Mr.Buyot’s Orgy Observations

November 21, 2008

Revision 100

Filed under: Poetic Code, Weird Wild Web — Tags: , , , , , , — Mr. Buyot @ 12:46 AM

I’m about to reach another milestone in my current work. A beta release will be out in a not so far future, after months & months of iteration. It won’t be a big deal for most people, but for me, it has been a journey & experience to whip out something from scratch. Well, almost… Hehe.

I’ve always been a Drupal developer since Drupal 4, but having been working on so many different PHP development frameworks over the years, I’ve learned that Drupal has always been the most suitable partner for me in web development. Wordpress is cool, but not for many things. CakePHP is delicious, but it’s going to take awhile for me to properly digest the M-V-C. And Textpattern is simply beautiful.

I’ve always been the procedural type of developer (think C++), but hey, learning ain’t easy but it’s always fun!

As a self taught web artist & developer, I’ve (maybe, maybe not) mastered the true arts of CSS ever since the first time I’ve glished (is there such a word?) my eyes on the meyerweb in 2001 & succumbed into the power of Zeld. One thing weird though, lately I’ve been guiding my coworkers on the force and I never thought that what I’ve learned while skipping classes & hanging out at the computer lab in college would be useful & actually teaching it to other people.

In fact, the job I have right now was totally based on skill, because if I compare myself with my colleagues, I’m a lot less academically than they are. And honestly, they are great & good people and has been & will always be a pleasure working with them, although I’m the oldest (in age) in the development team. Plus, I’ve been having working on weird & unbelieveable jobs after I graduated high school, and this has been the best for me, so far.

Right now, I’m on my way to (hopefully) absorb & understand the awesomeness of Drupal, telling myself to make the best out of what I have & hoping to share with the world with what I’ve learned.

I’m also about to tread on another path: agriculture. Going to grow me some vegetables & fruits!

Aizat & the FOSS.my dudes has infected me with the “awesomeness” bug. Spray spray! New buzzword please! Haha!

Lady luck, don’t leave me yet :)

October 30, 2008

Get your freak on with Open Source software

FOSS.my 2008 is an interesting event organised by the awesome people of free, open source software evangelists, with only one purpose: TO TELL THE WHOLE DAMN WORLD (Malaysians in particularly) THAT OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE IS FREAKING AWESOME!

Got that right. Open source software is awesome & has changed my life when I started hacking 56k (winmodem) modem drivers for RedHat 4 just because I was working in a god forsaken island with no broadband. In fact, because of open source software, I received my first programming gig/contract with a federal government-linked-company in that god forsaken island. In fact, because of open source software, I was able to contribute back to Malaysian villagers on how to use a computer & allowed them to start threading on the path of the Jedi.

It was all totally awesome experiences!

I love:

They have a long list of speakers & sessions that would open up your minds & get yourself hooked on open source software. Registration is free, but not free if you want to attend & listen to the sessions. It’s about RM50 per attendee. Plus, they have a cool t-shirt for RM30. One thing odd though, where did the “free & sharing of knowledge” culture go? Probably they realised that not everything in this world should/can be given/attained free. Betul tak rakyat?

It’s a very good event to attend & get yourself mingle around with open source software developers, evangelists & entrepreneurs alike. Free real social networking. Visit their Facebook event page.

Am I attending? Not sure. I like free stuff :D

How was Google DevFest? It was awesome! Now that’s what I call free knowledge! It’s an event to attend at any cost. They even got their own blog to highlight Asia Pacific developments & programs.

Will upload photos when I finished taking pictures with the disposable camera. Why do I like to use disposable cameras so much? Because lojack is cool.

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