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Inspired somewhere...
Thought of writing a technical BLOG of mine. I was inspired by the
FedoraNEWS.org
whereby I will post my technical findings and tips on MyPortal and
Liferay here.
Hopefully the other developers can also create their technical BLOG
to contribute articles on his/ her learning experience. It can be
the problems he faces, and how he deals with those difficulties. If
it is an unsolved problem, I will try my best to suggest a solution.
This documented experience is very important to inexperienced developers
who are interested in joining this project.
I will be targeting the college students and fresh graduates as the
"new blood". They may not have the experience and skills,
but they have a lot of "time", and they are very "young".
Once I finished making MyPortal in the *.war format, I will be organizing
talks in the local colleges and universities, to promote the open
source concept and recruit new developers into MyPortal project.
Most of the time, the employers are reluctant to hire fresh graduates
nor train them. Since our youngsters nowadays are too "spoon-feeded",
they don't know how to think independently nor finding alternative
to get the neccessary experience. I want to make them aware, they
can get the neccessary experience and skills in participating to the
open source projects. This is the model how the UNIX is developed
in the old days, which eventually has great impact on the computing
world.
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| posted at 3:35PM
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Money Making vs. Social Responsibilities
For a professional programmer, making a living is a damn easy thing
in the modern countries.
Suddenly I think of something... who makes an environment for programmers
to make money?? If we were in a war, can we make a living so easily??
How about living in a country that restrict information access??
We don't need to do tiring plantation work under the sun nor fight
with the sea to get the seafood, but every lunch and dinner, our
dining table always full with rice, meat, vege, bread, etc. I feel
sympathy to the padi farmers in Thailand and Vietnam, they plant
padi to export, they themselves only eat "sago"!! They
do so much hard work, they don't even have a chance to get what
they actually deserve.
I think I am too lucky. As compare to the padi farmers in Thailand,
I don't actually deserve to have such an easy living. I sit in front
of the computer everyday and I managed to fill my stomach. I am indeed
getting advantage from those who "really" make the neccessity.
I should pay respect to these people, I can't take things for granted.
But I can't pay them money, so I contribute my spare time, back to
the society... hopefully to create a better society...
I wish I could spend some time mentoring the students in the primary
and secondary schools. I think it's fun to teach them how to do their
web page, just some basic HTML and graphics, Mozilla and GIMP can
do a great job for this!! For more adventurous students, I can teach
them PHP and MySQL, of course make it run in a Linux box with Apache
Web Server, the LAMP model, it's really interesting... Luckily these
tools are all open source and freeware, else the poor students can't
afford the software, hence killing some genious...
So, OPEN SOURCE is indeed a nice thing to do... ;-)
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| posted at 8:42PM
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