Thoughts & Ideas

My point of view not related to my professional job.

Time flies

Wow time flies. It has been about a month, which mean ending up my HPM class. I promised with myself to post anything i’ve learned from the class. However, things were not that easy :(. The course is so useful. Honestly i have learned thousands of new things, widen my view. But i do not have experience on Project Management, which prevents me from fully understand the course and how to apply it. That was also the reason why i did not post anything.

Today is the last day of the class. I have finished 2 courses so far, SPM and HPM for project manager. Trying to apply for the company is not an easy task but possible :). Let’s start with analyzing the current problems:

  • Find bugs root cause: Bugs are the normal thing, Every software has bug. However, focusing on its cause, you can improve many things in the current process, and of course, reduce the bugs count.
  • Analyze steps of the current development process: It works fine now, however, from the bug analyzing, it is one of the cause. It seems that there is a lack of input/output in each step.

That are 2 things i will start with. Oobs, i am talking about time flies not improving process 🙁

Looking back a month, when i was first attending the course, i cannot imagine how fast the time flies. Let me summary my typical day:

  • Got up at 6h15: Personal washup and did some physical exercise.
  • Went to work at about: 8h, sometime earlier.
  • Out of office at 5h30 then went to school at 6h30, for 2-4-6. On 3-5-7 i am at Badminton club
  • Out of school at 9h30.
  • Back to home at 9h45
  • Took a bath and relax a bit, looked at the clock, it said 11h
  • I had 1 hour left to do other stuffs before going to bed.
  • Sometime, after school i went out with friends having some drink.

Then in summary, i feel a week is just a day or less :(. Am i a busy or hard working man?? No not really, it is just a working day as others. I know there are many people having unsleep schedule. I just do a little thing. While in the class, the lecture said a lot about his education and job. I wonder, how many hours does he have in a day? How can they cover all of them?

Everyone does love weekend and me too 🙂 Usually go out with friend for coffee, billards,…

Old book store website

Introduction story:

Last night while i was talking with my little sister about her exercise: Making a website to sell old/unused book. She is studying business matter. Wow a good idea! Suddenly i came up with a site doing nearly the same thing. It is for Sharing books. Basically it is quite different since i am not making any business here or gain any money from that action.

Let start with the story. When i was at the university, every semater i spent lots of money on books. Event though the true was not 🙁 since i was not so interested in those books at all. And then when it came over, where those books went? They became garbage; a waste of money. And the cycle begins with new comers. So what can we do? Instead of buying the new ones, we can ask for them with lower price or even free ( if you meet a generous guy).

What is the obstacle in that solution? The communication: how do you know where/who to ask for? Therefore, the site i am going to build is a meant to solve that issue. Of course it needs help from many people especially the ones who have old books.

Let summary the process:

  1. Book owner publishes books into the site.
  2. People needing book go in and search for them.
  3. He, then, contacts with book owner for a deal.
  4. Book owner updates the available number of that book or remove them if out of stock.

Simple 🙂

Version 1.o:

The very first version should be simple and supply enough functionalities: search, upload, manage books. Below are stories in this version. The search GUI should be something like google. As simple as possible.
 
User stories:
 
Story 1: Seeking for books
As a normal user who is looking for a book without registered
I want to look for books by name
When i enter the name
Then the system should return to me list of books with having that name in their name and i should know the author as well as the description.
 
Story 2: Registration is required when uploading book
As a normal user having some books
I want to share or sell to others
When i ask for that task
Then the system requires her/him to register into the system. When done, redirect them to the upload page.
 
Story 3: Register user
As a normal user
I am required to register in.
Then the system show me form to fill in information: Name(required), Email, Phone, Address(required)

 

Story 4: Upload book
As a registered user
I want to upload book i have into the site
When i ask for it
Then the system should show me the GUI to allow entering book details: Name, Author, Type, Description, Available amount, Price
 
Story 5: Display my books
As a registered user
I want to see all books uploaded by myself
When i log in and want to see them
Then the system should list them out
 
Story 6: Remove books
As a register user
I want to remove some books since they have been bought or free-given
When i am in my display books
Then i should be possible to remove them and they no longer appear in the site.
 
Story 7: Added/changed book displays immediately
As a registered user
I want to see my added book shown immediately in the list
When i finish adding one book
Then the book should appear immediately on the list.
 
Story 8: Only me or addministrator can remove/change my books
As a registered user
I try to remove or change info of books which are not mine
Then i have no way to do that.
 
Story 9: Show total visitor so far and today
As a user goes in the site
I want to know how many people has visited the site so far
When i am in the home page, the page to search books
Then the system shows me that number and the number of today.

30-4 vacation BMT

So great! I have not been on vacation for long time. Usually, when having vacation days, i go to my hometown, staying with my family, It was fine. Thing changed! I took a vacation for 4 days going to Buon Ma Thuat City.

The very first word, i want to say thank you to my friends in Buon Ma Thuat: Van Anh, Her boyfriend, Le Vi, and his friends. They are soooo nice and guide me visiting many places. We really had happy time staying there.

Back to the trip, it took about 7 hours to get there, about 350KM far from HCM city, 150K/person for the ticket. The bus stopped at Bu Dang station for upping your power and toilet as well.

Bu Dang
Bu Dang

After 30 minutes at Bu Dang, Got in the bus and drove straightforward to Buon Ma Thuat city. Even thought, it was a long trip, we did not get tired since sleeping all the time on bus.

Bravo, Welcome to BMT, the first feeling was: the fresh, cool atmostphere. Checked in the hotel, took a rest and started with first day.

Day 1: Buon Don, 40km from Buon Ma Thuat city

We decided to target at Buon Don. My friend, VA with his boyfriend, took us for breakfast and morning coffee. Driving on the road to Buon Don york, suddenly i felt something strange: Hic the after tire broke. No problem, i got the nouvo one from his brother :). From that on, i got it for the left days:

motobike

Eventually i got to Buon Don, ticket costs 20/person.

bamboo chain-bridge

The bamboo chain-bridge used to navigate there. Wow, it was a little bit worry for the first time. However, it was exciting :). There were not much sight seeings here. The interesting things were that i knew it and felt like it. It is best for outdoor activity. You can bring food, beer, water or whatever to eat, drink in and enjoy with your friend. Here are some pics taken there:

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Here is the food i used and the elephan:

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We also went to another place however it was not so exciting. it was peaceful.

Day 2: Draysap waterfall ( DakNong province). About 30km from Buon Ma Thuat city

As normal, we started with breakfast and coffee for a new day. I love coffee so much.

We went to the waterfall with other friends from my friend Vi. We were a group of 9 people on moto bikes.

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More will go on with next post.

I was in yahoo-er trap

On Friday last week, while i was in my room, in the company, watching movie ( since out of work already and that was relaxing time). On of my friend on yahoo chat list buzzed me.  Yeah, i had a chat without any doubt about him.

Things went a litte bit then he suddenly asked me: “Can you help me buy 10 vinagame cards  for his little brother, just came from country side to HCM for fun? 60.000vnd/each”. Sure i said: “Yes”. I told him i would call him when i got back to my home, we live quite closely. I would called him afterward. However, he said that, his phone was out of battery and proposed me a solution: Got out of the company and bought the cards, went in the internet shop and sent the code via chat. Ok, we agreed on that.

Popped in an internet shop, asked for 10 cards, not paid yet. I went online and confirmed him again about type of card, since i did not know about them. Buzzed 1, 2, 3 times, no reply. Picked up my phone and tried to catch him. Oh No, the phone was ringing. The real person was talking with me. What i got was: he did not ask for any cards and he was drinking with his friends. Shit! i shouted out. Someone hacked his account and cheated me.

As a basic of thinking, i recalled about that friend, about his type of chat with me. Totally strange! However i did not realize. My friend got confirmed and changed the password.

I got a useful lession: DO NOT TRUST ONLINE, YOU SHOULD DO SOME BASIC CONFIRMATION BEFORE ACCEPTING, BELIEVING SOMETHING!

My name is not Google!

Today, i read a post on Ayende site quite exiting.

What would you do when you have problem? For instance, while programing and you got an exception. Click here Ayende to see what others discuss about this situation.

In conclusion, you should google it first, or try yourself with some efforts before asking others to help. There is no stupid questions, however, if you put a try first, then you can learn something from that.