[ o n e ! r o ] ©™ 2.0

[ o n e ! r o ] (c)™ has moved...

2011-03-07T13:48:00.001+08:00

This blog has moved to a new home at [ o n e ! r o ] ©™

It's now at Tumblr.com; they provide a few perks that I found myseld hands-tied from the previous host. It's not like they're not any good, but the up's Tumblr had was just at par to my prefenrence and just what I was looking for... for now:

   i-   it can be integrated into twitter and facebook.
         although, the old site can do this too; i prefer the way tumblr works coz the blogs are the tweets already.
         i just separate the blogs from the tweets w/ a title whilst the tweet would just be a direct post.
   ii- it has a mobile app that i can launch from my berry; this is the decider. although, the old site can do what this new site can do;
         this one comes w/ a mobile appthat allows me to post just about anything from: blogs, tweets, pictures, quotes, audios and videos...

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster...

2011-01-28T15:40:00.000+08:00

When Mahut lost to Isner at the wimby last year (that was the longest match in history, spanning 3 days); there was an article that I came across that he felt so down after the loss and that his coach showed him a writing at the wimby's entrance that says:

"If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

And treat those two impostors just the same;"

I searched around the net if it had a source and it actually came from a poem; Rudyard Kipling's If... When I read through it, it tells of a Father's advise to his son on how to handle life's adversities...

And in a nutshell; I like the poem so, I just thought of reposting here... it's up there in the my category of "poems I like"

IF.....

Rudyard Kipling

IF you can keep your head when all about you

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

But make allowance for their doubting too;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,

Or being hated, don't give way to hating,

And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;

If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

And treat those two impostors just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,

And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings

And never breathe a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

To serve your turn long after they are gone,

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

' Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,

if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,

If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,

Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,

And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

That sock I'll hang by the fireplace...

2010-12-08T16:50:00.000+08:00

I'll just join the bandwagon this Christmas season... the wish-listing
I'll break 'em down into 2 parts i.e. the tangibles and the intangibles. So here they go;

The Intangibles:
1- That our families to come full-circle.
2- That we remain faithfull to the values that our father's have thought us.
3- That our families would remain healthy and well.
4- That our families stay together (despite the distances, with which we are in).
5- That whatever challenges we face, we find strength in the unity of our families (in our hearts and prayers).
6- For that clock to slow down a bit, so we can chase the butterflies.
8- "The Kwan"... (from the Jerry Maguire movie)...
9- (The Classic)... Peace and Goodwill to all mankind... animalkind... plantkind (all the ...kinds) bwahahahaha.

The Tangibles:
1- The wife's bestfriend. :-D ;-)
2- That other stick, so Ol'Faithfull can finally rest.
3- A new ride.
4- That new eye to catch those rare moments better and a few toys with it.

This wish-lists would be year-long effort moving into 2011; we're just not that rich enough to have 'em at one go...

Desparation, Ineptitude... and being usisero

2010-08-23T23:56:00.002+08:00

Just read the news on the hostage crisis in Manila, & it's spreading reactions like wildfire on Facebook and Twitter. Sad fate these had to happen, disappointing and even shameful. While it maybe fair to consider what led to such seemingly desperate course of actions, what puts bane to it was that the end to justify the means is just downright un-condonable.

3 things:

1- While it has been said and written; what led principled men into such desperation... it's cowardice; just outright cowardice. In psychology, it must have been either fight or flight for him. Flight: would have contradicted his claims for innocence and righteous principles. Fight: perhaps a viable option, but to involve collateral damages at the expense of innocents... you make the call, I've opined already.

2- While most people would think, the Police have some short-comings and blundered big time; they probably have... but I would still opine; they just may not have been adequately trained, nor adequately equipped and neither prepared. After all, he was one of their own. They have acted the best of their capacity, under duress to address a situation where it may have presented a clear-and-danger to the innocents. To speak mostly of the negatives, may just add more insult to an already wounded morale. The thing is; they (the Police) are competent, they are capable, they are good as any other LEO’s around the world… but I’ll leave the flip-side of the coin to you…

3- The crowd; oh, don’t we just loooove to get in the middle it… public opinion, media, plausible accountability. To think and speak of the things that have and have-nots. They said, you said and I say… whatever hehehe. The benefit of the right to free speech and opinion. I say this… I say that… what do you say?

In the end, there is still no measure to the loss of lives; be it the guilty, the righteous or the ones caught in the middle. Nor such actions be condoned just to prove a point or two. We have a system, flawed, inconsistent, inept… but a system nonetheless

View from the trenches... 1

2010-01-14T15:49:00.001+08:00

(my perspective for the year)

I posted earlier on my FB that I have to hand it to my colleague's team for setting the inititative to adapt to the evolving nature of our work tools i.e. techologies, practices. I had played with the thought of wanting to be transfered to his team so I can be involved, since I have also worked on them some years back (jeez, I'm using YEARS now with a big S; talk about vintage & redundant).

Throughout the entire tenure rendered, I have always sought to continually adapt or stay abreast with the industry's continous evolution. At every project, I would seek to recommend time and again (hoping persistence would pay-off) or at least, have the gall to do a little rnd such that we may be able to pick up some usefull concepts that can be put into practice. Or, at least have an understanding of what has been evolving out there in the wild so that; when it comes to us, we're not that lost nor helpless. Or, at least we are continously trying to increase our knowledge base if not for the benefit of our services, we can have it for ourselves.

To be fair (define fair?), the flip side of these propositions are that they may be too shortsighted. i'm only presenting a perspective from a developers point-of-view:
   -New tech,
   -Ease of development,
   -Industry-based development patterns and practices,
   -Up-to-date support and reference from the
   developer's community.
The list could probably go more. My domain at this point is only limited to the scope of what i am paid for, that is to be a Developer. My recommendations for adapting innovations, so-to-speak are confined to the technical aspects wherein the furthest I can reach out to would be looking an entire system's architecture and see what can be improved albiet; design architectures, coding standards, etc.

On the impact it'll have on the organization's LOB; again, they'd be limited to a developer's point-of-view. However; we may be able to up the level, at least see from an Architect's or a Project Manager's view:
   -Ease of development, with newer techs comes more
   advanced development tool. Advanced tool may equate to
   shorter development time or greater
   capacity to address previous technical limitations.
   -Wider developer community support.
   -New technologies, provides facilities to design solution architectures that were previously limited or enhance existing designs.
Once again, the list can be a lot more but we'll just limit them to the above.

I would say it's unfortunate, that despite all the tech's evolution and what they can provide to the value to the organizations LOB, they just do not fall on the PRIORITY list. Priority here, in the excuse that the current tech can still deliver the solutions they intended to. So why reinvent the wheel. The excuse that despite solutions designed to address business processes, the business processes can be adjusted to suit the scope of what the tech can deliver. There is also the issue of the learning curves, where it may be steep. Licensing cost is also a bit of an issue. I guess to the decision makers, it's really a balancing act between what works and what may work.

So, the recourse now ought to be; to continously seek avenues of innovation. The option currently available is to seek them outside the day job, perhaps get a formal training (financial capacity not withstanding). Seek into the developer community, there are a lot of resource out in the internet that can be leveraged into learning material (just be carefull not to go astray). So there should still be plentifull of avenues for innovation. All these would just require: TIME, FREEDOM, COMMITMENT, INTEREST, DESIRE, THIRST, HUNGER and most of all the NECESSITY to innovate...

when december ends...

2009-12-14T11:51:00.000+08:00

what is it that most of us look forward, when december advents?
    it's the holiday season;
    it's christmas;
    the christmas dinners;
    the wishlists and gifts;
    the rainy moonsoon season;
    the cold winters;
    the shopping splurges?
i might say all of the above.

december is really a family thing, there are more on the list above; but they are all i can think of at the moment. but i'd know that whatever i have listed above should be... ought to be... must be capped w/ families gathered together when 25th hits the calendar.

to the soulfull ones, the tail end of the year are for retrospecting... i might say, "to look back in retrospect, and set perspectives when looking ahead". it's meant to be a rhetoric. anyhow, the year has had it's highs and lows. it must be costumary for all of us to have probably set goals at every start of year, then "to look back in retrospect" at the end to take a rain-check on what has been achieved. what has to be managed. what were set aside. it really is a cycle: set-execute-check.

i'll probably have my share of "retrospecting" and "prospecting"... and whatever comes out of it; wake me up wake me up, when december ends...

On my PC desktop, it's called e-clutter

2009-09-23T11:17:00.001+08:00

My PC desktop is cluttered with downloaded files, documents.

From code snippets, articles, white papers and ebooks. I think, this is what may be called as e-clutter.

Since I don't have a permanent desk at work (been working for 1 year & 4 months, and I have no desk), I move around a lot. Sometimes I'm seated at the helpdesk's work area, where there is a vacant space or sometimes I seat at a colleague's cube when he's station at our other office. So, you won't really find a lot of papers, print-outs, notes around me most of the time. But when see my PC, it's another story...

Talk about going green huh!, went green by saving on print outs and paper clutter; but ended up having the clutter electronically-on my PC desktop.

I call it e-clutter...

Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening

2009-08-03T14:13:00.000+08:00

This is from Robert Frost... the last four lines are some of my favorites...

Whose woods these are I think I know.

His house is in the village though;

He will not see me stopping here

To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer

To stop without a farmhouse near

Between the woods and frozen lake

The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake

To ask if there is some mistake.

The only other sound's the sweep

Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.

But I have promises to keep,

And miles to go before I sleep,

And miles to go before I sleep.

i'm learning... and it's called work...

2009-07-23T12:08:00.008+08:00

build a page, to show records filtered with "data status date"

the caveats:

-there would be 5k+ records to show.

-the data is sitting on single database with 2k+ tables,

tables are prefixed w/ application name i.e "INVENTORY_*", "PAYROLL_*".

-there are 20+ applications that'd be accessing the db at any point in time.

-some of the 20+ apps have a normalized table structure & some have not.

-app and db are sitting on one machine & it's a P3, vintage servers

the solution:

-use sql paging, to show specified number of records per page; basically split the data into subsets.

-recomend more specific filter options i.e. field range, dept, item category, etc.

-use indexes on queries.

on the solution part, item 3 is within our control... we can do this easily but the first 2 items are the catch. the stakeholder wants to be able to view all the data as filtered only by the data status date. no other filters would be created. does not want to do a paging function coz, it's better to scroll down rather then click thru the page numbers. would also need to edit a selected row within the page's tabular data presentation. and requires it to be fast. this requirement would work well on a desktop app, it's a challenge if it were a web app...

i do believe that the paging solution plus the additional filter options would really be able to aleviate the perfomance issue here, i've recomemded this approach over and over again and i'm still recomending this (else, i won't be blogging about this).

this are one of the things i do... i'm learning... and it's called work...

caught with a thought

2009-07-15T14:21:00.003+08:00

there have been so many times that these fleeting thoughts catches me; and in my mind, i have them written.

but these fleeting thought are just what they are... fleeting. by the time; i want to write them, they have come and passed.

try as i can to recall them, when they are written; they just are not the same as the first intance of that thought.

i guess the saying "hold that thought" is far from applicable at this point.

have you ever had these?

has it ever occured to you that at any given point in time, you may have written a book-worth of jibbering?

these random mind-jibber that despite a hectic, stressfull, weary day; is still able to creep in and give you the benefit of self-reflection or whatchamacallit.

'tis not like i cannot write, i'd admit 'tis more of not being in the zone to write something.

they often pop up when i'm in the middle of doing something else, either at work writing code or on some chores.

rare are those days, when i can sit over coffee and think what to write; never those days even. only an ernest hemingway would have those.

The DBA's Demise

2009-07-09T08:58:00.004+08:00

excerpted from an e-book: "Confession of an IT Manager", this is a funny poem but I do find this too close for comfort. I was here before, I am no DBA but this is relatable to every aspect of what I love to do for a living...

From your face I can see

that you work in IT

what has brought you to this sorry state?"

This poor wretched geek

then started to speak

and told me his terrible fate

Cruel fortune had picked him,

as sad deadlock victim.

The conflict had left him for dead;

for wise men don't mess

with a deadlocked process

an incident DBAs dread.

"When I'm dead, on my harp

I shall play in C#"

on my terminal, happy I'll be.

I'm going offline

to a site that's divine

where all pizza and coffee is free."

"Insert into grave

select * from poor Dave

And put on my gravestone 'Raiserror!

a victim, one time

of a deadlocking crime"

Then he died with a look of sheer terror.

I think I'm gonna like reading this book... i'll read along and see if there're anything else worth sharing, or perhaps I'll share this book soon

Widgets...

2009-05-23T11:36:00.002+08:00

I'm trying to figure out how to attach a widget on my Facebook, tsk, tsk, tsk...

I got widgets already setup on my blogger account but it's still a work in-progress on Facebook.

The widgets i'm trying to attach are on:

The Australian Open, Roland Garros (French Open), Wimbledon and The US Open

well, it's a work in progress... googling now... hehehe

On any given day...

2009-05-19T16:37:00.003+08:00

On any given day...

Where the office is quiet and people are busy with work (or so we think, at least),

you can even hear the mouse clicks.