Superhero Type

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I saw this amusing page at my cousin’s blog and tried it. Here is my result:

Your results:
You are The Flash

The Flash
80%
Hulk
80%
Superman
70%
Robin
69%
Supergirl
62%
Spider-Man
60%
Iron Man
55%
Green Lantern
50%
Batman
50%
Wonder Woman
47%
Catwoman
30%
Fast, athletic and flirtatious.



To be honest, I was kinda surprised to see the result. I thought I were rather a Batman type… but Flash isn’t too bad either The only problem is I don’t know too much about The Flash yet. I should go and get some lecture about him

IBM Rational Software Architect

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In my last entry I complained about RedHat/JBoss Developer Studio IDE for not being free anymore. It was free in the beta, but in the final release it costs about 99 US$/year. And that made me thinking, what actually other IDEs cost. In a parallel project by a pharma group, I am using IBM Rational Software Architect as the main development environment. It’s nice actually, in many aspects better than RedHat/JBoss IDE, so I could already guess that IBM Rational is more expensive than JBoss, but I don’t think the price is hell out of JBoss’ league. Just see this screenshot from IBM’s website:

Got what I mean? It’s 7.048 Euro, about 10.308 US$. That means for a license of IBM Rational Software Architect, you could buy 100 years license for JBoss/RedHat Dev. Studio!

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RedHat/JBoss Developer Studio 1.0

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RedHat finally released RedHat Developer Studio IDE and rename it to JBoss Developer Studio 1.0. I’ve been using the beta version since September 2007, and it has been working well for me. Built-in Struts and Seam integration, pre-configured JBoss, Eclipse WTP based, everything has just been working well. Most of the bugs I got (PermGen memory, JSP’s Validation) were Eclipse’s (or Tomcat’s) bugs, not the IDE’s. Actually I’ve been pretty happy with it. But as they reached the final version and threw the beta status away, it isn’t free anymore. It costs, like usual for RedHat, $99 for one-year subscription. I know $99/anno doesn’t mean the world and my company will pay without asking but seriously I kept thinking of MyEclipse plug-in or just the original Eclipse WTP.

November Incentive

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It’s been 4 months since I’ve started working at my new employer. My impressions so far have been positive: nice office, (rapidly) growing business volumes, casual working atmosphere, interesting projects, yet many colleagues with outstanding IT ability. The money isn’t bad either And every month we got incentives for some people who achieved outstanding performance. Guess what? I got the incentive for November 2007 Two vouchers for wellness trip in a 4 or 5 stars hotel (I’m not sure) in Germany, the value was about some hundred Euros. To be honest, I don’t know what I should do with it. I don’t like massage, I don’t like sauna either. I am kind of person who prefer ‘manual’ sport activities than going to gyms or saunas. Well, I’ve been told about the possibility to exchange it with another stuffs if I don’t like the incentive. Surely, I will ask for a technical gadget better than the vouchers.

Working in Germany - Response

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I found this entry about working in Germany from a scholarship mailing list blog. It is about motivating (Indonesian) people to work in Germany as skilled labour in high tech area. Some of the comments were interested and some remained sceptical. Funny is that those who were sceptical are people who graduated from german universities or at least, still studying in Germany. From my sight, I do see that Germany has a shortage of high qualified skilled labour. I have been working at some typical german’s main corporates, and I saw how long it needed before a vacancy could be occupied. But it doesn’t mean that anyone, even one who doesn’t speak German at all and never been in Germany could easily find a job in high tech sector.
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New Job

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I got a new job. I have been working at several big companies such as Siemens AG, BMW AG and ERM GmbH. Though I did the IT job, but none of them is a ‘pure’ IT company. Now I got an offer to join an IT company which is also one of the biggest solution provider in Europe. Actually, I got many offers, but this company attracted me the most.

Some Pictures

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English Subtitles for Ada Apa Dengan Cinta

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At last! Ada Apa Dengan Cinta? - The best Indonesian Movie so far (except maybe Denias - Senandung di Atas Awan ) is now present with English subtitles. Feel free to enjoy it!

-Update- Because of corrupted files, I’m gonna add all the links for other parts here. Please follow the link below to watch the other parts.

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Rasa Sayange - Yet Another Stealing of Malaysia

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Kalau ada sumur di ladang, boleh kita menumpang mandi
Kalau ada umurku panjang, boleh kita berjumpa lagi

Reff.
Rasa sayange… rasa sayang sayange…
Eeee lihat dari jauh rasa sayang sayange

Rasa Sayange - it’s a typical Indonesian traditional song which I often heard since my childhood in Jakarta. Actually, it was nothing special to me, just like another many traditional Indonesian songs from Indonesia (and Indonesia has hundred, if not thousands, of tradional music, songs and culture). It wasn’t my favourite either. Rasa Sayange is talking about the possibility of reunion and mostly singed at farewell parties in Indonesia or just if one has boredom. But Rasa Sayange becomes special for millions of Indonesian and me since it was stolen from us by Malaysia, just like Nasi Goreng or Batik. Right now, it seems bad since they’ve done their travel advertising with this song as the companion. Malaysia is really Malingsia (”Maling” means thief in Bahasa Indonesia). As Malaysia stole many of our culture for their travel advertising purpose, we change their travel symbol with “Malingsia - Truly Maling Asia“.

Really, we never realize how valuable something is until we lose it…

Malingsia

Thesis Done

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Well I’ve just finished my Thesis at Department of Computer Science, Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, Germany. Since my courses were complete in German, it improved my German a lot. I’m glad now I can speak three languages fluently: German, English and of course Bahasa Indonesia since I’m an Indonesian

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