Ideas: Unleash your social app
Recently Joyent has offered its Accelerator for free, if only you implements OpenSocial. Although it’s free for only 6 months, it is still a great opportunity to leverage your social onto new level. I know, many social app, especially developed by third world people (the underpaid) face a terrible nightmare of inability to scale. There are some, maybe, has a luxury of owning their own server. But for some (most) other, dedicated server or VPS is just beyond their budget (my best finding for VPS is Rp150000/month).
For those waiting for a free ride, this is your moment. Take Joyent offer, implements OpenSocial and determine within your free 6 months: Would a VPS or dedicated really worth an investment? 
I heard Shindig is a great tool to start impelementing OpenSocial. Shindig is an Apache Incubator project. But not only Java, it’s also supporting PHP. Great isn’t it?
Further, I heard EC2 is quite cheap ($0.100/hour-instance). If you can really take off with your free 6 months at Joyent, instead of continuing on Joyent you can always consider EC2. There’s also scaling tool compatible to EC2 architecture called Scalr.
So, there are two ideas you can found here:
- Host your app over Joyent or EC2. go international!
- VPS is a wet market. Refine your business model, grab potential early adopters!
PS:
Joyent offers free service as well for Facebook App developer!
Subversion Do and Don’ts
When developing on a project with subversion (or any other centralized revision control system) do not:
- commit without useful log, unless you are not a human (eg: scripty)
- pass 1 commit/minute commit rate
When developing on a project with subversion (or any other centralized revision control system) do:
- Test your changes locally
- Use a staging (devel) server
uCLinux on PSP
Indeed the photo is a total crap. Can’t do much close up with w830i. Anyway, basically the photo shows a recent uClinux for PSP. Kinda thrilling to see the init message scrolling :). Too bad OSK doesn’t work on my PSP. The OSK can be shown but non navigatable. Mouse mode works flawlessly though. I can copy paste text to execute some command. ‘free’ was showing 32MB of RAM. Memory Card mounting is definitely working, as ls can list PSP root folder.
I wonder if we compile more things there. Yes, toolchain is available. Just waiting to be compiled. Maybe we can compile KDE 4 for PSP. LOL. Too good to be true 
PS:
Still working on Leaf Destruction with Sasuke, Kakashi and Gai. Intense fight!
revvi
If stwn has kupat, then I have revvi. revvi is my new PSP (slim). Bought two days ago (Saturday) after visiting Green Festival. PSP slim 2000 black, 2GB. Changed the background to Debian swirl at once :D. Tested mp4 playback (via VLC transcode — < 320x240 mp4v and < 192 kbps mp4a). Tested mp3 playback (no mp2 support -- just like my w830i). No USB cable included but I managed to use a Canon digital camera USB cable. No linux yet. No internet testing yet, WLAN feature is brilliant coolneess, though keyboard will be missed.
Currently having Fun playing Naruto Ultimate. Jsut unlocked Kakashi and Gai sensei. Superb fighting game. Tried Final Fantasy (I) but lost on my second battle :p.
PS:
- Background is not set to Alphonce Elric of Fullmetal Alchemist. FMA logo fits revvi’s screen very well.
- I’m setting my eye on Bleach
Bubarkan Ahmadiyah Harga Mati
Pengennya saya, Paman Tyo saja yang nulis gombalan tentang foto ini. Saya yakin beliau bakal bisa memberi banyak gelitikan pikiran daripada saya. Hehehe. Spanduk ini saya jumpai di jembatan penyeberangan di halte Angkasa. Bisa juga dijumpai di dekat perlintasan kereta stasiun Tebet.
Tanya kenapa? Mungkin memang ada sebagian manusia yang berpikir dia lebih baik daripada orang lain. Macam saya masih sempet pengen ikut carut marut dalam urusan gak jelas seperti ini. :p
PS:
Judulnya sengaja dibikin bombastis. Mulanya hanya “harga mati” saja.
History Meme
toni@toni:~$ uname -a
Linux toni 2.6.18-53.1.13.el5 #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 13:01:45 EST 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
toni@toni:~$ history|awk '{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’|sort -rn|head
176 cd
101 ls
89 svn
84 cat
69 less
60 sudo
53 ps
33 ping
29 vim
26 find
Scribefire is not f***ing working in FF Beta 5. So I’m manually write my post in my WP dashboard. I’ve tried to do this post twice in Scribefire. Both never made it to this blog. So, I’m pretty pissed off and will left the interpretation of my bash history to you.
Ideas: group thinker
Some of you may have been familiar with digg.com. Semua orang bs melakukan digg atas artikel yang dianggapnya menarik. Rekomendasi lewat aksi ‘digg’ inilah yang akan membuat cerita terangkat dan lbh punya chance utk dbaca orang lain (karena masuk ke halaman depan). Berguna bgt kan? Wisdom of crowd gt loh
Tp bagaimana klo pada suatu saat tdk ada satu orang pun yang melakukan digg atas artikel yang sebenarnya relevan dan menarik bagi kita? Atau sebaliknya, terlalu banyak orang yang memberi digg pada artikel yang sama sekali tak menarik buat kita? Mgk hal seperti inilah yang mendasari truemors-nya guy kawasaki atau reddit elite. Wisdom of crowd bisa bekerja dan bermanfaat dg syarat2 tertentu, akan tetapi tetap saja kita kadang masih memberikan penilaian dan penghargaan lebih pada pendapat person yang kita anggap pakar.
So, what’s the idea then? Clone idenya dan ganti dg pakar lokal. Fasilitas lifestream seperti friendfeed bisa menjadi alat bantu sementara untuk membuat group thinker penuh pakar bagi anda sendiri. Paling tidak sbelum seseorang atau sekelompok pemberani berhasil mewujudkan ide ini. Siapkah anda?
Lemme be amazon.co.id
Let put it this way, I don’t have any cc and I don’t have any plan to have one anytime soon. That means no online transaction for me. Further more any transaction that cost me a shipping expense bigger than the price of the shipped good. Eg, buying books or gunpla via amazon.
So, what’s my point? Well, i’m free on weekend. No hacking yet until I can subscribe to a internet service provider. So, what I am trying to say is how many of you are willing to use my free time to get yourself some good you can’t found in your local store? Noo, not something illegal. What I mean is books from kinokuni, or special biscuit from jalan sabang.
Hahaha, pardon me, just got a little electric shock over my brain. It tickles me.
Recent long weekend
Kok jadi malas cerita gini ya :D. Intinya aja deh. jadi kemarin long weekend, me and me wife, pergi ke Jogja. BUkan berlibur, walaupun pengennya adalah berlibur. Berbekal tiket yang sudah dipesan sebelumnya, kami pergi ke Jogja untuk mengurusi gombal-gombal dan sampah kertas yang teronggok di kamar kos. Hasil bersih-bersih berupa setumpuk sampah dan 6 buah kerdus dan satu karpet yang harus dikirim ke Malang (minus sampahnya). Biaya kirim membuat kami ngenes bokek di bulan ini — senilai dengan uang “operasional” saya selama 3 minggu.
Hari sabtu, setelah membereskan urusan gombal dan kertas, kami pergi ke rumah temen lama untuk mengambil surat pajak. Cerita kenapa surat pajak saya ada di sana tidak perlu diceritakan, bisa-bisa flashback sampai tahun 2004. Oleh-oleh dari sana, selain surat pajak, adalah foto lukisan di samping. Karakterisik lukisannya masih saya kenal, masih punya kemiripan dengan apa yang saya lihat di tahun 2004. Jati (Kharisma Jati) ini memang punya bakat, jadi ya memang tak salah kalau dulu bisa memang lomba menggambar yang di selenggarakan oleh Stabillo. Ya gitu deh, jadi kalau anda membutuhkan orang yang menyukai tantangan dalam dunia ilustrasi, kalau anda mencari character designer bagi studio game anda, cari saja si Kharisma Jati ini
Oke, sebenarnya kami tidak melulu sibuk ngurusin sampah. Sempat juga kami menikmati makan malam romantis di Parsley. Walau sempat rada kecewa karena tidak ada lagi diskon buat pemegang kartu XL. Oke, oke, segitu aja ya ceritanya .. :p Jangan lupa liat fotonya di flickr ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/geek/ ), sama di picasa ( http://picasaweb.google.com/akhmadf ) ..
Podcast: Blog dan Mainstream Media
Menanggapi Momonolog, podcast ini bisa dianggap sebagai ganti komentar saya di sana. Transkrip (lebih tepatnya pointers) bisa diakses di google docs. Sementara itu podcast versi MP3 bisa di download di podbean. Versi amr-nya bisa didownload dari sini, atau dari box.net yang terpampang di landing page blog saya ini.
Dalam podcast ini, istri saya yang berperan sebagai narator utama sedangkan saya menambahkan penjelasan untuk poin-poin yang hendak dielaborasi. OK, silahkan dinikmati dan jangan ragu untuk berkomentar atau berdiskusi dengan kami
