Transformation of Me

2006-10-06T13:09:00.000+07:00

Kannel 1.4.1

There are many enhancement in this software. First one to notice about was when i was installing it that kannel now support for mysql database > 3. So i don't need 2 mysql database instances running simultaneously on my computer. But i still doing some test with the software especially in log-level configuration which seem doesn't have any use though i have change the values other than 0. Many enhancement that is still to get test. Just wait for next report... Go go kannel...

2006-10-06T12:55:00.000+07:00

Joomla Component for GoldMany

Just another sidejob during my spare time. This project aim to make web based financial investment software to support GoldMany financial investment product which consist of Discretionary Fund and Dana Fleksi Fund. Using Mambo for website, i follow Mambo API guidance to integrate the application into Mambo website.

Due to missing idealism in Mambo developer - which in turn derrived Joomla - company website also changed into Joomla. So much lack of compatibility, especially in database connection which in turn i made new class derrived from database base class to get over it, so my application can customize the method from the database regardless of the Joomla version is.

The first module ( Discretionary Transaction ) is finish and now wait for the business flow on Fleksi Fund which is still not clear till now. Let's support Joomla then.

2006-04-21T14:01:00.000+07:00

Binakheir

Based on Joomla CMS this site is kindergarten school website which newly established. It is great cause i can work it out on time which seem so great due to i don't need to hardcode much of my joomla hacked - customized one - into the script. Planning for this is to accomodate changes in menu - eithe on top or bottom menu. So with one valid design i can change the layout based on the required one. Such in this case i using joomla menu to accomodate the menu. This result in menu management easiness. Let joomla lead the way.

2006-04-21T13:45:00.000+07:00

Delayed DSMPP

DSMPP is delayed due to i need to handle several commercial - not free - software. The progress itself near 80%. Testing including unit testing, integration test, context test ( ESME: transmitter, receiver, transceiver and MC: transmitter ). There are several MC context test that need to be done which is receiver and transceiver, and of course - last but least - perl pod documentation before releasing it to CPAN. I plan to release it at first week of may 2006. Several test also will be done before releasing the final to CPAN. Just wait ok.

2006-02-23T12:29:00.000+07:00

DSMPP Is Back

I decided to continue the development of my DSMPP Perl module. I Started this project this week, hoping more additional features, and fixes that i miss from previous release i can apply here. I plan to include dummy (if not for production) MC server here just for testing so i can free my module dependency testing from SMPP Simulator. I also plan to make (i hope) a good documentation to share my knowledge to you guys, and testing script for DSMPP module. I hope this module will finish in two months. Keep the spirit up ok.

2006-02-03T20:52:00.000+07:00

Conservative

I guess that is the word for the one who use unordinary method that maybe looks odd especially because it has different approach and use relative difficult way. Because of this there are only some users who are still used it. I thinking conservative because someone told this about me and - for some reason - i feel no suprised.

As the time goes i think that i'm much too far to be said conservative. Maybe it just my path as an unordinary conservative programmer who see this world as a large computer set. If people say that this path have much limitation that myself say yes there are but simply i say that i like it and i think more naturally. It is good to be conservative.

2006-01-29T19:36:00.000+07:00

It's time to leave

Nowadays i faced with different thing that i can not avoid and run away from it. The problem is dealing with my job which maybe i feel over stressed not because the environtment but it mainly because kind of job that i faced that make me overstressed. Yes there are no perfect company in this world but i don't want to deny my self if the salary is not quite equal with the responsibility that i hold and i guess i need to get overwith this.

I began to find the new one with a hope that i could find a better on. Better on here means that i need more challenge than before i don't want to deal just with web development environtment. Yeah it is not just about the salary anyway but it is also about my knowledge development. I need something that can work with communication and distributed mobile computing and dealing with large data in an continous developement environtment. The are many things i do to get this. For example is the SMPP v5 implementation in PERL that i made. It really not an web application and i just realize that web just a small field in programming. And that where i will go to. Indeed between our need and company need is totally different. What i mean is the company usually used tools that can be used for their commercial purposes meanwhile what i need is something that challenging and not just dealing with web, database, web services.

The path to that is really hard and need a long time since only small people or group that really involve with this, especially in scientific development environtment. It really enlarge our knowledge about the broadness of programming world is. Yeah it is so idealis and kontroverial also (i knew someone who had said this to me before ;-) But now is the right time to start it anyway though there are many things to be left behind. But with no regret i mean thank to all the people i meant in my path to achieve this. Thanks

2006-01-29T19:07:00.000+07:00

Me, Bonti, And Mambo

Recently i work using mambo as an development environtment more often. As it happen when i was in indesain project to make indesain web site that main focus area is in interior design environtment. Although mambo is known as an most popoular OpenSource CMS, i think we should give it more value. The API is really great, so modular, flexible, and robust. I said this due to my main area in this project is to create custom web site that really reflect interior design company. The customization in mambo though lack of documentation and RTFM but it has good documentation in its core API. It more like an customizeable web site development which could be change to anything that you like to in a flexible way. The web site need to display its recent porto folios together with its article but the want it to be simple, and compact enough. There are many iframe tag that is used in this project and mambo can work with it in an simple way.

Before indesain project i also work with mambo in indotsunamirelief redesign web site. The layout from the old to new is so radical so it can't just replace the old template with the new one but also it need to create new component and module to make it fit with the new layout. It really great as i realize that the API is an result from the best practise logic, easy to follow. I don't mean to make speciallity to mambo here but mambo is deserve more than just popular Open Source CMS.

And my recent work with mambo is in project scalardesign web site. The company main focus area is in design engineering and distribution. The site need image gallery to promote its gallery. Yes i know, there are many component in mambo that deals with image gallery. But the client want it to display in cult 3d format and each format has its own preview which mean that i need to customize already exist component instead making it from scratch. Well i use zoom component and hack it so it can accept cult 3d format file and change the way it display the gallery image. Yes i know it should be easy, but here i know that many API that we can use instead make it from scratch again. Here i want to say many thanks to zoom component author Mike de Boer.

2005-12-30T18:01:00.000+07:00

Enough means enough

I seek for the path i have passed these day. Trying to find what i have been left behind. While on the journey the obstacle that i faced seems endless ly coming from all direction. Much enough for me to shot at my own foot. The idealism and tactics seems talking together like trying to give solution that in the end became void because it takes me to the first place i stand. Needless compass strungling me to find alternatif which make me expresive and effective.

This day is not what a day that seems too horrible but just it need more strength and extraodinary thingking that will release all that i want and let it flow as it should be. Last night, He relieves me and give what i want when i was sleeping. The optimistic way and strength to fight without fear. Thanks Jesus.

2005-12-28T09:54:00.000+07:00

Final Bachelor Degree Exam

Saturday, December 24 2005 i had my final bachelor degree exam while all of my family and almost all christians were busy to prepare for christmas day on the next day. The exam took place at Gunadarma Campus Kenari which i got there at a quarter to eight. All the preparation ok, now the it is time to wait for my turn due tue that there are 194 students were having final bachelor degree exam that thay. The briefing itself start at 9am and i need to wait untill 12pm because the examiner hasn't ready yet. All of my friend already step out from the room and have their exam while me and 15 other have need to wait for our turn.

And that goes the waiting time, they told me get my exam at 4th level of the building and seek for the room that had in-focus in it. Well, i really enjoy in that place since there are 2 operator that are beautiful enough to see while i still wait for my turn again. Here goes my turn. As i explain about my paper about SMPP Procotol V5 Implementation in PERL, the examiner check my paper and listen to my explanation. The examiner are Mr. Singgih Jatmiko, Mrs. Yuhilza Hanum, and Mrs. Sulistyo Puspitodjati. But the last one was not come that day. I feel almost no pressure because i act calm and try to use language that make no ambigu meaning with hope that will sattisfied them. I explain to them that my paper was talk about sending short message to SMSC (wireless gateway provider) through TCP/IP network. The format itself already describe in SMPP V5 Spesification and now it is implemented in PERL using OOP and State pattern approach. The program itself is a Perl Modul which consist set of classes which provide interface to communicate in SMPP protocol. But to make it different compare that other previous research than it use new function interface approach. And all of that took half an hour for me to explain it. They asked 2 question which are why it is written in perl? (Yuhilza Hanum) How do the module handle if i have message longer than 255 characters. The first answer goes as right now i understand Perl, PHP will be next target perhaps. And the second answer goes as the module itself don't take care about the message length and that complexity should be solved at application level. Ok then, the revision is in chapter 5 about the conclusion which i place in random order. He told me to put it in sequence order and the told me to report revision to him. Well that is half an hour trip on level 4th of the building.

But to me the job is not finished but it is started couse now i can't ask for money for transport to campus. I need to seek better oppurtunity and make new planning these day about my path the next day. Hoping the best to for all of Niloners, thank you for your support.

2005-12-20T09:51:00.000+07:00

Preparation

This week is going to be a glorious week due tue that i'm going to have my bachelor degree exam which i have been waiting for at least 5 years. I need to prepare all of the things that necessary starting from paper, required documents, money, stamina, and support of course. My friend Tommy told me to prepared for plan b which accidentally will be happen if one of the above requirent failed. Thanks for the advice Tom. I will do the best, and I'm sure that He is with all of the moment. Wishing the best. Thanks

2005-12-19T08:59:00.000+07:00

Do it in the optimistic way

Marthin Luther said do it just like with God. Just a simple question that i haven't realized till yesterday at chruch after the speech of Pdt. Jongky. It enlighten me and change the way i see things. Especially in nowadays activity which seem getting hard and beast one. There is Jesus which always be there with me whareever and whatever the problem that i faced. I realized me about all the simple things that i have left at my back. I don't realized that i have it all potentially, it just need a will and optimistic way to do it, of course with Jesus beside me. There i will be. Tranformation of me

2005-12-16T15:38:00.000+07:00

Never Ever Serious

Since my met with Perl i began not to serious in coding. Not mean to simplyfied everything but rather to think simple in another prespective of course. Not mean to began endless argument but i think it help me much in the overall context before i wrote the application code. And that what Perl give a flavour just like cooking make your cooking become delicious.
Just another taste that make you wanna laugh more...

2005-12-16T15:03:00.000+07:00

SMPP Protocol

Yesterday, I finally complete my program for my final Bachelor degree exam. My Bos suggest me SMPP Protocol as my final Bachelor degree exam on March 2005. Things that make me challenged are that it need to have different API, can be easyly extend into POE, and of course written in Perl programming language. He said it was simple job and easy to develop. I didn't knew what in a world that he saw in me that sure him that i could do the job.

Yeah that sure long enough time to finish the job. Rather that directly develop the source i tend to search for new approach in doing it. And here we go as my head is full of question about element of design pattern and its implementation in developing SMPP Protocol.
There are so much path that i must faced from learning the SMPP V5 spesification protocol, Design Pattern, Perl, Perl Object and Reference, then Testing Impelementation. All off these make me sleep above 12'.

Yeah, require a lot energy and time also. The most difficult one is to make different API from the one that is made by Sampo Kellomaki - Thanks for the API Sampo.
I design the SMPP V5 Protocol spesification in PERL, using State Pattern in its main object state. That really answer my own question on how to implement State Pattern since reading it won't help me enough. But Perl help me and it happen success at the first phase test.
The worst part come when i try to change its API style. It's really complex since it need to handle more than 15 different PDU's and in other side i need to make simplicity from programming side. But sorry, i could not tell the detail here - at least not before 24 December.
After changing its API, it runs well at the secong phase test.

I therefore thanks to my boss Mr. Edwin Pratomo for his idea which make me having in depth in PERL, also to Mr. Singgih Jatmiko for his suggestion in writting my paper.

2005-12-16T14:49:00.000+07:00

Fly Me To Solaris...

Kira-kira dua hari yang lalu saya membaca artikel Solaris Internal yang diberikan oleh bos saya. Setelah membaca bab I saya sungguh terkesima dengan arsitektur sistem operasi ini. Banyak hal dan pola dalam skala enterprise yang bisa diambil sebagai contoh dari implementasi nya antara lain Light Weight Kernel thread... dimana masing-masing thread dapat berkomunikasi satu dengan yang lain. Benar-benar hasil sebuah riset yang tidak main-main.
Sayang sekali saya tidak dapat mencoba nya dikarenakan komputer yang saya gunakan sekarang dalam keadaan tidak bisa diganggu gugat oleh siapapun termasuk tangan saya yang gatal. Ya, skripsi yang sedang saya kerjakan walaupun sudah selesai tetapi belum disidangkan. Mungkin nanti setelah tanggal 24 Desember 2005 - hari dimana saya sidang sarjana - saya akan mempertimbangkan kembali rencana ini. Tujuan saya kali ini selain hoby di waktu luang juga sebagai persiapan saya ke bidang lain selain web programming.
Fly me to polaris then