Flashed my Samsung Galaxy S with Doc Froyo 7.6.2

After waiting so long for the official Froyo to be available here in Malaysia, I decided to just get on with the European version. So last night, I flashed from WXJM1 (European version of Eclair) to a custom version of JPM (European version of Froyo).

The whole process was very easy although I did a small mistake that nearly gave me a heart attack - I bricked the phone, but I managed to recover. It's true that they say the phone is quite hard to actually brick it. LOL.

Now I'm testing out the lag fixes. currently using NoRFS + ext4 formatting but it seems that the battery drain is quite noticable. I've read that flashing SpeedMod kernel is enough rather than applying the lag fixes. Maybe I'll try that later.

Edit: Crap! just about 12 hours I flashed the custom Froyo, the official Froyo for Malaysia came out. zzzz

How do you use your social network tools like twitter/facebook/etc. ?

For me, in my opinion, I usually use it to describe the state of my mind, pitching my thoughts, ideas or interesting articles which again in my opinion are more appropriate to be shared with friends.

I'm writing this as I feel kinda really annoyed reading updates that are of little value such as what you've been eating or ranting about something without reason. I couldn't care less about what you eat whether it's delicious or nauseating. It just doesn't add value and a waste of time and network bandwidth unless you include the details on why it is delicious/nauseating and the location of the food joint. Now that, at least have some value to be shared socially and could be helpful.

So people, please at least post something useful and have value instead of some mundane general status update such as "am at <location>" or "<something/someone"> is stupid" or "eating <delicious/nauseating> <food name>". Elaborate them a bit like telling what's happening at the location, your reason for rating the food or why you think that something/person is stupid/good. Now that, I believe will add value to the posts/updates and will usually start some discussion. "Why would we need discussion on the update?" you might ask. Well, it is simple. It is not called "social networking" for nothing.

So people, update wisely or you'll just be labeled as another idiot spammer.

People behaviors are just intriguing.

Had a conversation with a colleague a few weeks before about software development methodologies. I find it funny how people tend to reject things that are new to them. Funnier thing is they even belittle something that they never even tried.

Seriously people, don't just say something bad just because you think it is but you never really experienced it. And please, those things that are new to you doesn't mean that it's actually really new. Probably, you were just too busy "chopping down trees" that you forgot to "sharpen your axe" or just don't have the time to go to the market and look if there are things that could do better than your dulling axe.

So please, keep updated with the current trends if you are really passionate about your job. You might find that there is this "chainsaw" thing at the market could help you way lot better than the axe.

I've been thinking.

Lately I've been reading a lot of books on business and investments. We're not getting any younger and time flies so fast that by the time we realized it, it felt like what happened months or years ago just happened yesterday. The conversation that I had with Clarice's dad during lunch at The Curve last week really made me having serious thoughts about really starting my own business. The future is full with uncertainties but still, there's no harm trying.

I've seen an heard a lot of examples of successful people. Sometimes what they all did is so simple but really profitable. My idea is to start my own software development company or software consultancy. I know that I'm far from being a real technical expert like my software development idols or those people from the other side of the world but analyzing the situation from the people around me at my current job, I guess I'm more than good enough for the local market.

The main thing that is bothering me right now is the main focus or direction of the business. What kind of industry should I be really concentrating? At the current moment, analyzing on the current local market, my eye is currently set on the local private health industry. I noticed that most of the clinics (except for the hospitals) that I went to did not really have a computerized system for patient records management and inventory management. It's 2010 and they're still based on papers and folders. It would be great if those data can be managed and retrieved easily. Inventory restocking could be done with minimal effort and patient records from the illnesses and insurance coverage can be retrieved a lot more faster

Maybe I should just talk to my personal doctor when I visit her next time..

It's been a while...

Since my last post.

So here's an update. I'm still stuck in HeshPee. The whole administration style still doesn't improve much and I've understand why my other colleagues just kept silent about it. Most of the reasons are because that they previously come from a local or Chinaman style company which squeezes you until you're torn and battered. So they found great relieve and are quite happy with the way things are done in here.

In contrast to them, nearly everything sucks for me as I strongly believed that all of us there deserves better treatment from the higher management. Although I feel that my reporting manager doesn't really help me, I know he's under pressure himself. The higher managements really do deliver great speeches and 'motivational' talks, I am not that easy to convince unless they really can prove that. For me, if you want people to trust you, you have to give leadership examples first. Don't ever give me the usual bullshit such as "If you are performing well, you will get greater rewards". Those kind of talks are nothing. Show me some leadership first and I will follow. If you only give that kind of talk and promises to me, I will only deem that you are just treating me as 'just another employee'.

I'm not going to continue ranting on the management issue. Now comes the issue with the job itself. This company bought me out and claims that they need my expertise in Java ASAP as it is mission critical. Bullshit! It's almost 3 months and what I found out is that this thing they're doing don't really need Java expertise. Someone with some experience in web development and not even strong in Java can do all of it in my opinion. The questions asked during the phone interviews that they conduct is really misleading. A person will think that the questions asked regarding the technology are really going to be used in the project-which is far from being the truth. There's no EJBs in here, no Hibernate, no Struts/Spring/whatever framework. It's all tightly coupled and I would say that we're under the mercy of Intershop-the company that created the platform that we are building on. There is nothing on the web that really could help us, only marketing bullshit that goes as Intershop (self claimed) offers the largest and the best e-commerce platform in the universe. yeah right.

I just can't wait to get out of this hell hole.

My take on HPME and SLIM

so today, I finished one of six course of HP's so called software development methodology which is SLIM. The whole training course reeks of waterfall methodology. Always talking about processes and tools and how those tools helped them to save time and budget. In my opinion and observation, those metrics that they used are so shallow and there are a lot of possibilities on how they could arrive to the conclusion.

Which makes me wonder did they never read those books written by those famous and successful software developers? for example, The Mythical Man Month which explains extensively on why we should not add more people to an already late project.

They mentioned I the training course that when they implemented SLIM, the numbers of defects went significantly down. But as I observed from the slides, that was in the last phase which could easily mean that logically most of the other requirements have already been met successfully so why would they need to change the source code further? And regarding the so called work life balance can be easily achieved if the whole organization implements agile and lean methodology at the first place. Agile and lean protects the developers from unnecessary problems and allows them to focus more on developing the product.

On a side story, a senior colleague warned me that I'm under serious scrutiny as the manager often saw that I'm on facebook 'all' the time. Did they never heard of focus and time management techniques such as the pomodoro technique? I guess that comes naturally when you stay too long in a traditional waterfall management.

Conclusion: waterfall is evil and should be ceased from practice. Adopt the Agile Methodology today!

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