My blog is a place for my own personal branding, well this post is the “personal” in personal branding. I rarely write like this but here goes anyways. On my 30th birthday, just a few days before it, someone came into my life and she shook the living world out of me. Caught me off guard and boy The Guy Above knows what each of us need in His own perfect timing. ...
First and foremost, Happy 7th of August everyone! This is a day of joy as the default theme. Have a blessed and fruitful Tuesday for everyone. Looking back 10 years ago when I was having my 20th birthday, it was a different experience. Back then was full of ideals, theories and mostly anger. Those 3 things shaped the last 10 years of my life in it entirety. Now, that anger have been turned more into spirit, a rebellion spirit I might assert. I still refuse to go with mainstream ideals and choosing to make my choices/decisions based on creative thinkings that override norms. ...
Responsive techniques with websites have been around for a while now. Not many websites here in Indonesia are responsive. Being responsive for me is out of necessity, mobile web traffic is increasing very rapidly and being responsive is the next logical step despite already having a mobile web. It will look good with search engines too :) Zurb Foundation is one of a handful collection of frontend Responsive frameworks out there. However, to get your website to be really resilient, you should start from the server side. There’s a slide show here by Yiibu covering all the aspects why being responsive starts from the server side part. Keep in mind that frontend Responsive frameworks does not actually help with optimizing the images your clients will download nor do it will strip HTML fragments that shouldn’t be included, it simply hides them with CSS, but with some clever JavaScript, you could take them off from DOM but then again that’s more work for handsets with minimum CPU power. ...
At the moment, I’m doing some weekend project coding in Android and since a Galaxy Tab does not qualify as a phone, I switched gadget. An iPhone for an HTC Sensation with my uncle. One thing I quickly miss is iPhone’s Retina Display, however the performance of the Sensation is sensational compared to my iPhone. Was happy until the battery keeps on dying out too soon. I figured HTC Sense played a big part, so I went hunting to get a Sense-less ROM. ...
Today I was a speaker at Microsoft’s SQL on PHP event and I’m displaying the slides for the presentation below. It was a fun moment of sharing experiences, laughters and geekdom. Urbanesia - Open Source & MicrosoftView more presentations from Batista Harahap.
This has been a fun day of basketball with the guys. I can’t find myself to sleep at this hour because after a few years of never exercising and or playing any kind of sports, I was too drained. So here I am writing a blog post about something Rama and me talked about before we played. About a week ago, I caught up with Ariel and Okto at Setiabudi One to have some geek talks. We met up around 8 PM and as always, we lost track of time and were home early in the morning. We talked about a lot of things that we agreed and also didn’t agreed. Technical stuffs like scaling a website and also some off topics like there were no mosquitos around while we were there lol. ...
I got tired of manually inserting lines into my /etc/hosts file and decided to look for other solutions. The DD-WRT router has a DNSMAsq feature in which I list domains that are supposed to be internal domains to be resolved to its local IP. I still have to insert lines but now it’s more organized and better than seeing mumbo jumbo in your hosts file. Here are my steps: [gist][/gist] ...
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]
Urbanesia was invited to Microsoft Window 8’s Bootcamp in Bandung last weekend. Me, Arieditya and Aditya went there to see and experience ourselves the technical depth provided by the Windows 8 team. To cut things short, the experience was reinvigorating! After a bunch of process of liking, hating, yeah right-ing, hating, liking and now loving, I felt Microsoft’s attention to developers is an example to follow for other big names. ...
After a long break, I thought I wanna write about Android. This time it’s Ice Cream Sandwich on a Galaxy Tab P1000. As always, for smartphone hacks, everyone should first go to XDA-Developers.com and have a look if one of your gadgets has sub-forums. There’s a specific thread for Galaxy Tab 7 First generation and ICS love is there. This blog post is a confirmation that ICS works beautifully and incredibly fast and snappy on a Galaxy Tab P1000. It is as if you are having a multi-core Android device. Have look at [ROM][ICS] AOKP (Android Open Kang Project) for P1000/L/N here. Follow the installation routines and you’re good to go. ...