http://hypertext.azrul.com software, business, web, Wed, 22 Oct 2008 06:45:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I recently read an interesting short writeup on bnet on how Twitter and the other revenue-less Web 2.0 company, now more than ever needed to get down to business. In case you missed it, we are actually in the middle of another tech bubble about to go bust. How can ... http://hypertext.azrul.com/time-to-face-business-reality.html Just a short note. I will be giving a talk at CMS Expo in Denver, Colorado this 4th December 2008. CMS Expo is a very business-friendly event where the focus will be on education, business and networking. Despite the name, Joomla will still take a centre stage in this expo. If ... http://hypertext.azrul.com/meet-me-at-2008-cms-expo-denver.html 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 ... http://hypertext.azrul.com/lch-is-super-cool.html A productive developer and programmer is someone who understand the economic driver of his/her company. He understands that it is his sworn duty to develop a software that offer some values to the user. A developer must continuously ask himself: Is my code offers any value to the user?. Did my ... http://hypertext.azrul.com/productive-software-developer.html 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 ... http://hypertext.azrul.com/joomla-day-malaysia-barcamp.html 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... "the brickwall is there not to keep us out, it gives us a chance to show how badly we want something. The ... http://hypertext.azrul.com/experience-is-what-you-get-when-you-dont-get-what-you-wanted.html 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 ... http://hypertext.azrul.com/my-awesome-new-york-trip.html I have been drowned with work these last few weeks. Those time management books can only do so much, and until you could find a book on how to literally bent time-space continuum , we're all stuck with 24 hours a day, same amount of time as Jack. So, what ... http://hypertext.azrul.com/time-management-for-dummies-you-still-have-tomorrow.html 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 ... http://hypertext.azrul.com/last-day-with-my-ferrari.html 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 ... http://hypertext.azrul.com/seacem-workshop-malaysia.html