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Here I list 5 Common IT Outsourcing Mistakes Companies Make and some ideas on how to prevent them. Theoretically, this can be applied on either end whether you're onshore or offshore. These mistakes commonly result into software projects not being completed, projects being delayed or employees resigning...
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Not sure where the saying "good coders code, great coders reuse" came from but I sure been doing a lot of copy-pasting throughout my 4+ year career. Web apps, mobile, games, blogger code, etc. All stuff that I've been doing, I've always been doing a lot of copy-pasting code. Yes, copy...
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I was setting up my workspace today and noticed that my wrist was hurting. Sometimes, we just so forget to get back to our fundamentals and leaves us stressed. We don't always realize that they could make our job easier. So I was creating the directory of the following structure /dir1/some_other_dir...
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Bored. That's the best way to describe my feelings right now. I've had a chat with my "sensei" this morning and he told me that he noticed my lack of enthusiasm. I agree with him, it's been sometime since I've felt very anthusiastic about the work I do. I don't think I'll...
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It's been a while... I haven't written anything good lately (not that I wrote anything good at all hehehe)... I rarely touch my computer, I'm just into playing my PSP. I'm not working on my game either, though I've been taking a look at Lua player for PSP, it allows you to write your...
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I've been doing quite a lot of PL/SQL lately. It's funny because I was able to utilize the stored procedures more in Oracle although the product I was able to code my first stored procedure in was SQL Server 2000. Not that I did not do any stored proc in SQL Server profesionally, I just think...
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One of the biggest, if not the biggest, obstacle of entry-level job seekers, specially in the area of Database and Business Intelligence, is their lack of experience. I have posted a question in my network in LinkedIN.com about how to accumulate knowledge. I have received the following answers so far...
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I'm still not doing much here in my new job. There's still a lot of things to be set up. I finally got to meet with our very own Nards (N.Ocampo). Aside from that, I've been reading on Java Enterprise Design Patterns for the past one week They are: Service Locator - Abstracts JNDI lookup...
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It's my first day of work again. I've done nothing so far but to read through the employee manual which was quite lengthy. It's my first time to work on a big company so some things are still foreign to me. I'm also a little intimidated by the things I read on the employee's manual...
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It's only been two days passed but I already feel bored. My final pay is on-hold until next month and I don't really have anything to spend my time with but my books, laptop and PSP. But I don't want those right now.. I'm still stuck on dial-up, no movies that I can download. I've...
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"Nobody should tell you what you want to be in life. Stick with your dream and don't let anybody tell you that you can't make that dream happen." I was browsing technorati today when I stumbled upon this blog entry from an aspiring developer in Manila. My heart shrunk after reading...
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It's so hard to learn new technologies in such a low-end machine. I have 512 MB of RAM in my laptop of 1.8Ghz clock speed, 32MB of which is for the on-board video card. It uses about 350MB upon startup running Avas antivirus and who knows what else is running on the background? I'm having no...
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I posted before how I failed to answer some basic questions about SQL in one of my interviews. I thought I would never hear from them again. But then, just today someone called me and informed me and brought the good news. :) I'm in the middle of choosing from a local MNC company and another MNC...
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I was on my way to a PinoyJUG seminar and I was waiting for a friend in Eastwood, Libis. While waiting for him, I decided to visit the bookstore and look for some Computer-related books. Being unable to find one, I found myself browsing through management/personality-growth books and there I picked one...
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Truly, in life... There is no shortcut. And the same rule applies to me. I just came from a very exhausting interview today and I was asked about several things about Java technology tools which I don't have experience with and SQL Performance Tuning. The most frustrating question though was when...