Porting to Octopress

I have slowed down my updates on my blog these months. Lately, I spend my time travelling so do my works. The other reason behind the reduced of new posts because I am considering alternative platform to Posterous. Some of you might know that Posterous is winding down after the acquisition by Twitter. After several trials, I’ve decided to settle with Octopress hosted with Heroku due to several reasons:- Complete mirror of local copy Changes are tracked with Git Markdown Code snippet with Pygments Awesome mobile theme But this platform has several downside compared to Posterous...

August 16, 2012 · 1 min · Shern Shiou Tan

Life as a Code Surgeon

From past few weeks till now, everyday moves fast. Been through ups and downs. Most of the time, it was stressful. For the first time, coding felt like an operation. When I was looking at the IDE, my surrounding resembles an operation room like the one in Grey’s Anatomy. My teammates left and right were like the other doctors giving me advices here and there. While I am the one holding my mouse like scalpel and executing the surgery by typing on my keyboard....

July 5, 2012 · 2 min · Shern Shiou Tan

Hello

Raining outside my window The sun is hiding behind the haze Hello sky, are you feeling better now? Trees moving wildly at the garden Dancing or shaking only they know Hello trees, are you happy now? Wind outside blowing sturdily Birds traveling under strong current Hello little animals, are you safe at home now?

June 17, 2012 · 1 min · Shern Shiou Tan

Population Growth

Human must be the favourite creation from the Nature. We are not only blessed with the power to think and comprehend but also very much suitable for the current situation. Human population grows tremendously in recent centuries especially after World War II (refer to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_growth). Referring to the graph here, our population actually doubled from 1960s until now. Once people thought we might experienced serious food crisis that will prevent the human to expand further however with the technology, we are able to produce food better for most of the people here (2 out of 7 billion people here still experiencing food security)....

May 8, 2012 · 1 min · Shern Shiou Tan

Here Comes A New Challenger!

Two days ago at Orlando, Florida, RIM has just announce their upcoming product along with the spanking new Blackberry 10 (BB10). I am biased as I am working with BBX lately, I found that this announcement welcoming. Not mentioning the latest mobile gadget gimmickry, I am more intrigued on the development on BB10 natively. Up until now only iOS officially support app development natively using Objective-C. As for the other platform, Android support native development with NDK (but its awfully ugly when you need to integrate NDK with Java through JNDI)....

May 3, 2012 · 1 min · Shern Shiou Tan