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As a proud, self-confessed geek, I am terribly excited to hear that LHC is up and operational. Yes, it is super expensive and the money could definitely be used to reduce global poverty and world hunger, but how could you put a price on single most important step in humanity quest for knowledge ?. 
The field [...]

For 2 weekends in a row, I had the pleasure of joining and organizing 2 cool events. On 26th & 27th July, I attended an event called Barcamp. It was a highly technical and interesting event, that revolves around web developer community in Malaysia. Although it is meant to be a anti-conference event where everyone [...]

I spent some time listening to “The Last Lecture” by CMU, Computer Science professor Randy Pausch who passed away today after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. Amazing dude…

This is something I should have written a long time ago. I had the opportunity to give a talk on Joomla SEO at JoomlaExpo Chicago last month. My wife and I took the opportunity to spend some time in New York, and boy it was an awesome trip!.
I love New York! it is a huge [...]

Today would be the last day I will spend on my Ferrari. I had it for about 2 years and it was good. It was state-of-the-art when I first bought it and was a real head-turner. People would stare a little longer than they really should and occasionally, someone would just say it out loud, [...]

I will be giving a talk on search engine optimization technique and using rss feed in Joomla for “SEACEM e-MEDIA Workshop Malaysia 2008″ 16th to 17th February 2008. My talk will be centered around introduction to some of the search engine optimization technique that are available in Joomla, how to use and take advantage of [...]

I was just another lazy Saturday. Woke up, take a shower, check my email. Wops! over 400 unread emails and 8,000 spam!. On a normal day, I’d get no more than 20 emails. Am I inside some spanking new reality show called, perhaps ‘Spammed’ ? Did they put a camera around in my room to [...]

You just purchases an unlocked iPhone and have this cool ‘installer’ application installed. Happily, you keep on adding more application on your iPhone. You do know that the screen can only display 16 icons and you’re not quite sure what will happen if you have more than 16 apps installed, but you install it anyway, [...]

We recently make a move from linux (ubuntu) server to a windows server (XP Pro) just so that we can run the new Fogbugz 6, which is only available on windows for the time being. I just can’t wait for the unix/php version which seems to be taking forever.
The Fogbugz move from linux was painful [...]

Over the last few month, I have been really busy trying to build a solid team for our company. We were seriously understaffed, yet I exercise a lot of restrain from just hiring anyone I can get. I only want the best, and I won’t compromise.
I had a couple of setback in finding the [...]

This is my new coding mantra. Never ever leave unfinished, incomplete, buggy function behind. The chances are, you are going to forget about it and soon enough it becomes a PITA bug to track down.
Once you start writing a function, you must finish it at all cost. Yes, you can feed your cat later. [...]

I was invited by Tom from Joomla Juice to talk a bit about our work for his regular podcast at www.joomlajuice.com . I said ok, knowing full well that I have to confront my worse nightmare, my own voice!.
Yes, I hate hearing back my voice, especially after it have been chopped into few thousand packets [...]

This is way too cool. Wonder how soon we can see this option in Photoshop!

Templating in PHP used to be a very touchy subject. Some people hate it guts arguing that PHP itself is a template language. In 2007, I think most of PHP developer agree that using a template to separate the code and presentation part is a good thing. But some template simply separate php code and [...]

Somehow, I found this blog entry at the perfect moment.
I have the bad habit of being unable to say “no” when something comes along that I think will be a good opportunity. The truth is: I just don’t want a good opportunity to pass me by that I will regret later. The problem is that, [...]

So, what happen to the office?. It’s been a while since my last post about The Office. We’ve done quite a bit of work since and some of the furniture finally arrives. I am very pleased with the end result. The renovation are done on budget, so we source everything separately. What I didn’t anticipate, [...]

Working at home isn’t all that cool really. It might sound cool to those who never did it, but those who have will know better. Other than the obvious negative effect on productivity (hey, the bed is just next door!) and the increased risk of being smelly (shower is optional!) there is also the fact [...]

Perhaps, it is rather inaccurate to say that I am just getting started since I have been running a micro-isv for over 3 years now. It’s been a good experience and it has made me older (obviously!) and a little wiser.
Our (my marketing partner and I) first product, Facer Launcher, was a huge success. But [...]