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

Huge mig33 Logo

mig33 XL Starter Pack

mig33 – XL

This is our biggest Kopnas event yet as we have partnered with XL to introduce the “mig33 XL Starter Pack”. The starter pack cost IDR5,000 and it includes a phone voucher of IDR2,000 and just top up a minimum of IDR10,000 each time to enjoy these benefits:

• Free access to mig33 for 5 days
• Free calls between mig33 users (within XL)
• Free migCredit bonus (10% of top-up value)
  • IDR1,000 for IDR10,000 phone top-up
  • IDR2,500 for IDR25,000 phone top-up
  • IDR5,000 for IDR50,000 phone top-up
  • IDR20,000 for IDR200,000 phone top-up

miniblog

mig33′s miniblog

We also officially launched our mig33 miniblog service on that day. For more information about miniblog, check out the coverage by VentureBeat: mig33 launches Twitter-like Miniblog for emerging mobile markets. I have been working on the miniblog for than 6 months together with my colleagues and to see it goes live and being used by 300,000 daily active users really gives you a sense of satisfaction. It is the same feeling that I got when I created my WordPress plugins and seen it being used in so many websites and having a total download count of 6.3 million!

Feel free to sign up for a mig33 account and follow me on my miniblog at b.mig33.com/u/lesterchan!

mig33 Kopnas 2012 – Merchandises
I have been to some smaller mig33 users gathering before but this is my first time attending a mig33 event of this scale and size.

Despite the event starting at 9am, the crowd only started coming in around 1pm.

I did not know how much the mig33 users are fanatic about mig33 till this event. 90% of the users come to the event wearing their own mig33 community t-shirts, some brought alone their banners as well. We have booths allocated to different mig33 communities as well as mig33 users selling mig33 merchandises (some are even handmade) featuring our famous migBots!

migBots

mig33 Merchandises

mig33 Mugs

Handmade mig33 Piggy Banks

miterbot is one of the stall selling mig33 t-shirts and they look nice!

miterbot Stall

My Favourite Design

I kinda like this t-shirt with migBot holding a green heard shape with the words “GREEN”, I kinda regretted not buying it.

mig33 Kopnas 2012 – Communities

mig33 Cirebon Community

mig33 Karawang Community

mig33 Mafia Chat Community

mig33 Cibitung Community

There are quite a number of cases of mig33 users got to know each other through mig33 and got married, like the users below!

Husband & Wife mig33 Users

As a mig33 staff, you are like a celebrity to the users, when you are there, everyone wants a photo taken with you!

mig33 Staffs

The Boss, Steven With mig33 Users

Jeffrey With mig33 Users

Manael With mig33 Users

Look at our users creativity in designing their own mig33 t-shirts!

mig33 Users T-Shirt

mig33 Users T-Shirt

mig33 Users T-Shirt

mig33 Users T-Shirt

mig33 Users T-Shirt

mig33 Kopnas 2012 – Performance

mig33 Kopnas 2012 Hosts

No event is complete without performance! In mig33 Kopnas 2012, there are performance by local bands such as Pee Wee Gaskins, Danger Rangers, Slank and Last Child and local artists such as Indah Dewi Pertiwi, Lina Geboy (who went viral on YouTube) an d Gisella Anastasia (Indonesian Idol Finalist 2008)!

Last Child

Gisella Anastasia With Last Child

Lina Geboy

mig33 Kopnas 2012 Gallery

Looking Back

• Started working for mig33
• 1 year later at mig33

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;

• 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.

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

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

We are based in Singapore and are looking for:

• Software Engineer
• Mobile Engineer
• Web Engineer
• System Engineer
• Release Engineer

If you are interested in becoming part of us, do send us your C.V. at jobs@mig33global.com.

And by the way, fresh grads from Polytechnics or Universities are most welcome =)

About mig33
mig33 is the world’s largest mobile-first community, providing social communications and entertainment for more than 40 million members and their mobile devices worldwide. With mig33, members in more than 200 countries engage in vibrant chat communities, share photos, send gifts, play games, post on each others’ profiles, join groups, create avatars and much more. The service is available worldwide and optimised for more than 2 000 handsets. Founded in 2005, mig33 is backed by Silicon Valley venture firms Accel Partners, Redpoint Ventures and DCM.

Engineers (preferably raw graduates to 5 years experience), proficient with PHP / MYSQL

• Web Engineers
• Java Engineers
• J2ME Engineers

Designers (Doing everything from product design to artwork to web design)

If you are interested, send your resume to lester.chan AT mig33global DOT com

Woot, I am overjoyed, shall go out and celebrate this weekend!

Go To: mig33.com

Today is the eve of Lunar New Year, I hereby wishes all Chinese a Happy Lunar New Year! And hope that they DO NOT take advantage of lunar new year to increase your food prices! It is ridiculous!

My last paper ended back on 3rd December 2009, went to Taiwan for my graduate trip from 7th to 13th December 2009 and went to Hong Kong with Li Xiang from 19th to 27th December 2009. Sent out my resumes to OCBC, UOB, SingTel, Matador, CSIT and Crimson Logic for the last 3 months but did not get a reply.

I was recommended by David to Andy who said his company, mig33 Pte Ltd, is looking for a web developer and David asked me to contact Andy personally. So I thought why not give it a try, so I sent my resume to Andy and Andy forwarded it to his bosses. Thanks to Andy for endorsing and putting good words for me, I manage to get an interview last Thursday, 28th January 2010 at 3pm. The interview was pretty technical which I like because it really tests your skills and experience in that area rather than just looking at your CAP or grades and judge everything based on that.

Came back at 4pm and at 5.49pm, I got an email saying that I got the job as a Web Engineer at mig33! I was really over the moon! It is my first full-time job! The feeling is definitely better than striking 4D or ToTo!

It is such a coincidence that mig33 is located at The Central Office 1 building which is just beside my internship company, Sedgwick Richardson, which is located in Office 2 building (they both share the same lobby)

mig33 is the largest mobile chat community, connecting millions of mobile friends all around the world! You can find out more about mig33 at http://mig33.com/.

On the day that I got the job, I posted a blog post entitled All Good Things Must Come To An End on my WordPress blog.

Just in case you miss it, let me paste it down here:

As you all know, I have been doing WordPress plugins and supporting it for the past 6 years. These 6 years of my life, I have been through my polytechnic education, my national service as well as my university education.

I just graduated from university in December 2009 and have been jobless for 2 months. However, things change for the better. I was offered a full-time job and will be starting work this coming Monday on the 1st February 2010.

I regret to say that I am not able to provide support for my plugins anymore due to my full-time job commitment. I will leave my WordPress plugins support forums open and let the community help one another.

However, I will still update my plugins when I can and you still can report bugs to me via email and I will try to fix it.

The comments I have gotten are very positive and I would like to thank everyone for their support and encouragement! You rock WordPress community!