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Rebuttal: 3 reasons to stay in a big company

Reading this blog post entitled, “3 reasons to stay in a big company“, I can’t help but comment about some of the points the author made. A brief background first, i’ve worked with some big companies in the past, but all have left a bad taste in my mouth for reasons I will point out [...]

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Nokia N97

Finally bought a smartphone, first time to have one actually. My former phone is a Sony Ericsson K810i, used it for around 2 years plus plus. Very sturdy phone but the mediocre support for connectivity is really hurting me since I need a good 3g connection for my mobile office. Initially was planning to buy [...]

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Symfony Doctrine or Propel

Been giving this alot of thought lately. What to use for my next project. Ever since symfony 1.2’s move to Propel 1.3, the major argument of speed against Propel has been solved with its migration out of creole and into PDO. So speed is definitely at par with Doctrine, but the curious side of me [...]

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JUnit and EasyMock

Unit testing is tedious, but it has saved my bacon so many times already that even though it eats my time I still religiously create unit test cases for every important business logic use cases. I’ve been using Spring’s integration with JUnit and its very cool transaction support for test cases. Unfortunately with this approach, [...]

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5 ways to pissed off your teammates

These are all speaking through experience

Stubbornly kept on using deprecated code knowing that it will be remove from the code base in the next version, thereby hindering a smooth transition.
Violating all of the company’s coding and naming standards making things difficult to trace for bugs when you go on leave all of a sudden!
You raise [...]

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Oh no its PHP!!!

A few months ago I was doing some job hunting and i’ve come across some interesting job interviews in the process. Now I have a good mixture of full-time work and freelance work, and most of my freelance work consists of enterprise PHP web applications; while my full-time work primarily consists of J2EE and Oracle.
During [...]

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