Thoughts by Sze Wong

We are leaving Cayman

Finally got on a Cayman airway "evacuation flight" after an hour an a half of waiting in the 'hot' line. We got to the airport around 6:15am and the line is already very long. The airport was out of power for some reason so it

Gustav

We are in Grand Cayman right now and we have decided to leave early tomorrow morning to avoid Gustav. The hotel suggests everybody to leave the island by tomorrow afternoon so we are acting accordingly. Let's see if we have made a good choice or not. We were

Ownership

My story on Verizon (see below) is actually a story about ownership. I am going to use this in my staff training going forward. This is a classic story about lack of ownership. Throughout the story, nobody from Verizon did anything wrong (some were nicer than others but they all

Verizon FIOS is too good for me

This is a story about how I want to get Verizon FIOS and discovered that I am not good enough for it. It’s a rather long story, the short version is that after over a month, 2 days off, talked to over 30 technicians, over 10 hours on the

80% of IT Infrastructure in the cloud by 2015?

Lately I've been in the cloud a lot. From Google's app engine, sales-force.com, Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (E2C), to Microsoft's Live Mesh, we hear about the cloud a lot. More and more people are signing up for on-demand applications

Networking

It turns out that the best networking venue for me are the SBA classes that I'm talking. Most people there have the same goal of selling to the government and all want to talk. I am going to hang out in SBA more going forward.

RFP

In one day I have two people independently telling me not to bid on the RFP that I'm looking at. Alright alright. But I'm still not giving up, I will just try to write it up as if I'm bidding as I know it

Integrating Facebook iPhone Connect

The new Facebook iPhone Connect API makes facebook integration very easy. Here is what I did to get the libaray compiled: After downloading the Facebook iPhone Connection SDK, 1.Copy all .m and .h files under src to my project's classes folder 2. Copy the FBConnect folder into

Insider help

People say if you have no insider help. Submitting a proposal is a waste of time. Well, I am still going to try it. Because I know I won’t win until I submit the 100th proposal. Got to start some where.

Using Excel as your business development platform

I have been promoting this idea to our clients a lot. I have always know that there are cheap Excel conversion programs out there but they don't do the job of creating buiness components. Well, recently I came across a company that have created the exact same concept

Hoop Jumping

So I finally understand what I'm doing. I am a full-time hoop jumping professional. Huh? You may say. Yes, my job is to jump hoops. When you start, they say, "Go register yourself in the system so that buyers will be able to find you"

How to survive this downturn economy.

This topic has been in my mind for a while now. I think I want to start a series and write down thoughts from different angles on how to deal with this issue. First thought that came to mind. DON'T DO ANYTHING DRASTIC. That's it. Just

Hosted Application, Works for me.

I was telling one of my friends how our company is basically all online. Our accounting is hosted, payroll is hosted, email is hosted, documents are hosted, so even if all of our laptops all burnt down on the same day, our business goes on as usual (Mostly). So his

Oracle buying BEA, good for you.

Sure, I sure think it's good for me. For us, every since we left the IBM camp almost 5 years ago, we were either doing Oracle/BEA, or Open-source. So Oracle and BEA becoming one company is just going to make things easier for us, actually making

J-RAT in GUI Centric Testing

So the question is, can we apply J-RAT to GUI Centric Testing? By now we all agree that having all different functional area in the same room during testing increases productivity big time when testing process centric code. Can the same be done for GUI Centric testing? The problem

What is Code-Review?

Found this in my email and fee like I should repost to my blog I've been an Architect for many years and code review is always something that is difficult to do right. I have tried from formal code review meetings to reviewing CVS check-ins daily, to

4 Stages of Software System Testing

During system test, it's usually very hard to gauge progress. Most teams are still using the percent complete (how much have you tested) to report progress. While that's easy, that usually does not tell you correctly where you are. Today I am starting to use the

What would you do if you are rich?

So questison of the day over lunch is my standard: what would you do if you are rich. Most people said they have specific things they will do, like travel the world, ski, ride bike. Me? I will probably be funding other people's dreams. I think it will

J-RAT Day 1

After day 1, we are doing great. 3 concurrent threads of work was going on in the room. We were getting the database ready, regression testing the code, and migrating data. Remember, J-RAT's entry criteria is that System Testing is done. So we need to make sure

J-RAT

So there you go. I'm starting to Blog about the J-RAT process. Two days ago we started our new J-RAT process. Putting 10 people in one room (2 developers, 1 DBA, 3 Testers, 2 BAs and 1 accountant, 1 Architect) and start intensive, business centric testing.