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Amsterdam Tourist

Just came back from Amsterdam happy Me Now.. this is My story:

My plan is leaving Eindhoven at 09:28 on 18 February 2006 and I ask Marc to take Me to the train station at 09:00. We arrived too early so I must wait for about 20 minutes and Marc leave Me because He want to go to the shop.

Ok, 09:25 the train arrived, I go inside the train sit down nice and.... something stupid happened! I forgot where I put My ticket! damn! I try to find it on My pants pockets, its not there.. I got panic.. I just grab My back pack and go out of the train, I don't want to pay alot of fee if I got caught by the officials not bringing ticket and also to find My ticket, may be I drop it somewhere.

Searching... searching... no luck, I didn't found My ticket I try to find it again on My pants pockets.. no its not there! slide My left hand to My left jacket pocket and guess what!? its there! damn! but the train already leave

Call Marc to meet Me at the train station just to accompy Me and asking Him wheter the ticket still valid, fortunetly yes! so I'm just waiting the next train to come. Its about 20 minutes from the last train.

The train is coming. I sit on double floor - Marc's suggestion, so I can get better view. Thanks - the journey time is about 1 hour and 46 minutes. Its a nice trip Just see the landscape its very beautiful

to be continued..

Markus

Can I Start Coding Now?

Hmm.. am I bored making documentation? Yes to be honest well.. I'm a programmer, and a programmer job is to write a software code. But after 2 weeks in QnAp iT BV - Netherland, don't want to miss that word just as a reminder for You readers - I'm still making documentation..

Documentation.. documentation.. and documentation what a boring task for a programmer.. but in other hand I'm also happy with this task in QnAp iT BV - Netherland, again - because I got one step forward in software engineering which is a Software Designer or Software Architect or bla.. bla.. - there is several names for the job and I don't know exactly what is the different - here I learn much from Ruud Mulder, Marc Jongen and Frank Mulders.

Alot of discussion needed to make a good documentation for making a software, especially with the customer who order the software. You need to know exactly what the customer wants the software do and perform, because some times the customer ask for a feature that not really needed to achieve what He wants - there is another solution thats better or much simpler to make.

I learn this from Ruud and Marc. Yo..! Marc thanks for playing your role as a REAL customer A real customer will always keep changing His mind so a progress meeting document is also important. You need to write down all point that already agreed both by programmer and the customer so there is no - hopefully - discussion that discuss the same thing again and again and again - don't re-invent the wheel.

I feel that My working progress is slow, I hope I can learn fast and speed up things so I'm not disappointing My biggest customer: My BOSS

Markus

Blazing Fast Internet Connection! 1MB/s!!

It just WOW!!

Today I'm downloading the .NET 2.0 Framework SDK from Microsoft website, it was a great downloading experience I ever have! I got 1200KB/s downloading the setup file, it only take about 5-7 minutes to download 350MB file cool huh?!

You don't believe it? here is the proof:

Markus

Yo.. Hello Mr. Mark van Dun!

Today Mark come to QnAp office and we play pool together we play for 4 round hehe.. it nice to see him again after several week not meet Him.

Today is also His birthday, but sadly no birthday party

Currently He is waiting for a job call, He had an interview with some company several days ago and now He waiting for a good news from Them. Wishing Him a good luck

Yo.. good luck Mark!

Markus

Netherland’s Indomie

Hehe.. guess what.. I have Indomie for My lunch interestingly it is a vegetarian flavor that didn't exist in Indonesia. You don't believe it? here is the picture:

Markus

The way QnAp iT BV Works

A short chat with Johan about QnAp iT BV:

Johan Notenboom - QnAp - QnAp Asia says:
in belande, QnAp has 15 employees

Johan Notenboom - QnAp - QnAp Asia says:
most of the work at customers

Johan Notenboom - QnAp - QnAp Asia says:
on location

Johan Notenboom - QnAp - QnAp Asia says:
so, not in the office

Markus says:
ok

Johan Notenboom - QnAp - QnAp Asia says:
each hour they work for the customer, qnap gets paid

Markus says:
i know that easy part

Johan Notenboom - QnAp - QnAp Asia says:
I call it ´billable´ when qnap earns money with the work of an employee at a customer

Johan Notenboom - QnAp - QnAp Asia says:
you can write this down in your weblog

PS: Johan admited that He is a shy person on this chat session

Markus