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 Ian Uy posted this in Articles on September 14th, 2009 |  Email This Post |  Print This Post
 Judy Ann Santos - Philippine Superstar If there is someone that I hate more than Ms. Judy Ann Santos, that someone would have to be a person who has a job that he or she is not passionate about.
I don’t know if it’s the Philippine economy or just the Filipino culture that makes it “okay” for someone to live a life of suffering; enduring a job he or she hates for exchange of a comfortable life and a prestigious career. I’ve heard countless stories of teenagers being forced by their parents to take a course like Medicine, Law or Engineering (Courses which will attach fancy-sounding, age-old, titles to their child’s name) against their child’s will. I’ve accidentally watched countless Pinoy movies with the same theme. (Kid wants to major in Fine Arts, MOM aka Mrs. Attorney wants the kid to major in Law and be a lawyer. Sounds familiar?)
Five years ago, Nursing became a popular course for High School graduates to take in college. I know that because that was the year when I graduated from High School. During that time, some of my classmates took Nursing courses not because they want to be nurses but just because being a nurse would almost guarantee a free-work pass to the US and a chance of snatching that American dream. And you know what? I think majority of the newly graduated nurses thinks the same too.
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I can still clearly remember the words of our Tech Lead as if it was just said yesterday…
“Madali lang to sayo. Parang laro laro lang.”
He would always give me that answer while putting on a big, warm smile. Every time that I see him coding or preparing a design document, I would always approach him and ask him out of curiosity, “Ano ginagawa mo Sir? Mahirap ba yan?” and he would always give me that answer. And I have always wondered what he meant by “parang laro laro lang“. Sadly, I was never able to ask him about the actual meaning of it (he is now in Singapore) but as an Intern, I assumed that he meant that “If you’re having fun, it’s easy!“.
 So much for work being fun? Continue reading “Work is now officially “WORK”” »
 ASP.NET Migration Problem If you’ve read my previous blog post, I talked about some of the problems encountered while migrating some of our web applications from .NET 1.1 to .NET 2.0. Well, those products are now handed off to the Test Department for their routine torture.
Just a couple of days after the hand-off (Hand-off to Test or HOTT), the tester who is testing the product filed two (2) Tracks (Incident/Bug/Problem). Since I am the only developer working on the product, all of the tracks will automatically be assigned to me. The said tracks that were filed have the same “type” of problem.
When browsing for a file (Backup File / File Upload), the value of the Textbox would change back to its default value when the page re-loads.
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 Do you know how much Programmer's Blood it cost to put this tiny sticker in a Software Box? In my previous blog post, I’ve mentioned that I’m working on a project to migrate an entire product line to Vista. What I meant by that is that I am responsible for making sure that our current product will run properly on Windows Vista. To guarantee that it is indeed Running Properly it should behave *exactly* like it behaves in Windows XP. In simple terms, my entire job security is riding on making our products compatible with Microsoft’s failed attempt at a MAC-ish Operating System and with Microsoft’s successful attempt (a first in their history) to make their operating system NOT backward compatible with older applications. So much for Raymond Chen’s camp undying obsession with backward compatibility.
This products that I’m talking about are a set of Web Applications written in ASP.NET version 1.1. This web applications are as old as Windows XP.  I checked its File Modification History in our TFS repository and the last time that anyone have touched its code base is in 2005 — and that’s just for a minor code modification to fix a bug. I believe this apps were written way way back in 2004 — when I was in Third Year High School! 
To make this products compatible with Vista, there are a couple of steps that had to be done. I’ll enumerate each steps and what it takes to accomplish them.
Continue reading “Migration: Why Developers Hate Microsoft or Why Developers Hate Vista or My First Encounter how Microsoft can Break your Software” »
When I was in College, I was amazed that the suits (”Business People”) are so willing to pay me good money just to spew out pieces of code that would eventually end up in a crappy system somewhere. Well, that was the time when I thought that working as programmer is just about programming. Or, that was the time when I believe that majority of a programmer’s time would be spent writing code… building stuffs.
Nowadays, when people ask me about my typical day at work, I always tell them that I’m working on a Localization Project. Most often than not, the common reply is “What’s that? Does it involve programming?” Yes, it involves “programming”, if you consider replacing a bunch of strings to their localized equivalent as “programming”.
As Mike Rowe will put it…
Localization… It’s a dirty job!
Why is it a dirty job, you ask? Consider the English phrase “Preview and Spell Check”. Now let’s see how it will translate to different languages:
French: Prévision et contrôle de charme
German: Vorbetrachtung und Rechtschreibüberprüfung
Russian: ??????????????? ???????? ? ???????? ????????????
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