My workspace

This is my workspace. Not very nice, but simple and comfortable. The most important thing here is my workstation:

CPU: Intel Q9550 2.83GHz
Motherboard: Gigabyte EP45-DS4P
RAM: 8GB (4GB (2GB x 2) Crucial Ballistix Tracer Kit x 2)
Monitor: Dell UltraSharp 2405FPW
VGA card: Gigabyte GV-NX86T256H-ZL 256MB
Hard disk drivers: Samsung 160GB SATA x 1, Samsung 1TB SATA2 x 1
External DVD writer: Samsung Writemaster DVD-RW SE-W164
Speakers: Logitech X-240 2.1
Keyboard: Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000
Mouse: HP

It's powerful enough to work.

Being a father and a chance to update the plan once again

My wife is pregnant and I expect to become a father this September. So it's a great chance to update the plan for 2010 once again.

Seems I had a long list for the tools/frameworks I want to be proficient in last time, but becoming a father (and a good father) is a more important thing. So sorry, some of you can wait for next year.

Here is the updated list of tools/frameworks I want to be proficient in this year:

• TeamCity
• ASP.NET MVC
• ExtJS
• MSBuild
• NHibernate
• Castle ActiveRecord
• Castle Windsor

2009 & 2010

In 2009, I did 2 important things:

• Changed the job. Now I'm working in GIS team of a Danish company
• Got married, sure, it must be one of the most important things in men's life

And in 2010, I planned:

• Be a master of TeamCity and MSBuild
• Learn ExtJS as much as possible
• Learn a new language (F#, Scala, Boo are considering)
• Spend more time for software architect and agile development
• Have something RUNS

Sorry, Denmark

I have an opportunity to work in Denmark in a few months. I really like it because it helps me to have a chance to live in Denmark, and maybe, visit Europe. But because of a big personal plan, I decided to reject it.

Sorry, Denmark, maybe next time.

Nha Trang - Team Building 2009

I came back home this morning from Nha Trang for a team building tour. There I played games with my colleagues and had 3 DAYS WITHOUT COMPUTER to relax under the sunshine with blue sea and white sand. It's very nice trip :-)

Quite busy

These days I didn't update my blog 'cause I'm quite busy with my job. If you're care about my work, thanks, I'm working on an internal project which uses ASP.NET, Castle ActiveRecord and, maybe, Castle Windsor.

And there is a surprise news to you, JetBrains will start the EAP of their issue tracker soon. Looking forward to try it. And if you want to take a look on it, check out here.

Bigger is better

I saw many people build their PCs with 2 or more monitors, and I like it. But the problem is buying 2 or more monitors needs to spend more money (about 300 bucks for one 22" monitor). It excess my pocket. At the end I decided instead of buying 2 monitors, I bought a 24" Dell UltraSharp monitor (only 378$ for a second hand one), and I have no regret. (And there is a good news, now the price is dropped to 358$)

A bigger monitor gives me more room to work. I don't need to move my head around like I would used many monitors. Also it helps to focus on my work, it's important thing. And in my spare time, I can enjoy full HD movies with my family.

Maybe someday I will buy another 24" monitor. But now I'm happy with my decision. It's worth to spend :-)

Some screenshots, they are big :-)

Catching fishes on the road

Wanna catch fishes on the road? Go to Hanoi, Vietnam now, immediately. It's 100% real.

Now I'm in Vietnam

Just FYI.

Starting to count down

The time to come back home is getting closed...

Night at Cheonggyecheon

Baseball - The first, and maybe the last

Tonight I went to watch a baseball match between LG Twins and Hanhwa Eagles. It's so boring 'cause I don't understand the rules of baseball (in Vietnam, we don't play baseball). If comparing with a football match (a soccer match, if you are an American), a baseball match is too long, the match I watched it took about 3.5 hours to finish. Anyway, for me, it's a new experience but it's the first and maybe the last.

Here are some pictures I took by my first digital camera and also DSLR, Canon Kiss X2 (you may know it under the international name EOS 450D, or Rebel XSi if you're in America while Kiss X2 is for Japanese market)

Outside


Inside


The field


The scoreboard


The match



The fans



The cheerleaders (they're beautiful and hot)



And the last thing, the winner is LG Twins.

Beef-piplomacy

These days in Korea there are many demonstrations when Korean worry about the impact of American mad beef to their health. It's one of the factors which make the trust in Lee Myung Bak, new Korean president, is going down. Also there are many titles on newspapers talk about America-Korea piplomacy under the name of "Beef-piplomacy" (Korean government wants a FTA with America so they need to open beef market in Korea to American beef producers).

Maybe they, Korean, worry about mad beef a little, but if you live in Korea, you already know that they're trying to protect their benefit. The price of Korean beef is over 2-3 times of Australian beef. It's too expensive.

Alone

Spring is here

Wi-Fi trolley? We did it, but...

I've just found an interesting information. You can read it here (in English) and here (in Vietnamese).

For this kind of Wi-Fi trolley, we did it about 2 years ago (even it doesn't have voice recognition function) but... it wasn't successful yet ;-)

The news from future

If you are care about my RSS Reader, it's FeedDemon.

Phoenix Park and snow boarding

Last weekend I went to Phoenix Park (in Gangwon, Korea) with my colleagues. There I played snow boarding, it's the first time and IT'S VERY EXCITING!

We played from about 5:30 PM to 11:30 PM and my whole body is hurt. IMO, I don't have any problems to keep the balance. But, for me, the hardest thing is how to control the knees. My knees seems are very rigid so I cannot control them as I want.

I tried to flow my colleagues' basic instruction to control the board to move forward then stop, then forward... but then I gave up. I couldn't do it. But later I tried the more advanced instruction, this time I could do it better. At that moment, the hardest thing for me is how to stop the board and can you guess how? Most of times I used my buttock to stop, ha ha.

The boarding road is >950m long and I board 6 or 7 times. Time after time, I did it better and I satisfied myself. Hope that I will have more opportunities to play boarding :-)

Some pictures of Phoenix Park





A picture of me

Delaying

I will not come back to Vietnam next month, but a few months later.

SigmaK3

With me, SigmaK3, the first micro processor is made in Vietnam, is more interesting than acquiring MySQL AB by Sun.

And here are 2 application of SigmaK3: Led Matrix Display System and Robot.

Updated:
- Changed title
- Changed link to English. For Vietnamese, you can see here and here.
- Added links to applications.