Software and Software

In the last two months, I have been speding a long of time performing my personal research in remote control area. I managed to develop several Java MIDLET application during the research. They are mostly application that allow me to interface my phone with PC as well as to control appliances at home.

The next step is to add some intelligence to the system. My house is gonna be an experiment subject for my project :) With this limited amount of knowledge, I need to start reading some book in AI area, such as machine vision and machine learning. Hopefully, I can understand what the books are talking about.

I also should start revision control software to manage all my application. Number of personal software that I developed in the last two year has greatly increased. I am currently looking at Subversion, which is also the one used at my work place. It's easy to use and free :)

Back to Work

I have been away most of the time during month of August, just went back to my country for my engagement ceremony. Now, I am back at work.

Recently, I am really into things related to "Remote Control". I have been searching Win32 Library in order to find code that can help me to control other Windows Application. I finally found two function that will help me fore sure: FindWindows and SendMessage. Later on, I am gonna integrate it with my phone Bluetooth for controlling my custom made Home Entertainment System. I know I can just use my phone's HID service for remote control purpose or I can just buy Apple TV or similar devices; however, I am the kind of person who will learn by doing it. So, this is one thing I'll do in my "spare time" to enhance my skills.

Spring Fellowship 2007

It's that time of year again. Spring Fellowship is a special event held by GII Youth Fellowship every year at the end of April/early May. The purpose of this event is to strengthen friendship between each of us as well as with newcomer. This year, it was held at Harrison Hot Spring, ~1 and 1/2 hour drive from Vancouver.

Harrison Lake at Sunset

Following are some photos I took:

This year theme song

Last group leaving Vancouver (Cik Sophie dan Audrey ikutan foto)

Our hotel

Group Photo 1

Group Photo 2

Group Photo 3

More photos can be found at my pbase site

The Missing Iron Ring

Last week, accidentally, I looked at space underneath my car's windshield. And ..., I found my engineering iron ring. Waow ... I thought I already lost it somewhere 8 months ago; in fact, it's always with me whenever I drive.

The Iron Ring

Canada is the only country that offers iron ring to engineers who graduate from accredited university. We, engineers, are all bind to oath we declared during the iron ring ceremony, pretty cool he ... :) The ceremony itself is private and not opened to public. Wanna know more about the ritual of iron ring? Just visit http://www.ironring.ca/.

Easter 2007

We just finished our celebration last week. Easter and Christmas are always interesting for me. It's the celebration of birth and resurrection of Jesus Christ. How he was born, killed, and alive. At church, we usually work hard preparing for these two celebration.

For easter this year, we are presenting a drama titled "3 Wise Man (The Continuation ...). I am not directly involved this time, because I handled the documentation area; taking photos and videos.

Easter 2007 IEC Team. Thank you guys for the hard work.
(click to see larger size)

More photos at http://www.pbase.com/closari/easter2007.

Pak Berlianto Farewell

Pak Berlianto adalah seorang staff di Konsulat Jenderal (Konjen) Indonesia di Vancouver. Orangnya baik dan ramah, dan juga tertarik dengan kamera. Hal inilah yang sering kita bicarakan pada saat kita ketemu. Sayangnya, dia menggunakan Canon, dan saya Nikon :)

Masa kerja beliau di Vancouver udah berakhir dan kemarin, Senin dinihari, beliau meninggalkan kota Vancouver. Berikut ini adalah beberapa foto pada saat pesta perpisahan.

Pak Berlianto

Ibu Dian, Gaby, Pak Berlianto

Kenang - Kenangan dari GII

Ibu Dian dan Gaby

Mendengarkan Kesan dan Pesan


Mendengarkan Pesan dan Kesan

Pak Berlianto dan Gaby

Gaby

Semoga sukses di Indonesia dan sampai ketemu lagi.

Switching

I finally had a chance to install Linux on my laptop. Now, my laptop is fully running on Linux; distribution I used is Ubuntu. The installation wizard has improved a lot since 5-6 years ago. Amazingly, it also recognized all hardware in my system. In the past, I remembered trying to go through x86 config file to setup my vga card, installing sound card driver manually, etc.


So far, my experience is pretty good. I have setup all developments tools that I normally used: Java and Netbeans, PHP, Apache, MySQL, GCC. Other than development tools, I do install mplayer to watch movies before sleeping :)

However, I still need Windows to run some tasks. For example, Matlab ( I am still using it eventhough Linux has octave), Adobe Suites ( I am not used to GIMP), and .Net Development Tools (Visual Studio is the IDE that I like the most).

The last one month has been a blast for me. Some cool projects are coming; it's challenging but I do gained a lot of new skills.