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Couple of things learned from Damsel's Den 2010

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:34:37 +1300

Two things learned from Bill Payne on the Damsel’s Den on Tuesday night:

When VCs are approached by entrepreneurs, they DO NOT want to know about the product, they want to know about the business. My interpretation: unless you figured out how you might turn your great idea into a business, don’t waste your time. Coz product means nothing if it won’t generate money
Young people starts from solving engineering problems or fight world disease. It’s all wrong, they should start from creation of jobs and wealth.

"If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you will never get it done"

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:07:43 +1300

“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you will never get it done”

- Bruce Lee

"No matter how great the talent or effort, some things just take time: you can’t produce a baby..."

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 12:09:02 +1300

“No matter how great the talent or effort, some things just take time: you can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant”

- No 117 The Tao of Warren Buffett

“Failure is an option, but fear is not” - James...

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:17:49 +1300

“Failure is an option, but fear is not” - James Cameron TED 2010.

This is an elegant snail

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:15:45 +1300

This is an elegant snail

Lots of snails

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:14:27 +1300

Lots of snails:

My 2 year old dig snails.

Don’t know about you, I will get an iPad for my kid....

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:28:03 +1300

Don’t know about you, I will get an iPad for my kid. Imagine how much they can do with this thing. And yesterday’s hospital experience with iPhone just re-enforced how much of comfort such a device will bring to a little kid.

Tips for job hunting developers

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:25:04 +1300

Over the past few weeks, we’ve been busy with expanding our development team. After going through quite a few round of interviews, I have something to get off my chest. Hope fellow developers who are out there hunting for a job might find this useful.

Groom your CV. Big surprise there!!! You would think it’s such a trivial thing to turn on the grammar and spell checker in any word processor. But you would be shocked if you see the amount of CV with limited grammar and spell check.

Be human. If you think having all the technical key words clustered in your CV will increase your chances to be picked up by some screening software, you might be correct. However, it won’t work for companies that screen CVs by human.

Cover letter matters. It’s the first and foremost opportunity to let your potential employer know who you are, so make good use of that.

It’s not just a job, it’s you life. You spend most of your life working. So please make sure you do enough research of the company and aware what you are getting into.

DO NOT try to drive the interview. If you think tricking the interviewer to ask certain questions will increase your chance of succeeding, you are wrong. The thing is, no one is stupid and it takes 5 minutes for people realize that. and once they do, you will have 0 chance.

Please, please make sure you can write code. Some candidate can really talk to talk, when the time comes, some people even have trouble with coming up a method declaration. Isn’t this a developer job we are talking about?

Chemistry is more important than skills. Accept the fact every organisation has it’s own culture which is most likely different from any others. if the chemistry doesn’t fit, move on and find something works for you. After all, it’s your life, you should work in an environment in which you feel most comfortable with.

Be honest. I know it’s really hard to admit that you don’t have the answer for the question you were just asked. But sometime, “I don’t know” is a far better answer than pushing it and get it wrong.

Mona Lisa in LED Lights MIT building 3D displays from flying...

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:35:00 +1300

Mona Lisa in LED Lights

MIT building 3D displays from flying pixel-copters (video) from venturebeat.com

Work of Art

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:08:29 +1300

Work of Art

Wife made a flash video (1:15 min) for her school course at...

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:07:37 +1300

Wife made a flash video (1:15 min) for her school course at #WelTech, have a browse for a laughter.

If you wonder whether to read Seth...

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:39:16 +1300

If you wonder whether to read Seth Godin’s #linchpin Jacqueline Novogratz on how to recognize a #linchpin

#webstock 2010 early registration to avoid queues tomorrow

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:46:26 +1300

Registration Desk

Webstock Bag 2010 new design

Thanks Ludwig for his help to take a picture of the other bag

TED Video: If I control the internet by Rives who’s going...

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:45:03 +1300

TED Video: If I control the internet by Rives who’s going to speak at @webstock

"If that scare of you, that is the sign that you should do it!"

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:14:29 +1300

“If that scare of you, that is the sign that you should do it!”

- Seth Godin in the interview with @therisetothetop

Suddenly ”Killing me softly” flashing in my mind....

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:53:13 +1300

Suddenly ”Killing me softly” flashing in my mind. Guess it’s because watched About a Boy a few days ago. Different version, but pretty cool.

"You know, it’s true, when something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of..."

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:36:48 +1300

“You know, it’s true, when something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical”

- apple.com iPad

An Email to someone who said "#iPad is nothing new but a much bigger ipod touch"

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:57:57 +1300

I intended not to disagree with you most of the time, but this time, I disagree.

Trust me, it’s gonna take off. There are a few areas specifically will makes this so.

Media companies like NY Times and other news giants with love the device to death
iBook, the new app for Ebooks plus the deals they made with HarperCollins and other 4 major publishers is gonna make iPad 100 times better than Kindle, which has been a success for Amazon
the new oppors for iPad apps. The bigger screen is gonna take app and gamer experience to the whole new level, the app sales gonna go through the roof
iWork (the office for mac) will take users away from MS or Google potentially. Don’t get me wrong, they are not giving the software for free, so they can make money. And this is targeting individual users
Enterprise apps. With this device, we are going to see much more apps and services in enterprise, which where most money gonna come from.
Healthcare industry. Do I need to say more about this?

Man, this is gonna change future. And there are two things you can do to be party of it.

Get some AAPL share
Start learning app dev for iPhone/iPad

It’s coming man, trust me!!!

An Avatar scene in real life. (taken in Nelson Lakes Ntional...

Sat, 23 Jan 2010 17:13:22 +1300

An Avatar scene in real life. (taken in Nelson Lakes Ntional Park)

Creative culture art.

Sat, 23 Jan 2010 17:09:45 +1300

Creative culture art.