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It is now the 28th day of December 2010, rounding up to be one of the most inspiring year I have had so far. This year, a multitude of blessings and opportunities presented themselves to a point where I feel I am a child again this December excited about what I’m gonna get this Christmas. It is not without a great deal of struggle, that is a definition of me. [Read More]

Before anything else, I would love to say MERRY CHRISTMAS to everyone, have a great holiday and may the Christmas spirit make all of us ready for 2011. God bless you all :) This 2 days I’ve been working on a wrapper class to wrap Urbanesia’s OAuth and xAuth authentication for our API. The main idea was to keep it as simple and as easy as possible. Here’s my Christmas present :) [Read More]

I’ve been toying with Urbanesia’s OAuth provider API calls in Android these few hours regretting why it is so complicated in Java compared to PHP hehehe. Since OAuth’s requirement to generate a signature is using HMAC SHA1 to sign the whole POST & GET requests, I had to find a way to do it in Android’s Java. So I scour Google to look for answers but sadly the results is surprisingly scarce. [Read More]

What a title lol! I just had one of the geekiest night just a few hours ago. Not in front of a laptop I might add, it’s one of those days when a few geeks gather to talk about geekness. The vitamin for the night are no other than towers and towers of Bali Hai beer at Bremer Kemang. Quite a night to wrap off a week full of prograsm :) [Read More]

Back again with another post about Nexian Journey. The wait is complete for a stable Froyo mod from Cyanogen. The stable mod was released on 12 December 2010. Now let’s get our hacking mood on and get that mod into our Nexian Journey shall we? [UPDATE] Fixed missing Google Apps MDPI Link :) If you haven’t followed the steps in my last post here, please do so. Here’s some requirements for the mod to happen: [Read More]

Sebelum menulis mengenai lokalID, terima kasih kepada DailySocial yang melalui Guest Post ini menunjukkan komitmennya dalam pertumbuhan startup di Indonesia. LokalID adalah gagasan/ide yang bertujuan untuk memperkuat, melindungi dan meningkatkan nilai serta identitas ekosistem startup di Indonesia. Berawal dari pembicaraan di sela-sela SparxUp kurang lebih 1 bulan yang lalu, saya sendiri dan Sanny Gaddafi (@Sagad) sedang membahas mengenai berbagai perkembangan startup di Indonesia. Indonesia adalah negara yang unik karena kita terdiri dari berbagai jenis perbedaan tapi dipersatukan oleh satu kesamaan yaitu Indonesia itu sendiri. [Read More]

This is cool! Tonight I was interviewed by @JogiSilalahi to talk about Android in Twitter. Cool idea to do it on Twitter, making the best out of 140 characters to deliver precise responses. Thanks Pak :) Here’s the interview transcript. mau ngingetin, nanti kita ada #wandroid (wawancara android) dengan bapak @tista jam 8 malam. bagi pecinta android bisa gabung dan ikut nanya 30-Nov-10 07:54 | jogisilalahi RT @jogisilalahi: mau ngingetin, nanti kita ada #wandroid (wawancara android) dengan bapak @tista jam 8 malam. [Read More]

Wow my second trip to Bancakan, Jogja was full of positivity, optimism and of course knowledge. The trip was 2 days 1 night but the experience I absorbed was well beyond the quantity. The theme for the Bancakan event was Wordpresspreneur. Startups and entrepreneurs as speakers came from Bandung and in and around Jogja. The lineup was very enlightening to say the least :) From Jakarta, I went with Sagad (@sagad) and Ollie (@salsabeela) by train. [Read More]

It has been a few weeks after my first encounter with this Egyptian named gem called Sphinx. At first glance, it’s complicated when looking at an already made sphinx.conf. However, after careful redesigning and re-tinkering, it turns out to be one of the most flexible and yet light fulltext search engine available today. There are others but nothing as light, fast and sleek as Sphinx. The cold truth is that Sphinx is supporting SQL based databases as far as I know. [Read More]

It has been a full week! Had a lot of code refactorings, Obama, #StartupLokal and most definitely inspiration. The more I explore the business of being online in Indonesia, the more I realized that Indonesia is a market unique, vast, consumptive and most importantly very open to new ideas. You can’t see how open Indonesia is offline-wise, in the online world, Indonesia is not only the next big thing, it is the big thing! [Read More]