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Grails RESTful and JSON not easy as talked

2011-03-01T20:40:00.002+07:00

Finally we had accomplished half part of our first project using Grails. When first time I use grails, the most interesting part was when I try the ability for restful and JSON automatically rendering.

But during the project, I tried to use the JSONP along the way for the integration with our RIA platform Adobe AIR, it's really screw up.

JSONP in grails just works when the you set in your Config.groovy

grails.mime.file.extensions = true
grails.mime.use.accept.header = true

And configure to UrlMapping.groovy

for "url path" (controller: "controllername", action: "actionname")

And when you try to access from client, just "post" and "get" action form that can be used.

To make your controller works with JSONP, you can use several methods. If it just for several request, you can use change the way you render the JSON

if(params.callback) {

render ${params.callback}(${variable as JSON));

}

else {

render variable as JSON

}

This code snippet compatible with Grails 1.3.5

Why Blackberry penetration highest in Indonesia?

2010-09-09T07:57:00.000+07:00

Few years ago I start using blackberry, that time blackberry still an expensive gadget in Indonesia, and difficult to find the device, beside the service price is expensive too. But after 4 years blackberry became major smartphone in Indonesia big cities, and had be a common for people to share their pin compare to phone no.

Few of the reason previously people adopt blackberry were because of

- expensive internet connection (blackberry unlimited)

- high mobility because of traffic in Jakarta

- most of user start use blackberry beside corporate users, is from mailing list. Thats use email as major communication and blackberry is the best on it

- indonesian love to sms, and they can chat unlimited with manageable cost using blackberry

Blackberry biggest rivals nowadays came like Apple iPhone and android based mobike, why blackberry still survive? For some reason, iPhone and android use more bandwidth compare to Blackberry, iPhone is very expensive in Indonesia, but how about Android that have better and competitive price?

And last weekend I spend my time in Singapore, I saw most users use touch screen smartphone, most of them is iPhone either iPhone 3GS or iPhone 4. Then in Sydney this past 2 days, its same behavior, during communting, they still use their smartphone to browse, find information, playing games.... They don't use email as where Blackberry most powerful selling point.

There's a big different background why in most country iPhone is selling that fast, while is very different in Indonesia. In most country, they had most of information and resources had been publish in internet, and another things the educational background if these people was make paper and research. Indonesian, because lack of information and difficulty to find information, then most of them is ask for information to mailing list or someone that can give trusted information and chatting. Beside that the behavior to create good content of information and reading beavior for most Indonesian is very low. And this accelerate the mailing list penetration and this became good market for blackberry.

iOS4 and Blackberry

2010-07-09T07:51:00.002+07:00

Two days ago, I upgrade my iPod Touch 2nd generation to iOS4, the latest iPod Touch OS. During upgrade process, its really bad, start from a long time backup almost 2 hours and after the upgrade process, the backup images can't be restore, its corrupted.

So I lost all my data even before I do the upgrade process, I had sync the data first, but for some applications in the iPod Touch can't be sync to my macbookpro due the limitation of the applications.

Mail

But after all, its totally awesome, I love the Mail, it's like when I'm working with my Mac. The multitasking feature is also very nice, but sometimes it could make the device a bit slow, but I like the animation during switching the application, it's Apple product :) These 2 items make me felt that Apple totally improved, and now I can optimize the use of my ipod touch compare to my blackberry, which previously had unbeatable performance for the email. Now Apple know what really important, I can use my gmail folders to separate my emails, it's really helpful for us that need to work mobile.

iOS4 push technology faster than Blackberry

Another experience that I had that my iPod Touch and Blackberry both using Wi-Fi connections at home, but I got all my push message on the iPod Touch first than on the Blackberry, which means... iOS4 improve a lot in the push technology.

I haven't use the iBooks yet, but I will post my review later.

TextWrangler as TextPad replacement for Mac

2010-07-07T10:30:00.002+07:00

After few years using Mac with TextWrangler... actually I its good enough. But this past few days got an issue after I'm doing a lot of editing for HTML file. I lost my tab and shift + tab feature.

Key feature in TextWrangler:

Multiple File Editing at Once
Find and Replace with Regex
Find and Replace in all documents
Merge feature (Don't need Araxis Merge for simple merge)

To enable the tab feature:

Go to Preferences > Editing: Keyboard

Turn on the "Allow tab key to indent text blocks" option

And it feel I got my TextPad back :p

Getting Things Done Training

2010-04-22T22:02:00.002+07:00

I had conduct a Getting Things Done Training this afternoon. Actually this idea came to me 2 days ago, when Abra, one of my colleague asked me about how to manage task, while she had a problem with her own behavior, to start doing the task when it almost the due date. Then I tried to explain her about Getting Things Done that I already use it for my routine in last 3 years. And I found quite short and easily to explain it to her. And I got an idea, how about if I gave a training to few of another working colleague, which they have a lot possibility had same problem as we had before.

This is the slide that I used for the training session.

Getting Things Done

View more presentations from tyapeter.

Login/Logout with Grails Acegi Plugins

2010-02-22T06:55:00.002+07:00

After few days play around with Grails Acegi Plugin, now I can set the session and destroy session as I needed for next apps that I try to develop.

For Acegi itself it really based on filter servlet, but it really helpful to secure the server from http request with this concept. So basically I just try to configure the session for the application to automatically set the session automatically after login.

First we need to customize the filter. I try to implement the sample from Lucas Teixeira Blog Grails Acegi Plugin Tutorial, by creating AcegiEventListener groovy class and add AcegiEventListener to resources.groovy
add the session to the AcegiEventListener, same as call the session from services or batch, based on Jianfeng Tian article Get Session in Grails Service.
to get session from your contoller, you can use "session.user"

import org.springframework.context.ApplicationEvent

import org.springframework.security.event.authentication.AbstractAuthenticationEvent

import org.springframework.security.event.authentication.AuthenticationSuccessEvent

import org.springframework.context.ApplicationListener

import org.springframework.web.context.request.RequestContextHolder

public class AcegiEventListener implements ApplicationListener {

public void onApplicationEvent(final ApplicationEvent e) {

if (e instanceof AbstractAuthenticationEvent) {

if (e instanceof AuthenticationSuccessEvent) {

def session = RequestContextHolder.currentRequestAttributes().getSession();

if (!session.user) {

session.user = e.source.principal.username

}

For logout, I had try to custom a bit in LogoutController that created by Grails Acegi Plugin

add line in the logout index "session.invalidate()"
and I add custom url redirection page after logout "?logoutSuccessUrl=/login/auth", /login/auth as destination after logged out.

session.invalidate()

redirect(uri: '/j_spring_security_logout?logoutSuccessUrl=/login/auth')

I will try to write some more blog that related with grails which still lack of basic best practices that some newbie needs to develop some serious application

Passion or Money

2010-02-01T01:44:00.002+07:00

Some people still confuse which is more important to them, passion or money.
For some of them, money is very important for current situation, it could be a lot of reason for it, such as condition, need to help their family, higher education or some other things that money will have more value for these situation.

But when people works to get paid, if they passion with their works, it will be easier for them to raise their career and without a lot of barriers for them to do it, meanwhile for people that works for money, they often has a feeling, they works so hard just to generate some income, that sometimes not as expectations. Because when they do their job, they always has a conscious mind that they had do until certain limit that they expect its more than enough, but in another side, people that works with passion, sometimes they even always thinks, there's a limit that not achieve yet, and they really enjoy to do it just to get the limit they want to achieve it.

These are two main different when people works for money or for passion, nowadays most young man that no problem that I had mention before, but somehow they now became more demanding, and want to get easy for the result they want to get, without maximum effort they can contribute to achieve their target.

Here's a quote from Rene

People work for passion ...
Passion brings motivation ...
Motivation gives good result, which is money
If you don't have passion anymore, then there will be no money
More Passion for Love
The most is Happiness

another thing, we need to consider, are we looking for a job or a career?

Taken from Career Coach by Rene Suhardjono

- Are you happy with your job ?
- Do you work based on your passion ?
- Would your current job brings you closer to your purpose of life ?

- Your Career:
Love it ?
Or hate it ?

- Why do you work ?
Killing time ?
Or because of Money ?

- True or False ?
Is your career your job ?
* false
* you can always be fired from your job but not your career. you are the boss of your career.
* There's no guaranteed security in the work place

* true

* A headhunter finds people for jobs

Your job belongs to your employer
Your career belongs to you
It is your dream, your desire and your life

Job ...
It's a tool
It's a means to earn a living
It's a way ....

Career :
Passions, purpose of life, motivation, action
--> it's about happiness and fulfillment in life

Your strength is not what you're good at ...
It's what your enjoy the most !

Passions is enthusiasm
Passion is not so much about finding activities / work / job that you might enjoy. It's about getting in tune with yourself. Your passion is within in you.

Skills are cheap. Passion is priceless.

On purpose of life:
- there's no reason to live without purpose of life

For some reason the problem are not on application

2009-11-20T05:57:00.004+07:00

These past few days, I got a lot of issue related with my company delivered product for enterprise applications. Few reasons that we got the issue complain direct to the application which because the applications not working as usual both in production and disaster recovery. Then I found few or problems that makes this happen

Wrong procedure when recover from disaster recovery (some part of Oracle engine corrupt)
Unproper rollback of Oracle XA driver on weblogic because of deleted some xa tables on Oracle
There's scheduler job that drop database users everyday, before restore some data.

Another issue that I can highlight was the capacity planning not monitored well, no of customer and activity increase without awareness of the operations, and now its overloaded.

Meanwhile, we usually hard to tell the customer that the problem is not on application side, but more in the operation procedures.

Back to civilization of Blackberry Messenger (BBM)

2009-07-20T18:13:00.006+07:00

Because a lot of people having trouble without knowing what they done, and it really disturbed few of my friends that understand more about blackberry.
I try to distribute this Blackberry messenger installer.
Oh yeah for RIM, sorry if I not follow ur NDA, but I tried to help you from another problem from our Indonesia Government. If you want me to drop this link please find me at id-blackberry, the largest blackberry mailing-list in the world

How to:

Uninstall BBM (Options > Advanced Options > Applications > Choose Blackberry Messenger > Menu (blackberry logo on your keypad) > Delete > restart your handheld
Download from OTA links below

Blackberry Suspended in Indonesia

2009-06-15T23:09:00.003+07:00

This past few weeks, a lot of news in media about mass suspended blackberry in Indonesia. Most of the people that had bought blackberry for last month years got a problem with the blackberry can't be used lately or what usually said was blackberry suspended which mean the blackberry can't be use for blackberry service anymore.

I had this experience before, either when the first time I bought blackberry 2 years ago. That time I bought 7290 at ITC Roxy Mas and unfortunately the blackberry that I bought was suspended, because the blackberry PIN still active on another service provider.

All blackberry devices has a pin as an identifier of uniqueness of the handset for the blackberry services. It's designed by the blackberry system from RIM that PIN will be unique on each handset and it will registered to the blackberry server to serve the customer such as forwarding email that we subscribe to the right handset. Blackberry handheld is re-present the client that will receive forwarding or any email or message that we registered to blackberry service system to provide us realtime email. And the blackberry server will automatically get and forward the email that arrive to our mailbox to the blackberry handheld device. That's why the blackberry PIN should be unique.

Last two week our government (Indonesia government) had a meeting with RIM and ask them to open the suspended PIN of blackberry so the customer is not got this suspended issue. But I don't know whether are they really understand what's make PIN is so important for RIM, and why they need to keep the PIN unique. In Indonesia there's now a heaven of blackberry seller, any blackberry handheld will be sold fast with better profit, but they event don't understand how this stuff works. (I mean most of them, not all). I just wonder how about if this thing happens, or one of the government guy had a PIN that duplicate by someone that not legally do it, and the effect some of the classified email or message send to wrong person, but that's the problem not because wrong destination address from the email or message, but because of the PIN duplicated, so the system don't know who's the owner.

I don't think RIM and all party want this thing happens, and for me, what RIM do to suspend the duplicate PIN was the right action if we consider the impact at the end.

From my point of view, if RIM just wanna make business they just allow all those handset active and don't care about duplication or in-secure system. But I really appreciate they still stand to maintain integrity and trust from their customers.

Finally E-Great M34A DTS Downmix enabled

2009-06-14T09:08:00.003+07:00

Last night I browsed to www.egreathd.com and I found that they had release the latest firmware with DTS enabled. It works, I can produce the DTS audio movie just with my AV cable.

To upgrade the firmware follow this step
1. download the latest firmware EG-M31B-M33A-M34A-FW20090204
2. extract the firmware
3. copy both of the file *.bin and linda.htm to usb flashdrive
4. plug it to your e-Great NMT
5. browse to file linda.htm, and execute it
6. press enter on the firmware selection
7. just make a popcorn while waiting for your e-great upgrade

Linksys WUSB54G with e-great M34A

2009-06-14T09:04:00.002+07:00

I try to paired my old USB Wifi dongle with the e-great M34A. It's not natively support, so I need to do some configuration to make the NMT works with my old usb wifi. Just try to follow this few step and hope it works :)

Install Wifi
1. download ra2570.ko
2. copy ra2570.ko to /share
3. download start_app.sh
4. edit start_app.sh
5. Before the "exit 0" line, add the following lines, replacing what is between the "< >" signs with information from your network:
mkdir /lib/modules/2.6.15-sigma/kernel/drivers/usb
cp /share/rt2570.ko /lib/modules/2.6.15-sigma/kernel/drivers/usb
echo "/lib/modules/2.6.15-sigma/kernel/drivers/usb/rt2570.ko:" >> /lib/modules/2.6.15-sigma/modules.dep
echo 7194 > /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes
modprobe rt2570
/opt/wifi/bin/iwconfig wlan0 essid
/opt/wifi/bin/iwconfig wlan0 mode managed
/opt/wifi/bin/iwconfig wlan0 channel
/opt/wifi/bin/iwconfig wlan0 key
/sbin/ifconfig wlan0 up
/sbin/route add default gw

6. plug the usb wifi dongle
7. restart the nmt

Howto Install NMT Apps to USB FlashDrive

2009-06-14T08:56:00.002+07:00

This is just for fun one, not for daily usage, because some feature will not run and need to start the NMT Apps manually via telnet

Install NMT Apps on flashdrive
1. copy syb8634.nmt to /
2. dd if=syb8634.nmt skip=1 bs=60 | tar -xzvf -
3. Copy busybox26, script.cgi and telnet.html to /
4. Get NMT Network ip
5. Boot NMT, go to files, telnet.html, enter on telnetd
6. mkdir /mnt/temp
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/temp
ln -s /mnt/temp/syb8634/ /mnt/
mkdir /opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives/HARD_DISK
mount /dev/sda1 /opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives/HARD_DISK
7. /etc/init_nmt start

After reboot your NMT, always repeat step 4-7

Howto install Telnet Server for the first time

2009-06-14T08:51:00.002+07:00

After confusing with the wiki of installing telnet server on NMT, I will try to share the step-by-step that I following.
Before it, make sure you had install your NMT Apps, if not follow this.

Install Telnet
1. Plugin harddrive to linux computer
2. copy busybox26 to /mnt/syb8634/bin
3. chmod 755 busybox26
4. edit file /mnt/syb8634/etc/ftpserver.sh
5. Add the following line to end of the Start() directive
/mnt/syb8634/bin/busybox26 telnetd -l /bin/sh -p 23 &
6. Add the following line to end of the Stop() directive
killall busybox26
7. Plugin the harddrive to NMT
8. NMT Applications > start FTP Server

Howto Install NMT Apps (e-Great M34A)

2009-06-14T08:44:00.002+07:00

This is the simplest way to install NMT Apps to your e-Great M34A

Install NMT Apps
1. download your latest version of NMT Apps from egreathd.com
2. Copy syb8634.nmt to usb
3. Connect harddrive to esata
4. Go to Setup > Maintenance > NMT Setup Wizard
5. Voila it will install the NMT Apps to your SATA harddrive

E-Great M34A Network Media Tank (NMT)

2009-06-14T08:25:00.002+07:00

Few weeks ago I'm looking for a media player that can be replace my MacBook Pro to view movie from digital format such as avi, wmv. And latest is MKV Full HD with H.264 encoding. Then my friend introduce me Western Digital TV or WD-TV. After few browsing and asking from mailing list, I got Popcorn Hour A-110, but its to expensive for me. Finally I found e-Great M34A or in some forum they said its WD-TV Killer, it's fair price from all the feature and quality.
E-Great M34A is not just a digital movie player but it also as network media tank, which will support to download it's own movie from torrent, and rapidshare.
Another feature that I can use is I can use it also as my NAS server which can be share using NFS or Samba.
One thing why I bought this player it was E-great give a promise will release the new firmware for DTS downmix this June 2009. And finally its release, so now I can watch movie with DTS audio without sound processor.

Supported feature

I bought my e-great from www.indonmt.com

Menghadapi Hantu Pemakan Email (HPE) dengan FreeMem di BlackBerry

2009-04-25T14:51:00.002+07:00

Saya akan share gimana untuk menghindari/mengurangi kemungkinan diatas.

Hantu pemakan email itu hidup kalau memory di blackberry oleh system dianggap kurang untuk melakukan proses.
Dengan tujuan mulia, email baru tetap akan bisa masuk, jadi kita bisa membaca latest email. Tidak seperti mailbox kalau penuh ya ngantri ampe kosong lagi.

Nah tapi secara penggunaan biasa yang agak abuse, klo gak salah denger org RIM aja bingung liat traffic Indo hehehe...
Inet mahal dikasih solusi murah bisa dibawa kemana2 ya gini deh

Tadi pagi ada yg posting memory habis ya? Coba clear cache, ato memory di bersihin

Solusi buat yg gak simple

Keep ur email under 5000 (untuk handset seri 87xx ke bawah)
Clear any chat history window after use. (YM, GTalk, BBM, JiveTalk, dsb)
Clear Browser History
Clear Log dr Home screen, ALT + LGLG > Menu > Clear Log
SoftReset seminggu sekali atau cabut battery. Untuk handset QWERTY bisa dengan menekan ALT + Caps + Del
FreeMem, sehari sekali. (Kaya makan obat aja) harus suruh yg buat benerin nih.

untuk solusi terakhir ini harus beli.
Kenapa pake FreeMem, bantu clean up memory tanpa perlu restart dalam waktu yang cukup singkat.
Cukup dijalankan sehari sekali jauh membantu.

FreeMem dapat diperoleh dengan harga Rp. 80.000,-

Untuk memperoleh FreeMem, email ke:
tyapeter@gmail.com
Dengan subject
Order Freemem

Pembayaran mohon ditransfer ke rekening dibawah
Ac. 5270 532 987
An. Tjiputra Yapeter
BCA KCP Bina Nusantara

Pertolongan Pertama Pada BlackBerry (P3BB)

2009-04-25T14:48:00.002+07:00

Secara akhir-akhir ini banyak problem lagi dengan network untuk jaringan blackberry. Ada baiknya ini di share kembali. Jika anda mengalami idle tidak menerima email atau message or email tidak dapat terkirim, Anda dapat melakukan P3BB dengan langkah sebagai berikut:

1. Cabut batere minimal 1-2 menit
Fungsi ini sama seperti melakukan location update di handphone biasa,
yang kalau di jenis tersebut bisa hanya dengan turn of / turn on
lagi. Sayang nya BB harus dengan cara ini (CMIIW)

2. Registrasi HRT dari Options - Advanced Option - Host Registration
Table - (pencel lagi tombol opsi) - Register Now
Fungsi ini untuk memastikan HH anda terdaftar di network BlackBerry.
Dengan telah terdaftar, maka tunnel dari HH anda ke infrastruktur
BlackBerry sudah terbentuk. Tunnel link ini yang men-trigger capital
GPRS/EDGE/3G.

3. Send Service Book (SB)
Kalau sekira nya HH anda belum mendapatkan self registration email
dari BlackBerry, maka send SB hanya bisa di lakukan via pc / desktop.
Namun kalau sudah berhasil mendapatkan notifilasi self registration
namuan masih lower gprs/edge/3g, maka send SB bisa di lakukan dengan
masuk via email setting (browser: http://operator.blackberry.com)

*diambil dari postingan di milis id-blackberry*

Why developer not do testing?

2009-04-16T08:40:00.000+07:00

Few days a go, in the middle of meeting, one of my staff told me, they still waiting for query that prepared by the System Analyst. Then it come out in my mind, why programmer can’t make their own SQL Query? If they don’t know how it was, then how they know the expect result from what they code.

Another team member also said, he delayed because can’t do real test in the development environment, and he got trouble to set connection with SIT database. So the question why did you need SIT database? And I really surprise with his answer, he said, he don’t know how to make the data to be available to test, and it means he don’t know how to use the applications.

From two of example in the morning meeting, I can figure out, why we can’t improve our software development speed and quality.

Developer not do testing based on the story because of

lack of business process
lack of understanding use the application they develop
requirements not detail enough
lazy to test
overconfidence of their skills

Be Honest

2009-04-15T06:15:00.002+07:00

Yesterday I had been ask from my colleague to help them make presentation to one of our customers now. Our customers now in the process of merger of their bank, and a lot of things they need to be part of considerations, and which our product that have been implement to one of their business previously have possibility to be scrap. All the audience never involve in the projects before, since all is new staff after merger of the organizations.

Based on that situation, I just tried to be honest to explain what's our feature that we had delivered to them and what kind of advantages for them after that. And without any respect, I also tried to explain what of their expectation whether its possible to implement or not suggesting to implement, because it could be a problem and either not a applicable solutions. And from this discussion what I can get, our customer is more satisfied from the explanation, another things we build our confidence that we understand the business process and ready to work together with them for the best solutions we can provide.

In my industry specially IT, most people not try to "be honest" with their customers and most of it they talking or provide about all those thing that might be just a concept or nice to have things without look to the why they need these solutions. Move over sometimes they just say "yes" to the customer just to satisfied/convince the customer to buy product from them.

Configure JIRA for SCRUM Development

2009-03-19T14:28:00.004+07:00

In Aprisma, we want to try implement Scrum for our development, and we already use JIRA for our issue tracking management. So my colleague ask my to help me configure it.

To Use Scrum in JIRA, we can use 2 free plugins

Agile Wall Report
It's to display the iteration during sprint task board
Agile Velocity Tracking Plugins
to display burn down chart and velocity chart

In this Agile Wall Report, to fulfill our needs, I add few stages

Ready to Test
Design
Review
Waiting for Developer

To get those can be view on the report I also change few files from the Agile Wall Source code

agile-wall-report.vm
view-agile-wall-portlet.vm

Agile Wall Report Installation

Login to JIRA as administrator
Go to Workflow Schemes > View all workflows > Import a Workflow from XML. Use name "Scrum", and paste the XML from this file.
Go to Add workflow Schemes
Choose New Feature and Workflow Scrum then add.
Choose Task and Workflow Scrum then add.
Choose Unassigned Types and Workflow Scrum then add.
Choose Bug and Workflow Jira then add.
After that you can set the workflow schemes to Project from Administer Projects

Copy agilewall-report-1.4.0.jar to *webapps\jira\WEB-INF\lib*
Restart the tomcat / servers.

Agile Velocity Tracking Plugins Installation

Login to JIRA as administrator
Go to Custom Fields
Add Custom Fields
Choose Date Picker > Name: Date of First Response > Screen: Default Screen (Don't Choose the other)
Choose Date Picker > Name: Estimation Date > Screen: Default Screen (Don't Choose the other)
Choose Date Picker > Name: Resolution Date > Screen: Default Screen (Don't Choose the other)
Choose Message Custom Field (for view) > Name: Story Points > Screen: Default Screen (Don't Choose the other)
Choose Free Text Field (unlimited text) > Name: Time in Status > Screen: Default Screen (Don't Choose the other)
Go to Indexing > Re-Index

Copy agile-velocity-plugin-0.2.4.jar to webapps\jira\WEB-INF\lib\
Restart the tomcat / servers.

Fix Apache problem on Leopard after upgrade from Tiger

2009-02-16T11:37:00.003+07:00

After few month not using apache web server on my macbook pro, I tried to fix the apache web server after upgrade to Leopard.
It seems got a problem with the upgrade script.
I got this link from google.

I follow this step by step

- edit /etc/apache2/httpd.conf

un comment this line LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so

- edit /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-userdir.conf

add this part

Order Deny,Allow
Allow from all

- go to terminal, and login as root using "su -"

- create folder /private/var/log/apache2

- Restart the webserver from System Preferences > Web Sharing, un-tick and tick again

And after that voila, my webserver back :)

Another Microsoft Office Alternative: ThinkFree

2009-01-14T11:35:00.002+07:00

In past few years, I tried several Microsoft alternative to help me
still collaborative with the others while I'm using cheaper office
application.
I had tried OpenOffice since 1.0, StarOffice, and iWork '08 from
Apple. But I didn't find any of those application has 100%
compatibility of the Microsoft Office format and still need adaptation
for the new users.

And I heard about ThinkFree from my lectures Mr. Richard Kartawijaya.
It has a 100% compatibility of the all of our previous Document and
there's no any layout changes which help us easier to migrate. Another
interesting thing from ThinkFree is all the menu and shortcut 100%
same as the Microsoft Office.

But ThinkFree just support common feature for daily use. It doesn't
support some feature that we sometimes use like track changes and
pivot table.

Sync BB and Mac

2009-01-09T09:38:00.000+07:00

Sync bagi sebagian orang merupakan kebutuhan yang wajib, seperti
halnya saya juga. Karena saya mengandalkan feature2 dari task,
calendar.

Dalam Mac khususnya Leopard, ada 2 utilities yang dapat di gunakan
- pocketMac bawaan blackberry (free)
- MissingSync dari MarkSpace (US$30)

Yang bisa di sync kalo menggunakan Mac
- calendar
- task atau to do list
- memopad
- address book

Adapun kelebihan sync blackberry ke Mac adalah kita bisa sync email
juga.feature ini hanya ada di Mac saja.

PocketMac
- address book, notes, calendar dapat ter sync dengan sangat sempurna.

Kelemahan di OS leoPard tidak dapat sync task, jika anda memilih sync
task, process sync tidak pernah selesai atau hang.
Missing Sync.
Kelebihan
Address Book, Task, MemoPad, Calendar dapat di sync dengan baik.

Kelemahan
Sync Address Book akan gagal, jika ada contact yang tidak diisi first
name, biasa terjadi kalo contact yang diisi merupakan company. Karena
hanya field company saja yang diisi.
Sync notes hanya dapat ke notes bawaan missing sync.
Hanya dapat sync menggunakan cable data, tidak bisa melalui Bluetooth.

Saya sendiri saat ini menggunakan 8120/4.5.0.48, missing sync, ical,
addressbook.app, omnifocus and semua dapat saya sync dengan sangat baik.

Thx

Regards,
coderBerry™
Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device from XL GPRS network
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Add New Email Address

2008-12-23T12:48:00.001+07:00

Hi,

Just try to post one of documents that I tried to write for my friends don't know how to add another email address in Blackberry.

Please refer to this link.

Thx

SureType Lover

2008-12-23T12:42:00.001+07:00

It's always become a pro and cons between SureType or full size keyboard (QWERTY). But I think you can refer to my previous post related to this in id-blackberry archive.

SureType is one of the innovation from RIM that they use it in standard mobile phone size for the way to input and navigate the Blackberry devices.
In suretype phone like 71xx, 81xx and 82xx family, we will got 2 type of way of typing, it's suretype and multitap. Suretype actually it's really like T9, but it's the layout as full size keyboard but in 1 button had 2 choice of letter, or multitap, is you key in as like when use common mobile phone, by type twice in period which will change it to second letter.

Suretype is really unique, specially for the language that blackberry don't have the dictionary for the language. So we as the users should to teach the devices the new words, or slang that we often use.

To teach the device we can have several choice like:
- maintain the custom wordlist (Options > Custom WordList)
- ask the suretype feature learn from email (Options > Language > Input Options)
- and maintain the autotext

usually id-blackberry member choose to maintain it using autotext, since autotext has the flexibility to manage, backup and restore it between handheld.

For the autotext you can download from the link below
- Autotext 5000 words
- Autotext 25000 words
- Autotext 50000 words

To install it, please use the restore method, but please be aware, you're previous autotext will be replace.
If you don't know how to restore, please read my previous post about How to Upgrade Blackberry OS.

Shortcut tips for Suretype lovers:
- QW > replu
- AS > Reply to all
- OP > Forward
- * > Go to next Unread
- 1 > Go to Top
- 2 > Go to Up One
- 3 > One Page Up
- 4 > Go to Previous Date
- 5 > same as Enter
- 6 > Go to Next Date
- 7 > Go to Bottom
- 8 > Go to Down One
- 9 > Go to Page Down
- # > change profile to Vibrate
- ALT + RACE > go to Help Me :)

Finally My Blackberry can sync to mac again

2008-12-18T07:24:00.000+07:00

In this last 2 month I can't sync my blackberry with my MacBookPro and
after open a case for a support from Missing Sync team. My handheld
can sync again.
Our friends in Markspace ask me to delete on file only, and after that
I should to re-set the sync configuration.
To fix the problem I follow this step

Go to the Finder on the Mac and then Go to the Go menu and select Go
to Folder:

Paste in this location:

/System/Library/Extensions/

Remove this file:

BlackBerryUSBDriverInt.kext

Reboot the Mac.

Soft reset your BlackBerry. Turn it off, pull the battery for 3
minutes, put it back and turn on.

For some friends that had a problem with missing sync, I think you can
use this method too :)
What a great support form Missing Sync, now I can sync back all my
data including sync using my OmniFocus to manage my current task list

Windows Problem

2008-11-16T16:21:00.001+07:00

Today I help my friends to solve her computer, and I got stucked because of the windows stall when I tried to configure the correct diapalt setting. Finally I should to install for few times today.

Its really different when I'm using Mac, it all configured well from the manufactured. So anything problems, I just need to restore the system, and I can work.

I'm not a Mac fan Boy but I love to use Mac because I can have more productive time without need to worry the system crash or etc.

*another reason to use Mac*

Review Kickstart or BlackBerry 8220

2008-11-15T10:08:00.001+07:00

After few days using Kickstart I will try to give some review and comment about this handheld.

So far this handheld is really great, since I love the form factor which is flip. And is the latest blackberry release from BlackBerry T-Mobile. I got it from my friends in LA, thx to you Bro :)

From the form factor, it's really handy at my hand, and it has a good build quality for the materials.
It comes with 2 lcd, internal and external, the external display can show a latest message or chat notification, including the content. Internal display it has 240x320 pixels and has better brightness than previous model expect Bold for sure.

The keypad is so big, help me to type easier and it also coming with better SureType feature, which now have a predictions input with highlighted or bold for the words suggested by the blackberry.

The other things is the operating systems and memory for the os. It's come with blackberry Os 4.6, and 128 mb of rom. Total os use just 70 mb, so it still have a big space to keep the email and picture. The os it self got several enhancement to previous version such as support multiple calendar, can broadcast message to all blackberry messenger users.

At last the best point to help the handset more stable, there's a memory cleaning feature that can be trigger by close the lid. It really help much, and make me feel so great.

I had tried to abuse this handheld to received 1000+ email a day, blackberry messenger, yahoo messenger, msn, google talk, and jabber using jivetalk, it runs smoothly without any other problems.

Cons is the limitation of the battery size, and the quality of sound when I try to play music using speaker phone is not as good as I expected.

Overall I recommend this handheld for suretype lovers.

How to Upgrade Blackberry OS

2008-11-15T07:31:00.002+07:00

I tried to post the how to upgrade blackberry operating system to answer most of the questions of my friends and id-blackberry family about how to upgrade the OS. Sorry if there's still not enough information in the how to. But I hope it will guide you much to upgrade the blackberry operating systems :)

Please download from this link Upgrade_Blackberry_OS_Guide.zip

Sync Blackberry 8700 OS 4.2

2007-11-10T08:36:00.000+07:00

After 2 months using Mac n try to find out how to synchronize between Blackberry 8700 OS 4.2 with PocketMac, finally this morning I got the solutions using latest "PocketMac 4.0.20b"

Step by step
- Uninstall PocketMac, using PocketMac uninstaller
- Remove Preferences files, ~/Library/PocketMac*.plist
- Remove ~/Library/Application Support/PocketMac/
- Remove ~/Library/Application Support/PocketSyncManager/
- Restart your Mac
- Install PocketMac 4.0.20b, restart Mac
- if using Blackberrt with password, entry the password first by run Pocket Mac, go to Connection and enter your handset password.
- connect BB to Mac, run PocketMac.
- Make sure your BB detected by PocketMac, ur deviceID will be your handset PIN.

Have fun, enjoy ur fruits (both Apple and Blackberry)

Regards,
coderBerry™
Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device from XL GPRS network
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Creating things for clients who may not know what they want, until they see what you've done, then they know exactly what they want, but it's not what they did

Design without change is like the coast without wind

Int Roaming with XL

2007-09-17T12:11:00.000+07:00

Man teman,

Ane baru dapat tagihan int' roaming ane selama seminggu di Sydney with Telstra.
Murah bo, termasuk kena sms blast 5x n sekali terima telp 13 seconds. Total cuma 50rb termasuk PPN.

Sempat roaming menggunakan Voda untuk bbrp jam, langsung kena 3000 an.
So, walaupun Voda itu partner, tp ga berarti plg murah ya.
Sebaiknya selalu ngecek sebelum int' roaming.

Untuk telstra, ane coba online terus, hanya 1 mailbox di push ke handheld.
Selama idle (tidak ada email) setiap 4 jam kena charge Rp 167 sblm tax.
So seharusnya ga mahal2 banget tuh.
Klo ym emang mahal, per message sekitar 167 rupiah jg. Tp lbh murah dr sms ya. Satu sms 3600 wakakaka...

Mungkin itu aja sharing ane.

Btw, pertimbangkan untuk wifi, klo negara spt australia, wifi masih bayar and mahal.
So itu semua tergantung kebutuhan wifi or gprs :)

To XL, thx dah give the best price for the customer. Mudah2an tambah banyak kerjasama gprs dengan special price 50/kb.

And XL Team, thx dan bantuin selama g roaming.
*waktu baru nyampe ampe ditanyain bisa mulus connect network Australia ga? It's a very nice services.*

Thx

Regards,
coderBerry™
Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device from XL GPRS network
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Creating things for clients who may not know what they want, until they see what you've done, then they know exactly what they want, but it's not what they did

Design without change is like the coast without wind

Nostalgia with OS 4.1

2007-07-15T23:29:00.000+07:00

Hi,

Just my share, I just downgrade the 8707 from OS 4.2 to OS 4.1 but really miss some of the main feature that I used to use it, such as:
- Compose
- Send Attachment
- Media
- Application Switcher for shortcut button
- Unread Message Icon
- Blackberry Messenger status
- Blackberry unread message icon located at bottom

But it makes the 8707 more responsive. May be because of the processor problem too.

Regards,
coderBerry™
Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device from XL GPRS network
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8707v concurrent data and voice communication

2007-07-13T10:10:00.000+07:00

Hi temen2,

Since I got complain from my friend 2 days ago about my mobile phone can't be reach, while I knew that time I just chating using my BlackBerry.

So I try to think why it could happen, and I remember that my Blackberry using GPRS as data carrier. In GSM/GPRS technology, (haven't test with EDGE and don't have any knowledge about EDGE) GPRS is using voice channel to transmit the data. Since we use to chating, so our voice channel will be busy too, that's why we can't reach the phone call.

And this morning I had test, using 8707v borrow from my friend :) as long as using 3G network, I can chating and recive a phone call.
But the problem is because of 8707 performance problem, it's really slow, until the glass hour appears when the phone call ringing.

Btw, I'm testing using 8707v with OS 4.2.1.94. I don't know it using OS 4.1.

Should I downgrade to OS 4.1? :)

Regards,
coderBerry™
Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device from XL GPRS network
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Extra Feature 8707

2007-06-24T08:48:00.001+07:00

Morning all,

Last night I do some browsing for latest BlackBerry product. But I found something really interested in document of 8700 platform and 8800 platform, in boygeniusreport.

That 8707 support until UMTS 2100, that's why 8707 can works in Japan, South Korea. But the main plus point is 8707 can works simultaneously for data and voice. In other Blackberry until lastest model 8300 don't have this feature. So when using 8707 we can send email, or chating with other person, during a phone call. And I knew some of user feels that the Blackberry sometimes stop working, or idle after we take a call. So this can be a good solutions for the user with heavy call, and need data together :).

It all can be happen because it's 3g technology and the provider support (not work with all provider)

Regards,
coderBerry™
Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device from XL GPRS network
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International Roaming Guide for Blackberry user with Excelcom as Provider

2007-06-20T12:07:00.000+07:00

International Roaming Guide for Blackberry user with Excelcom as Provider

For usage during international roaming, it's really recommended use provider that has special roaming agreement.

This is the list of several provider that has roaming agreement with Excelcom for gprs data.

Special Price
- Singapore: Vodafone M1*
- Malaysia: Celcom*
- Australia: Telstra*
- USA: Cingular*
- Japan: SoftBank
- Thailand: DTAC

Another Roaming Partner
- Singapore: Singtel 1800, Starhub
- Malaysia: Maxis, Digi
- Australia: Vodafone*, 3/Hutchinson 3g, Optus
- USA: T-Mobile
- Hongkong: SmarTone-Vodafone*, CSL, People, Sunday, 3/Hutchinson 3g, New World PCS
- China: China Mobile (China Tel)*
- France: SFR(Cegetel)*, Orange (French Telecom)
- Germany: Vodafone D2 GmbH*
- Belgium: Mobistar Belgium, Proximus Belgacomm
- Italy: Vodafone - Omnitel *
- Netherlands: Vodafone (Libertel)*, KPN Netherlands
- Spain: Vodafone Spain*

Note:
1. * preferred partner
2. Roaming charge will depend on roaming partner (some using per kb, some using per block of 10 or 100 kb)

To set the mobile network on manual networks. This is to use selected provider that has cooperation with out provider, follow this steps:

Options > Mobile Networks > Manual > Choose the provider

If already set as Manual, Scan for Available Networks.

And to keep it more saving, while u don't really need real time email. Just try to turn on/off your data services

Options > Mobile Networks > Data Services > On/Off.

For the user that has a lot usage in blackberry messenger, it really suggest to uninstall the Blackberry messenger during roaming.

Have fun and enjoy the trip.

Thx to XL that has provide the information.

BB really helpful

2007-05-14T23:36:00.000+07:00

Hi,

I just want to share my experience with BB today.
Today I had problem with internet connection at Office and in the late afternoon, I should to send an email as soon as possible.
Since we had just move to new office space today, a lot of things haven't been settled well. Then I want try to use dial up, and my extension line not work.

And finally I remember, I can't use my BlackBerry to send email with attachment. Since I have use OS 4.2, I can copy the file to my BlackBerry, and send the file as attachment on time.

Once again I feel Blackberry really helpful.

Thx

Regards,
coderBerry™
Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device from XL GPRS network
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BIS feels fake BES feature

2007-05-05T21:55:00.000+07:00

Hi id-blackberry'ers,

I tried to write some tips actually based from idea of Cak Uding :)

For heavy email users like me, I backup my email to notebook everyday and some problem when my attachment file should be view on notebook.
But when we have download the email for backup, or because of small limit of mailbox size, we should to delete the downloaded/backup email from the mailbox.

If we need to forward email that has been deleted from our handheld (Blackberry), how we can forward the email immediately? Or we need to view it.

For BES user they can directly connect to their mailbox in server.
For me as BIS user, I should to turn on my notebook. But since I have use Blackberry and with all the feature, I didn't bring my notebook everytime as before :).

I tried to use the way Cak Uding do, is to backup all the email on gmail.

To backup all the email
- I created 1 new email address just to keep my office email.
- Set auto bcc from webclient for specific email address to specific gmail email.
- And I configure from my office email to redirect all email received to gmail email accounts. (Not all email server support this feature)
- set auto cc (since I haven't get the auto bcc feature on Ms Outlook), to backup all my sent email from outlook to gmail.

After I configure those steps, to retrieve the email:
- Install Gmail App http://www.gmail.com/app on the Blackberry handheld
- start the gmail app, and login
- you got all your backup email
- if you need to forward it or keep it again at your handheld, just forward it to your email :)

Cak Uding, thx for ur idea :)
I can work anywhere with my Blackberry setia™.

Thx

Regards,
coderBerry™
Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device from XL GPRS network
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How BB can support your work

2007-05-05T21:54:00.000+07:00

Saya coba share mengapa saya mulai menggunakan Blackberry dan bagaimana blackberry membantu pekerjaan saya.

Sebelumnya saya sudah pernah mendengar Blackberry ketika indosat melaunch blackberry beberapa tahun yang lalu. Tetapi harganya cukup mahal.

Terakhir saya memilih BB, setelah capek membawa HP, dan PDA, serta kebutuhan untuk email. Saat itu saya sering berada di tempat client sehingga sering terlambat meresponse email dari client, dikarenakan tidak ada akses untuk email.

Kemudian saya join ke milis id-blackberry, dan akhirnya saya memutuskan untuk mencoba menggunakan blackberry dengan BIS.
Setelah menggunakan blackberry, saya dapat dengan cepat memberikan response kepada customer, terutama yang berhubungan dengan support terhadap customer. Serta saya dapat menggunakan feature tambahan seperti yahoo messenger, yang memudahkan saya berkomunikasi dengan team saya yang dikantor maupun on-site di customer. Akhirnya saya dapat menekan biaya komunikasi saya ketika berada diluar kantor.
Ditambah feature pim yang menurut saya bagus. Saya sangat terbantu dengan feature calendar yang dapat menampilkan schedule due of task, memudahkan jika ingin mengatur schedule.

Mungkin ini yang saya bisa share kepada teman2.

Thx

Regards,
coderBerry™
Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device from XL GPRS network
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Which BB for me ?

2007-05-02T06:18:00.001+07:00

I had sent this email to id-blackberry community

Temen2,

Selama saya join milis ini yang paling rame, sering share dan saling bantu. Rasa kebersamaannya sangat tinggi. Semoga ini berlanjut terus, terutama semangat nge-ratjoen :)

Salut ama hantu2 yang terus ber-gentayangan meng-hantui yang belum menggunakan BB.

Saya sebagai end-user BB, merasa BB sangat membantu pekerjaan saya akhir2 ini. Bahkan saya sudah tidak mendapat complain selama 1 bulan ini dari customer saya karena telat membalas email :)

Anyway back to the topic, which BB for me?
1. 7290
Salah satu BB yang pernah saya gunakan 1 minggu. Layar LCD masih menggunakan OLED, sehingga irit battery. Sangat cocok bagi yang sering kerja di bawah matahari. Cocok buat yang butuh email, instant messaging. Dan tidak banyak menggunakan 3rd party application. Fisik cukup kuat, keypad paling enak diantara semua karena bentuk layout nya. Kualitas image standard banget, kalau dibanding hp nokia sekarang, ini bener2 jaman color awal kali.
Memory 32 mb.
Battery tahan 2 hari klo instant messaging + email no bbm.
Sudah support bluetooth, tetapi hanya handsfree saja.

2. 7100
Keluarga suretype pertama, sangat ok bagi yang ingin menggunakan suretype dan jempol gede. LCD jauh lebih bagus dibandingkan 7290, tetapi jangan harap bisa membaca klo silau matahari. Untuk kerja sangat ok, dan klo pengen bentuk phone standard. Oh ini fisik masih tebal dan kokoh. Tapi tolong jangan digunakan untuk ber-bbm ria.
Memory sudah 32mb.
Battery 1,5 hari untuk instant messaging + email only.
Sudah support bluetooth, tetapi hanya handsfree saja.

3. 8700
Ini merupakan salah satu product BB yang paling bandel. Buat yang demen BBM ini boleh jadi pilihan. Email + instant messaging mantap d.
Kekurangannya belum ada external memory, itu sih menurut saya. Bentuk agak gede tapi kelihatan kokoh. mirip "karce" kali ya :).
Oh iya buat yang sering kerja di bawah matahari model ini bisa, hanya saja jadi agak boros battery.
Battery untuk bbm + email + instant messaging 1 hari saja.
Memory 64 mb
Bluetooth sudah bisa untuk kirim2an file, sebagai modem, bahkan connect ke GPS.

4. 8100 atau yang lebih dikenal dengan Pearl
Most sensational BB from RIM. Dari awal selalu menjadi sorotan karena designnya yang menarik, elegant dan fashionable. Suretype dan lebih mengarah ke mobile phone. Tetapi tetap memiliki semua feature dasar BB. Sudah support external memory hingga 2gb. Camera.
Lcd sudah bagus sekali karena multimedia, battery boros klo butuh di bawah matahari.
Bluetooth feature sama dengan 8700.
Bentuk case yang sangat smooth, ini yang akan jadi 1 pertimbangan untuk merawatnya.
Karena kecil dan tipis, agak takut ya klo ampe jatuh apalagi membuat casenya lecet, kan sayang banget, tar ga mengkilap lagi.
Memory 64 mb

5. 8800 (huron)
Feature mirip dengan 8700, ditambah dengan external memory, dan GPS internal. Bentuk elegant dengan qwerty keyboard layout. Sangat cocok buat professional yang ingin menggunakan BB. Case sama dengan pearl, serta warna full black, membuat kesan exclusive banget.
Memory 64mb

Mungkin ada yang bertanya2 kenapa gak dibahas qwerty dan suretype. Ini gak perlu terlalu di ributkan, suretype bagus untuk yang sering ngetik dengan language yang dictionarynya sudah disupport oleh BB, sering nyetir sendiri. Atau ingin menggunakan multitap. Karena suretype kadang masih perlu memperhatikan kata2 yang digunakan. Maka multitap merupakan pilihan yang sangat tepat untuk melengkapi suretype ketika nyetir :)

Qwerty, cocok buat yang males belajar atau adaptasi, atau banyak menggunakan bahasa yang dictionary BB ga support. Dan sering ngetik email yang cukup panjang.

Untuk pertimbangan pricing,
As I know 7290 udah discountue dari pabrikan, jadi klo pun masih ada kemungkinan sisa stok dari provider.
Klo melihat website provider2 di luar negeri, RIM hanya mengenal 2 harga berdasarkan model suretype dan qwerty.
Jadi bisa dikatakan harga 8700, 8707 dan 8800 itu sama. 8707 lbh tinggi sedikit karena support 3G.

Mungkin akan timbul pernyataan kenapa 8700 lebih stabil or cepat dari 8800 or 8100, itu bener klo os 4.1. Karena os 4.2 punya feature lebih banyak, apalagi 8800 ada tambahan gps, 8100 camera. Otomatis lebih banyak yang harus di kerjakan system, sedangkan spec hardware dasar dan memory sama.

Saya sendiri menjatuhkan pilihan pada 8700, karena sering menggunakan email, mengetik email yang cukup panjang, serta kebutuhan instant messaging.
Sebenarnya kurang external memory, tetapi karena butuhnya kadang2 saja, mungkin once a month. Jadi saya rasa belum butuh d, wong notebook IBM selalu bersama saya. Tapi akhir2 ini mulai jarang dibawa, banyakan main BB :)

Mudah2an ini bisa dipakai untuk jadi comparison buat teman2 yang belum menggunakan BB, atau ingin mengganti handset.

Sangat mengharapkan teman2 yang belum menggunakan BB dapat menggunakan BB, tidak perlu yang paling wah, pilih yang sesuai kebutuhan, handset BB gak mahal, klo memang bener2 mendukung produktifitas kerja. But for fun, jujur cukup mahal, apalagi ditambah dengan bulanannya.

My first post

2006-10-27T14:40:00.000+07:00

This is my first post. Never done this before @@
Today i want to reply my friends blog, and i should to register, then I think may be i should try blogging :)

Anyway today is still holiday in Indonesia. I don't have something to do. Just browsing, watch movie, cooking have a rest at home :)