Today marks the full 2 years of working in mig33 and the start of my 3rd year with mig33. I just came back from mig33 Kopnas 2012 from Jakarta, Indonesia.

It is a yearly gathering of mig33 users in Indonesia. Kopnas is derived from the word “Kopi” (Coffee) and “Nasional” (National) which means a gathering for coffee.

The event starts at 9am till 8pm and is held at Plaza Barat Senayan, Jakarta, Indonesia.

mig33 Kopnas 2012 Entrance

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mig33 is about to unveil a new Developer program for developers and brands that want to build social games and apps for her 50 million registered users and thriving virtual economy.

mig33 Developer Program Launch

About mig33 Developer Program

The Developer Program is a joint initiative by our company, and also both East Asian social networking services: Japan’s GREE and China’s Tencent QQ, valued at USD$2.5 billion and $43 billion.

The launching event will be attended by our CEO and co-founder Steven Goh; our Vice President of Business Development Chris Chandler; and Director, Head of International Alliance Division at GREE Daisuke Kobayashi.

Developers and partners alike will gain a better insight into our basic technical architecture, the Developer Program, and the opportunities made available by our partnership with GREE.

Developer Program Launch

Date: 20th July 2011
Venue: Chijmes Hall, 30 Victoria Street, Singapore
Time: 5pm – 8pm

If you are a developer or have interest in apps whether it is business or development related, feel free to drop by.

You can RSVP over at Flickevents.

Looking forward to seeing you guys there!

PS: The Javascript code in the image above is real, try it out and see what is the output. It is written by my senior Software Engineer Timothee.

Copy and paste the code below in Firebug or Chrome Developer Tools:

n=17260027;s='';do{s+=String.fromCharCode((n&63)+50)}while(n>>>=6);s;

mig33′s creative team is looking for a Webmaster who could join their growing team! The webmaster will report to the Director of Content and Creative Factory. This will be a Full Time Job.

• At least 5 years of web development experience in a production environment.
• Knowledge in web design, web GUI, mobile UI, and designer tools
• Experience in web management and IA
• Expert level command of CSS. Detailed understanding of JavaScript, HTML/XHTML, and AJAX-driven applications. WAP, XSL, and PHP knowledge strongly preferred.
• Solid understanding of software design principles, OO concepts (OO JavaScript), web standards, and UI design best practices.
• Knowledge in development and maintenance of CMS
• Strong sense of responsibility. Attention to details.
• Good grasp in time management and can handle fast-paced environment
• Well-versed in web transaction software, payment-processing software, and security software.
• Good knowledge of cross-browser development techniques and browser degradation strategies, updated knowledge of web and its power tools
• Experience with all stages of development process
• Working knowledge of SVN (or other source control) and Linux.
• Understanding of MySQL and Apache.
• Creative-thinker, tekkie-geek
• Ability to write documentation and reporting
• Logical yet creative
• Good communicator

More Details: http://blog.mig33.com/about-us/jobs/cr8-webmaster

Send your resume to jobs@mig33global.com with the email subject Webmaster.

It has been 1 year since I started working at mig33 (this is my first job)! Till date, I am still learning lots of new stuff everyday at work!

We do not just do coding, but also reading up on new technology trends and how we can deploy them to production so that they bring benefits to the company. For the past year, I learn stuff like Hadoop, Redis, Memcached, RabbitMQ and on top of that scaling the LAMP stack and making them as efficient as possible is what we do as well.

I have picked up log tailing from my colleagues, analyzing server logs and looking at Cacti graphs. With these, you can identify patterns that leads to exploits and even attacks and how to counter them and effectively preventing it from happening again.

I am with the web team but I have also worked on our Android Client (web pages and native UI) which the first version was released in December 2010.

To mark my first year at mig33 (yea right!), we are releasing the first beta of our next client, mig33 v4.5, which contains new features (Fashion Show, new Gift and Group Chat Room commands) and significant speed optimizations over the previous version (mig33 v4.2).

Also in today release, is our new Facebook App to support Facebook Chat’s XMPP protocol using Facebook Authentication. But eventually more features will be added to this Facebook App =)

After working for a year, I think that if even if you excel with your studies in school, chances are you might not be able to do that with your job. Not every job looks at what grades you got in school or what CCA you attended. It is that extra skill sets or part time job (related to your job) that you have obtained outside your school curriculum that gives you the competitive advantage against your fellow peers when it comes to looking for a job. But of course luck do play a major role in job seeking and interview.

I would not say what I learned in school is totally useless here. Stuff like Java/J2EE, SDLC, Data Structures/Algorithms and Networking are still useful for me. Personally, I think those skills that I picked up on my own because of my interests helps me a lot and it gives me a good head start. Skills like LAMP, JS/AJAX/jQuery, SVN, WordPress (mig33 uses WordPress as well) and even Facebook/Twitter integration.

I am known for my WordPress plugins and if I am with mig33 earlier (before they have WordPress installed), I would have proposed a WordPress strategy or rather I would call it “Proper Usage of WordPress” guide for the company that covers the usage of Posts/Pages/Categories/Plugins/Themes in WordPress to the technical part of WordPress like scaling and security.

Well that basically sums up my 1 year at mig33.

We are still hiring and if you are interested in joining us, do check out our Jobs Page. Currently we have opening for these positions (Send your resume to jobs@mig33global.com):

Singapore

• Senior Web Developer
• Software Engineer (Server-side Java)
• Product Manager – Games
• Product Manager – B2B

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

• Database Administrator
• Network Administrator

Been working on mig33 Android Client for the past few months with my colleagues. I am tasked to style the Android native UI using Java/XML as well as the webpages in HTML5/CSS3. Been fun working on the Android but styling the native UI is sometimes very tedious! I wonder will it be easier on iOS.

And now, the first beta of mig33 Android Client is ready for download! You need to be using Android 2.1 (Eclair) and above in order to use the app.

You can search for “mig33″ (without quotes) in Android marketplace. If you could not find it, try browsing the latest apps in the “Social” category.

Alternatively, you can download the APK file directly and manually transferred it to your Android phone.

Welcome Screen | Login Screen

Register Page | Home Screen

PS: Screenshot is taken during development and may differ slightly from the final build.

Download: Android Beta version (v1.0)
View: mig33 Download Page
Press Release: mig33 Brings Android to 40+ Million Customers