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New Student Ambassadors!
26 April 07 08:15 PM | adrian | 2 comment(s)
Since Narenda and me have graduated, ITB has no SA for some time, until now. Last weekend, we interviewed several candidates and have chosen two of them to become the new Student Ambassadors. Ronald Penalosa , a very creative guy, currently working on...
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Back to Basic
07 April 07 10:44 PM | adrian | with no comments
As most of you knew already, I was awarded MVP for Visual Basic for the cycle of April 2007. It's been quite a while since I used VB, but I would never forgotten my origins. I've started my programming adventure using Basic family, Quick Basic...
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Live Report: Trend Desktop 2007
07 April 07 08:32 AM | adrian | with no comments
Whoa... this is a crazy morning indeed. Will use a combination of Indonesia and English for quick posting. 08:00 Kampus diblokir, tidak ada yang boleh masuk. Alih-alih ternyata MJK mau datang. Kampus dipenuhi TNI dan Gegana. Ditutup sampai jam 3. Wah...
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What's New in April
01 April 07 10:37 AM | adrian | 6 comment(s)
For starters, I'll definitely will need to get a new job or a new job title this month. That's definite. Two, I just upgraded my laptop processor and memory. Now it has 19 cores and 10Gb of RAM (don't ask me how, they seem to have 5Gb pieces...
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Community Launch Kit Arrives!
10 March 07 11:11 PM | adrian | 2 comment(s)
This morning, a package for me arrives from USA. I thought it was the MSP Kit (said containing MSDN... :D), but apparently, it's just some marketing stuff. For starter, it was sent using DHL, very unusual for a Redmond drop (they usually send FedEx...
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March Orcas
09 March 07 07:17 PM | adrian | with no comments
I've been gone for nearly a month... What have I done? Well, for starters, I was hit by unknown sickness (until today). But when my body isn't as productive as usual, my computers are. Today I have downloaded the March CTP of Visual Studio 2007...
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5 Things You (May) Don't Know About Me
15 February 07 09:12 AM | adrian | with no comments
I was introduced to a device called computer at the age of 3. Learned how to use Internet at the age of 10. Learned how to code at the age of 13. Learned design patterns at the age of 21. So far, it's earlier than most people. Corollary to 1 is that...
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Core 2 Duo Laptops
04 February 07 12:42 AM | adrian | with no comments
I'm in the market for Core 2 Duo laptops for both home (a.k.a. side jobs) and work. I'm looking for mid-market and portable laptops. Mid-market means the price is under US$2.000, while portable means screen size is 13". There are several...
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Books in My SD Card
18 January 07 10:09 PM | adrian | 2 comment(s)
Well, since I don't have much money left on buying some great books from great authors, I'm left with the "digitalized" copy of their piece of mind. The first is the great handbook of Code Complete (Second Edition, Steve McConnell)....
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Apple vs. Microsoft (as always)
10 January 07 11:15 PM | adrian | with no comments
It's 2007, and new things are coming like tsunami... iPhone -- the Apple Phone, said going to revolutionize the way we use phones. Revolution without 3G... Heh! Competes directly with Windows Mobile Smartphone. Zune -- the Microsoft Mobile Music Player...
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IGOS == P012N?
08 January 07 01:46 PM | adrian | 2 comment(s)
Take a look at this: http://www.igos.web.id/forumigos/index.php . Spam and porn links rampaging through the forum posts (and all of them are made by anonymous user - even regular admin knows this: block anonymous posting, and all spam goes away). Maybe...
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bubuawards v.05 is Problematic (Again!)
02 January 07 02:32 PM | adrian | with no comments
Well, this time it's about the student competition. We know that the Expression line used in the competition is still in beta stage. Well guess what, Microsoft have decided to rewrite the Expression Graphic Designer! For those of you not yet in the know...
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Microsoft Shared Source License(s)
01 January 07 12:51 AM | adrian | with no comments
Yes, Microsoft have their own open source licenses, and is named Shared Source Licenses . There are actually three levels of license, depending over how licensee (the user of the source code) can act over the source code. The licenses are Microsoft Reference...
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My Pet Project
30 December 06 12:18 AM | adrian | 1 comment(s)
It is said that great people have great pet projects. Well, I'm not great, and my projects aren't great, too. But that doesn't stop me from creating one. My newest project is an Event Tracking System, loosely based on my last day job project...
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Second Birthday
21 December 06 08:11 AM | adrian | 1 comment(s)
OK, this date a year ago, was the first birthday . This date, two years ago, I've started to blog here . A lot of things happened this year: The first post of the year is about Generic Strategy Pattern (OK, I'll stop referencing the post, it's...
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