Last friday was my last day serving the company G Element. I was in a difficult situation for my past few months and finally decideded to move on. Thank you for those who were working together with me. It was my great honour to know you guys. And thanks for the present. I will remember all of you guys, the Spartans :p. Let’s kick some ass.

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No doubt, wiki is one of the best way for content collaboration and we have our mighty Wikipedia as the unshakable example.

The current company that I worked with, G Element, is using MediaWiki, the free software wiki package originally written for Wikipedia, as its intranet knowledge base system.

The main drawback of MediaWiki is the content permission control. If happened there is something confidential or sensitive information that you may not wish to reveal to everyone inside the company, then you may have problem.

Despite MediaWiki is designed for easy content collaboration in mind, it is not intuitive in term of usability. Users may have some hard time to actually get themselves familiar with the wiki style markups. For non tech savvy or administrative people this could be a pain process to learn markups.

I been looking for alternative replacement of MediaWiki that capable to give me the permission control over content as well as better user interface with integrated wysiwyg text editor. Since I am a Drupal developer, I realized with the contributed modules that available in Drupal community, I could implement a wiki-like content management system. After analyzing the requirements, I have make a list of selection for required modules.

The secret recipes that we needed are:

Nice to have toppings are:

With the above modules installed in Drupal, we could have a content collaboration tool that closed to MediaWiki and yet have endless possibilities with contributed modules.

For example, Notifications module could let you integrated with messaging service such as SMS. A notification message will be dispatched to your mobile once a particular page you tracked is updated by someone. This could be pretty handy when you are away from your machine.

I am currently using the above solution within my project team. It served as the knowledge sharing and collaboration tool between my partners and my teammates. It works pretty well so far. Everyone is happy!

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My eyesight is getting worse nowadays. I read a lot of ebooks through the LCD screen that is tiring my eyes.  As a result, I decided to grab my first ebook reader with e-ink technology, SONY PRS-505. Unfortunately, this model only available in US. I placed my order with power seller in eBay and have it shipped all the way from US to Singapore. It is quite expensive honestly. Cost me USD300 in total.

I am quite suprised that it only takes 9 days to reach my doorstep. Far faster than Amazon who took a month plus to shipping my physical paper books.

The bottom right of the box is crumpled a bit but the “content” inside still in pretty good shape.

I quickly power it up and loaded it with a few PDFs but the zoom is not working properly with PDFs. The fonts are too small to read. Chinese characters are not supported as well although I knew this before hand.

I go on the web and grab the latest firmware from Sony supports. I flash the reader and it works like a charm. They have fixed the problems of PDFs and even support Chinese characters without any hacking that I planned to do it my own. Great job Sony! Now I can read the ebooks easily without making my eyes become worse.

虽说我是受害者,但我还觉得满好笑的。好笑的是因为我尽然会上当?而这是在所谓的“安全又文明”的新国发生。虽然我成功地把要对方签下合法说明书,把80%的钱于两个月内给归还,但我在这次经验中吸取了教训和亏损,而将它牢牢地记住于心中。

我觉得要做到不让自己受骗,很简单,那就是不要贪心。当然,我也不排除受害者当时被洗脑。但是,如果你不贪心,鬼迷心窍,那就不会自动上勾。而我也从这次的教训学到的一些”心得“,想在这和大家分享下。

一 、天下没白吃的午餐,一分钱,一分货。如果,真的有“咁大只夹毑随街跳“,那还轮得到你?对方还要卖或推荐给你?想清楚你真的这么幸运给幸运女神看中了?别傻了,你不过被瘟神给点中了,从这群人中,选了你”先生/小姐,恭喜你(上车吧)。。。“

二、不要马上做任何决定,给自己时间考虑,一天以上。很多时候,一些“专业销售员”,会把你给围攻,说“只有今天有优惠,过了明天就没了”的鬼话。但千万别上当,这是他们的计俩,好让你觉得不买不行,只有这次机会。机会到处都有,机会是我们给自己的,记住不是他们给的。今天没了,下次再来啊!怕什么错失机会,只怕你没钱,怕你没命活到明天。

三、你真的需要吗?往往那些所谓的优惠,都是奢侈品。就算没了,对你的生活也不会造成任何影响。再问自己,你真的需要吗?而不是“专业销售员”所捏造出来的假象。

回想我还会觉得满好笑,当时我也给美眉迷倒了吧?!大家要小心喔!

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