We (me, ruda and kojima) are working in a TRIAL for a big brasilian bank for tomorrow(!!). acidbase, gwm and eliphas are working in another contract (with YA bank). yep, buzzword- compliant work: GSM, 3G CELL PHONES, PKI, XML, UML projects, SAX parsers, SOAP, cryptic OSes (Symbian), C++, Java, blah, blah, blah. It's the wonderful new mobile corporate world. (BTW, that Nokia Comunicator is a brick, but I want one, too :))
PERSONAL
My wife now wants a vacation trip. oh well.
Heh. So much time, so much happened. I worked 3 months as 'specialist consultant for Arbor' in Global Village Telecom, making C programs in HPUX interfacing other systems with Arbor (iuck).
In the mean time we opened our own firm, Haxent (http://haxent.com), with ruda, gwm, acidbase, eliphas and kojima, we closed some contracts with Terra (Terra Lycos) and some smallers companies, and now we commited our whole team with MobileIQ, working with SymbianOS development (C++ and Java).
Almost a month now, yet without a job. It's not that jobs doesnt exist, the problem is to find a job that pays *right*. Heh. in the positive side, I have *plenty* more time to hack .br and wildweb.. but I'm not doing that at all. (why?) :/
Fiuu!! What a change. I've got 'adjusted' in the Conectiva's process of cutting costs.
Well, I'm postponing that GeForce2 that I was planning to buy. If by any chance You know some position for a PHP developer, please send me a note about that. My resume (in Portuguese) is @http://sergio.bruder.net/curriculum.html.
*cool*. My new CPU-mobo combo arrived, I just installed my new home box, a Duron 750 with a KT133A/VIA686B motherboard. yeah, a little crappy system for today standards, but my old system was a K6II-300/ASUS Tx97E !! :)) I'm just *happy* with that new box. (@work I'm still using the backup box. Oh well)
hardware-side-of-things: My work box just stopped working, I'm with the backup system. Hey! What half the memory I was used to teach us! Just use a plain black background and turn off all transparencies, voila, a usable desktop again :))
The new hardware to my home box doesnt arrived, shortage on motherboard suplies, postponed to tuesday. Oh well. :/
Well. From my last post to now:
work-side-of-things: So much changes, nothing changes. :-(
PCPA is making progress in our new PostgreSQL interface to GRASS. We are already querying the database, some GUI is already written. Cool, probably we can show something about that @COMDEX. We have an e-learning project been cooked, too. It'll be a good test-bed to WildWEB :))
Oh, talking about COMDEX: Yesterday I was told that I'll give a talk @COMDEX.
home-side-of-things: claudio matsuoka is talking about upgrades, I'm upgrading too: I'll jump 2 or 3 generations of hardware: I'm jumping from a K6II-300 to a Athlon Duron 800MHZ but in the process I'll loose 64MB and 5G of HD, keeping 128MB of RAM and 10G of HD. My next hardware-shopping-section probably will be a new video board and a new HD.
I dont have the time I want to continue Wildweb and .br.. In the meantime, I have some rough edges to trim out in my work, I'm worried.
FENASOFT: so much contacts with countie gov reps, cool. My speech (and Roxo and Andreas, too) was crowded, good aceptance. COMDEX will be interesting this year :)The bad side is that I broke my Palm IIIxe :-<
Home
I almost lost my primary HD (fiuuu!!), and I dont know why.
I suspect that was overheat (I have 4 IDE devices on my
small box: 2 HD's, a old cdrom drive and a ZIP 100 internal
IDE). My machine simply was 'stunned', and when rebooted
wasnt founding my primary HD (a Quantum 10G one). I just
found it early morning. Just switched off my box and went
to work. @night I removed my case cover (amazing! it was in
place after all this years) and my machine booted without
any problems running for hours now. It's in 'observation
mode' now.
Grass
So much to do! PCPA already got the .DGN input filter to
work. We are now defining how much from the DGN DB-linkage
we will implement in GRASS. I suggested a light-weigth
version with a tupple of words for each poligon representing
(table_id,row), with 2 simple tables
grass_tables(table_id,table_name,table_collumn) and
grass_queries() with 'complex_queries' stored with
user-friendly names. Our GIS partners have other
plans in mind.. :/ I have to convince them that we dont have
time for more complex mods.
WildWEB
Finally I published our PHP library to application
development for WEB/PHP environments. Take a look at http://bazar.conectiva.com.br/~bruder/wildweb
for more info.
Speech at Fenasoft
I have to send my presentation slides for my "palestra" (how
is that in english?) to the FENASOFT organization. ARGH. I'm
late on that.
Boring Work
My work now has so much boring no-coding work. And so
much meetings. :/
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