Ahfook’s stories

Today is my last day in Softplanets, the company that I’ve served for 2 and half years. Lot’s of memories, about working, happiness, disappointments, boring, excited on new programming discoveries, BT-ing and Emule-ing for movies and music, fought with ex-gf in MSN Messenger, laughed with her in MSN Messenger… All ended today, next week, i am going to work at fresh new working environment that i’ve dreamt about since few years ago…

Here are some photos of the place that I’ve sat for more than 2 years.

this is the photo taken by my boss on my place… O_O

Mumster started to create new song since last night jamming. After jamming, there was a meeting among band member to discuss the future of Mumster, few important decisions had been made.

Went to Luna Bar at Pan Global building last Friday to meet up an old friend, QiQi from Indonesia. She came to Malaysia for eye surgery. Before the surgery we had a gathering with her. I went with Alan and Evan, at the same day, we celebrated Evan’s cousin Judy’s birthday with her husband, and met my secondary school mate Cherry there too.

Luna Bar indeed is a nice place to hangout, nice environment with spectacular scene make it a cool place to chat and chill. Hope to visit there again next time

Came back from Penang yesterday, went to art event Beautiful Junk with Soundscape bands Nao, Citizen of Icecream and Mumster. It was a fun trip, ate a lot and walked a lot in Penang, so tiring. Show was good, met Uglymen from Penang, and a friend Kenny from Penang too. After leaving Penang stopped at Ipoh and tried Ipoh chicken rice and tau geh, taste very good.

Finally, I’ve handed up my resignation letter to the company that I’ve served for more than 2 years, and went to my future company and signed the offer letter. So from July I’m going start working at KLCC, in a multinational company based at Holland: http://www.exactsoftware.com.

It’s an achievement in my career and a milestone in my life too. Hope this new job will bring in more new experiences to both my live and my career.

Last night, finally i’ve cut my hair that i’ve kept for long time, with new life, new direction, new vision, everything new

Downloaded new version of MySQL database, version 4.1.12. Just like usual, many new features.

When I execute my old PHP programs (version 4), there is an error occured that I can’t connect to my new MySQL database — old password is not usable.

After searched the net, found few ways to overcome this as shown at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/old-client.html

So I have to reset the password at MySQL Command Line Client so that my old PHP program can connect to the database, and it works.

If using PHP version 5, there is a new extension to connect to MySQL version 4.1 and above, that is mysqli (short of MySQL Improved), documentation at http://php.net/mysqli. So in future we need to work with database using these commands like mysqli_connect(), mysqli_fetch_array()…

So should we migrate to PHP5 if using MySQL 4.1 above, or still stick with old MySQL and old PHP4? (since most of the hosting company still having old installation)

Been using VB.NET 2005 Beta for 1 week plus, at first was amazed with the speed and intelligent of VB.Net 2005 that can bring, however after some time, some problems rose. At first it can’t open the design view of projects created in version 2002 and converted to version 2005 once. Then I have to redesign the interface of every form then it works again.

Now after a system crash, it can’t even open up any project (vbproj) and solution (sln) files. And one more thing I noticed is, there is a process named ‘mscorsvw.exe’ in my Task Manager consumes average 85 - 99% of CPU usage which is slows down the performance of whole PC.

I solved all the problem uninstalling VB.Net 2005 and .Net Framework v2.0 then everything is back to normal. But the problem is, I had my project developed with version 2005, I can’t reopen those projects under version 2002… O_O

Hope these problems only in Beta version of VB.Net 2005, else it will be big problem for both developer and Microsoft too.