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

As part of the Nokia Rangers program, I received another Nokia phone which is the Nokia C7-00.

The Nokia C7 is powered by Symbian^3 and features a 8 MP camera with dual LED flash and is capable of recording HD video. It has a 3.5″ AMOLED capacitive touch screen of 640 x 360 pixels. Standard connectivity includes WLAN 802.11 b/g/n with Bluetooth 3.0 and HSDPA cat 9 speed of up to 10.2 Mbps and HSUPA cat 5 speed of up to 2.0 Mbps.

It has 8GB of built-in storage space and an additional MicroSD slot for expansion. It uses the same processor as the Nokia N8 which is the ARM 11 680 MHz processor with 3D Graphics hardware accelerator. The RAM is also the same as Nokia N8 which is 256MB. The Nokia C7 has a total ROM of 1GB which is 512MB more than the Nokia N8.

Metal was used extensively for the phone and hence in terms of built, it is as solid as the Nokia N8, but it is thinner and lighter.

I am going to repeat myself again, Nokia makes great hardware but it is the software they need to put in more effort into and when it is time to let the OS go, it is time to let it go. Holding on to it will do you more harm than good! I mean you can continue to support Symbian, but move on with a new OS!

When I setup the phone, it detects my Nokia account automatically (I am amazed) and I just need to enter my password for it. After keying in my password, it sends an SMS (I am guessing it is an activation SMS) back to the phone. But the problem is, I am on MultiSIM and the SMS will never be receive by the Nokia C7 because it is not my primary phone instead I received the SMS on my iPhone 4 instead. Because of this I can’t get my Nokia account to activate on my Nokia C7! I spend like 15 minutes to keep trying but to no avail!

Not a good first experience! But other than that, it is pretty much the same Symbian^3 experience like the Nokia N8.

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Free Speaker

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Nokia C7 Front

Nokia C7 Back

Nokia C7 With Symbian^3

I am a big fan of Crumpler and I got like 5 of their bags and 5 pouches. I have been eying on the remake of the Seedy One for a couple of months now and I finally got it last week. The retail price is SGD$169 but I got 10% discount for being a EpiCentre member. There is also a 10% discount if you are using DBS Live Fresh credit card as well. If you are using AMEX card, you also get a 10% discount but only at Orchard Ion’s branch. Paid SGD$152.10 for it after the discount.

I chose the black color and I think I took the last new piece in Singapore. When I went to the branch at Raffles City, they do not have a new piece and they help me called up other branches and only Wheelock have a piece left, so I went to Wheelock and got it. Thumbs up for the excellent service.

By the way, the Seedy One can fit a MacBook Pro 15″ (without any casing) and still have room for the charger and a small pouch to put your accessories. Initially when I went to the Ion branch, the staff told me that the Seedy One could not fit it a MacBook Pro 15″ and they ask me to go for the Seedy Three (SGD$189) instead. I find it too big for my liking and did not get it.

A few weeks later, I decided to bring my MacBook Pro 15″ to Raffles City branch instead. Before I took out my MacBook Pro, I asked the staff and she told me that they tested it with a MacBook Pro 15″ and it fits. So just to be sure, I took out my MacBook Pro and true to what the staff said it fits just fine! So I guess Raffles City staff are more knowledgeable.

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I started my goal of losing weight after I got my Nike + iPod Sport Kit with SwitchEasy Runaway. When I was in October 2010, I weigh 89kg and my goal was to be about 75kg before Chinese New Year which is in February 2011. Currently my weight is 78kg, I still got 3kg to go and 2 more weeks =D.

I started by running about 2.4km and try to completed it under 14 minutes. I did that for 3 times per week at the start, than slowly becoming 2 times per week due to my laziness! Sometimes on weekends, I will go for swimming as well, swimming between 15 to 20 laps per session.

Even though exercise is important, your diet is equally important. I avoided most things sweet. Drinking coffee or tea without sugar. I do not need sweets so I have no problem in that area. I also avoided carbohydrates like rice and potatoes (includes french fries). I mainly eat noodles (I think it has less carb than rice) and meat (Steak, pork chop, chicken chop, etc). I still eat some ice cream and fried food but at most once per week.

When it comes to calories, your body burned about 2,000 calories everyday doing almost nothing. You can calculate how much calories you burn slightly more accurate by using this calories burned calculator. Personally mine is 2,120 calories burned per day.

If you want to lose weight healthily, you can reduce your calories intake by about 500 calories per day, so for my case, maximum calories I should consumed per day will be about 1,620. By decreasing your calories by 500 per day for a week is equivalent to 3,500 calories lost or 0.45kg. So you will lose about 1.8kg per month.

Do note that your body needs at least 1,200 calories per day to survive. The stats below is for woman, but I am guessing men is not that much of a difference.

• The heart needs 12% of the calories (144 cals)
• The kidney needs 12% of the calories (144 cals)
• The Liver needs 23% of the calories (276 cals)
• The brain needs 23% of the calories (276 cals)
• The skeletal muscle needs 30% of the calories (360 cals)

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