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. My mind were full of technical ideas translating into security breaches/flaws making the injection a reality. ...

All these times coding in PHP, I have yet to experience an elegant way to compile and minify assets including but not limited to CoffeeScript, JavaScript and or CSS. Watchers for specific transcompiler were needed and it blocks me from coding straight up. Well Python and Flask specifically is giving me sweet dreams. Have a look first at Flask-Assets and then dive in to Webassets. FYI, Flask-Assets if you set it up as your dependency will include Webassets also. I love Flask because it’s simple, to the point and very flexible to extend to your liking. ...

Just recently (last night), Steven Loria updated TextBlob to v0.5.0. The module enabled a relatively easy way to do Natural Language Processing in Python. NLTK is a dependency so it’s familiar turfs with an easier getting started part. Based on this, I did also did an easy way to parse a set of words and documents to measure important keywords based on TF-IDF algorithm. A few minutes ago I uploaded the module to PyPi and tagged it as v0.1.0. It’s still rough and what it does is just plain TF-IDF for now. The next version will incorporate the said graph building feature. ...

This week has been a week of light and enjoyable traffic in Jakarta, Indonesia. Known as the destination for Indonesians to try their luck, during this holiday season, Jakarta is pretty much “empty”. So I set out to do an experiment, one that will inform me of how much I’m saving in fossil fuels. I have a 2009 Honda Freed, people say that it’s the best bang for the buck when it comes to MPVs. I can attest to that. Anyways, I started the week by filling the gas tank full of its 42 Liters capacity. The cost was Rp. 260.000 + Rp. 19.000 equaling Rp. 279.000. ...

It has come to this specific day of the year. The 7th of August! Wishing everyone a happy and joyous day today. Thank you for all the well wishes from friends and family. I am grateful I am incremented for another year. Especially this year because this is the last unmarried 7th of August in my life. The years following this day, I will be married to fine and loving woman whom last night has given me more will and strength to keep going and do what I do best. ...

Last night, I read about James Moriss’ blog post on how to gain more followers by favoriting other tweets relevant to your own tweets or some other keywords you are interested in. The downside was, you still have to input the keywords yourself. So I hacked up some codes let the codes figure out what keywords are proper. My first try into Python’s NLTK. WARNING: The codes below are not production ready codes. These are only proof of concepts and therefore should not be used in production environments without proper knowledge. ...

I had 2 lunches today. The second lunch was reinvigorating. The venue was at Hillside Canteen Kompas Gramedia. Cheeky name ain’t it for a well known amazing transit hotel near TB Simatupang. I guess all the creative energy was spent wisely. As always, when you talk and talk, you forget which a leads to b and c and so on and so forth. Basically the talk was about Durex “Fundawear”. If you don’t know about it, get to know, takes flirting to a new level. ...

Just done a new Android application called Stock Quotes. It’s a simple app that doesn’t get in your way and get reminders (notifications) of current stock prices. It is built with the new Android Studio and the development experience was pleasant to say the least. This blog post is also a continuation of my previous post here. Since that particular post, 6 days have passed and the app I was talking about is done for v1.0.0. ...

Been trying to build my own Android build server only to find insufficient resource to do so like here. After some digging around, I found the perfect deal for this to happen. I found Reliable Hosting Services while reading through some blog posts here. The specs I went for is below: 2 CPU Cores 1 GB RAM 200 GB Disk 1000 GB Bandwidth Price: US$ 5/month Got it for cheap using a coupon code available at the blog post link I posted above. ...

The first time I coded for Android was with Eclair (2.1). Bought a Nexus One to develop some apps with it. Nowadays, Android has gone a long way but still, most fundamentals to make your apps snappy still applies. I’m going down memory lane to post some of the optimizations producing effective and efficient codes. Static Method & Properties Like in any platform, memory is the key to performance. The better we utilize memory, the better the performance. With Android, utilizing memory is as simple as defining the right static class properties and methods. When you set a static property or method, it will always be referenced once at run time. Hence, all the references are already in the memory before you call any of them. ...