Goodbye PJN

Red alert ...

My company, Pratama Jaringan Nusantara is going to collapse. We have no productive activity since 2 - 3 month ago.

Today electrical power is down, telephone is down and the worst internet is also shutdown.

So i think it's time to start looking a new job.

Wish me luck.

WEB4J Java Web Application Framework

WEB4j
Another simple web framework. According to official website the primary design goal of WEB4J is to always exercise deep compassion for you, the application programmer, to make your tasks as simple, natural, and as effective as possible. The framework should take on as much pain as possible, so that, in the end, you experience as little pain as possible.

Livescribe Smart Pen

In JavaOne 2008 conference, Livescribe announce Livescribe Smart Pen.

Livescribe Smart Pen

Of course, main function of a pen is for write, but this Livescribe Smart Pen can do better. Livescribe Smart Pen can record what you write on paper and transfer it to notebook which is bundled with pen. Livescribe Smart Pen has powerful hand writting recognizer. Also Livescribe Smart Pen can record sound and can transfer to notebook.

Netbeans 6.1 Has Been Released

NetBeans is proud to announce the availability of NetBeans IDE 6.1 for download!

Netbeans 6.1


NetBeans IDE 6.1 supports a wide range of open source scripting technologies and offers improved performance. This release extends language support beyond Java technology by providing a rich set of features for C/C++, JavaScript and the Ruby language, including Ruby on Rails.

One of the downloads available is an Early Access preview of support for PHP. Advance versions of new modules, such as JavaScript debugger, support of ClearCase, AXIS, and Hibernate are available as separate plugins.


NetBeans IDE 6.1 also contains all of the improvements made in 6.0 including: the new smarter editor, next generation of the ground-breaking GUI builder (formerly known as Project Matisse), visual mobile designer, integrated profiler, and Java EE 5 support.

Mural, Open Master Data Management from Sun Microsystems

The Mural community is an open-source community with the purpose of developing an ecosystem of products that solve the problems in Data Management through a collaborative community-driven approach. Leveraging the OpenESB and Netbeans communities, the Mural community seeks to build a foundational open-source data management infrastructure to form the basis of Master Data Management initiatives (i.e., CDI, PIM) and of traditional datawarehousing and business intelligence initiatives. It will also provide data services for SOA initiatives and Enterprise Web 2.0.


Mural Achitecture
mural


The Mural community includes the following set of core components:

  1. Master Index Studio – Provides the capability to create any domain specific master index through the matching, de-duplication, merging, and cleansing of data from various data sources.
  2. Data Integrator – Provides extract, transform, load capability and supports a wide variety of data sources, including relational as well as flat files, spreadsheets, XML, and newer sources such as HTML tables and RSS Feeds. It is also exposed as a Service Engine in OpenESB.
  3. Data Quality - Features matching, standardization, profiling,and cleansing capabilities.
  4. Data Mashup – Provides server-side data mashup capability, having multiple forms, such as exposing data services for enterprise mashups and providing real-time views of information for master data consumers.
  5. Data Migrator – Provides the ability to migrate database objects across database instances.


Source : https://mural.dev.java.net/

Opera Mini 4.1 Beta Has Been Released

Opera Mini is a serious killer app: The free Internet browser brings an iPhone-esque browsing experience to almost every phone and smartphone. Forget dealing with the mobile versions of your favorite Websites--Opera Mini displays the whole page on your cell phone and then allows you to zoom into the piece you're interested in.

Dufan Imlek Promo

Dufan imlek promo

Dufan imlek promo

The Real Story Why Microsoft Needs Yahoo

So one day, Scott McNealy, founder and chairman of Sun, read in his morning newspaper how the use of Java was rapidly diminishing, courtesy of something called 'The LAMP Stack'. Furiously, he called his accountant.

Scott: "I knew this Java thing was a bad idea in the first place! I see only one solution. We need to buy this Lamp!"
Accountant: "Euh, LAMP is not a company. It's an acronym. It's Linux , Apache, MySQL and PHP"
Scott: "Then buy me Linux!"
Accountant: "But we still have this Solaris thing.."
Scott: "Then buy me Apache!"
Accountant: "That's a foundation. Nothing to buy there."
Scott: "Then buy me MySQL!"
Accountant: "We don't do databases."
Scott: "It's a database?"
Accountant: "What rock have you been living under?"
Scott: "Sweet. I can own the Lamp AND piss off Oracle at the same time!" (waves fake plastic magic wand) "Make it so!"


And so it happened.

Ten days later, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was reading the CIO Magazine, and read about this interesting thing called PHP, that according to the author you could use to write "WHAT?!". "WHAT?!", obviously a highly advanced and evolved version of "Hello World", caught his attention. So he called Bill Gates.

Steve: "Hey, you heard about this PHP thing?"
Bill: "Pee Age Pee? You're not that old yet, are you?"
Steve: "What? No, wait, it's a programming language, apparently better than ASP.NET."
Bill: "Who cares if it's better. I mean; we made the worst operating systems ever and still rule. (Checked out Leopard yet? It is SO cool.)"
Steve: "I don't know Bill... remember that internet thing that we didn't know about years ago? Kind of nearly missed the boat there."
Bill: "Right. Didn't we solve that in the same way? Worst browser, highest market share, that sort of thing?"
Steve: "Yes we did, but then we also didn't know about this 'mp3' thing until it was too late."
Bill: "We did manage to make Zune the worst player, but somehow we're not market leader. Guess we got sloppy?"
Steve: "Maybe it's just different times. Maybe we should have a different strategy."
Bill: "Ok, so let's just buy PHP then."
Steve: "It's not a company. But Encarta says it's written by a Rasmus Lerdorf."
Bill: "So let's hire him."
Steve: "Tried that. Didn't want to join. Can't blame him, works at Yahoo."
Bill: "Then I guess we'll have to buy Yahoo."


So it happened.

Two of the most controversial announcements of this month, and both appear to be part of devious plots to take over the LAMP stack. What's next? My prediction: Red-Hat buys Zend; Oracle buys Red-Hat; Sun and IBM join forces to buy Oracle, Microsoft buys Sun, kills IBM and peace is restored in the galaxy.

P.S. Can you imagine Microsoft running sites like Flickr? These guys invented MS Paint!

Reference http://www.jansch.nl/2008/02/02/microsoft-and-sun-the-real-story/

Sun Microsystem buy MySQL

Sun Microsystems has agreed to buy MySQL AB for $1B, giving them additional leverage in the open source community and providing access to MySQL to its larger corporations. The deal is expected to close during the third or fourth quarter.

The grand question, of course, is: what does this mean in the long term? Sun already offers JavaDB as a smaller-scale DB (compared to 'large offerings' like Oracle9 and IMS). Is Sun merely diversifying its own portfolio, looking for an additional revenue stream from MySQL AB's customers, or shifting away from JavaDB/Derby? Consider the following quote from Sun's press release:

Berinvestasi di Reksadana (Mutual Fund)

This Mutual Fund article moved to :

http://opini-pribadi.blogspot.com/2008/01/berinvestasi-di-reksadana-mutual-fund.html

Netbeans 6 Has Been Released

Netbeans 6

Netbeans 6 has been released a few day ago.

The highlight feature of Netbeans 6 are :
*. Enhanced Editor
*. Easy-To-Use Java GUI Builder
*. Visual Mobile Development
*. Ruby and Rails Support
*. Visual Web and Java EE Development
*. Visual UML Modeling
*. C and C++ Development

Download free Netbeans 6.0
http://download.netbeans.org/netbeans/6.0/final/

To order free DVD
http://www.netbeans.org/about/media.html

I already order free DVD shipment into my office.

I can't wait to see the new Netbeans. The most feature i want to try is Ruby and Rails support and Visual Web for Web development.

7 Guide For Pagination

Pagination is now common in web development. If you have a large set of data then you musti show it in pagination instead of showing them all.

Dufan Promo (again), 50% Discount

Dufan (Dunia Fantasi) Promo. 50% off for entry

dufan diskon 50%

TGS 2007 Babes

Tokyo Game Show 2007 (TGS 2007) Booth Babes. I choose the nice girl from benoa.net



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JBoss Seam 2.0 Has Been Releasead

JBoss Seam is a powerful new application framework for building next generation Web 2.0 applications by unifying and integrating technologies such as Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX), Java Server Faces (JSF), Enterprise Java Beans (EJB3), Java Portlets and Business Process Management (BPM).

Some Seam 2.0 new feature is :
* The Seam component model now supports web services, including direct support for conversational web services
* Seam components can now be written in Groovy
* New improved EL syntax
* Integration with Quartz, Hibernate Search and JFreeChart
* Support for JSF 1.2, as well as support for non-JSF environments like GWT
* Eclipse IDE support in the next release of JBossTools, including Seam project wizards, EL code completion, a visual JSF editor, hot deployment and test integration

Bugs in Oracle Query ?

I want to query a data with date condition. Guess what ? This similiar query give a different result.

1st query give the exact result that i wanted.
SELECT * FROM my_table
WHERE TO_CHAR(date_time, 'DD/MM/YYYY') BETWEEN '01/10/2007' and '6/11/2007'

2nd query result nothing
SELECT * FROM my_table
WHERE TO_CHAR(date_time, 'DD/MM/YYYY') BETWEEN '01/10/2007' and '06/11/2007'

The different is, the 1st query use 6-11-2007 instead of 06/11/2007.

FYI, i use Oracle database 9i and running query in Toad for Oracle 8.5.3.2

Any idea why this can happen ?

My 2007 Dream Book 2nd Review

According to my 1st review, my incomplete dream is :
2. New handphone, GSM and CDMA
    Done, i bought nokia 2115i, Nokia N70 and SE K510i
3. Learning PL/SQL
    Done, but still keep learning
4. Better GPA in 8th grade
    Failed :(
5. Exercise everyweek
    Not anymore since september
8. Mandarin language
    Not even think about it
9. Saving every month
    Done in my mutual fund

I still have 2 month left. Hopely can get the rest of my dream.

Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 Beta

YM 9 beta

Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 Beta
Now with a new friend-happy design!

*. Your friends come first
Enjoy a fun new look, with more room for friends' images, info, updates.
*. Express your true self
Add your personality with new Emoticons, plus new skins.
*. Share your passions
Use Flickr to swap photos (and always keep all your friends in the picture).

Download here

Introducing Vixta, Vista for Linux

Vixta, Is a Fedora customized version that looks like Windows Vista, operates similarly to Windows Vista, and even incorporates a lot of the GUI effects that you'll find only in Windows Vista.

vixta

The people behind Vixta wanted the prettiness of Windows Vista, but wanted to run Linux. They also wanted to make the user interface smooth and easy enough to use that other people who may be used to Windows would appreciate it.

Vixta's interface is a custom KDE mod, and when you install it, the first thing you'll notice is how much it really does look and feel like Windows. You get a single button to access your programs, settings, and desktop search. Additionally, there's a taskbar and widgets that all look like they could have been pulled directly from Vista.

In the end however, Vixta is definitely Linux. You don't install Windows apps (much as you might be tempted to), and you use open-source and Linux-friendly alternatives. Vixta may be attractive and open-source, but it's not the type of OS that you swap out for your friend's copy of Vista just to see if she notices. Still, if you're a Linux fan or looking for a distro that's a lot like Windows so you can get your feet wet, Vixta might be worth a shot.

Download Vixta here

vixta

MySpace Join OpenSocial

MySpace has confirmed they join Google OpenSocial team.

Google OpenSocial works much like the open-source code that allows third-parties to design apps for Faceboook, only OpenSocial will extend beyond a single social network, to other blogs and Web sites. At the time of its launch, LinkedIn, Friendster, and Google's own social network, Orkut, had already signed partnerships with Google. Companies behind some of Facebook's most popular apps, including iLike and Slide, have thrown their hats in the ring.

When we first reported Google's launch of the new developer platform, OpenSocial, we couldn't help but comment on the fact that it seemed like product of bad blood, in light of the company's loss to Microsoft in the recent Facebook bidding war.

According to Reuters, Myspace and Google announced today that both companies have been working on projects for more than a year.

Both companies confirmed the partnership in a joint press release. "Our partnership with Google allows developers to gain massive distribution without unnecessary specialized development for every platform," said Myspace co-founder and CEO, Chris DeWolfe. "This is about helping the start-up spend more time building a great product rather than rebuilding it for every social network. We're pleased to collaborate with Google to establish a landmark standard for social applications."

Myspace is currently the world's largest social networking site, with 110 million users to Facebook's 48 million.

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