Steven Yong's Weblog

Another techie left Sun (Oracle)

nospam@example.com (Steven Yong) — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:00:00 +0800

Many good technical people like James Gosling and Bryan Cantrill left not long after the acquisition. Why is that?

I don't know, of course. But I'd like to make a guess.

"Can I have it done in 2 days?"
"Not with good quality"
"It's fine, time to market is more important"

No right and wrong, in many cases, slow to market do mean no market. But real good technical people just don't do something entirely for business purpose. If they do, we wouldn't have a chance to use good quality software. This might explain why Sun still managed to create great stuffs while suffering good amount of business losses. I guess in Oracle, too many decisions are being made from business perspective, which certain people simply just couldn't stand it.

Same prediction with Paul

nospam@example.com (Steven Yong) — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 15:00:00 +0800

So I was wrong to say that Argentina would be winning the cup for sure. It turns out that Higuaín and Tevez weren't performing as good as I though, and there seems to be no midfielders in the team as Veron didn't get much chance to show his skill. Of course, an early goal from Germany was the key.

Like Paul, I will be taking Spain in the final tonight.

World Cup in South Africa

nospam@example.com (Steven Yong) — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 18:00:00 +0800

First time in Africa, no advantage for either Europe or South America teams. Kicking off this weekend, as always, I am going to put all my bet on Argentina, not only because of Messi but also Maradona. How on earth can they possible not win the cup with players like Messi, Tevez, Veron and Higuaín?

Looking forward to a month of excitement.

Distracting thoughts

nospam@example.com (Steven Yong) — Tue, 11 May 2010 14:00:00 +0800

So James Gosling is still taking his break before making the next move, while he doesn't think the iPad is as useful as most iPad's fans think. And I am in the middle of suffering my first mid-life crisis as I've told a few friends of mine. This is the first time in my life that I have no idea what would I want to achieve in the future and even what my interest is. What I am doing now is something that I must do in order to make a living, sad to say that, isn't it?

Not everything is bad though.

I think I am interested in learning Wing Chun martial art, isn't it cool?

In just 20 years

nospam@example.com (Steven Yong) — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:59:00 +0800

In 1990

1) You don't get invited to any event if they hate you

2) Nobody will care what are you up to if you are a bad person

3) Your boyfriend asks you out telling you that you are not the one

4) You talk about your travelling experience over a coffee session with your buddies

5) You flip through your photo album with your parents

6) You discuss about best route to places with your father while watching TV

7) You bring along your lovely girlfriend introducing her some nice guys

8) You play tennis on the court with your friend

9) You don't go out because you don't feel like talking

In 2010

1) You don't get invited to any event if you are not on Facebook

2) Nobody will care what are you up to if you don't logon to MSN

3) Your boyfriend text you on the phone and never reply

4) You tell them to read your blog

5) You show your parents on how to view photos online

6) You use Google Maps in your room

7) You click on the "Suggest friends" link

8) You wave your iPhone

9) You don't go out because you feel like talking, on the net

I created a website that might solve my own problem

nospam@example.com (Steven Yong) — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:28:00 +0800

Every now and then when people want me to recommend places to eat, or drink, my answers are always "cincai", which in English means "anything will do."

I see it as a serious personal problem for myself especially when comes to dating girls. I tried to search the Web for things like "nice hokkien mee in Serdang" but most I got was rubbish. Or I could choose to read a few blog posts or articles after google for "nice hokkien mee in Serdang" before I get back to the person boringly waiting at the other side.

So I created this website called klasz.com, a social classified website.

It is now barely good enough for people to use, still lots of features in my list pending to be implemented. I need feedbacks from you, I'm also looking for development partner who is interested and willing to contribute. Source code will be moved to free code hosting site soon as I am still evaluating which one is good for project like this.

This is your website too, every visitor who sincerely would like to use the site is my boss. So drop me feedback (there is a "send feedback" link on the homepage"), if you want some nice features that I am able to do, I will do it.