Resignation

Start from the day after tomorrow, I am officialy unemployed. Unemployed by my preferation. About 18 months nice experience. Everything sometime run so fast. It just like just yesterday when I got my first job. Job that is really appropriate with my background and liking. Of course, sometime there are some uncomfortable, preasure, boring that attack while I work. More than that, some of those feeling that made me decide to resign from company. Yeah I need break, and new fresh air, probably at new place.

At the other moment, sometime I contemplate. Is IT really place for me to get money? Actually I am electronic engineer. Partially, because I am supposed to be teachir at SMK. I am bachelor of education. There always a time that I imagine myself to work at telco company as telecommunication engineer. But I have to realize, I was lazy at college. I don't have enough knowledge to be such engineer. So after graduation day, eventhough not too out of the way, I choose IT as my job. I am java developer now, specificaly. Generaly I can say myself as software engineer. I have to admit, maybe java would not life forever. But IT is always demanded everywhere. I code everyday. Read a lot of IT books. Download many new software SDK. Although there are always time I asked myself, Is IT really your own choose? Absolutely I answer, yes. There are always great posibility for every humankind to get success for every field he take. Maybe there successful telco engineer. Great lawyer. Honest policeman, lucky businessman. I have same chance too to be as success as them. Of course the price is to do the best as I can in every single step of work I do. Success is not as narrow of money or wealth. But I believe, I can get them if I want. I just want to stop compalaining everyday and start work and learn unstopable. Thanx Allah, for everything I got.

Oracle sqlplus typing history and typing completion on Linux

Something that annoy me so much when using oracle sqlplus in Linux is unavailability of typing completion and history. When we make some typing mistake, we must retype whole command. We cannot use up or down arrow to call typing history. We also cannot use tab for some completion help. Yeah I know most of people don't type directly on sqlplus. They write the script use some text editor, vi, emacs or notepad. Later they just use sqlplus to call the script. But if there are some people that has made life easier by provide that lack feature we don't have reason to refuse.

Introducing gqlplus a utility which provide typing completion and history to sqlplus. You can download from http://sourceforge.net/projects/gqlplus/. Extract the file then do configure and make. The library that I have to provide is ncurses as prerequirement. I just call sudo apt-get install libncurses5. Later I copy the gqlplus folder to my oracle user home directory. I edit .bash_profile file in oracle user home directory and add gqlplus directory to PATH environment variable. After all I just call gqlplus from terminal and I have sqlplus with history and completion support now.

Dynamic Richfaces Menu, MenuItem and Action

I wrote a post about make working dynamic menu use richfaces.

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Facebook Client Messenger on Ubuntu

Since several last weeks, I wonder if there is some facebook messenger for my Ubuntu laptop. Sometime it is feel annoying if I must open browser just to chat with online facebook friend.

First reason why I search such tool is, facebook homepage is little bit heavy. It will waste many bandwidth to open the site, moreover if use limited mobile internet quota that is little bit expensive. Second reason, sometime I don't realize, if some of my friend try chat to me via facebook messenger. For example I focus to other firefox tab. I know too that there will be a kind of sound notifaction if some chat is received. But by using client messenger, the window will pop up. So we will immediate realize, when someone intend to chat with us.

For Windows there are some messenger client that provide facebook protocol. That is not the case with my ubuntu. But I just found pidgin plugin that will provide facebook protocol to Pidgin Internet Messenger. The pludgin can be downloaded here http://code.google.com/p/pidgin-facebookchat/downloads/list. Just double click the .deb file, and we are on the go. Open Accounts --> Manage Accounts and press add button. Next step, I believe is easy to follow. Just try it out.

Pertamina 2009 Recruitment

About last week, I participated in Pertamina 2009 recruitment. Likely, since this year, Pertamina start to leverage IT in their recruitment program. In order to screnning participant, after submission application via website, we have to fill online test. The test consists of verbal, numerical and abstract reasoning test. From the online test result, later, participant who pass, will attend physical test at some venue.

My online test do not passed. From about 15 test at those 3 categories, I have big difficulty answering them. No wonder if finally I can not passed. From there I realize that I really need to learn more. How come if I can only answer 3 question from 15 in numerical test. The other categories is not better.

Reunion

Last Friday 10th April I met with old friend. It had been almost 3 years we don't meet. Very happy to see again. She did not change much. Still cute, smart and funny. Difference is she use jilbab now. She looks very elegant. We watched movie that night in Plaza Semanggi. Fast and furious. The movie is good. I treat her. After movie I was invited to meet her familly. Her familly is great. Her mom and sisters. Very harmonic and also fun. We hung out for while at Sky Dinning at same Plaza.

We should learn something from every occassion. From that reunion I learn that I should to be more flexible. Not to rigid. I must admit typically I am clumsy. Easy to nervous. That is me. Not proud but I must fix myself immediately. I want to be more expressive person. I don't want limitted by fear of rejection, fear of looks ugly and some kind of those.

For my friend, if you read this, I am very happy to meet you again.

Yahoo Mobile Developer Award 2009 Kick of Briefing

Last Saturday (4th April 2009), I attended Yahoo Mobile Developer Award 2009 (YMDA 2009) Kick of Briefing at X2 Club Plaza Senayan Jakarta Selatan. The most important agenda for that day is announcement of who will be sponsor company for the event. The sponsor are 5 big company in Indonesia like, Yamaha Motor, XL, BNI, Viva News and Code Jawa. Different with previously informed, there are 5 sponsors and not 6 sponsors. However there still a lot of challenge to built application that conform with sponsor requirement. Those 5 sponsor is randomly assigned adequately to total of about 70 participants. So, about 12 to 13 teams will built application to each sponsor. Actually if we see from quantity, the competion is likely easy. Moreover if we can provide good application. The path to winning is really clear for such readyness.

Individually, I got Code Jawa as sponsor. Code Jawa itself claim, it is largest content provider company in Indonesia. Their claim seems right if we see slot of advertisement of their product in television. Not many of us know Code Jawa. But I believe most of us know Mama Lauren, Chat n Date, SMS celebrities, which are products from Code Jawa. Even though Code Jawa is not as bonafide as Yamaha, BNI or XL, or even Viva, Code Jawa provide very flexible requirements for the application needed to build. I just hope can manage 3 weeks time provided to finish application with well. Someway too, I really hope can increase possibility to grab total of 20,000 USD from to event.

Happy compete, for all of the team. See you at final.