tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12890524552028009372012-02-16T21:46:42.988+08:00ain't about coffee and ain't about cloverTommyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03852782537443891807noreply@blogger.comBlogger201100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289052455202800937.post-26835059973159093932009-10-11T17:06:00.003+08:002009-10-11T17:11:43.828+08:00

Interesting that just as I decided to post something here, I spy the date of my previous post and it's exactly one year ago. I'm somewhat eagerly waiting for Karmic Koala to come out, some friends have been trying it out and have encountered various problems, and some solutions.Since I have my /home on a separate partition and it's already EXT4 then changing operating systems takes maybe just 2

Tommyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03852782537443891807noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289052455202800937.post-61892854820665431302008-10-11T00:18:00.004+08:002008-10-11T00:29:19.804+08:00

Calen says to capitalize on learning experiences. From the start I planned on making a code generator for the project. In addition to making it less tedious and more interesting to work, I was also anticipating the benefits that it could bring to round 2.So I did despite the inevitability of taking longer to finish than I would have otherwise.So aside from finishing (well practically done anyway

Tommyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03852782537443891807noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289052455202800937.post-50803943046082560412008-09-10T22:44:00.003+08:002008-09-10T22:47:45.210+08:00

Ever since we started coding the new project my brain has been running almost non-stop in code. Because of so much structural repetition I'm designing a code generator to create the target software much quicker, neater, and more reliably. The code generation strategy with so many different targets is so intriguing that I find myself coding while walking (forgoing the jeep ride), on the MRT, and

Tommyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03852782537443891807noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289052455202800937.post-79647666839347879132008-07-09T10:11:00.002+08:002008-07-09T10:13:42.741+08:00

DNS flaw

Tommyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03852782537443891807noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289052455202800937.post-51252948110449680282008-05-23T22:37:00.004+08:002008-05-23T22:45:53.500+08:00

We had music playing all day in the training. It began with one of the trainees plugging his phone into the sound system, then we switched over to my laptop because his battery was going.Why the music? It's to stop one of the other trainees from singing and talking like a ghoul to the computer as he works on the machine problem. I mean, think of a raspy, baritone version of Gollum talking Java

Tommyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03852782537443891807noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289052455202800937.post-51334246546754819062008-05-10T18:10:00.008+08:002008-05-11T10:01:00.529+08:00

The Columbia shuttle disaster was heartbreaking but out of the charred remains, a tiny bit of tech humor survives.This article was both heartwarming in a techie way and a huge laugh at what saved the day.Data recovered from Columbia Disaster

Tommyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03852782537443891807noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289052455202800937.post-42254205382323224752008-04-16T23:27:00.005+08:002008-04-16T23:45:12.562+08:00

Finished day 3 of training. Despite not trying to speed things up (in fact I consider myself a bit too talkative during lectures) the class is moving at breakneck speed and we are now 1.5 days ahead of schedule. My slides are now out of sync, LOL. This is certainly a good batch of teachers as they are picking up the concepts very well and it shows in the way they participated in the CRC exercise

Tommyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03852782537443891807noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289052455202800937.post-8391978379988443612008-04-14T21:45:00.006+08:002008-04-14T22:36:02.317+08:00

Day 1 of my first training for O&B. How did it turn out?The teacher participants are competent, responsive, enthusiastic, unafraid to pick up stuff and ask good questions. Some of them knew SQL already but were intrigued by how much farther they can take the base material in their classes later.It was an eye opener for a number of them how the view of SQL from the academic and the business

Tommyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03852782537443891807noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289052455202800937.post-31925197441658769082008-03-26T16:52:00.006+08:002008-03-26T17:02:31.136+08:00

It's like I'm back in 1991 when I was revamping the DLSU Manufacturing Engineering curriculum. We were designing syllabuses (syllabi? syllabeese? syllabusen?) left and right trying to fit all the topics we needed into the class times allotted.It's quite a challenge trying to squeeze our 240-hour Java course into two trimestral terms with a total of 72 class hours (accounting for slack, finals,

Tommyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03852782537443891807noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289052455202800937.post-34398095136892756952008-02-26T15:03:00.001+08:002008-02-26T15:05:17.965+08:00

Got the rudiments of BASH down and now self-study crash course in Spring.Smelling smoke ... lol.

Tommyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03852782537443891807noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289052455202800937.post-68126853426729199962008-02-21T17:15:00.002+08:002008-02-21T17:18:55.838+08:00

Been doing quite a bit using the command line lately and I anticipate typing on it a lot more in the days to come. Being a visual-kinesthetic person, GUIs should work better for me, but there comes a point where slower becomes just plain too slow.So it's hola otra vez, command line. But it's Linux this time, not DOS. LOL

Tommyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03852782537443891807noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289052455202800937.post-85444299576604718612008-02-07T15:23:00.000+08:002008-02-07T15:31:31.100+08:00

Ironic for a blog whose name is "Coffee and Clover"In college I drank a lot of Coke daily. I routinely had 500ml with lunch. Before I started working here I was drinking much less Coke than that and coffee was a maybe twice a month thing at Starbucks or at home.I'm drinking coffee daily now and things have been fine. The problem comes when I'm not consciously "counting" my caffeine intake and

Tommyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03852782537443891807noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289052455202800937.post-21434674092351771652007-10-26T21:17:00.000+08:002007-10-27T03:17:47.225+08:00

Feel like the bullet train lately ... zipping down the Ruby on Rails track. It's really fun, it's really flexible, it's ... really kinda dangerous to anyone who lacks programming discipline and moreso to someone who doesn't know what he's doing. Lack of discipline can lead to messing yourself up since, among other things, constants, classes, and methods can be changed.Price to pay for the extreme

Tommyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03852782537443891807noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289052455202800937.post-34391334874122832802007-10-11T19:54:00.000+08:002007-10-11T20:03:52.179+08:00

Been studying Ruby on Rails and suddenly I feel like a Formula 1 car's gearbox. Shift ... shift ... shift ... with a high speed engine whining behind the racing helmet.Though long I've known several programming languages this is the first time my brain's been shifting among four languages all within a single day. I'm actually conceptualizing or working on projects representing only three of

Tommyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03852782537443891807noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289052455202800937.post-80327728041703546982007-07-30T22:49:00.000+08:002007-07-30T22:58:21.700+08:00

Did some drills with JUnit to see how my habits compare to the philosophy of Test Driven Development. I just kept drilling to the point where I wasn't thinking about it so I can record what I do unconsciously.The Results?Good: Code comes up pretty fast considering that I'm also writing test procedures. My testing time is vastly reduced by the JUnit tester. Somewhat gotten the hang of the

Tommyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03852782537443891807noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289052455202800937.post-43046493514773055422007-07-29T18:00:00.000+08:002007-07-29T18:28:53.472+08:00

Problem solved. Nothing wrong with Tomcat or Ubuntu (yay!), just that Eclipse wasn't set to autobuild. Was beginning to suspect as much when I was seeing the wrong database names in the error window. My weird URL problem was traced to my tweaking of the IP settings when I was trying to get the notebook to talk to my home router. Turns out Ubuntu can't work with my router's security settings. Not

Tommyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03852782537443891807noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289052455202800937.post-67175119106986992122007-07-25T13:01:00.000+08:002007-07-29T18:27:22.378+08:00

After things simply not working right I decided to redo my dev setup. Decided to nuke my Eclipse setup and start over. Wrestled with the notebook all morning trying to get Tomcat running. Thanks to Ealden came a simple solution: install all of the above somewhere else.Turns out the permissions, lack of it really, was causing all the problems and the simple solution was to place everything

Tommyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03852782537443891807noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289052455202800937.post-4664490263957605422007-07-24T11:31:00.000+08:002007-07-29T18:27:31.255+08:00

I'd been wondering why my learning rate had dropped dramatically recently and it's only today that I realized why. Turns out something I took for granted actually has a dramatic impact on how fast I take in new concepts ... writing.Being visuo-kinesthetic I learn fastest when my eyes and my body are engaged at the same time. Powerpoint slides and onscreen documentation satisfy the visual

Tommyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03852782537443891807noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289052455202800937.post-76767833865069054162007-07-22T21:26:00.000+08:002007-07-23T12:40:07.791+08:00

"Ready ... Fire ... Aim! ... Aim! ... Aim!" So goes the mantra of eXtreme Programming (XP).It's funny how many can get hung up on making plans and sticking to them much like a gun (ready, aim, fire) when a more flexible approach like XP is not only able to produce more usable interim results but is also more intuitive than it initially looks.People forget that when they do even the simplest tasks

Tommyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03852782537443891807noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289052455202800937.post-17047163250441802942007-07-22T12:53:00.000+08:002007-07-22T14:16:50.375+08:00

There was a time that I was a bit intimidated by learning enterprise level computing. Happily technology has changed all that and the components that make up all the big programming projects today have evolved into a form that is most compatible with my way of thinking.So right now I'm rush-learning stuff from programming practice to development methodologies. They at the same time are very new

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