New office

I'm at my first office in 2009. 

I just cut my hair again.

Testing out Java CMS

This page: http://java-source.net/open-source/content-managment-systems

Lists a lot of Java CMS products. I'm testing them one by one to see which one I like. I'll start with the first one on the list DSpace. My findings will be on the next post.

SSH Tunnelling

You got a server. There is a service running on it. Say, mysql. It listens to port 3306, but only locally. You cannot connect to it from where you are right now.

But you can ssh to it.

That's good enough, basically you can do a port forward, with a little help from putty.

Previously, when I wanted to tunnel to a mysql server, I had to choose to use Navicat, but apparently you can use any program and treat a remote port like a local port.

Here is where I got the info, maybe it can help some of my readers.

http://www.codemastershawn.com/library/tutorial/ssh.tunnel.php

Boycott Israel products?

I live in Malaysia. Here, out national religion is Islam but we are not a fully Islamic country. Any ways...

I see a lot of these, boycott Israel related products for fast food, hyper market even diapers.

I mean, sure, if you can get a substitute. But what if your house is made with Israel products? Would you have to get another house?

PHP is an Israel product. Tell me, my fellow programmers, how many of us would change our jobs to boycott Israel products?

vi vs Emacs, mac vs PC, Israel vs Palestine, these holy wars bring nothing good. Why can't we all just get along?

I saw an episode of X-Files once. There was a genie, and there was a wish being made, and being granted. "I wish for world peace". It happened. There was really world peace, the only catch was, there was only one person and one genie in the world. Everybody else was gone. Is that the only way to achieve world peace? Lets hope for our children's sake, somebody will think of a better solution.

Kenny Roger's 15th?

Well..

We all know Kenny Rogers is NOT 15 years old today. He's probably 94 or something.

But...

I went to Kenny Rogers' tonight. I bought two Kenny's Quarter with 3 sidelines for the price of 1.

15th year anniversary, they said.

Hospital 2009

My son was was hospitalized for a few days. He's better now. Almost the same thing happened at about the same time last year.
Everything is all better now.
I was supposed to start working today, it seems, i will start work tomorrow.
(This is an edited post. The first post missed out on the "son" part)

I am a spammer

Well sort of.
I spent most of today and yesterday, sending out e-mails to a lot of people. The contents are the same.

Subject: J2EE Tech Lead / Junior Architect - Available 05-Jan-2009

8 years in j2EE (since 2001)
8 years in JDBC (since 2001)
5 years in struts (since 2003)
8 years using oracle (since 2001)
8 years using tomcat (since 2001 - tomcat 4.1)

Exposure to Web Security and Web Architecture
in july 2008,
exploited http://www.****.com.my/ (government related website),
paying RM *.** for ***** (i've since informed them of the security flaw and paid the full amount of RM **.**)
I'm not entirely sure if they have fixed it.

Been programming since 15 years old

The bait has been set. Let see how many of these companies take it. Chances are, I'll have to lower my expected salary to get a job again, you know, economic crisis and all, but then again, maybe I'll work for Tabuk Tech.

Unemployed

As many of you may already knew, I was canned in mid December. Its been more than half a month now that I am unemployed. A new record for me. I guess times are really tough now.
I asked peysos to get me a job at his place, so far no calls. I applied at a company that does Islamic banking, they say they wanted me to start in early January, so far, that's all I got. I applied a job with iLaunch too, but no news from them. I sent my resume to manpower, I hope Grace Phang can help me out.

GPS Navigation System

Thanks to Effirul & family from UK (hardware) and a little bit of help from Nazerim (software), I now have a GPS navigation device. New year resolution 2009, "Try not to be lost".
Happy new year every body.