the next question is: what do i give my beloved wife and baby this Christmas aside from all the love that i can give? Gift buying is not for the faint of heart... hmmmnnnn....

whew! my last blog was nov 15... time REALLY flies nowadays... got the main infrastructure to be stable and reliable on the project i am currently working on... but oh yeah, still a TON of work to do... on the otherside its the christmas season... lets not forget that the real meaning of christmas is to remember and celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ...

geez... again, again... lots of things to do and yet so little time...

bought an asus degatto 15000 a couple of weeks ago under company loan... its not as portable as a powerbook but it does withstand compiling every now and then while at the same time running an mp3 player plus a whole slew of office apps... it took some time to get accustomed to the windows environment again... but as soon as i have no need to run those legacy c++ builder app that am maintaining i might format it back to freebsd again... i had it run freebsd for the first week and it runs quite fine and stable... btw, i had the machine replaced twice already due to a factory defect on the lcd (the first one had two burnt pixel in it and the latter had only one)... nevertheless its a pretty damn good work machine and the lcd certainly eases the strain on ones eyes as opposed to those crt based monitors...

couldnt help but get fascinated with my baby... everyday there's always something new that she would do... so kulit and so so so cute... a few days ago she was really upset that the all four goldfish that we bought died... hmmmnn... i think its time to save for a digital cam to capture this everyday miracle... thank you God for bringing baby to our life...

making huge progress with the j2ee app am doing... this wouldnt be possible without tools like eclipse, quantum and lomboz... i find them indispensable for doing fairly complicated applications...

blogging again... hopefully i can keep on posting non-sense text more often... settling on a new job... hopefully the start of new and wonderful things... very challenging projects... whew! very very very exciting!!!

long time no posts... busy as a bee... still pushing thru with learning java and targeting j2ee technologies... so far so good, am an eclipse convert now... its way way faster than intellij idea on freebsd 5.x...

basically it seems i have the components i need to go full throttle with j2ee... got the hang of servlets and the http get/post methods... need to read more about ejb's.... xalan seems to fit right into the application framework i'm developing... focus, focus and focus!!! i hope santa grants me powerbook g4 even at this time of the year... it would greatly increase my motivation!!! here's to wishful thinking...

Haven't posted in a while... am buried deep into a mountain of work... Hay buhay...

bioinformatics Developing Bioinformatics Computer Skills: Chapter 1: Biology in the Computer Age has been of keen interest to me lately. genome hacking is uber cool and highly regret not listening well enough during those chemistry and biology classes. it's such a fascinating area where computers can be of tremendous help. unfortunately my lack of a fairly deep background in some aspect of molecular biology will likely make me "run into brick walls too often". lets see where this goes...

IntelliJ Community . SimpleUML seems to be a good modeling tool... havent tested it yet, but based on the user comments it seems a handy companion to java development.

back to memory lane... my first computer was 286 clone... i thik it had 640k of memory and has a monochrome monitor... our school had same types computers but still has about two or three green monitors plus 2 colored monitors.. in a few months the 386's have arrived with VGA monitors and 3 1/5 drives... it was also the first time i saw windows 3.0... ang gandang tingnan kasi very different from the DOS that we used from our 5 1/4 boot floppies... syet! wordstar was the killer app in our school at that time and also lotus 123...

hika sa init ng araw...

grabe ang init ngayon!!!

whew! got a boatload of work piling up... time to drown myself one coffee cup at a time...

vacation is over... back to work... am still experimenting with various java tidbits on the freebsd platform... OTOH, i finally was able to edit the reported java version of the jdk14 port... really handy for the jdk to report a more sane version instead of the default (jdk version appended with the patch level number e.g. "-p3")... so now onward to more java adventures... tried to fire up resin and jboss and nice to see them both running smoothly... it still needs a whole lot of testing but having a running j2ee on freebsd can only be described by one word "ubercool!"... but still, jdk14's native freebsd port is a green threads only implementation...

sigh... cant help but remember my first encounter with information technology... weird really, i havent seen a real PC until my first day in college... my high school doesnt have a single PC back then... it was the love for playing computer games that made me decide to take computer science-- i was a family computer addict!... i would play super mario way past bedtime... kaya ngayon pasmado na ang kamay ko....


then yun na.. during my first year i got really fascinated with a language called pascal... started imitating peter nortons text based gui look and feel... tsk tsk tsk... i would redraw each character manually on the screen... we have no internet back then in 1994... i devoured every programming article and book i could get hold on in legaspi city... i discovered assembly and a way to interface it with pascal and was soon accessing the bios and console memory directly... and i got super fast text based screen drawing routines handled by assembly wrapped around by pascal procedures... then the third book of the pascal 5.5 bundle that a friend gave me, contained the reference for object oriented programming extension of pascal... i got hooked, now my design philosophy changed... and before the end of my first year i started with a language called c...


c was good... damn good... it brought me closer to the machine... its a language something in between of assembly and pascal... and it has object extensions called c++! i immediately got hooked... i spend the summer trying to access the vga directly and began taking mathematics seriously... i was starting to do GRAPHICS!!! i was disillusioned that i can finally do what i realy wanted: DEVELOP GAMES! and before the end of my 2nd year i already have a very crude graphical toolkit to represent dialog boxes and buttons... text was handled primarily by borlands provided fonts... ahhh.... now back to regular programming: meaning I SHOULD GO BACK TO WORK!

interesting discussion on When Should a Consultant Question Decisions?. i stand firm in saying to the client his options and let the client decide. at least maybe in the process of giving options the client might get a better view of the problem to be solved... just my P0.02...

am starting to blog again! my last post was way back year 2000 when blogging is still for the lonely hearted...