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It’s 9pm and I’m at my sister’s place enjoying quite family holiday.

It’s no secret that New Year is not celebrated here like back at home. With all the shining super-mega shopping complexes, all the luxury and high technology New Year eve isn’t as exciting. I guess it’s not because of those things, I guess it’s the new year mood that gets you high and makes it more exciting.

Yeah, few hours left of 2008, 2009 is just ahead. So what was so special in 2008 to me?

• My daughter, my sweet angel. She turned 1 and walking and talking(in her own way). My shining star. I love her so much!
• My son, super-duper cool guy He started talking English only. His first year at pre-school is over. He’s not rooky anymore
• My wife started working as freelance guide. She couldn’t wait to start. Now she’s in Sabah, a part of Malaysia where the locals used to hang skulls of their ancestors. She’s there for a 2 weeks job. Doing pretty good.
• I got to know great and interesting people. Learned a lot.
• Went to couple of barcamps.
• Started driving, bought my first ever car. An old Honda civic which is older then me
• Started off (2-3 months ago)  couple of websites ( http://hotweddingguide.com and http://thebrandology.com ) with my kid sister. Today I got to know they are Google PR2!
• Said good bye to my futsal career (as if!) because of my knee injury. I really have to find some time and get it “fixed” as my better half says.
• Have malaysian server, moving out from US.
• Hands on Macs, iPod touch

I could go on with the list but I think it’s enough. Now, next post will be expectations for the year 2009.

Stay around.

Last weekend my lovely wife gave me a surprise gift – iPod touch 16GB. It was out of nowhere a smashing surprise!

As soon as I got back home and connected iPod to my PC, I started downloading apps one after another. Of course, all free versions. First thing I noticed, I couldn’t get my apple ID to get integrated. I don’t have a credit card or neither do I want to pay for the apps(for now).  So the easiest way would be registering a new account and setting None as payment method.

After a couple of days, I decided to write a short list of my favourite iPod touch apps.

1. Free RSS Reader. It’s a cool software to read your favourite blogs/sites feeds. It can manage to pull the feeds offline so you can read while not connected to WiFi.

   
   

2. Twitterrific. A very cool software, helps you to tweet through you iPod.
   
3. TouchTerm. It’s a terminal to connect to your OpenSSH Servers. If you haven’t jailed your iPod, this is the only way to connect to them to my knowledge.
   
4. Discover. Use your iPod as external disk. Share files.
   

   use your iPod touch as external disk

5. WordPress. If you run your own hosted WordPress blog, here’s a chance to blog through your iPod.
   

   WordPress

6. LiveJournal. For LiveJournal based blogs.
   

   LiveJournal

7. Windows RDP & VNC Client.
   
8. iQuran. Read, listen and translate Holy Quran.
   

   Holy Quran

9. Evernote. Take notes everywhere in text, voice, video.
   

   EverNote

10. Facebook. Do facebook.
    

    Facebook

11. Nimbuzz. Conntect to every single IM service via one single messenger.
    

    Nimbuzz

Active Endpoints is a provider of cost-effectively and flexibly use all of the web services infrastructure that has been installed in companies over the last few years to create composite applications.

Active Endpoints is the world’s first all-in-one, standards-based visual orchestration system.

Active is the only SOA-based process orchestration and business process management (BPM) system that allows enterprises and developers to:

1. Automate business processes
2. Collaborate across IT and business boundaries
3. Control the overall state of the business
4. Adapt rapidly and easily to change

Ok, so what’s SOA? What’s BPEL? What is Business Process Management?

SOA – Service Oriented Architecture provides enterprises a design framework to deploy new application in a more faster and economic way. You can say that SOA is a bunch of different business services that can communicate with each other.

Web Services Business Process Execution Language(BPEL) – Web service interactions can be described in two ways. Executable business processes model actual behavior of a participant in a business interaction. Abstract business processes are partially specified processes that are not intended to be executed. An Abstract Process may hide some of the required concrete operational details. Abstract Processes serve a descriptive role, with more than one possible use case, including observable behavior and process template. WS-BPEL is meant to be used to model the behavior of both Executable and Abstract Processes. ( taken from Wikipedia )

Business Process Management, well in short it’s a process where organizations satisfy their clients by studying and enhancing their products or services.

Now Active Endpoints let’s you do all these three things. There’s a free trial, you can download it at http://www.activevos.com/download-trial.php by filling out some forms.

If you opt to purchase the software, they give you two options:

1. You buy the software for Development Environment. ActiveVOS is $5,000 per CPU socket.
2. You buy the software for Deployment Environment. ActiveVOS is $12,000 per CPU socket when the Deployment licenses are ordered with a first-time purchase of Development licenses. Subsequent ActiveVOS deployment purchases are $25,000 per CPU socket.

Support is given at annual fee of 20% of total license fees. If you need training,  a 5-day skills transfer program geared specifically to your project teams needs. Includes 5 days on site for $10,000 plus travel and expenses.

You can follow them via their online blog at http://www.vosibilities.com/

I wish I did go to the first Barcamp in KL but unfortunately I couldn’t make it for some reason. However, I will be attending Barcamp in Johor Bahru(JB) in 6th-7th December 2008.

For those who don’t know much about Malaysia, the capital of Malaysia is Kuala Lumpur(KL). And Johor Bahru is like 5 hours drive from KL. Yeah, so for me that’ll be another journey to that side of the country. Lately I’ve traveled to Singapore twice and Singapore is just opposite of JB.

Barcamp Johor Baru 2008

So I went to their website and checked out the sessions. Here’s the ones I liked:

• Azure, Cloud computing from Microsoft.
• MSC Malaysia pre-seed fund.
• Microfinancing(?) from Kiva
• Drupal
• Enterprise PHP

For the final sessions and tracks please check back at their website http://barcamp.org/BarCampJB

So see you at Barcamp JB 2008!

Update:
It’s Johor Bahru. New Johor

What I have really missed is getting up early, I guess that’s what you get when you live right in front of your office, literally. So to get myself register(registration at 8am) and attend early tracks(9am) I had to wake up at 6.30am. Travelled in LRT until Bangsar and took a cab to Midvalley Megamall.

Getting through registration and writing my name on a sticker and sticking it on my T-Shirt, I went into the lift where I meet Daniel CerVentus. Upstairs at level 7 early comers were getting their startup camp T-Shirts and already getting social.

I attended Social Entrepreneurship & its Challenges: Aceh – The Case Study – Ellynita Hazlina Lamin, CEO, ACSB, Profiling: Picking The Right Partners – Michael Reyes (Co-founder, Money Tree), The Entrepreneur Myth – Khailee Ng, Shaking Today, Shaping Tomorrow - Michael Tan, Founder of www.yourparttime.com

Ellyn was quite emotional, her startup involved a lot more then just making big bucks. I believe she is contributing to the society and she is really dedicated to it. It was quite different and informative for me.

The next track was Michael’s from Money Tree. He was very experienced in giving speeches and did quite a interesting one. He made a lot of related jokes and interacted with the audience. His track was about how to read people and choose the right partner for your startup. It was fun.

Khailee started off quite in unusual way, he didn’t have any slides to show(I’m sure it is not because he didn’t have time to prepare it was his style) unlike others. He talked, very fast and very interestingly. All the audience was listening carefully to him. He mentioned his life experiences, mistakes and pitfalls of getting to where he is. And he is at TheYouthIntelligence. It was surprise for me to hear him mentioning about Phang, my boss over at Innity.

In between these sessions I met a lot new faces: Carmen and Jules from Creative Paramedics, Boon from Gotka Technologies and Steven from Brilliant Resources.

We had really nice chat with Carmen and Jules, they are sweet ladies that started 4Play magazine for kids and teens.

With Boon we couldn’t chat much since the track was already begining. But I guess will have time tomorrow.

Steven and I did exchange some thoughts of SEO and local web hosting companies and also business in general. His office turns out is not too far away from mine. This is yet another sucessful example of a startup.

Then we had lunch, it was quite long queue for the lunch. I waited a bit then I headed off to Midvalley shopping, I couldn’t miss a chance to eat outside once I’m out of PJ.

Unfortunately, I couldn’t attend the tracks after lunch.

Right now I’m at my sisters place, will be going off to my place in a while. I’ll be posting Startup Camp, Day 2 post tomorrow.

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