A Message From Mr. President

Haha! Yesterday I received a short text message on my phone from Mr. President (real one!). It was about a warning to all citizen about drugs abuse and stuff like that. It's kinda funny since I'm in a huge crush on a song from Weezer called We Are All On Drugs. What a funny coincidence, Mr. President must've been listening to the same stuff :). I'll post you all the lyrics, here it is :

We Are All On Drugs

by : Weezer

When you're out with your friends

In your new Mercedes-Benz

And you're on drugs

And you show up late for school

'Cause you think you're really cool

When you're on drugs

And you put on your headphones

And you step into the zone

When you're on drugs

But the world don't care

If you are not there

'Cause you're on drugs

GIVE IT TO ME

We are all on drugs yeah

Never getting enough (never get enough)

We are all on drugs yeah

Give me some of that stuff (WOO)

And you twitch in your seat

'Cause you wanna hit the street

When you're on drugs

And you cause such a fuss

'Cause there's no one you can trust

When you're on drugs

And the best of your days

Will vanish into haze

When you're on drugs

And you wish you can quit

'Cause you're really sick of it

But you're on drugs

GIVE IT TO ME

We are all on drugs yeah

Never getting enough (never get enough)

We are all on drugs yeah

Give me some of that stuff (WOO)

I wanna confiscate your drugs

I don't think I can get enough

We are all on drugs yeah

Never getting enough (never get enough)

We are all on drugs yeah

Give me some of that stuff (WOO)

Free .NET XP Controls

For you .NET developers who want to create a windows application with XP "look and feel", I suggest you to visit this site http://www.steepvalley.net/ . The best thing of all is .... everything is FREE!

My Sidebar

Today I have successfully installed a kewl application called Desktop Sidebar. It's a kinda docked panels application with multi functionalities like Weather News, Headlines News, Picture slide show, Clock, Alarm, E-Mail checker, etc, ... you name it.
It is customizable, has many skin templates and panel add-ins for viewing almost anything you need to control.



Try this baby, it makes your life easier :)

The ICONIX Process continued .....

The First Step is Requirements Review, please check out the diagram below :

Happy Anniversary to My Parents

Dear Mom and Dad,

It's been 29 years of your lovely marriage. Both of you are the best parents in the world that a kid could have. On behalf of your children, I want to wish you a happy anniversary.

" May each and every year you share,
Each happy memory, each whispered prayer,
Each memory as husband & wife,
Comes now with not so much strife,
In sickness & in health you pledged your heart so true,
God has blessed each tomorrow where love begins anew,
With vows taken reverently & sealed with Heaven’s kiss,
We hope you continue your wedded years in bliss.
Happy Anniversary To Both Of You! "

PS : Sorry for the late greeting :)

The ICONIX Process—A Streamlined Approach to UML Modeling

Do you see a the point of the diagram above? I'll explain to you guys later on my next posts :)
Any Comments?

A good book from Jack Welch

Just read half of it, and it's such an enlightment :). These are the secrets :

1. Harness the Power of Change
2. Face Reality!
3. Managing Less Is Managing Better
4. Create a Vision and Then Get Out of the Way
5. Don’t Pursue a Central Idea; Instead, Set only a Few Clear, General Goals
6. Nurture Employees Who Share the Company’s Values
7. Keep Watch for Ways to Create Opportunities and to Become More Competitive
8. Be Number One or Number Two and Keep Redefining Your Market
9. Downsize, before it’s too late!
10. Use Acquisitions to Make the Quantum Leap!
11. Boundarylessness & Empowerment
12. Inculcate the Best Ideas into the Business
13. The Big Winners in the Twenty-first Century Will Be Global
14. De-Layer: Get Rid of the Fat!
15. Spark Productivity through the ‘S’ Secrets: Speed/Simplicity/Self-Confidence
16. Act like a Small Company
17. Remove the Boundaries!
18. Unleash the Energy of Your Workers
19. Listen to the People Who Actually Do the Work
20. Go before Your Workers and Answer All Their Questions
21. Stretch: Exceed Your Goals as Often as You Can
22. Make Quality a Top Priority
23. Make Quality the Job of Every Employee
24. Make Sure Everyone Understands How Six Sigma Works
25. Make Sure the Customer Feels Quality
26. Grow Your Service Business: It’s the Wave of the Future
27. Take Advantage of E-Business Opportunities
28. Make Existing Businesses Internet-Ready
29. Use E-Business to Put the Final Nail in Bureaucracy

You need the book? Just contact me at oki_purwana@hotpop.com

Proposed e-Tender System Global Architecture

Ok, today my team has concluded to develop the e-Tender system on a CMS called synkron.web. I've proposed to extend the synkron API to be an XML Web Service. Why XML Web Service? I'm talking about the benefit of scalability and reusability that can be used by the next versions of e-Tender or other e-Applications. Below is the draft diagram of e-Tender System Architecture. Any comments?

Eureka! I can finally read a novel on my handphone :)

Guys, if you are using a Sony Ericsson K-500i or 700i, and you are eager to have your phone to be able to read an e-novel or a long text, you can do fo these following steps :

1. Make sure the GPRS connection is set.
2. Activate the e-mail client on your handphone, make sure it works!
3. From your PC, open an e-novel (usually formatted in .PDF, .TXT, .RTF, or .DOC). Copy the whole content and paste it in an e-mail mesage that will be sent to the address that is also used by your handphone's e-mail client.
4. Download the e-mail from your handphone, and wait for a moment (it depends on the size of your e-novel)
   
5. Voila! The novel is readable to your handphone as an e-mail message.
   
6. Have fun, coz I do :)
   

New Day, New Month, New Look, New Task

Phewww... last week was a big pain in the neck, I gotta have a new motivation and spirit to handle new tiring routines, after all, the real meaning of life hasn't been completely understood and found :) . That's why today I decide to change the look of this blog to be more cheerful and colorful (nevermind the weird dots!). Enough of the BS, let's get back to the business. I have this E-Tender project going on and need to make sure that it can work with a content management system called Synkron.web. Bad thing about this CMS is that it still works in the old time ASP. So, the issue will be about the scalability, system upgrade, and API compatibility (which will lead me to a big question about performance and response time....hmmmm). Yeah, been heard about the "side by side" execution stuff but I really do believe that the project should be 100% developed in .NET (give me a big credit for promoting MS stuff here. Bill Gates, you owe me one, big time! hahaha). So, below, is a new task for me. Check out the darn diagram that shows the complexity of using Synkron API.

Happy Birthday, Boss :)

Today, all staffs in the office are celebrating the Birthday of our Boss, Stanley. Happy Birthday, Boss. Please stay healthy and keep on innovating. Looking forward to go abroad and have a good time again with you :) . BTW, the seafood in "Bali Jimbaran" was one of the best! Thanks..



-- Stanley, somewhere in a small alley in Arhus - Danmark --

Design Pattern Automation Toolkit

A screenshot of Design Pattern Automation Toolkit. A Must Have!

E-Tender and Kewl Design Pattern Tool

Today is the official day to start building the architecture of E-Tender Application. This application will be ASP.NET based and intended to be operational in governmental agencies. I will collaborate with some architects, developers, and Tax Office staff in order to create the first release of this application. It's gonna be a looooonnnggg task :) . Yeah...story of my life with boring routines.
BTW, if you are a freak software architect like me, and obsessed by a theory called "GoF's Pattern Design", please do check this super kewl url : http://dpatoolkit.sourceforge.net/ . This bad boy will direct you to download a Design Pattern Automation Toolkit. How about that? Another tool to make your "architecting life" easier.