Problem settled

Puhhh... at last I've bought the new old PC at Budget IT Solution, Amcorp Mall at its lowest price available. Just imagine a P3 pc, with the 30G Hard Drive, 128M Memories, 2 USB port, internet and graphic card ready with windows 2000 installed for just RM300, what a fuzz! It's getting cheaper when people don't manage to buy the previous generation of still working but smart and economic items, even at a lower price offered. I wonder if it could drop some more to 200 or 100 soon for this such items in a few periods of generation soon.

So far I've installed the Paragon Partition Manager, a trial version downloaded at download.com this early morning, hopefully to successfully installed and managed to partitioned and installed the Linux together, but it stucks till the partitioning process. This made me canceled the so called to be the next meeting with my newly client, which if not will be held as usual at P.J, around Amcorp Mall with a next stages project planning including the proposal being discussed to start into the programming works.

Yes, I know this project is a most valuable project, and I can't take it easily and destroy its commitment and agreement by simply making a mistake. What I know, this is the first time to miss the appointment(actually canceled, but seems like its not realy) by stating that the previous phase does not complete. If the client has more than one project dealers, than he/she might move to the other one without waiting so much time to being settled with the problematic ones. However, I did admit that although the client doesn't said anything at me, this is still a silly mistake that I have to take into account for the next time onward. If I could know the barriers or circumstances earlier, than I must make an alternative to settle the matter first.

This is the lesson for me, even though it seems very simple. The client may said it is ok if I don't have enough tools or so known utilities to complete any tasks, but to me, I would said myself that the client may feel unsatisfied as if I did not complete because of my time misleading or mismanaging. This may make me aware for the incoming sake of business, whereas I will end up having my own big business in the city, just like Bill Gates of Malaysia, as everybody will know. I keep imagining and dreaming of having such a big building, with a beautiful glass wall, good staffs, well prepared environment and landscapes that locates my own company and business, with a multi-billions dolar of capital in hands to manage. All I can do right now is pray and work hard, like the famous nasyeed motto: 'Pray hard, work smart', but to me, I've changed it a bit to be ended with 'work hard' also to meet my target. I have to do it because according to my estimation its not enough time from now until my day of target begin its journey. In order to achieve it, I need to work hard also, besides from pray hard. The chances does not waiting for you and it comes only once in your life. This has been my principle since I am here. Anything that seems to looks like a chance, I will studied it fastly and if I found it as a truth and good way, I'll admit it, otherwise I don't. The time is running out fast and I have only a few years to go. If I wait for another moment, it will disappear. This is a life. The principle of life is always the same, no matter who you are and where do you live around this world. Everybody shares the same principle.
What I have to do now is upgrading my life, keep in touch in the IT world and businesses, work and mix around with the IT guys and learn a lot of information and experiences before I could achieve my goal. If I want to grab the goal I have to works upon myself in terms of phsicological health, mental awarenes and prepared my mentality to be the first class of the former successful businessman that I know, including our Prime Minister, Dr. Mahathir.
Ok, I know this is a development blog, so I could not say a much about this things here, so I will be back to the development stories. After ready for the so known big project system preparation, I will be back to the other client, which are the fellow of MPWS membership that I have to submit some reports according to my phase status: whether it is completed or not, and provide more info of what it could become in the next incoming stages or on its final release. For now, I'm keep authoring the website for it, as I could just using the Fireworks for just a few weeks, and when the trial period ended, I have to use the Ms Word for the editing purpose. The good news is Microsoft Office Word 2007 works very well upon editing documents, including html. This can be used as a web design tools, as was before for Microsoft Frontpage, where it never included inside my trial version package. Luckily the Microsoft Word supports almost all the features in Frontpage and I can use it to replace my former web editing tools, the Fireworks from adobe which ended its trial period in just 30 days.
I didn't found any differences between the old Fireworks that I used(a pirated version) and the new ones, the Fireworks CS3. The only differences is on the interface layout and the icons used, and some other silly things. The basics is just the same, where it have the frames, layers, buttons, libraries and all kind of web stuff that can be designed from scratch. I keep using the insert button tools and drawing my own buttons instead of using its predefined buttons, which looks rather like a 90's web page. Huhh.. I like the 2000's kinda page, where it looks more simple in forms of images, no sluggish borders and frames, and neat yet tiddy. This is the futuristic ones, not the funky, fancy ones with a many colors and decorations, just looks like the 80's specs and hair(not to said to somebody, just examples). We likes to laugh when saw this kinda features or fashion on TV or wherever, I always spend this time with my youngest brother. This looks funny! Hey look at that - that woman wears a ...... like that...haha!
Ok. For the webs, there it goes, the design, the layout, and the functions must looks neat and nice, yet attracting, as well as the codes behind it, it should works well. Ever heard of outsourcing? Ok, just a day ago, I have pass a bit of my project to my known former classmate where I spend most of time with him by chatting through YM. He is a genious in programming, just like me, and willing to do such a big projects, but having a lacks like time management and some sorts of internal energy. He can do this and that, but when it comes to circumstances, it stops him. So, when I discover this, I just give him the not so risky part to be completed, to see if he can do. Yet, I don't have a greater or mass part of project at this time, as the matter has being done and there is another coming in the future. The future projects has not dealt yet, whereas if dealt, I will manage and arrange it in another way to make it countable to my known kinda person involved. This is the way the manager should do, not to blaming and pointing the fault hundred percent to the innocent people.
Right now I'm still doing a tiny programming at the office, besides doing some auditing and documentations regarding on the hugely used systems, as long as the maintenance, handling and troubleshooting to the users who uses it. The pro and cons of this kind of works are: We can support but if anything happens out of our knowledge range, we become confused, because we are not the person who build the system, and we don't know how it works internally. So, if anything runs down, I have to prepare my words although I don't very sure what the system wants. This often happen when the reporters or editors wants to know what actually happens. When this situation arise, my team and I have to prepare the answer, and ready to shield for the swords! What I have to explain to the user is different from our knowledge and what we do, and the scope and the concepts are all different. You have to be able to switch your mind. This is like when the SQL service down, the user doesn't know what is SQL and they do not know how to operate it, manage or operates it. If we explain the query, syntax, like 'I have to use Select... instead of Join... blah blah..' then they said what a heck are you talking about? I just want this problem being solved! So that's the situation often happens at my workplace and I'm willing to handle it

Thats all for now about my development activities, hope to see for the next post. I have also post the '2007: A HAL Odyssey', so what happens to it is I have to postponed the project for a while until one suitable time, so do let yourself keep updated with my information and visits this blog often!