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My openLDAP performance tuning tip of the week
By paan
Posted in Rants, Tip & tricks on 24 October 2008
Stats: 185 views and No Comments

Intro
So let me just say it up front, “Index the objectClass attribute”. No really, go ahead and do it right now. Now that we have indexed our objectClass attribute, let me tell you  a story about how I learn that whatever you do, just index the objectClass attribute.
Background
I was working on a medium size openldap [...]

The programming “zone”. Fiction or myth?
By paan
Posted in Articles, Rants on 4 August 2008
Stats: 1,416 views and 3 Comments

The programming craft
Programming is a creative process. Despite the technical nature of programming codes, the process of coding is involves a lot of creative thinking and problem solving. Paul Graham talks of “Hacker and Painters” and compares the work of us code ninjas to the creative process of painting. And like all other creative task [...]

Firefox download day certificate
By paan
Posted in Rants on 3 July 2008
Stats: 292 views and No Comments

If you registered yourself at the firefox website for the firefox download day you’d probly got this email too.

While the certificate is a nice gesture and it makes the user feels like a part of the community. I really feel that they should at least make the certificate tied to the email address that you [...]

ICANN is considering a new domain name standards
By paan
Posted in Rants on 28 June 2008
Stats: 298 views and No Comments

The story can be found here. And straight from ICANN here.
Apparently if the thing goes through you can have a domain name like yourname.blog. Or better yet blog.yourname. It’s pretty useless considering it’s gonna cost you like a hundred grand. But big company like coke can rejoice in the fact that they can brand their [...]

Let’s benchmark our salary
By paan
Posted in Rants on 28 April 2008
Stats: 363 views and No Comments

I’ve just filled in The ActiveTech Pros’ IT Salary benchmark. I all IT professionals do the same.
A few things that caught my eyes.

“IT management”, (meaning managers. Read:PHB) has the highest average annual salary
The regional’s ( Malaysia, Indonesian, HK, Thailand, India, Philipines, Singapore) Top Certification is CCNA. (Which is understandable, since most network engineers and/or servers [...]

Lowyat.net, Programming, Visual Basic, Microsoft bashing and what not (rant)
By paan
Posted in Rants on 9 April 2008
Stats: 971 views and No Comments

Recently I’ve registered at LowYat.net a big community of people that range from codders to bloggers to pet owners and mangga kiddies. My old haunt of a tech forum is dead for some time now and I never like big community because of the signal vs noise ratio that you usually get in big communities, [...]