diary of a cat in human skin
Last Thursday to Saturday, the Product Engineering departments of OLX.ph along with the Leadership Team, had an off-site teambuilding at Seda Hotel in Nuvali, Laguna. It was 1.5 day activity wherein we aligned ourselves with everyone and with the company goals. At the end of the session, we had to determine our “Personal Why” just …
This is an old trick and there are tons of how-to’s over the internet. I’m posting this for my own reference but it might help some developers looking for this solution. Okay, so here’s the problem. I have a dedicated server hosted at DigitalOcean and all it gives you is the IP address and a …
We all know how FB was created. It started when Mark Zuckerberg went home to his dorm, opened a bottle of beer, then started coding facemash. Even if it was purely fictional, it still inspires coders like me. I am still here coding some stuff for work. I’m staying late because I wanted to, not …
Okay, so today I woke up and the remaining users before we reach Sulit.com.ph’s 2,000,000,000 users is almost less than 10 already. We’ve been on a whole day watch since yesterday and the forecast was between 7am-10am. There was a 30-minute delay in the forecast but it was still a good forecast by RJ David, …
One week has passed since I started with my new job. I resigned from my previous company last September 4. I was supposed to start Monday last week but since PGMA announced that it will be a holiday, I started on Tuesday. I don’t know if it is a sign of good luck since I …
During the first weeks of my stay in my company, my boss has been feeding me with lots of information. Giving me lectures on different kind of stuff in programming, computing, database systems, etc. It all started when I asked him about how to invert a string without using arrays. He gave me an algorithm …
Recently, I was tasked to debug an already existing program. It’s one of the hardest thing to do. Especially when the previous developer doesn’t give a shit of who’s going to read his program in the future. Any idiot can make a program, but only the best ones can make it understandable to humans. Programmers …
When you are working with a lot of servers or terminal boxes, it would be very hard typing those long text with their parameters. Like for example, i connect with four(4) servers: let’s say that the servers’ IP addresses are 123.45.6.1, 123.45.6.2, 123.45.6.3, and 123.45.6.4. So everytime I connect with the first server, I would …