27 Desember 2008

Christmas morning train

Several days ago I took morning train to go back from a holiday trip. It was 06.30 am to 07.00 am, two days before Christmas. The train stop at every station, it is such kind of regional train. In some small station before the town many students (elementary till senior highschool) get on the train.

Somehow I felt so proud of them, that time the sun was not even rise, sunrise would be one hour later. They are great students. I felt my childhood is nothing compare to theirs. Some glimps of my pass suddenly hit my mind, until it was broken by a beautiful moment across my seat. A pretty little girl received some gifts from her fellow friends. She smiled beautifully that made her looked more beautiful, then said "danke", and then I didn't understand the rest of their conversations.

A gift, a Christmas gift, I thinked. Then I eyed other students, they seemed brought many things in their bags. Beautiful morning view, and I thought it would be more beutiful when they exchange the gifts among their friends.

24 Desember 2008

bulk image file resize

Using imagemagick it can be done in linux shell
mogrify -resize 1200x800 *.JPG

ref: novel.com

06 Desember 2008

Software Developer Outsourcing Fees

It's been so long I tried to find an exact fee of software development. Usually I use IDR50,000.00 for programmer manhour. Finally I found an exact one from an international outsourcing company:
Resource Cost
Web/Backend Developers from $18/hr or €11.50/hr
Architects from $24/hr or €15/hr
Front End Developers from $15/hr or €9.50/hr
QA from $12/hr or €7.50/hr

Read carefully the word from.

04 Desember 2008

memory save internet browser

Recent days I tried to find the lowest memory usage configuration for my computer, because I have only 512 MB of memory. Problem with the battery is considered solved, since I could underclock the CPU to 600MHz, around 40% from its actual capability 1.5GHz. During normal usage it last for around 4 hours. Thanks to a geek who taught me about cpudyn, acpi, etc.