http://blog.aizatto.com the best way to change the future, is to invent it Sun, 08 Jun 2008 08:20:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hypothesis What would happen if hackers were subjected to fresh air? If they were taken out of their natural environment, and placed into the wild. But being humane, we thought we let them keep the sanctity that they refer to as "the Internet", to ensure their sanity. Experiment We decided to leave a ... http://blog.aizatto.com/2008/06/06/hacking-underneath-the-stars/ A good friend of mine, Kamal Fariz is organizing BarCamp Malaysia 2008, aimed for 26th and 27th July. BarCamp is more of and adhoc conference, or as some would like to say "unconference". The Negated Conference What would a negated conference be exactly? Regular conferences (at least the ones ... http://blog.aizatto.com/2008/06/06/barcamp-malaysia-2008/ Avid followers (if there really were any) of my blog will notice the sharp decline of the once prominent (or so I would like to believe) blog of mine, that has made waves (just gentle ripples really) in the Internet scene. As seen by my regular blog posts quickly ... http://blog.aizatto.com/2008/06/06/absence/ or at least the ones in the Kuala Lumpur, and Petaling Jaya area. Come midnight 5th June 2008, Malaysians braced themselves for the worse. They prepared at least a bottle of water, perhaps even some snacks, and maybe brought a friend or family member along to keep them company. ... http://blog.aizatto.com/2008/06/06/malaysians-are-idiots/ Spammed on several places: Google Groups Facebook FOSS-SM We have two presentations lined up for the night: 1. Gavin will provide a survey of different methods of handling missing references in various programming languages with emphasis on Scala. This stuff has been popping up a lot on Reddit. For ... http://blog.aizatto.com/2008/03/19/malaysiarb-march-2008-meetup/ From the FOSS-SM site. Special guest speaker Kenneth Wong will talk about the challenges of running a FOSS company in China while juggling mission critical systems with over 1 million EUR daily transactions, 30+GB pgsql databases and 20+ debian servers. Second part of the meetup will be quick meeting to formalize ... http://blog.aizatto.com/2008/02/02/myoss-meetup-february-2008-2/ From the FOSS-SM site. Mysql Topic: "Mysql performance tuning and benchmarking" Colin Charles Community Relations Manager MySQL AB Colin Charles is the Community Relations Manager at MySQL AB. He lives in Melbourne, Australia and has been with MySQL since 2005. Before joining MySQL, he worked actively on the Fedora and OpenOffice.org projects. He currently ... http://blog.aizatto.com/2008/01/01/myoss-meetup-january-2008/ I came about the The Malaysian Dotcom Youth Search through one of my emails. Here are some slogans from their site. The Hunt For Innovative, Commercially Viable Website. Web Awards recognizing the very best in Malaysian Youths. If you go through the list of over 100 websites, you'll notice that a large ... http://blog.aizatto.com/2007/12/23/the-malaysian-dotcom-youth-search/ A few months ago, the International Open Source Network held an Exchange Grant for people in developing countries to visit a FOSS related event before the end of the year. Having never gone for an overseas FOSS conference, I took the opportunity and submitted an application form. A few weeks passed by ... http://blog.aizatto.com/2007/12/05/fossin-day-0-arrival/ View the Official Announcement. Simon Phipps, Chief Open Source Officer at Sun Microsystems will talk about Sun's FOSS Philosophy and Strategy When Wednesday, December 5th 7:30 PM What - Meetup Agenda 7:30pm - 7:45pm Meet each other 7:45pm - 7:50pm Opening by the Organizer 8:00pm - 8:45pm - Mr. Simon Phipps - Sun's FOSS Philosophy and ... http://blog.aizatto.com/2007/11/29/myoss-meetup-december-2007/