i.justrealized

TheUnixGeek compiled a list of salaries of programmers. It’s of course not reflective in Singapore but it’s interesting to do some comparison as always. All salaries are in United States currency.

Programming Languages

• Objective-C: $82,000
• C++: $80,000
• TCL: $80,000
• C#: $79,000
• Java: $79,000
• Python: $78,000
• Perl: $77,000
• Ruby: $74,000
• JavaScript: $72,000
• Delphi: $64,000
• PHP: $64,000
• Visual Basic: $64,000
• C: $60,000

Objective C? Erm… Okay, don’t think we use that a lot in Singapore. And well, I search some additional languages just for fun. COBOL programmers are said to be paid $72,000. ActionScript, an average of $73,000. Lisp people get $77,000. And of course, I can’t help it but to search for FORTRAN, apparently those people are still in demand - $75,000. I used to do FORTRAN for 4 months. I cried every day.

No for loops. (more…)

• @uzyn: Seems like the Macs are taking over. I probably still be sticking with Windows a while longer. A while meaning 3 years. #
• So many people migrated to Plurk? Twitter seems quiet these days… #
• It’s not that Twitter can’t scale, it’s because people like http://twitter.com/dealsgalore are adding everyone in the world… #
• I don’t really log in to Twitter these days and each time I do so I tweet 3 times. Okay, maybe 4. #

I’m using Windows Vista and Windows XP. Enabling cURL (Client URL Library) of PHP is really easy and is a matter of uncommenting something only.

Open your php.ini. I use XAMPP for development, XAMPP’s php.ini can be found in C:\xampp\apache\bin\php.ini. You can probably find your copy lurking around there if you use XAMPP.

Do a search of ‘curl’ in the php.ini, there’s probably only one.

Uncomment it.

My computer’s a little cranky these days. I can’t pin point to any device that might have been the cause of such faults. I turn on my computer and had this waiting waiting circular mouse cursor telling me to wait. I can’t do a thing even the legendary control-alternate-delete didn’t work.

It went okay after that with everything coming up at the same time. Just two minutes ago, I clicked on Eclipse PHP and it just launch. I thought these things supposed to be instantaneous. Okay, at least near.

But the worst thing is perhaps with random Windows Explorer crashes and Safari crashes. I understand why Safari crashes, the animals probably ran wild but why Explorer. I am beginning to suspect TortoiseSVN or some shell integration software.

I’m thinking of reinstalling my computer now. And I just reinstall it 3 weeks ago. Yes I’m using Windows Vista. Yes I know I know. Get a Mac right? Yeah yeah…

I was testing things out on MOBTV recently and my computer is apparently not compatible. It claims that I have an older version of Windows Media Player.

We have detected an older version of Windows Media Player on your computer which might not be compatible with MOBTV services.

Please click on the link to upgrade it to the latest version of Windows Media Player.

Please click next to proceed to the next check after you have completed the upgrade.

I’m pretty sure I have the latest version - Windows Media Player 11. It came pre-installed with Windows Vista. These are the things that turn people away.

And I hate to see that uppercase the word MOBTV.

My environment is Windows Vista but these instructions work for Windows XP as well.

0. Introduction

Sometimes, we have multiple projects and we would like to access the Project 1’s website by typing ‘http://project1/’ in the browser address bar. And Project 2 may be at ‘http://project2/’. This is how we can configure Windows and Apache to do just that. While this guide is written for XAMPP’s Apache, if the instruction applies pretty much to Apache too. You can put your configuration into ‘httpd.conf’.

1. Add a new host in Windows

First go to your hosts file, it is located at C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts for most people. If you’re using Windows Vista, you need to run command prompt as administrator. Type ‘cmd’ into the search bar and right click on the ‘cmd’ search result to point to ‘Run as administrator’. (more…)

This came in rather recent and I was kinda shock when I see this. Our bills rise up to 300SGD. That’s quite a high amount. Our bills hover around 200SGD and never really rise that high.

I’m aware that the money suckers tweaked the charges yet again citing rising costs and blah blah. We just pay it I guess. I am surprised yet a little guilty. This month, I almost didn’t switch off my computer at all.

I had this strange computer problem that gives me a Primary Master Hard Disk Error each time I turn on the computer and I had to switch on and off several times before the Hard Disk can be correctly read. That always kinda scared me so I didn’t dare switch off my computer with the fear that I never get to turn it on back. It is especially at such times when I need my computer that I switched it on twenty-four seven. On best record, it went on for 22 days and 3 hours without a single restart. No, I am not operating a server, thank you. (more…)