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Merry Christmas

Posted by: Joshua on: December 25, 2008

Merry Christmas everyone. Hopefully you all enjoyed this year’s festive season and may all your dreams come true.

Sun Indonesia Community Leader Award

Posted by: Joshua on: November 14, 2008

Several contributors from Java User Group Indonesia, including me, have received this year’s Sun Community Leader Award. It’s quite awesome knowing that your contribution to the community is being recognized and awarded. Community Leader Award is from my point of view is more like Microsofts MVP or Java Champion. But I think the name [...]

Handling absence in Scrum teams

Posted by: Joshua on: October 16, 2008

Vikaz Hazrati brought up a hot discussion that I throw in scrum development mailing list about handling absence in Scrum teams. The reason why I throw this question because I want to know whether Scrum still can deliver the backlog on schedule eventhough one or some of the team member is absent. It was quite [...]

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PostgreSQL for Mac: Thank you EnterpriseDB

Posted by: Joshua on: September 8, 2008

I’ve been a Mac user and developing apps with Mac since a few months ago. One of the software that I use for development is PostgreSQL. But unfortunately until recently Postgres doesn’t supply a MacOS X distribution. But recently EnterpriseDB built a PostgreSQL distribution for MacOS X and also bundled with pgAdmin. You gotta love [...]

Trac or Confluence?

Posted by: Joshua on: July 31, 2008

I’m in the middle of deciding which wiki tool to use. I really like the features the the ease of using trac wiki since I am using it on my current freelance project, but at the sametime I think Confluence is also as good since JUG Indonesia has been granted a Confluence license by Atlassian. [...]