Well, I mentioned on my about me page that I am self confessed passionate developer, I even named my business Passionate Development. However I’ve been thinking to myself, what does it mean exactly by passionate. Well now that I have some time to do more thinking, I will try to unravel my own thoughts on [...]

I have a 3 year old Acer Travelmate 4061 laptop which has been working fine until few months ago. Whenever I booted to Windows XP – the keyboard just wasn’t responding and I noticed on the task manager, the CPU usage is always almost 100% and I can’t work out which processes that causes the [...]

Yay! The book – The Passionate Programmer: Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development finally arrived yesterday from Book Depository (thanks to Booko and ozBargain).
This book is the new edition of My Job Went to India: 52 Ways to Save Your Job which I’ve been wanting to read for awhile, to get a taste [...]

Well it’s over, it was good experience, personally not so mind blowing as CFCamp awhile back but I did learn quite a bit too. I’ve done it, I have come to webDU at least once in my life
There were 5 tracks on this conference (Team/UX, Web I, Web II, Flash/Flex, ColdFusion), I [...]

Last week was quite a rough week for me. As always deadline was looming (production release on Thursday) and my estimate was off the mark. I knew my estimate was already very tight, so having unforeseen requirements came up at the last moments didn’t really help. I pulled it off, but with the cost of [...]

Is it just my imagination or is Firefox 3 really lighting fast? My manager seems to notice that too.
And the memory usage so far never exceeded 100k (it’s been around 95k for my usage pattern). My Firefox usage pattern is consisting of opening quite a number of tabs (usually at least 10 tabs), I [...]

My experience with Eclipse has been generally good, but my computer at work is just not right and that I think has also affected Eclipse.
There already at least 5 occasions whereby Eclipse became non responsive for few minutes and when it actually came back, it wiped out the content of the currently opened file! Scary [...]

My job went to India (and all I got is this lousy book), that’s one of the books from the pragmatic programmer folks that I’ve been wanting to read.
And it would be quite relevant to my current work situation. I’ve been looking after a specific project since I joined the company. Even with the best [...]

I nearly lost my Flex’s registration code in an email that Adobe sent as Gmail classifies that email as spam. I don’t usually check my spam folder, but today I did, and I was fortunate to see that flex email amongst other spams..
Moral of the story, whilst Gmail spam filter is excellent, we still cannot [...]

Following the instruction on Scott’s blog, I succeeded posting my first ever flash video. You can see it here: Jet’s video.
It took me about 2.5 hours to get everything working correctly. The first problem that I encountered was: Flowplayer didn’t display the flash video. It just gave me a blank screen.
Below is the code snippet [...]