I’m home grounded and I am bored. So, I made this instead. It’s actually my normal route, but feel free to add more markers with links to the camera feed. Certainly would be a helpful.
June 2, 2009
May 14, 2009
Google Maps now in Malaysia!
Google Maps is now available in Malaysia. I know it’s been there for a long time, but this time, it’s a localized version built for Malaysia. Google Maps Malaysia is now accessible at http://maps.google.com.my. And it’s official. The cool thing is, my sister gave birth to a healthy baby girl this morning & today is also my sisters birthday. What a nice day to remember.
Even my birthday falls on Google’s debut in Wall Street. What a coincidence.
April 27, 2009
Santa dropped me a Christmas gift from Google
Well, it’s like 8 months ahead of Christmas, so of course the title doesn’t make any sense! Haha :)
From left: Participation certificate, the "GOLDEN PRIZE" and a QR code T-shirt
Thank you to Shannon Madison, the one who “fought” high & low to deliver the prizes to us here. Thanks for the “upgrade” dear!
Thank you to Jason Costa & his DevFest team, who made the initial contact with South East Asian developers. You guys inspired me to advocate the Google juice! Thank you to e27 who brought the KL developers over to Singapore for the 1st event!
Thank you to Marvin Lee, who partnered with me for the 1st OpenSocial hackathon for BarCamp KL recently. And congratulations to him too! And congratulations to the other winners from Thailand, Singapore, Phillipines & Vietnam. Hope to meetup with you guys soon!
February 16, 2009
December 21, 2008
5 things I learned from OpenSocial hackathon
Aside from learning about OpenSocial, I observed a few good real life examples that can be taken as an example for Malaysia’s corporate/creative workplace.
Junk food is important. It’s fuel for the brains. – The pantry at Google.sg office is stocked up just like a tiny sundry shop where I lived. Having a pantry with a high complex mix and balance of (brain) power food & junk food will keep any developer happy! It’s a happy pantry!
Never be afraid of your idea, no matter how silly you think it may be. – Ideas make the world go around. Ideas hatched every second, everywhere around the world. The best way to find out if your idea makes the cut is to share it with like minded individuals or just throw it out to the wild general public & react to their responses. People say to think outside the box. I believe there is no such thing as a box.
Never to be afraid to share. – People might steal your ideas, copy your thoughts, but hey, doesn’t that what makes the world a little bit interesting? Most would think “my idea is original. no one must know about it.” That’s the way of the old school. We are the new school.
Hire developers/staff who are naughty. If they are pranksters, they have a better chance to get things done. – Humor, laughter. The best medicine. This is a requirement in any organisation. You need at least one prankster that can come out with the silliest (funniest) prank or activity in your office. It keeps your environment fee alive.
Always surround yourself with great, good, fun people. – Anti social is good, to a certain extend. Being around like minded individuals stimulates you in ways you couldn’t even imagine.
December 13, 2008
December 10, 2008
November 12, 2008
Google App Engine SDK repackaged.
I think I need to “go live” my other website, which mainly deals & talks about web solutions, open source & stuff like that. But since this is my personal site, oh what the hell.
Google App Engine is cool. Having your application live in the house of Google is way cooler. Should be a -5 degrees weather. Having downloaded the SDK & use it to build some “maybe interesting” apps, I decided to repackage it to a all-in-one ZIP file.
What’s in it? The application server, latest documentation, latest application samples & a script that I created to have a quick & dirty way to start the application server. It’s not perfect, but if you have any idea to make it better, feel free to check-it-out from the repository. If you don’t want to, you can submit a patch. I shall thank you with an ice cream treat. And the script only works for *nix systems. I hardly use windoze anymore, but maybe one day a VBScript version will surface, someday.
I’m still having some trouble to package it for Ubuntu, still learning the hard way. Never mind, I think I should be able to release a .deb package anytime soon.