Archive for March, 2008

Google: Free Beer and Sushi

Allegedly, Google offers free beer and sushi to their employees. If this is true, I just found my dream company. I love beer and sushi (but hate working long hours)! Wait a minute, my dream job is actually to work from home and reporting to no one , except my wife probably. Can I just have the free beer and sushi and not work, no? Read more »

Save the Developers!

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I support the initiative to drop Internet Explorer 6 ASAP a hundred and one and one-half percent. Well, I haven’t been supporting IE6 for maybe six months now anyway. I guess you can partially blame my Vista OS for not supporting IE6. I imagine IE6 can be a bitch especially when you’re customizing your Wordpress themes. Read more »

pro-blogging

Last month, I resigned from my day job to concentrate with my blogging. It generates about the same income as my day job and it’s less stressful. It’s more fun that I don’t treat blogging as a job. Thinking about SEO and page ranking is like anticipating a new school year – you never know what will happen but you hope for the best. It’s fun fun fun.

I could have doubled my monthly earnings by continuing with my day job while blogging. After all, you don’t need 8 hours to maintain your blog, right? Well, I like to stop and smell the roses. If I can earn enough to feed me and my family and spare some for a little bit of extravagant life, I’m good.

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Migration from MySQL to SQL Server 2005 Express Edition

I was searching the Net (googling) for tips on how to migrate from MySQL to SQL Server 2005 Express Edition. I found this free trial software named MySQL MS SQL Server Import, Export & Convert Software 7.0. First of all, the name is so long. That should’ve given me a hint that this software sucks. Read more »

Google’s Internal Apps

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I guess if you really are a successful (online) applications development company, you have to use your own products internally. If you sell it, you have to believe in it, right?

Here’s a link that gives you screenshots of the tools they use for project management.