Products & Engineering

 Posted on map[Count:February 27, 2015]  |  Batista Harahap

Since as long as I can remember, I’ve always enjoy building tech. It’s part of my identity. However, more often than not, I enjoyed the tech part more than the product itself. The temptation of any technical founders. I have a confession to make: I hate writing code but I hate not writing code more. As an engineer, naturally you’ll always try to find new ways to solve, enhance and or upgrade the tech part. [Read More]
culture  product  startup  urbanesia  thoughts  engineering 

Moving On Off Urbanesia

 Posted on map[Count:May 1, 2014]  |  Batista Harahap

Last night was thankful. All of us Ex Urbanesia gathered with Selina as a sponsor. Unfortunately we couldn’t meet up for as long as we’d want to but I managed to learn a thing or two. It’s satisfying to meet them all, it’s been a fun ride for the last 3.5 years. This blog post serves as a melting pot of what I’ve gained and also lost for the amount of time I was at Urbanesia. [Read More]
build  empower  learn  urbanesia  share 

Thank You, Urbanesia

 Posted on map[Count:January 30, 2014]  |  Batista Harahap

So when joining Urbanesia on July 2010, I wrote a blog post about it. It’s only right to bid farewell to Urbanesia with a blog post too. Yesterday, 30 January 2014 was my last day there. It’s been ~3.5 years since I first joined Urbanesia and a lot has changed since then. The most notable change being Kompas Group of Digital’s “Strategic Alliance” and Urbanesia’s direction for the future with its first taste of e-commerce in Indonesia. [Read More]
jakarta  startup  StartupLokal  urbanesia  farewell  gratitude 

XL Content Modifying Ads - Part 2

 Posted on map[Count:October 24, 2013]  |  Batista Harahap

My tweets and the previous post have gone viral. Lots of reactions both positive and negative. Some retweeted immediately and some calling me a fool for writing about injecting content within an SSL connection. Amazing to see all the responses. There is a pattern to be seen with people who reacted negatively: they tend to don’t care about the ads. Here’s my said tweet: Jangan pake KlikBCA di jaringan @xl123 kecuali login credential lo mau lo share sama xl, kalo begitu monggo. [Read More]
ads  banner  content  hijack  Mobile  tweet  urbanesia  Web  XL 

XL Intrusive Content Modifying Banner in Mobile Websites

 Posted on map[Count:October 7, 2013]  |  Batista Harahap

Last Friday, October 4th 2013 I was hanging out with some friends and while searching for a place to do so, I opened up Urbanesia on it mobile web http://m.urbanesia.com/. While I was searching, I noticed there’s a banner displayed on top of the page, it was definitely not Urbanesia’s and so I got curious. When digging into the mobile web source code, we didn’t activated any codes that’ll lead to any banner placements on top so this banner must surely be injected by a third party. [Read More]
ads  banner  content  hijack  Mobile  urbanesia  Web  XL 

Windows 8 RTM & Visual Studio 2012 - Urbanesia on Windows 8

 Posted on map[Count:October 7, 2012]  |  Batista Harahap

My first experience with Hello Worlds was through an old 8088XT that shows up a primitive BASIC IDE to hack on codes. Well now with the Urbanesia team and also past members of the team, we’ve created a native Windows 8 app for Urbanesia. We were in it from the start when Windows 8 was seeded as a Developer Preview. Our first IDE was Visual Studio 11 Beta that is now Visual Studio 2012. [Read More]
microsoft  rtm  urbanesia  visual studio  visual studio 2012  windows  windows 8 

OAUTHnesia for Windows 8 Metro Apps C#

 Posted on map[Count:April 2, 2012]  |  Batista Harahap

The last few days at Bandung was spent hacking a “proof of concept” application for Windows 8 Metro without using Urbanesia’s OAUTHnesia library. Now the library is done but still needs a few tweaks. All updates of the codes will be live in its Github Gist.

Without further ado, here’s the gist: [gist][/gist]

8  api  metro  metro style  oauth  oauthnesia  urbanesia  urbanesia api  windows  windows 8 

Jajan for Android Open Sourced at Github

 Posted on map[Count:February 5, 2012]  |  Batista Harahap

Jajan for Android is now Open Sourced at Github a few hours ago. I personally hope that by looking at the source code provided, more and more developers will sync to the tune of how easy it is to create an Android application. I wrote most of the codes 7 August 2011 in under 4 hours. Using ready made libraries already available within Android and also other third party libraries, it helped to ease the complications. [Read More]
Android  api  github  jajan  location based  Open Source  urbanesia  urbanesia api 

OAUTHnesia for PHP

 Posted on map[Count:January 9, 2012]  |  Batista Harahap

It’s 2012 now and Urbanesia is publishing a new OAUTHnesia client for Urbanesia’s API. This time it’s for PHP. Why it took so long to actually finish a PHP version is because we gave up on a third party library that is too complicated to do simple things. So without further ado, the codes are available below.

api  client  oauth  oauthnesia  Open Source  php  urbanesia