shortest way to learn german… the euro english! The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted [...]
Yahoo! The word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book Gulliver’s Travels. It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance and action and is barely human. Yahoo! founders Jerry Yang and David Filo selected the name because they considered themselves yahoos. Xerox The Greek root “xer” means dry. The inventor, Chestor [...]
I just recovered from a terrible flu, and it really gave me a hard time these past few days. I’ve been on sick leave for 2 days from work and I really had a hard time doing my daily routine. Aside from the fever that brought me down lying in my bed, I also had [...]
Finally, I have a clear project assignment now. I guess the management decided to put me on a project where I would be most useful as well as most efficient.. and that is on our IMPS J2ME client. As I’ve said, anything is cool with me so moving me from Symbian development to J2ME is [...]
I’ve been working with our IMPS Symbian client for some time now and I am slowly getting the hang of Symbian C++ development. It was a bit hard at first considering that I have no solid background in C or C++ but I managed to gain a bit of comptence these past few weeks. For [...]
Today is a special day for our company since we finally got the chance to be visited by our CEO. I think it’s a good timing since our CEO attended an event in Singapore so he decided to visit our office after the event. Sad to say, he can’t stay long and needs to go [...]