by asyraf
on 03. May, 2010
in Business, Startups
We’ve spent two years stumbling along, making mistakes and (hopefully) learning from them. We’re still not awesome, but we’re getting there one stumbling step at a time. For the past two years though, we’ve found that these 5 things, when kept in mind and executed carefully, will help any startup supercharge its business by leaps [...]
by asyraf
on 22. Apr, 2010
in General
Alas! We realized late evening yesterday that our Contact Form wasn’t sending the emails it should to us. We’ve fixed this issue, so it is now working fine. If you’ve used our Contact Form to contact us, and are fuming over why we’re not responding, it’s not because we’re busy getting our behinds fat in [...]
by asyraf
on 08. Mar, 2010
in Business, Startups
A couple of weeks back we went to a friend’s wedding, and because that friend was an old school friend of ours, naturally, we had a school reunion of sorts. So I met all of the friends that I had long lost touch with, and naturally, we did our catching up. 7 years after our [...]
by asyraf
on 01. Feb, 2010
in Agile, Tutorials
Last week we had the excellent opportunity to host the agile, XP planning game at Plug and Play in Midvalley, KL. We had a lot of fun, and from what we saw after the game, so did the participants – it’s a great ice breaker, and great learning tool to understand the complexities of XP [...]
by asyraf
on 24. Jan, 2010
in General
Finally! After months of toying with various CMS and blogging tools, our company site/blog is finally up! Chalk it up to me being so anal about finding the perfect system to use – which finally ended up being WordPress anyways (almost went with Drupal, but Drupal 7 isn’t around yet!) We’ve imported all the various [...]
by asyraf
on 27. Jul, 2008
in General
wpa attack:Use dictionary attack: need 7gb dictionary. You can torrent, or create your own Man in the middle: monkey-jack… Dumps all ur username and passwords to you first before sending to server… Fake ap – to thwart man in middle hackers – but only if hacker use other than kismet. Securing: disable ssid, change ssid, [...]
by asyraf
on 27. Jul, 2008
in General
One of the more ‘risque’ topics in barcamp today: wireless hacking. It was way too tempting to resist: they had a barainstorming session on web marketing that i wanted to attend… Nah… It was too good to resist. Notes:10db antenna gives you 1km radiusAtheros chipset wireless card the best for hacking wireless… Look for higher [...]
by asyraf
on 26. Jul, 2008
in General
if you’ve never been to yahoo’s developer network, then it’s my turn to say: where you been ma? Today yahoo presented one of their cooler apps: the yahoo search monkey. Search Monkey lets you define more information for your search results when searched in yahoo. In other words, customize your search results! On the side [...]
by asyraf
on 26. Jul, 2008
in General
I was watching this presentation on Flex… And I’m asking myself: dude, where’ve i been all this while? Flex rocks! I’m gonna be looking at it once i’m done with learning the crazy prototype, jquery, and scriptaculous… Phew… Turns out that by itself is more than just a walk down the park… It’s more (to [...]
by asyraf
on 26. Jul, 2008
in General
it’s a fine saturday morning and i’m not in bed (What?). That’s right L&G’s! Barcamp’s in town, and i’m warming up my cold ass on the tiny seats (truth is, my ass is huge) of the presentation rooms this fine day. Cool stuff coming up today! We got yahoo dev network, we got presentations on [...]