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Resume tips 1
- Please DO NOT put “typing” as a skill. You might as well put “walking” or “eating” or “annoy potential boss” as you skill.
- I don’t give a rat what you get for your UPSR or which kindergarten you went to.
- neither do I care what you get for PMR either,
- If you are applying for software engineer position, your flipping burger skill you learn when you serve your time at the local burger join doesn’t interest me one bit.
- Don’t bloody list every single subject you took in college
- Personality: hardworking, independent, motivated, willing to learn, team player.. bla bla bla. WHATEVER. I don’t want to hear it.
Just some recent photos
Add auto increment primary key in mysql
If you tried to add an auto_increment’ed primary key to existing table using phpMyAdmin, it won’t let you since it form a messed up syntax. Just use the query below:
ALTER TABLE `table_name` ADD `field_name` int(11) PRIMARY KEY auto_increment NOT NULL FIRST ;
That should do it.
LHC is super COOL
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 ?.Â
The field of quantum physic always amazes me. I remember reading about relativity, and some brain-cracking physics when I was in college. For a short while (very short I must add!) I wanted to be a scientist. I thought it was super cool to grow and carry around some extra neuron compared to the rest of you. But that was a long time ago and I much prefer what I do now.
Joomla Day Malaysia + Barcamp
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 can speak whatever they want, participant are yet to fully warm up to the concept, which I personally think is great. I didn’t stay that long due to other commitment but azrul.com does sponsor the event and I’d be happy to sponsor the next one 
Joomla Day Malaysia was held on the 2nd Aug in MidValley. This is a community-driven event which main objectives is to introduce Joomla and enable all Joomla enthusiast to meet and exchange their experiences. I had the pleasure of becoming the Project Manager for this event. However, I do think some poeople misunderstood this event, thinking that it is a “training” conference and obviously, they’d be disappointed.
Experience is what you get, when you don't get what you wanted
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…
My awesome New York trip
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 huge city. Makes me feel like I’ve been living in some really tiny kampung all this while. It’s sad!. Seriously, I came back a changed man. Believe it or not just being there in a bigger place, really widen your horizon. It completely changed what you think is possible. Everything seems possible.
Last day with my Ferrari
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, “hey, nice Ferrari”. It was red and runs very hot, a little too hot sometimes. But with everything else in life, it started to show its age lately. It would not start properly and doesn’t run well. Technically, by current standard, the performance is nothing to be proud of. So, I’ve decided to find a worthy replacement.
SEACeM workshop Malaysia
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 some SEO tools that are available, some general SEO technique. I will also tell my audience to ditch Joomla built-in syndicate module and use a more powerful RD RSS component.
Might be too late for you to register for this event, but I will post the slides here soon. Read the rest of this entry »
Gmail f'ed up?
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 see how i react? Or maybe gmail spam filter decided to take a holiday break? , or someone hates me so much that they decided to spam thousands of people and use FakeName@azrul.com as the reply-to email ? Whatever it is, it looks like the emails keeps coming every single minutes and I am forced to put ton’s of filter to fix this.
