couchDb Installation

downloaded ubuntu server edition

apt proxy setting
sudo vi /etc/apt/apt.conf
Acquire::http::proxy "http://username:password@proxy:port"/;

apt-config dump to check settings


apt update
apt-get update

apt install
apt-get install
couchdb
curl
ubuntu-desktop
mozilla-firefox

LISTEN

Lis·ten

intr.v. lis·tened, lis·ten·ing, lis·tens

1. To make an effort to hear something

2. To pay attention; heed

3. There is no need for any solution. Keep your mouth shut and agreed.

Requirements Management

Tracking Requirement is not managing requirements

http://www.softwaremag.com/L.cfm?Doc=1122-2/2008
These tools are like firewall for today engineers.

Working within constraints

What is proper and what is not?

The solution

You will find the solution as soon as you start to learn to live with it.
Acceptance will come.

SysPrep Vmware converter

1. download the sysprep for the respectively OS
2. run vmware converter, take note of the sysprep directory
3. extract the content of *.cab to the sysprep directory
4. run setupmgr.exe to generate the configuration template
5. run vmware converter, ensure generate new sid is checked
6. run the vmware image
7. perform a login, attempt to activate windows on internet(should see sysprep dialog)
8. perform a system restart

Somehow things did not work well. Windows refuses to accept my keys.
And I hit the following site.

http://surana.wordpress.com/2008/11/04/windows-activation-problem/

It directed to the following microsoft site to reset the key.

http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/selfhelp/XPPkuinst.aspx?displaylang=en&sGuid=611c3bc2-4d35-4b86-91c7-d29b375607c8

Steve Jobs

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

Thomas Sit

"... it is all about where you want to go and how you think you are going to get there
then you build a self-development plan (to develop a skill and result portfolio) so that you can work towards that..."

"...speak about the things you are passionate about, work wise, and it will come naturally..."

"....i think initiative, innovative, customer focused and team player..."

"...emphasize, build on each of those values and make sure people know about it..."

"...it is also about developing your own brand and communicating to people in a consistent fashion about what the kian joo brand is good to realize that now so that you can get started on it! develop a vision and build your brand !..."

empathy skill

After having to attend a course...
this is the message I received,

Empathy Skill
stop thinking of what you want...
and speak of words of what others want to hear.

Animal farm

The never changing rule.

listen -> execute -> feedback


The ideals
listen -> feedback -> execute


Afterall the world needs dummies.
Boxer the horse, is your best friend.
Keep Bengamin the donkey away.
Tame the pigs.

UBSS and qt

Qt Variables
LIBS
-L/usr/%user%/ubss_obj/ref/libc
-lbs
-lm

INCLUDEPATH
$(UBSS)/$(UBSS_VERS)/install/include

Open Source QT on vs2008 express
QMake shall generate vs2008 makefile.
Avoid source/header in sub directory.

Use external tools to configure the following shortcut.

QMake to generate project (.pro)
Command:%QTDIR%\bin\qmake.exe
Arguments: -project

Add QT+=SQL to .pro
Command:c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe
Arguments: /k echo QT += sql>> $(TargetName).pro && QT += designer plugin >> $(TargetName).pro


QMake to generate makefiles
Comamnd:%QTDIR%\bin\qmake.exe
Arguments:-makefile -tp vc -spec win32-msvc2008


QT Assistant
Command:%QTDIR%\bin\assistant.exe

QT Designer
Command:%QTDIR%\bin\designer.exe

configure, make, make install

1. PATH
Many applications on Linux is dependent on the PATH,

for example, pkgconfig
need to export PKG_PATH_CONFIG = /usr/local/lib:/usr/lib to have lib packages in both /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig and /usr/lib/pkgconfig to know the library.

2. updatedb
Use locate to check if the system had the correct path.
use updatedb to update the path

Weakness

Acknowledge your weakness, rather than rationalize them
- Get It, Set It, Move It, Prove It By Mark Graham Brown

Mapserver

Pretty interesting.
Was thinking of working on a mind map with mapserver
but again, it can be donw on a smaller scale with Dojo and Silverlight.


Hope i get time to do that.
Come to think again, y not thick clients WPF?

guess, I'm spoilt for choice.

Booting from Windows or Linux

Booting Linux from Compact flash
http://silent.gumph.org/content/4/1/011-linux-on-cf.html

Booting Windows from Compact flash
http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/excerpt/CarPCHacks_Chap1/index.html

Hanging on!

"This is how I see it. You get out of college and get a job and get some work experience.
For the first 2-5 years you concentrate on making a name for yourself and building a good reputation as a good person, a good worker, and make some good contacts.
You learn about the software business and build your technical skills.

After your fifth year you need to have a plan to go into some form of management, project management, or technical leadership. By your tenth year you need to be executing that plan.
In today's industry, you're not going to be down at the level of actual programming / coding / software development for a long time. You need to move into a leadership or management position.

Forget coding -- they can get somebody with 2-5yrs experience and pay them less. On the other hand, management positions require experience." - Dr. C

courage

it is the ability to move on, when you are on your knee...

statement

"We did not do this by ourselves, we climbed on other peoples’ shoulders; we brought things together and built on them. We’re happy to have people climb on our shoulders — whether you’re from the Middle East, China, India... it’s a collaborative effort." -Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew

Changes again...

Changes is hard... Changes can be uncomfortable... As objective as I tried, the harder it becomes. It takes a great due of time to convince. It is a sign. Changes are not necessary for the better It is necessary as a reminder to my action. I am resisting to changes. I am getting old. Perhaps I am starting to have  preferences.

the end, a new beginning

At the end of the road, I see a new beginning.