sign or something. Just follow the pattern, no need to compute… just type in 7 seven times. 7777777

uranus is the seventh planet in the solar system, so you have to ask what the eighth planet is… and the only answer is neptune.

acht is number 8 in German language… so it’s telling us to give the number 9 in German which is neun, pronounced as noin.

sept, once again you just have to see the pattern, September is the ninth month and October is the tenth month but you have to just type in oct since the clue is abbreviated.

Next page will give you a 10th of spades playing card, the next level you’re aiming is 11, and if you’re talking about cards, there is no eleven, but there is jack.

Page 11 just shows you eLeVeN, so all you need to do is follow suit and type in the number twelve, but make sure you’re following the pattern, notice that the word eLeVeN has caps alternately, so you have to type in twelve in the same pattern… tWeLvE

144, now you have to do some math in here. 144 is the product of 12 x 12, since we want the page 13, you have to compute for 13 x 13 = 169

You’ll only get a black page on level 13, so you have the highlight the center and you’ll get the word number13, so level 14 means typing in number14, no space between number and 14.

catorce, is the number 14 in Spanish… so the number 15 is quince

James Buchanan, is the fifteenth president of the USA, and so it follows that the site is asking for the sixteenth president who is none other than Abraham Lincoln. just type in lincoln.

sedecim is number 16 in latin, and you know the rule… number 17 in Latin is septendecim

10001 is 17 in binary. You just have to find the conversion of the decimal number 18 into binary. The binary numeral system (base 2 numerals) represents numeric values using two symbols, and the only numbers you’ll be seeing are 0 and 1.
<-- this is the long way to compute.
Based on this computation/formula you will gather that the typical way to count numbers in binary is 1 2 4 8 16 32 64 and so on. You just have to put 1s and 0s in the sequence to add up to 18, another thing is you count it backwards. See the table below to get to the 10010 binary value of 18.



(Just remember that 1 has a value and 0 is null, so you’ll notice that only the numbers 2 and 16 are marked with 1… so 2+16 = 18)

argon is the 18th element in the periodic table of elements, and potassium is the 19th element. (Now, this one makes you remember your chemistry teacher and how you hated her when she asked you to memorized all the elements and its corresponding number in the table)

ojofuffo, now this fuckin word kept me stuck! How could this meaningless word would mean anything like 19 or be related to 20? I’ve tried different languages but no, so grrr I asked the answer from leslie, and she said the answer is uxfouz. Ok what the heck! I can’t just accept that the answer is uxfouz, there has to be logic. Then when you see the logic you’ll realize that ojofuffo is not meaningless afterall. It’s a sequence wherein you replace an alphabet letter by shifting one letter forward. So a=b, b=c, c=d, and so on. nineteen becomes ojofuffo and twenty becomes uxfouz.

icosagon is the 20 sided polygon. Remember the rule of naming polygons with greek prefixes. Anyways, the 21 sided polygon is called icosihenagon.

1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, ... 10946. This is the famous fibonacci sequence (adding the last 2 digits to get the next number). 10946 is the 21st number in the sequence so you have to compute to get the 22nd number which is 17711. The formula is usually Fn = Fn-1 + Fn-2

Aoozy, Booyy, Cooxy, ... Vooey… look for the pattern, and you’ll see the answer. First letter in the word is capitalized and follow the normal sequence of the alphabet. Next letter to V in the alphabet is W, it is consistent that the 2nd and 3rd letters is o, so we now have Woo. The fourth letter is backwards, from z to a, hence from vooey, the next letter to e is d, and we have the word Wood. The last letter is always y, so the answer would be Woody.

And you’ll see this granny dancing

Taken from http://heyokity.blogspot.com/2006/08/ojofuffo-concept-of-infinity-is-not_13.html

Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Nice Free Stuff

Today I find nice website, please you can check out http://www.sideload.com/

There are many interesting stuffs for me :
  • You can get free online storage for your mp3
  • You can play online mp3 like apple itunes
  • You can download plugin called "Oboe" to put mp3 arround the world into your own virtual locker
  • Getting a lot of free mp3
  • Nice look and feel
  • The last but not least , it's created using AJAX technology. I just can say "Cool"
But I also find one caveat from this site, there is you must be supported with high level bandwith. Without that , you can enjoy live streaming :(. Horay Fortunatelly, my client has very very unlimited bandwidth.



Let's enjoy your life with free stuffs :p

Thursday, October 05, 2006

Bad Day

Today my visa has been rejected by UK embassy. Really really bad day , but next week I will try again to submit again and I hope my company will help more for me. Hmm, this is an important problem again :(.

Tuesday, October 03, 2006

A Wish from A Begger

Today I have interviewed at UK embassy to get my visa. Nothing difficult questions for me and I already answered as I can. I hope tommorow this visa will be released for me and I can go to head office as soon as possible. Too many sad memories in here that I must clear from my mind. Just a wish from a begger :)


Trying busy in idle time :)

At these several days, I write down a journal in my blog frequently. Yes, currently I often in idle at office. Almost 2 weeks without new job and every day just doing transfer knowledge to my friends who will take all of my responsible since I go to head office.

Then I tried some java technology in my free time, I have explore how to access Scanner and Web Camera device via Java. Horay, I 'd like to thank to all java developer in the world, because they already created some utility class to support those exercises :p. FYI, to connect scanner device via Java you can refer to these following articles :
As additional you can also follow the milestone of JTwain Project . Because it's relative new so currently you can't get the real implementation from it :(. Please be patient bro.

The second exercise is I used JMF (Java Media Framework) to connect, access and capture from Web Camera device via Java. It's very really simple, just install JMF library , then register device using JMFRegistry and create SwingCapture class . Finnally, it's done and working properly. FYI, I used webcam from logitech family , and I am not guarantee for another webcam brand will be running OK in JMF.

I am very happy because I can still doing my hobby in my busy work :p. I hope this article will give some benefits for other java developer.

Monday, October 02, 2006

Preparing to Management Master

I am always believe that to be successfull as an employee you can't only rely on your technical skill. It's also need some soft skill like management, administration, speaking etc. To be that, I have plan to take Master course at Indonesia , maybe I'll take Management (please praying for me :p) in next year. Then after reading an article on Joel on Software , Reading List: Fog Creek Software Management Training Program, I am re-thinking again and little bit shame with the knowledge that I have now. There so many recommended-book by Joel which I haven't read before, preciselly almost all of the books :p. Fortunally I have read the one book "Applied Cryptography" as reference in my final project.

So I have short plan to read those books possible I can, before I take Management Master. Does anyone get same problem like me ? Let's share to me :p. And I hope I can spend my day in other country to do this.





Funny Accident

Two days ago, I slipped and fallen from my motor cycle. After dinner together with sister then I go back to my house. When I was on the way , the whether is somewhat rainy. Although i tried drive carefully, suddently my motor cycle's tire slipped because the road was slick. Before I fallen down, I remembered I though ridiculous some words "If She were mine". Finally I lay down on the road, but fortunatelly I was OK. Nothing serious injured just a little bit scratch in my finger.

But followed with my accident , I saw a funny accident again. It's not happen again to me but it's happen to someone. Exactly it's a little boy who slipped and fallen down too like me.

So, I would like to give an advice .. Please be carefull when you drive motor cycle in the rain. Believe me !!


Friday, September 29, 2006

Deep Red / Crimson

I couldn't look back, you'd gone away from me. I felt my heartaches, I was afraid of following you. When I was looking at the shadows on the wall, I started running into the night, to find the truth in me...

In the crowded street, you're standing all alone, the shadow of the days hide your heart. You are bringing down the heart of the night, keeping everything off.

As if something gonna force you, now your running into the storm! Can't you see I'm always on your mind, tell me why you leave me alone.

When I was gonna be losing you in my mind, found my heart in soil. I'm looking back to the days. These are gonna break my heart, but I can never hold back. All of you in my memory, is still shining in my heart Now you're wearing the mysterious lights, it keeps me ... sticking into my heart.

My heart has been... going to be dyed in deep red ... with all the pain. There's no one to cure my pain, only without you. How I try to shout how I try to run, there's nothing I can do. The wall hiding my heart is never broken again, how I try to break!

As if something gonna force you, now your running into the storm! Can't you see I'll always on your mind, tell me why you leave me alone.

My heart has been... going to be dyed in deep red ... with all the pain. There's no one to cure my pain, only without you. How I try to shout, how I try to run, there's nothing I can do. The wall hiding my heart is never broken again, how I try to break!

My heart has been... going to be dyed in deep red ... with all the pain. There's no one to cure my pain, only without you. How I try to shout, how I try to run, there's nothing I can do. The wall hiding my heart is never broken again, how I try to break!

Cry in deep red...

Wednesday, September 27, 2006

5 Ways to Contribute to Open Source Projects Without Coding


Maybe you've seen many good Open Source projects that are no longer maintained. One of the many reasons for that may be lack of contribution. In fact, there are many one-man projects out there. Most of any program's users are just that, users, not developers. Nevertheless, average users still can contribute to Open Source programs to make them better.

I made a search for ways to contribute before writing this and I didn't find much. However, I found two very good articles: "How to Contribute to Open Source Without Coding" and "HOWTO Pay for Free Software". These articles explain how to contribute to Open Source. I summarize the information in this post, with a little info added by me.
  1. Contribute quality: help to make a better project, better looking and with new features
    • Submit bug reports
    • Suggest new features and options
    • Suggest ways to improve the framework (maybe comparing it to similar OS or comercial projects)
    • Submit some artwork (icons, backgrounds, logos) to use in the program
    • Correct spelling and grammar mistakes in documentation
    • Help maintain a web site for an Open Source project

  2. Contribute documentation: Some Open Source projects have a poor or insufficient documentation
    • Help write good documentation
    • Translate the documentation (and program text) into another language
    • Read existing documentation, follow the examples, and make corrections
    • Create diagrams, screen-shots, and graphics for documentation
    • Develop spelling and grammar style conventions for documentors
    • Build a glossary of technical terms (so non geek people can understand)
    • Convert documentation into more useful formats (i.e. DocBook)

  3. Contribute support: everybody need it at least once. Let programmer do their work while you help other people
    • Answer questions on forums, mailing lists or IRC channels
    • Contribute to (or start) an online support group
    • Help other people learn how to use the program (or programming library)
    • Write HOWTOS and post them in related forums or your own blog

  4. Contribute money: many Open Source projects have a donate button or a shop where to buy related products, but there are other ways to contribute money
    • Send a developer, project or company some money
    • Buy a Free Software product, or associated products
    • Hire Free Software developers
    • Contribute hardware
    • Contribute bandwidth
    • Advertise in their web site if they show ads
    • Buy products from companies that support Free Software

  5. Contribute publicity: If the project gets popular there will be more people wanting to contribute
    • Package the application for a particular Linux distro (or other OS)
    • Convince people to chose Open Source products when possible
    • Write reviews
    • Write about new ways of using an Open Source program

  6. Contribute appreciation: it's an extra way to contribute but may be the most important
    • Express your appreciation to developers (through email or forum post)
    • Send the programmers post cards
    • Give a project or developer a gift (some have wish lists for this)
    • Be polite when reporting bugs or asking for new features; developers has no obligation to do it after all
Although most of the list is self-explanatory I plan to post more in depth info in the future.

Finally, this list is in no way complete. You can read the mentioned articles for more information or add more tips in the comments.

Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Holiday Road Map

Hmm several days ago were tireless holiday. Almost 4 days I am at Bandung doing walking arround to refresh my mind. After I arrived at Thursday, at night I go to Dago. At first I came to Gramedia, I looked for Dan Brown's book. My target book is "Deception Point" , but I only got "Digital Fortress" bacause the first book was sale out. The second book that I got was "The Google Story", my friend recommended to me about this book. Then I dropped in KFC for dinner and finally at Barcode to play my favourite game , "Bilyard" :p. I go home with problem because in Bandung is very hard to find good taxy likes in Jakarta and Unfortunatelly there isn't "angkot" to Dayeuh Kolot at night. But with patient , finally I arrived at my friend's home.

The second day I go out at Selasar Sunaryo (Dago Atas) to watch Jazzsphere. This place is very cool and elegant, there are many artfull things in here. The jazz event was begun by ImamPras quartet. They played Indonesian Independence Song with their arrangement. They played with guest singer, Dira Yulianti who will be Incognito main singer !! (Cool) . That's very impressive. Then followed by Tommorow People Ensemble, one of my favourite band, with modern jazz style. Too many noise and combine with industry music style makes this music more like trans jazz. And finally, The Jazz Master which contains experience player was playing softer song. So , I am little bit sleepy. But the arrangement was very calm and cool.

The last day I spent all my time to "FO Safari". Found out good shirts, good jackets and anything that I thought good for me. Almost full day I was walking from Riau until Setyabudi. But It's not bad for me because I got some pieces of good shirt :). Then the tommorw day I was back to Jakarta to begin work again.

The conclusion is these were nice holiday, but there is something that i missed. What is it ? I failed to meet her, because she was very busy. I know it , Journalist would be the most busy person in the world. Just My humble opinion.


Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Ridiculousness Relationship

This story was very stanger for me, I take it from my best friend story. Again and again this story is about love. I don't want to describe how the details but I will just to show you about a stranger relationship.

My best friend was in relationship just around 3 month. The stranger behaviour is they are never meet each other between beginning of relationship until ending of relationship. It seems very sad and bad for us, but this is true happened. They are starting relationship by phone, and keep romanctic communication also via phone. But finnaly , their relationship was broken with unkown reason. Unfortunatelly, the relationship was finished also via phone.

Really really simple and ridiculousness relationship for me. What do you think about it ?



Monday, August 14, 2006

Where are you go on holiday

Long holiday will be in front of us. So where are you go ? Have you plan to go outside jakarta ?. For me, I just wait her decision to make sure where i will go. Currently i have two options, If she will go to Bandung, absolutelly I go to same place. But if she keep stay on jogja, so I must go to jogja. The conclusion is I hope spend my holiday with her together. I wish...


Just waiting that moment.

Tuesday, August 08, 2006

Nice Tale

Nice story.. I am speechless. Which one are you ?

POHON

Orang2 memanggilku "POHON" karena aku sangat baik dalam menggambar
pohon. AKU selalu menggunakan gambar pohon pada sisi kanan sebagai
trademark pada semua lukisanku.
AKU telah berpacaran sebanyak 5 kali.
Ada satu wanita yang sangat AKU cintai, tapi AKU tidak punya keberanian
untuk mengatakannya.
Dia tidak cantik, tidak memiliki tubuh yang sexy. Dia sangat peduli
dengan orang lain, religius, tapi.. dia hanya wanita biasa saja.
AKU menyukainya, sangat menyukainya..
Gayanya yang innocent dan apa adanya, kemandiriannya, kepandaiannya dan
kekuatannya.
Alasan AKU tidak mengajaknya kencan karena,
AKU merasa dia sangat biasa dan tidak serasi untukku.
AKU takut jika kami bersama semua perasaan yang indah ini akan hilang.
AKU takut kalau gosip2 yang ada akan menyakitinya.
AKU merasa dia adalah "sahabatku".
AKU akan memilikinya tiada batasnya, tidak harus memberikan semuanya
hanya untuk dia.
Alasan yang terakhir yang membuat dia menemaniku dalam berbagai
pergumulan selama 3 tahun ini.
Dia tau AKU mengejar gadis-gadis lain dan AKU telah membuatnya menangis
selama 3 tahun.
Ketika AKU mencium pacarku yang ke-2 terlihat olehnya.
Dia hanya tersenyum dengan berwajah merah. "Lanjutkan saja", katanya,
setelah itu pergi meninggalkan kami.
Esoknya, matanya bengkak dan merah.
AKU sengaja tidak mau memikirkan apa yang menyebabkannya menangis.
Tapi..
AKU tertawa, bercanda dengannya seharian di ruang itu.
Di sudut ruang itu dia menangis. Dia tidak tau bahwa AKU kembali untuk
mengambil sesuatu yang tertinggal.
Hampir 1 jam kulihat dia menangis disana.
Pacarku yang ke-4 tidak menyukainya.
Pernah sekali mereka berdua perang dingin, AKU tau bukan sifatnya untuk
memulai perang dingin.
Tapi AKU masih tetap bersama pacarku.
AKU berteriak padanya dan matanya penuh dengan air mata sedih dan kaget.
AKU tidak memikirkan perasaannya dan pergi meninggalkannya bersama pacarku.
Esoknya masih tertawa dan bercanda denganku seperti tidak ada yang
terjadi sebelumnya.
AKU tau dia sangat sedih dan kecewa tapi dia tidak tau bahwa sakit
hatiku sama buruknya dengan dia.
AKU juga sedih.
Ketika AKU putus dengan pacarku yang ke 5, AKU mengajaknya pergi.
Setelah kencan satu hari itu, AKU mengatakan bahwa ada sesuatu yang
ingin kukatakan padanya.
Dia mengatakan bahwa kebetulan sekali bahwa dia juga ingin mengatakan
sesuatu padaku.
AKU cerita tentang putusnya AKU dengan pacarku.
Dia berkata bahwa dia sedang memulai suatu hubungan dengan seseorang.
AKU tau pria itu. Dia sering mengejarnya selama ini. Pria yang baik,
penuh energi dan menarik.
AKU tak bisa memperlihatkan betapa sakit hatiku, AKU hanya tersenyum dan
mengucapkan selamat padanya.
Ketika sampai di rumah, sakit hatiku bertambah kuat dan AKU tidak dapat
menahannya.
Seperti ada batu yang sangat berat didadaku. AKU tak bisa bernapas dan
ingin berteriak namun apa daya.
Air mataku mengalir tak terasa aku menangis karenanya.
Sudah sering AKU melihatnya menangis untuk pria yang mengacuhkan
kehadirannya.
Handphoneku bergetar, ternyata ada SMS masuk. SMS itu dikirim 10 hari
yang lalu ketika aku sedih dan menangis.
SMS itu berbunyi,
DAUN terbang karena ANGIN bertiup atau karena POHON tidak memintanya
untuk tinggal?


DAUN

AKU suka mengoleksi daun-daun, kenapa?
Karena AKU merasa bahwa DAUN untuk meninggalkan pohon yang selama ini
ditinggali membutuhkan banyak kekuatan.
Selama 3 thn AKU dekat dengan seorang pria, bukan sebagai pacar tapi
"Sahabat"
Tapi ketika dia mempunyai pacar untuk yang pertama kalinya
AKU mempelajari sebuah perasaan yang belum pernah aku pelajari
sebelumnya - CEMBURU.
Perasaan di hati ini tidak bisa digambarkan dengan menggunakan Lemon.
Hal itu seperti 100 butir lemon busuk.
Mereka hanya bersama selama 2 bulan.
Ketika mereka putus, AKU menyembunyikan perasaan yang luar biasa gembiranya.
Tapi sebulan kemudian dia bersama seorang gadis lagi.
AKU menyukainya dan AKU tau bahwa dia juga menyukaiku, tapi mengapa dia
tidak mau mengatakannya?
Jika dia mencintaiku, mengapa dia tidak memulainya dahulu untuk melangkah?
Ketika dia punya pacar baru lagi, hatiku sedih.
Waktu berjalan dan berjalan, hatiku sedih dan kecewa.
AKU mulai mengira bahwa ini adalah cinta yang bertepuk sebelah tangan.
Tapi.. mengapa dia memperlakukanku lebih dari sekedar seorang teman?
Menyukai seseorang sangat menyusahkan hati. AKU tahu kesukaannya.
kebiasaannya.
Tapi perasaannya kepadaku tidak pernah bisa diketahui.
Kau tidak mengharapkan AKU seorang wanita untuk mengatakannya bukan ?
Diluar itu, AKU mau tetap disampingnya, memberinya perhatian, menemani
dan mencintainya.
Berharap suatu hari nanti dia akan datang dan mencintaiku.
Hal itu seperti menunggu telephonenya tiap malam, mengharapkan
mengirimku SMS.
AKU tau sesibuk apapun dia, pasti meluangkan waktunya untuk ku.
Karena itu, AKU menunggunya.
3 tahun cukup berat untuk kulalui dan AKU mau menyerah. Kadang AKU
berpikir untuk tetap menunggu.
Dilema yang menemaniku selama 3 tahun ini.
Akhir tahun ke-3, seorang pria mengejarku. Setiap hari dia mengejarku
tanpa lelah.
Segala daya upaya telah dilakukan walau seringkali ada penolakan dariku.
AKU berpikircapakah aku ingin memberikan ruang kecil di hatiku untuknya ?
Dia seperti angin yang hangat dan lembut, mencoba meniup daun untuk
terbang dari pohon.
Akhirnya, AKU sadar bahwa AKU tidak ingin memberikan Angin ini ruang
yang kecil di hatiku.
AKU tau Angin akan membawa pergi Daun yang lusuh jauh dan ketempat yang
lebih baik.
Akhirnya AKU meninggalkan Pohon.
Tapi Pohon hanya tersenyum dan tidak memintaku untuk tinggal.
AKU sangat sedih memandangnya tersenyum ke arahku.
DAUN terbang karena ANGIN bertiup atau karena POHON tidak memintanya
untuk tinggal?


ANGIN

AKU menyukai seorang gadis bernama Daun.
Karena dia sangat bergantung pada Pohon, jadi aku harus menjadi ANGIN
yang kuat.
Angin akan meniup Daun terbang jauh.
Ketika itu, dia selalu duduk disana sendirian atau dengan teman2nya
memerhatikan Pohon.
Ketika Pohon berbicara dengan gadis2, ada cemburu di matanya.
Ketika Pohon melihat ke arah Daun, ada senyum di matanya.
Memperhatikannya menjadi kebiasaanku. Seperti daun yang suka melihat
Pohon. Satu hari saja tak kulihat dia, AKU merasa sangat kehilangan.
Di sudut ruang itu, ku lihat pohon sedang memperhatikan daun.
Air mengalir di mata daun ketika Pohon pergi.
Esoknya, Ku lihat Daun di tempatnya yang biasa, sedang memperhatikan
Pohon. AKU melangkah dan tersenyum padanya. Kuambil secarik kertas,
kutulis dan kuberikan padanya.
Dia sangat kaget.
Dia melihat ke arahku, tersenyum dan menerima kertas dariku.
Esoknya dia datang menghampiriku dan memberikan kembali kertas itu.
Hati Daun sangat kuat dan Angin tidak bisa meniupnya pergi, hal itu
karena Daun tidak mau meninggalkan Pohon.
AKU melihat kearahnya, kuhampiri dengan kata2 itu.
Sangat pelan, dia mulai membuka dirinya dan menerima kehadiranku dan
telponku.
AKU tau orang yang dia cintai bukan AKU. Tapi AKU akan berusaha agar
suatu hari dia menyukaiku.
Selama 4 bln, AKU telah mengucapkan kata Cinta tidak kurang dari 20x
kepadanya.
Hampir tiap kali dia mengalihkan pembicaraan tapi AKU tidak menyerah.
Keputusanku bulat, AKU ingin memilikinya dan berharap dia akan setuju
menjadi pacarku.
Aku bertanya di telepon," apa yang kau lakukan? Kenapa kau tidak pernah
membalas? Mengapa kau selalu membisu?"
Dia berkata, "AKU menganggukkan kepalaku."
"Ah?" Aku tidak percaya dengan apa yang kudengar.
"Aku menganggukkan kepalaku" dia berteriak.
Kuletakkan telepon, melompat, berlari seribu langkah ke rumahnya.
Dia membuka pintu bagiku. Ku peluk erat-erat tubuhnya.
DAUN terbang karena tiupan ANGIN atau karena POHON tidak memintanya
untuk tinggal?


JIKA KAU MENGINGINKAN CINTA DARI SESEORANG TUNJUKKAN CINTAMU!!!
CINTA TIDAK MEMBUTUHKAN KERAGUAN TUNJUKKAN SAJA!!!

Friday, August 04, 2006

Time to choose again

In this week, my mind is very crowded and full with some future thinkings. I need to make a decision whether I'm still stay in my current company or move on again. Of cource I have some points of advantage and disavantage for each company I will choose. This is not about money, but this is about the environment. The one will give me a chance to work in overseas and give more knowledge about IT. But the second will give me good career path and I'm also can learn a new business process for me. There is difference core business between them, Telco vs Banking. My current experience is Finance in 1 year and also Telco in 1 year too, so Banking will be new environment for me and Fortunatelly I like some challenges.

But making decision is not easy, especially it's about my future. Maybe end of this week I should have the decision result for this. So, I need take a rest in Bandung to clear my mind and make final right decision. No matter what the final decision, I will take it and will do it with my best. Hopefully , My future will be better and nicer.

Tuesday, July 18, 2006

MP3 Hunter

For all of you who already desperate finding free download mp3, don't ignore this article. This is really cool bro , you can get free mp3 what you want. Just simply, follow this command :
-inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:”index of” “Last modified” mp3

or if you want spesific song or artist :
-inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:”index of” “Last modified” mp3 oasis

really simple but more clever than search in emp3finder :P

So, let's enjoy it.

Tuesday, July 11, 2006

Bizarre Love Triangle

Every time I think of you
I feel shot right through with a bolt of blue
It's no problem of mine
But it's a problem I find
Living a life that I can't leave behind
But there's no sense in telling me
The wisdom of the fool won't set you free
But that's the way that it goes
And it's what nobody knows
well every day my confusion grows

Every time I see you falling
I get down on my knees and pray
I'm waiting for that final moment
You say the words that I can't say

I feel fine and I feel good
I'm feeling like I never should
Whenever I get this way
I just don't know what to say
Why can't we be ourselves like we were yesterday
I'm not sure what this could mean
I don't think you're what you seem
I do admit to myself
That if I hurt someone else
Then I'll never see just what we're meant to be

Every time I see you falling
I get down on my knees and pray
I'm waiting for that final moment

Tuesday, May 02, 2006

Yeah, I'm Go Kart rookie

Again and again, my company was held outing event as two-monthly refreshing event. In this event, go kart was chosen and FYI I’m very loudly to push my company's management played it together, because go kart failed arrange in previous outing event.

Go kart was most wanted thing by my company's folks and I’m very happy with that. But this was my first time in car-racing seat especially go kart seat. I just prove that i can be a racer and will race like my hero "Juan Pablo Montoya" :p, racing with brave and talent. Following stories would describe what i can do as a go kart racer.

At first round, with 4 my friends, I used go kart car number 57. As beginner, while warming up lap I got an accident :(. Because of too much collision with my friend's car so I got warning from go kart's steward to use brake and accelerate proportional to prevent an accident again. Race was beginning, with all of my power I got fifth best lap time between 15 racer. I thought it was not bad for beginner like me.

Second round was better for me, because my best lap time counted in big three. The next round, I almost got better performance than before. And finally I have proved what I can do, was using go kart car number 99, I got my best lap time and fortunately it was best lap time for all of racer :). Yes, I can prove that I can be a racer and I deserved it. Later my folks given to me "Rookie" label.

This go kart event was finishing with champagne party at “flubber” cafe. My folks almost got intoxicated because too many drunk vodka and wine :p. I thought this event very interesting performance and finishing. Thanks folks, let's up out company.



Thursday, April 20, 2006

Which is better , CRM Desktop or CRM Web ?

During work on my company which focuses on CRM, I have an idea to build with my own architecture and technology. Of course, I choose to use Java platform because it's platform independent. But , currently I have problem to choose the application-based beetwen desktop-based or web-based. Both of them have advantage and disadvantage each other. The first is richer because based on component tools which are really simple to develop, but the big problem is connectivity with database. Do you know about 2 tier application which is just separate application into 2 layer, presentation and database layer. To many cases need to be futher analyst, just example is database connectivity dan pooling. But those problems can solve with web-based application. The only thing when we choose web-based application is to hard to develop and the presentation is poor than desktop application. Yes if in desktop you can use Rich Client Platform (RCP) , in web you can use Rich Internet Application (RIA). But you must know that RIA in Java can solve with Java Webstart that in my mind it's just only same thing with desktop application. The difference is only need update from server or not. Does anyone of you have any suggestion ? Of course I will appreciate if you can give suggestion in CRM case. Because CRM application will use in internal and external interaction.


Thursday, March 30, 2006

New Version Look and Feel ?

After changed my blogspot look n feel, too many feedback and argument came from you all. After I have read then I have decision to change my blogspot to be new look n feel again. But currently I am very busy, because too many office works that I must to do, my private jobs are still incompleted and also my business seem goes wrong :(. So I would like to say sorry if anyone of you is very inconvenience with that. I have promise that i will update the new look and feel as soon as possible. Thanks for your opinions

Friday, March 03, 2006

New photos have been added

After for long times without updating, now i have been added new photos collection in my albums. So let you enjoy those photos by following link below.

http://creek011.fotopic.net/


Choosing products for Rich Internet Applications

There is following article link for those people who are interesting about RIA (Rich Internet Applications), but still confuse to choose the best products will be used. Maybe this articles will help :p

http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=38017

Wednesday, March 01, 2006

How to JBoss remote debugging on Eclipse

In my last project, I've already known how to OC4J remote debugging in IntelliJ IDEA. But currently I just have known how to JBoss remote debugging on Eclipse. Please refer to these articles (thanks for WIKI :p ) :

http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=DebugtomcatjbossEclipse
http://java.sys-con.com/read/44918.htm?CFID=360867&CFTOKEN=AB7F3024-95BD-BB63-52EC12B60C35DEDA


Tuesday, February 21, 2006

New Look n Feel

Yes, I have done my new look n feel for my blog. After so long times with original template n it seems very dull, i hope with this new one then whole of my blog will look like to be better and better and all of reader will more comfort with it. I wanna say thank a lot to creator of blogger templates, and "Let's all of you enjoy on my blog !!"


Monday, February 20, 2006

XMMS on Fedora Core 4

I've had installed Fedora Core 4 in my notebook, together with WindowsXP. FYI, the type of my notebook is Compaq EVO N800W, very high specification and performance :) although it has old type. That was really common disappointment on Fedora Core 4, the most usefully application is not installed by default, it was XMMS. Maybe you're agree with me about that because we cannot work comfortably without the music, and the most really suck again was Fedora Core 4 CDs not included XMMS application. But you don't be affraid, we can do install manually from rpm packages which are distributed on many Linux sites. There are following minimal rpm packages that i got to installing XMMS application properly :

xmms-1.2.10-19.fc4.i386.rpm // the core of xmms application
xmms-mp3-1.2.10-13.2.fc4.i386.rpm // plug-in module for xmms to play mp3 files
xmms-skins-1.2.10-13.i386.rpm // minimal skin for xmms GUI
xmms-wma-1.0.5-1.2.fc4.i386.rpm // optional, only if you will play wma files
mikmod-devel-3.1.6-35.FC4.i386.rpm // development module for play soundtracking on linux
mikmod-3.1.6-35.FC4.i386.rpm // library module for play soundtracking on linux

After you got it, then executed them with rpm command :
rpm -ivh xmms-1.2.10-19.fc4.i386.rpm xmms-mp3-1.2.10-13.2.fc4.i386.rpm xmms-skins-1.2.10-13.i386.rpm xmms-wma-1.0.5-1.2.fc4.i386.rpm mikmod-devel-3.1.6-35.FC4.i386.rpm mikmod-3.1.6-35.FC4.i386.rpm

To run XMMS, just type "xmms" (without double quote) on command line interface or run menu at KMenu. Now , you can enjoy work on Linux with playing your favorite music :-), but there is some noise in music sound and the linux sound quality not as good as windows sound. So,until now i still confused why linux is not good for entertainment program, especially audio and video :(. D'you can answer that ?

Hard Rock Cafe - Jakarta

Last week, precisely at Friday night, my company held outing event at Hard Rock cafe. This place was just second alternative before, the first we would play go-cart but unfortunately it was cancelled because the Jakarta's weather was often rainy. So, dinner at Hard Rock café and followed with playing bowling were the best choice. This was the first time for me came to Hard Rock café and I thought this place is very glamour and prestigious for ordinary boy like me :-). The foods are almost very expensive, for example: you must pay min twenty thousand rupiahs just for soft drink, and hmm min one hundred and fifty thousand rupiahs for some foods. Then I just ordered soft drink, I little bit remembered the name is "Pierre xxx", instead of my friends who ordered martini, beer and some alcoholic drink :(. As you know, that my ordered soft drink was not special, it just a mineral drink like soda or aqua. Because of it just from different producer (foreign producer) then the price is very expensive. But I was very impressed when I ordered lamb chop steak, tender meat, sweet tempered, and of course with high price. That event will be reminded for me forever, the most glamour place which I visited until now for just only to eat and talk. Yes it is good quality place for the rich people who will throw theirs money. Believe me!!.


Friday, February 17, 2006

1 Year Older

Yesterday i was 24 years old. So many congrats from my family, my best friends, my dream girl :-), my house mate, my company friends and of cource from someone may dislike or hate me. But there are so many party too and as you know i already have three times for it. But i thought it was normally and doesn't matter for me , because they deserved to got it and may someday i need their help. So, for creating close relationship is better than diclosing. With increasing my age, I hope I will better in behaviour, chance and of course all of in my future planning. Amien



Friday, February 03, 2006

First Time Install on Solaris

Continuing with my scarab problems, I explain in my article before that I had successfully cheated to make clean compile scarab installationJ. But there are many problems again before scarab can be running up. I think it’s caused by solaris OS L which known as one of the best OS but with complex configuration. FYI, there are some synonyms name within solaris, some people sometimes called sunOS or just Solaris.

Regarding manual installation of scarab, it explains that scarab need requirement database server (mostly using MySQL server) with version 4.0 or up. Currently in my sunOS just running MySQL 3.23, it’s very oldest hah? So you’re right, I must install the new one. Wow , this is my first time install a software on Solaris. First I go to www.sunfreeware.com to get MySQL installer. Then i follow step by step rule install howto (there are coming from many articles and communities), what I am doing is nothing more than just follow it . So in my opinion, installing on solaris is not so easy and not difficult too. You just to know what the error messages are, then you should search the answer by google aid or solve by your experience. The most important thing is I am very enjoying work with Solaris although in daily working I still use Windows. Because of with big community you will never lost an answer for your problem. Trust me bro !!, today my scarab is running up on sunOS 5.8 , aka Solaris 8.



Thursday, February 02, 2006

How long a Java Class Name length?

I have found some strange behaviour in Java. Today, I failed to install scarab in sunOS 5.8, but last day I had succefully install on windows OS (wow that's why widows is more interesting :)). Because i am a fighter so i am not give in that condition. With my experience on ant builder tool then i checked one by one the error messages. What i found ? javac compiler cannot clean compile because some of java codes are not imported properly. But IMO, those codes are right on. Then google in action, i search all about keyword that are appropriate with error messages. Finally, I know those errors are caused the long limitation of java class name, hmm i am jugde java is bad for this condition. FYI, java class name is limited until 71 character, there included package_name+class_name. But it will run properly in windows , why ? because windows separate package and class name, windows just know package only as directory, so we will never create java class name with more that 71 chars length, right ?. All of above are first answer for this problem. There is second answer that's coming from my friend in JUG milist. He said, this problem is not caused from java instead of from Operating System. Every OS have different behaviour for supporting file name (in that case for java class name), so older OS maybe have capability to support shorter file name length. Until now i am still confusing about those answers. But what i do is how to make scarab is running properly in sunOS, I make a little cheat by copying all of scarab's java classes from windows into sunOS. And it makes run, he4x this is an advantage of java ... Multi platform languange !!


Thursday, January 26, 2006

Design Pattern : Singleton vs Monostate

Dari dahulu bingung kenapa ada orang menggunakan Singleton dan Monostate, dulunya aku pikir sama karena behaviournya juga hampir sama. Kemudian cari sana sini eh akhirnya ketemu juga penjelasannya. Intinya sih masalah state, jadi klo mau statenya dibawa kemana-mana katakanlah kayak global object yang statenya berubah dan perlu menyimpan kondisi state terakhir maka lebih tepat menggunakan Singleton. Tapi klo cuman pengen share variable antar object maka bisa pake Monostate, biasanya untuk Global Constant. Sebagai tambahan masalah transparasi juga berbeda dimana Monostate lebih transparan dibanding Singleton karena bisa langsung akses variblenya sedangkan Singleton harus mendapatkan instance terlebih dahulu sebelum pake variablenya ( konsep encapsultation). Tapi ga tau ya masalah performansi ?


Monday, January 09, 2006

Let Java Freedom !!

Bagi Java newbie kayak aku :p, alangkah baiknya ikutin link dibawah ini agar kita2 semua tidak terjebak dengan semua closed-source of Sun's Java property. Semua yang ada disini mengajak untuk menggunakan Java yang bener2 free dan open-source dari vendor manapun.

http://viva.sourceforge.net/index.html


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Monday, January 02, 2006

Brand New Year, Welcome 2006

Selamat datang 2006, semoga tahun ini bisa menjadikanku lebih dewasa, wise, bravery, dan lebih banyak rejeki tentunya. Amien...

Setelah berpindah2 tempat tahun baru, akhirnya baru kemarin yang bener2 enjoy banget tapi capek :p. Perjalanan pesta taon baruku, 2002 - Kesunyian di dayeuh kolot, 2003 - gasibu, 2004 kuningan jabar, 2005 - dago. Ya karena selama di bandung belum pernah taon baru di dago, kemarin sampe nyempetin datang dari jakarta sama temen2 cuman buat rayainnya. Taon ini di dago lebih rapi dari biasanya , meskipun ramenya sih masih tetep. Kenapa pilih bandung, soalnya di Jakarta banyak teror bom :(.

Sampe bandung jam 7 malem, trus dinner together di burangrang sampe jam 8 lebih. Dari jam 8 berangkat ke dago sampe sama jam 10 an, kebanyang deh macetnya :p. Karena ga ada planning acara, maka secara spontan adain acara the most wanted dari pesertanya, "bilyard" di barcode. Dan emang ga salah karena environmentnya keren, maka kita maenya juga keren , bahkan bisa dibilang sangat keren, terutama aku , pukulannya hampir masuk terus :).

Sengaja sewa sampe sebelum jam 12, dan pas tengnya kita keluar, kembang api menyala dimana, seru, di photo, di videoin, teriak-teriak, ketawa - tawa, saling ngucapin selamat taon baru dan tentunya make a private wish. Beberapa jam menikmati pesta taon baru , sampe pulang2 lupa pada mo tidur dimana. He4x akhirnya aku dan sebagain temen2 tidur dimobil. Tapi bener2 lumayan lho, ga dingin n lumayan nyaman.

Minggu, prepare balik ke jakarta, tapi mampir buat cari gitar, dapet gitar "Samick ST9" murah meriah, moga2 ini bisa memberi manfaat dan inspirasi buat aku di taon ini dan masa mendatang. Ke jakarta bawa oleh2 brownies kukus ala bandung buat anak2 kantor, eh ternyata lumayan enak ya :P. Bener2 awal taon yang menyenangkan, semoga sepanjang taon 2006 juga menyenangkan pula.