Jeai-cArlos Cl. Tee

Finally got a hand at using Google’s new browser, Chrome. I’m using it now! ^^’

Well, so far I’m impressed by how fast, faster than Firefox it seems, simple and intuitive it is. It supports most if not habits I have from Firefox which is great. Firefox people won’t have any problems using it for the first time.

I’m liking this new “Incognito” window. It’s great that you don’t have to clear your history whenever you want to hide something.

Coming from Google, it has met most of my expectations. You can download it here. I recommend trying it out.

I’m hoping to see some features and extensions from Firefox like saving my bookmarks in the cloud (Foxmarks), blocking and enabling Javascript at will (NoScript), ad-blocking (Adblock Plus), Secure-Login-like password management and spell-check.

UPDATE: Added the Google Chrome screenshot. I couldn’t post an image earlier because I didn’t have access to my Flickr at work.

My first ever venture into C#, as far as I can remember at least. :P I started this only on my 2nd year of college. Why? Well because after learning C/C++ early in my freshman year, I shifted to trying Java. It never caught up with me, though. However, Java became an exquisite stepping stone to C#, unlike C/C++, which wasn’t purely OOP. I always say that once you know Java, you already  know C#.

Anyways, the project was simple enough. The user provides a text input file containing a set of test cases where each case has one system of equations with N unknowns. The objective of the tool was to solve for the N unknowns using matrix inversion. continue reading » »

Where’s the best place to put your private fields and accessors (getters and setters) in classes? Well, the traditional approach is to group all private fields together, all accessors together and all methods together. That is quite intuitive yet it presents some problems.

A private field is almost always associated with accessors. In almost every OOP language (even more with C# with its Properties feature), you have a tight coupling between a private fields and accessors. It becomes an inconvenience to be modifying a field and an accessor at the same since you have to switch between different parts of the source. You gotta split the screen or go up and down and up and down again. So darn stressful. continue reading » »

WTF?! That thing hanged around on my site for months! And I only got to notice it a while ago! Anyways, I fixed it right away. Damn! So, so careless… *embarrassed*

So it’s been two months since I last tried to blog. It’s almost September, Carlos! What the fuck happened? Well, lots of stuff, but the good news first! :D

About my JOBBBB. I’m very honored to have passed the training at my second job and I’m currently assigned as a software engineer on its biggest project. Yey! I got to work all the magic of C# 3.0 into my requirements and I’m confident to say I’m doing great. Other than being at last a C# developer, I’m also christened into Test Driven Development (TDD) which I admit is pretty swell, a far cry from Stress Driven Development (SDD). Now, I can be assured that any change I do don’t affect other parts of the application, a problem that I’ve been anxious about before. Anyways, I’m hoping to get regularized in October. Just a month away!

Aside from that, during the past month or so, I’ve gotten rid of my slacker attitude (most of it anyway) that I have gotten used to at my old job. I’m early to work and I’m being productive. I finish my requirements with excellence and with as little time and impact as possible. I enjoy that the time flies at work. Great!

Hmmm What else? Well, I’m in the process of streamlining my finances lately. Giving stress to “in the process of,” I expect to fall short of my financial needs this month (though it’s my favourite). BUT I also know that things will work out by October. That is when I expect it will all yield. And yes, a lot happens in October! :D continue reading » »