Hi, all.
The last time I wrote a post on my blog was on December 2008. It means that I haven’t written anything yet on my blog for almost 14 months! Well, i think that it is a very long hiatus. But now, I have a chance to write again on my blog. Hopefully, I can manage my time and schedule well in the future, so that the contents of this blog are still fresh
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So, what did I do on my hiatus? Here it was…
- While doing my part time job as a software developer on a software house in Bandung, I was involved in a projects, where the client was a government ministry. I was part of the team that develop a web-based asset management portal using PHP, PostgreSQL, FusionCharts, and Google Maps. I was responsible in developing a module to generate interactive graphical and tabular reports that are viewed as an executive summary or to be analyzed visually.
- I was in my last academic term as an undergraduate student of Informatics ITB. I also signed up on an academic program initiated by the collaboration of Directorate of Education ITB and School of Postgraduate Study ITB (CMIIW), that make me possible to accomplish all of my undergraduate and graduate study less than 6 years. So, I took several subjects on my last academic term, both undergraduate and graduate, including Distributed System, Interpersonal Communication (voila!
), Social and Political Issues on Information Technology, Software Development Methodology, and also Software Quality Assurance. - I was starting doing my undergraduate thesis (final project), and had my 2nd review (seminar) on June 2009, 3rd review on August 2009, and 4th review (final session) on September 2009. Although I began presenting my undergraduate thesis proposal (1st review) on September 2008, but actually I had begun to focus on doing my final project since March 2009
. Alhamdulillah, finally I graduated on October 24 2009, and this is my undergraduate thesis title: Web-based intelligence dashboard development (data visualizer and interactive reporting application) for mail server statistics analysis.. - I finished my contract on a unity in ITB. I had to leave some brilliant, competent, and energetic people there. Those who were giving me the experience of hard working, under pressure working, structured working, and also high commitment. Thank you, it is really really useful now. I would like to give my best gratitude and regards to my former manager and colleagues there. I am sorry if I made mistakes when working there, and I hope that we can keep our contact and good relation. Well, I had so many stories about this, and perhaps I will write it in another post
. - I am continuing my postgraduate study on my lovely campus, where some of its subject has been taken since my 4th academic year. I plan to finish it on this year. (Amin. Wish me luck
). I took several subjects on the 1st academic term of my postgraduate study: System and Software Requirement Engineering, Software Analysis, Scientific Research Method, Business Intelligence, and Advanced Software Project Management. - Alhamdulillah, I am accepted as one of voucher scholarship holder in ITB. As the consequence, within (max.) 2 years, I have to finish my postgraduate study with certain minimum number of average GPA on each term
, and also involved in a research activity in campus. - Related with #7, I am currently being a research assistant at Data and Software Engineering Research Group (DSE RG), School of Electrical Engineering and Informatics ITB. I have to do some research about web semantics technology, as one topic of interest in DSE RG. I am also involved in the development of Web-based Indonesian Local Languages Portal enriched with Web Semantics Technology, as the software designer and programmer. The application itself is the output of the first phase in the research.
- I was enjoying my days as a freelance software developer. One project where I was involved was building a CMS about food and culinary for a food processing company. The other interesting activity for me was being an IT trainer on certain occasion at that time
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Those were the activities on my hiatus. Once again, I will try to spend my time on writing any articles in my personal and technical blog. Actually, there are many drafts that has not been posted yet on both of my blogs. I will try to make it a complete article soon. FYI, I have also open some microblogging accounts, that are more often being updated than this blog on my hiatus
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Okay, thank you very much for your attention. Have a nice day, and see you again on my next post
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