My book on “Facebook Application Development” has been announced. I have co-authored this book with Dr. Mark Alexander Bain and it is scheduled to be published by May 2008.
Category: Me – Myself
I would love to be a baby sitter
Well, it may sound funny but this is what I want to be after 6 years. I am quite planned about my future and I will definitely retire from my regular web app dev job after 6 years. Beside this I love kids, love talking to them and love to see them growing up 😀
so I am going to be a baby sitter after 6 yrs and I am sure, I will do good 😀
29th Feb, 2012
What will happen this day in 2012?
Afif will be almost 6yrs old
His sister will be 3 yrs old
I will code in PHP10 and Python 5
I will still be young like today
I will hold a MySQL DBA Cert
I will be writing a book on Python
I will be having a car
No one in my family will be using windows anymore
I will write a blog post titled “29th Feb, 2016”
I will still be singing “Like a rolling stone”
And Finally
I will be preparing more for the self retirement in 2015
On the way back to Dhaka – Seminar on "Current Job Trends"
Right now I am in the train on the way back to Dhaka. Got some free minutes in hand to write a post focusing things happened this week.
Last couple of days were simply awesome. I came to Rajshahi to present a seminar on “Current Job Trends” in “Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (RUET)” to help students to get a basic overview of current job market. Beside that I also focussed to the thngs they should be prepared before going to interview. To describe the overall feedback – it was amazing. I was surprised by their engagement and enthusiasm. It seems like they were waiting for such a seminar for a long time. Special thanks goes to faculty of computer science and engineering for arranging that. Professor Dr. Shahiduzzaman helped a lot to make it happen. Definitely thanks also goes to Sarwar Sattar (Stalin) and Murad, faculty of the department for their incredible help. Rana (05 CSE) – thank you too.
You can download the slides from here http://javapark.net/hasin/RecentJobTrends.pdf.tar.gz
The seminar went great (well, I am saying ‘great’ based on the feedback I’ve got) – I will soon post some pictures of this seminar. After the end of this seminar, Professor Dr. Shahiduzzaman invited me to attend the farewell program of 03 batch. I feel honored to be invited in such a program. And I didnt miss the chance.
Beside these official programs, I also went to Naogaon to visit the house of my in-laws parents. The reception was beyond my imagination. I always like this cordiality of village peoples. Thats why I want to spend my life after 35 in such a place.
I will try to arrange such seminars in different universities to increase the awareness.
উইন্ডোজ ছাড়া এক মাস+
আমি এই বছরের একদম শুরুতে আমার ল্যাপটপ থেকে উইন্ডোজের শেষ চিহ্নটিও মুছে ফেলেছি। বেশ অনেকদিন ম্যানড্রিভা ব্যবহার করার পর মনে হল অন্যকিছু ট্রাই করে দেখা যেতে পারে। উবুন্তু ইন্সটল করে আমি রীতিমত মুগ্ধ।দারুন ইউজার ফ্রেন্ডলি ইন্টারফেস, ডেবিয়ানের শক্তিশালী প্যাকেজ ম্যানেজার এবং দারুন সব ওপেন সোর্স (এবং ক্লোজ সোর্সড) প্যাকেজের বদৌলতে একবারের জন্যও মনেই হয়নি যে উইন্ডোজে আর ফেরার দরকার আছে। এছাড়া উইন্ডোজে আমার খুবই ফেভারিট কয়েকটি সফটওয়্যার ছিল (সেগুলোও ফ্রি) যেগুলোর লিনাক্স পোর্ট আমি পাইনি – তাই ওয়াইন ইন্সটল করে নিয়েছি সেগুলো চালানোর জন্য। নিচে আমার ফেভারিট প্যাকেজ গুলোর একটা লিস্ট করলাম – কারো কাজে লাগতেও পারে।
ফটোশপের বিকল্প হিসেবে ব্যবহার করছি জিম্পশপ
ইলাস্ট্রেটরের বিকল্প ইংকস্কেপ
সিডি/ডিভিডি রাইট করার জন্য কেথ্রিবি (k3b)
ওপেন অফিস – আমার ওয়ার্ড প্রসেসিং, স্প্রেডশিট এবং প্রেজেন্টেশন তৈরীর কাজে
ফাইলজিলা আমার ভাল লাগে না – তাই এসএফটিপির জন্য ব্যবহার করি উইনএসসিপি (WinSCP) এবং সাধারন এফটিপির জন্য টোটাল কমান্ডার
ভিডিও দেখার কাজে ভিএলসি প্লেয়ার
গান শোনার জন্য রিদমবক্স
চ্যাট করার জন্য পিজিন
ব্রাউজার হিসেবে কি ইউজ করি তা কি আবার বলা লাগবে? অবশ্যই ফায়ারফক্স এবং অপেরা
ডাউনলোড অ্যাকসেলারেটর হিসেবে মাল্টিগেট (Multiget)
কোডলেখার জন্য জিনি (Geany), জেন্ড স্টুডিও, নেটবিনস এবং এসপিকেট আইডিই (SPket IDE)
ইংলিশ টু ইংলিশ ডিকশনারীর জন্য ইউজ করি জালিংগো (Jalingo)
পেজমেকার হিসেবে স্ক্রাইবাস
সিএইচএম (CHM) ফাইল পড়ার কাজে এক্সসিএইচএম (xCHM)
পিডিএফ ফাইল পড়ার জন্য এভিন্স (Evince)
মাইএসকিউএল জিইউআই ফ্রন্টএন্ড হিসেবে এসকিউএল ইয়োগ (SQLYog)
আর কখনোই উইন্ডোজে ফেরা হবে না আমার 😀 – আফিফ (আমার ছেলে) ও ছোটবেলা থেকেই লিনাক্সেই কাজ করবে ইনশাল্লাহ।
Interview Published
My interview along with Jeff Moore, Vidyut Luther, Ed Finkler, Matthew Turland, Richard Hayes and Martynas Jusevicius published yesterday.
Thanks to OdinJobs for conducting this interview.
Just updated my resume
After a long time I’ve just updated my resume. You can take a look at my resume by clicking the following link.
If you find anything inconsistent or have a suggestion to improve it, dont hesitate to post your comment. I would love to listen what you think.
হারিয়ে যেতে ইচ্ছা করে খুব – Like a rolling stone
মাঝে মাঝে খুবই ইচ্ছা করে হারিয়ে যেতে। কোনো কাজ করতে ভালো লাগে না, মনে হয় বেরিয়ে পড়ি যেদিকে চোখ যায় সেদিকে, কোনো ভাবাভাবি নেই, নেই কোনো পিছুটান।
একদিন ঠিকই বেরিয়ে পড়ব রাস্তায়, সবার সাথে ভাগ করে নেব অসীম এই পৃথিবীটা – মাঠে শুয়ে গুনব তারা। হয়ত কোনো পুকুরে লাফ দেব, যা ইচ্ছা তাই করব।
খুব ইচ্ছা করে, খুব।
বব ডিলান যেভাবে গাইছে – ঠিক সেভাবে
How does it feel
How does it feel
To be without a home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?
How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?
Lookback 2007, The Storyteller
January 2007
I started working with my book OOP5 with PHP. I was working on somewherein that time and had a hard day installing subversion server (poor me, heh heh). I took three PHP devs in my team there. Spent quite a busy time planning the new year.
February 2007
Was running @ full throttle in Pageflakes. Learned a hell lot of javascript. Done some interesting flakes in Pageflakes.
March 2007
Became a die hard fan of Code Igniter and refactored somewherein blog completely with it. Planned for a complete refactoring of zephyr.
April 2007
Benchmarking, profiling took a long time due to refactoring of somewhereinblog. My book WordPress Completed had been slashdotted 8. I had released WordPress Bangla Plugin which is now being distributed from Ekushey. Started coding the linkedin flake for pageflakes.
May 2007
Found something interesting which I thought was a bug in Reflection in PHP. As I started writing on reflection chapter of OOP with PHP, done some serious RnD on it. Got my Nusphere PHPEd 5.0 license. Afif got his first year done and we got a beautiful cake celebrating that event.
June 2007
One year passed since I became a Zend Certified Engineer but still not received my certificate. Was pretty pissed off for it. And an important month for my life too. I quit from Pageflakes after staying for one year with them. I quit from Somewherein as well after working 2yr and 3 months for them. I become a free man (you remember Gordon Freeman?).
July 2007
Joined Trippert Labs on 15th July which was the beginning of another new chapter. Started working on Trippert.com, their official site for travelers.
August 2007
Became 28 yrs old, he he. Spent some serious time refactoring Trippert.com and performance analysis of web applications. Was a very busy month in fact. Started working on Orchid.
September 2007
Started developing facebook applications. The real fun began. Deployed Holiday Gifts. Also got my citycell zoom working on linux.
October 2007
Spent some very busy time developing the facebook applications for Electronic Arts. Finished writing OOP with PHP.
November 2007
Got my new laptop Dell Inspiron 6400. Deployed NFS, our first application for EA which was a big hit.Started writing a book on Facebook.
December 2007
Setup the local office of Trippert Labs in Bangladesh. Orchid has been released in a preview state. Got my book (OOP with PHP5) published. Started developing new facebook Application. Fully migrated to Linux and Dropped my Windows Partition 😀
So Thats it – a lookback of “the storyteller” in 2007.
No more windows for me, seriously!
Thats it, I closed my windows, heh heh. Last night after an accidental formatting of a system partition messed everything up and I decided duh, no more windows. So I gave gutsy gibon a go and I must say that it’s simply awesome. Previously I was using Mandriva 2007 (Based on Mandrake) spring edition for last one year, and I was happy. But I wanted to try ubuntu a bit and I am happy, seriously.
But I have to download the latest ATI driver and install it to make my ATI Radeon X1400 card to work properly. Sound card didn’t create any problem.
I am running completely on Ubuntu now. I started my installation on 31st Dec 2007 at 11 PM and Finished configuring everything in today afternoon.
Bye Bye Windows.