tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43293296784595808712024-03-14T05:18:08.394+07:00Pattawan (oiami)'s BlogAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14909795053559868260noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4329329678459580871.post-17347841892972380712015-05-27T15:30:00.000+07:002015-05-28T03:29:10.904+07:00OSDC Nordic 2015 After I finished the Outreach Program for Women (OPW) or now is known as Outreachy program in August 2014, I moved to Germany to study my master degree. I was busy with my first semester of study, so unfortunately that I didn't have much time to do coding or participate in any Open Source or Perl community event. Now, I sorted everything out and I'm full of energy to actively contribute to Open Source community again. I looked for a conference to update new technology about Perl and other Open Source projects and it will be a good chance to get to know new local community which closes to me.<br />
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I decided to attend the <a href="http://act.osdc.no/osdc2015no/">Open Source Developers' Conference(OSDC) Nordic 2015</a> which was held on May 8-10th, 2015 in Oslo, Norway. This is the first time that OSDC conference was held in a Nordic country. Some people asked me why I chose to to come to Norway for this conference and I have many reasons that I think I shouldn't miss this conference which are ...<br />
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<li>This conference was organized by Oslo Perl Mongers and Nordic Perl Workshop was included to be a part of this conference.</li>
<li>Since this is ODSC conference, so there're a lot of sessions from other Open Source groups of technology which I can attend. This is a good chance for me to learn the new technology from people on that community that I never experienced before.</li>
<li>All of the talks in the event are in English.</li>
<li>Oslo isn't far from my residence so I don't have to travel for a long time because I still class every week.</li>
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My one of my impression for this conference is not only I can get promotion code as a student but also anyone can ask for promotion code if they are actively member of any Open Source community. This is really kind of the organizers!</div>
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<b>OSDC.no Day 1 : Pre conference/ A panel debate</b></div>
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I arrived Oslo in the afternoon, after had a little city sight-seeing I headed to the bar for the pre conference. I was so happy to see <a href="https://metacpan.org/author/ABIGAIL">Abigail</a> -- a friend from a Perl community, last time we met each other at YAPC::Asia in Tokyo and we meet again in another conference in another part of the world. This is one of reasons why I like a conference -- this is an event to bring people who have the same interests from around the world together. </div>
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There was a panel debate by Simon Phipps(of OSI fame), Patrick Michaud(Perl 6 language designer), Mark Burgess(Creator of Cfengine) and Christer Gundersen(Open Source evangelist) all of them have been working on Open Source firms for decades with a lot of experience. They had debate, discussion and answer questions about the world of Open Source like what are key factors of successful or failed Open Source project, how a company contributes Open Source and about Open Source community and more. I was a bit tired from a long journey since early morning but the topic of discuss and the relaxed environment at the bar made it be joyful evening. </div>
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Started the day by Norwegian coffee and a lot of fruit, I think this is kind of Norwegian culture to server these things for guests.<br />
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After the conference opening by <a href="https://metacpan.org/author/SJN">Salve</a>, the was the very interesting talk on the main hall about Open Source in the topic Open Source and Flexibility. The very good thing that it happened in the main hall without any other talks in other halls. After the first talk, it was the hard part of the conference which is choosing the room from for talks from each community. There were 3 rooms divided by group of technologies which are:<br />
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As a Perl Hacker my first interest is always about Perl, so I wanted to attended the Nordic Perl Workshop room but I was a bit hesitate because the talks from other group of technology are also interesting for me. After check the list of the talks on that day. I decided to attend only the Perl room since there were a lot of topics that I couldn't bear missing them. There were 4 talks on that day and I attended all of them. I like all of the talks even though some of them are a bit hard to understand for me because I never had much chance to use that method in practical way like Perl 6 and others and I learn a lot of new technology from those talks. </div>
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<b>OSDC.no Day 3</b><br />
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Finally, we came to the end of the conference, everyone was in the main hall there were some light talks. The conference is closed simply by Salve and thank you stuffs for hard working.<br />
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<b>My accomplishment and motivation</b><br />
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From this conference, I have learned not only Perl programming technology but also other Open Source technologies. I got to know more people from other Open Source communities. I realized myself that I shouldn't stick with just one technology of community but I can join other group because people in the world of Open Source they are also nice and welcome new member. I have learned how to develop both the software itself as well as the community in the same time. I got some more idea in the way to improve my ability to contribute to FOSS, I should have more communication with local community here, take a part in community event or help to organize sometime I found that there're so many people who are looking to join an event but the problem that we still have few people to volunteer to organize the event. If I can't be an organizer then whenever I attend the event I should try to be a speaker. This time at OSDC, I also wanted to give the talk but since I didn't do much coding then I'm a bit lost from new technology and also busy with study, so I didn't have much interesting thing to share. Next time I should be more prepared and give some talks to share something about my currently work which I just started recently. Hopefully, I can make it happens in the future very soon.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14909795053559868260noreply@blogger.com2University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway59.9399586 10.72174960000006659.9240521 10.681409100000067 59.9558651 10.762090100000066tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4329329678459580871.post-64031496771237547022014-09-07T21:48:00.001+07:002014-09-08T22:06:40.238+07:00A Newbie is Sent in YAPC::ASIA<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span id="goog_1837834613"></span><span id="goog_1837834614"></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/"></a>I had a chance to attend <a href="http://yapcasia.org/2014/">YAPC::ASIA</a> as
a <a href="http://www.send-a-newbie.enlightenedperl.org/">Send-a-Newbie</a> awardee from the<a href="http://www.enlightenedperl.org/"> Enlightened Perl <span lang="en-GB">Organisation</span></a>
(EPO). It was the first time that the awardee is sent the the Perl
event in Asia. The event was held on August 28-30, 2014 in Tokyo,
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It also was the first time for me to
attend the event outside the country and in the country that I can't
speak their local language(I used to take 2 Japanese course but I
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The first person who I expected to meet
is <a href="https://metacpan.org/author/RIBASUSHI">Ribasushi</a> (Peter Rabbitson) since he was only EPO
member in the event. I guessed he might be well known among Perl/CPAN
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Finally we met, in the line to check in
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Big thanks to the organizer for free
ticket for student as I'm studying in a master degree. I've got
student for 3 days of the event but I didn't get event goodies
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<b>YAPC::ASIA Day 0</b></div>
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The event started in the evening, all
of the talks are in Japanese I knew from the schedule I also met
Daisuke Maki here, it seemed he has known me already since he was one
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I had a small talk I feel that I got
warning from him that all the talks are in Japanese but I doesn't
problem at all! I can understand some from the slide and I like to be
in the event to see how the event goes. I did talk only with
Non-Japanese guys – <a href="https://metacpan.org/author/XSAWYERX">Sawyer X</a> and <a href="https://metacpan.org/author/ABIGAIL">Abigail</a>. Funny that I think I was
only a female hacker in the hall I hope could see more Japanese Perl
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Seem the interesting part is the night
in the pub. Thanks beer that helps shy Japanese be more talkative . I
had some conversation with some Japanese people I think they
understand what I said but they couldn't reply much anyway I got a
lot of apologize from them that they aren't good at English even I
think I didn't deserve it but I understand that that was a Japanese
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I got a bad starting in this day, I
caught the wrong train – the express train didn't stop at Hiyoshi
station which is opposite to the venue. So I missed the opening :(.
I attended classes which English is used from speaker and slide
subtitle like class from <a href="http://yapcasia.org/2014/talk/show/a3a6ede4-030e-11e4-9357-07b16aeab6a4">Abigail,</a> <a href="http://yapcasia.org/2014/talk/show/4a5af014-ebad-11e3-bd6d-c7a06aeab6a4">Dan Kogai</a>, <a href="http://yapcasia.org/2014/talk/show/3c896370-01de-11e4-9357-07b16aeab6a4">Ribasushi</a> and <a href="http://yapcasia.org/2014/talk/show/f028bcea-0b53-11e4-aec0-ad686aeab6a4">Googod</a>
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A lovely thing is I got Bento (Japanese
lunch box), I think this is very asian thing that I didn't know it
also happen in Japan. In Thailand, we always provide lunch box in any
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I also met Karen Pauley at noon while
I'm having lunch in the garden nearby. It was a nice meeting! She is
really nice and friendly.
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Unfortunately, that I didn't know about
signing for the dinner that night so I missed the dinner as well as
the free beer in the bar cause it fill-filled by people. Seem that
day wasn't my day but I got of fun with people though.</div>
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This day most of the talks in the
morning are in Japanese. I attended some classes and enjoy talking
with people around the event. I met some people who bought only 1 day
ticket, had a talk with Fiona – a recruiter from booking.com I feel
like I was persuaded to work for booking.com (lol) event if I didn't
talk to her booking.com is one of the company that I like to work
with and I would apply for sure if I didn't have to study. There was
a lot of interesting class today as always I attended a class from <a href="http://yapcasia.org/2014/talk/show/e43c8fa2-034b-11e4-9357-07b16aeab6a4">Sawyer X</a>, <a href="http://yapcasia.org/2014/talk/show/805806ba-0c6f-11e4-aec0-ad686aeab6a4">Andy Delcambre</a> and <a href="http://yapcasia.org/2014/talk/show/3a5f2a0e-ec3e-11e3-bd6d-c7a06aeab6a4">FUJU Goro</a> etc.
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In the afternoon, I've got a bag T-shirt and souvenirs with the magic of
Ribasushi. I don't know how he got it. I hope that he didn't anything
illegal to bring me these stuffs ;)</div>
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However, big thanks to Ribasushi for
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This is my personal perspective about this event and what I have learn so far. Please leave me any comment if there's any point I misunderstand.<br />
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What I like:</div>
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I like all of the talks I have attend they are really useful to me to learn to improve my technical skill</div>
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I met so many cool people and got to learn a lot from them</div>
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The event was really nice with well organized, I learnt about how to event is set up and hopefully I can make it happens in Thailand at least in Bangkok.pm</div>
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A lot of food, drink and snack :D</div>
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No English audio translation from Japanese. Anyway I know from Daisuke Maki that it costs a lot of money for that and there weren't so much attendees who knows or use English. It isn't worth it.</div>
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What could be better:</div>
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News on the official are also in Japanese, that would be great if there's also English version at least some information that we should know</div>
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I think slide in sub-title would be really helpful. I think we should try to help speakers to translate slide this way maybe cheaper than English audio</div>
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However, I knew that most of the talks are in Japanese but there are still some of talks in English. I'm aware of that point I sent an email to Yusuke Wada about the languages which are used in the event before I wrote the proposal to go to YAPC::ASIA. I realize that the organizer also try to convince people who uses English to come to event by invite English speakers. I think we shouldn't let the language to be the wall to obstruct us by not going to this event because we have to same language which is Perl language. As I wrote on my application to Send-A-Newbie program, I wanted to participate in YAPC is not only because I want to meet cool Perl hackers and attend their talks but also I want to see how the event goes, how to set up and organize in such a big event. I have a dream that YAPC::ASIA will be like YAPC::EU or YAPC::NA that the host or organizers is rotated every years in each country in Asia. I wish Bangkok.pm and Perl developers and host YAPC one day eventually.</div>
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What I have learn so far is I realize myself that I'm really newbie for the Perl community. I met a lot of people, listened and acknowledged about what they said but I couldn't have anything to response or give them back because I never have experience about. I should be more 'giver' because I was given a lot. For example, I didn't have much technical skill about CPAN since I'm not a CPAN author and never have module released. I'm a Perl user I used Perl module to solve my business problem but I never try to make a new module to share others. I got inspired to learn more and give more to this community.</div>
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Finally, big thanks to The Enlightened Perl <span lang="en-GB">Organisation</span> for bringing me in YAPC::ASIA, Mark Keating and Ribasushi as a local representative from EPO. Thanks for free (student) ticket and well-organised from the <span lang="en-GB">organiser. Also, thank you all people I have met for a warm welcome and friendly environment.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14909795053559868260noreply@blogger.com4Keio University, 4 Chome-4-1-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku Ward, Yokohama, Kanagawa 223-8521, Japan35.554498 139.648572835.551272000000004 139.6435303 35.557724 139.6536153tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4329329678459580871.post-84039068942869152852014-08-20T23:52:00.000+07:002014-08-22T09:58:39.846+07:00OPW Ending for Beginning<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
The Outreach Program for Women #8 has
been ended for days in August 18<sup>th</sup>. This is probably my
last work report. Although, the program is finished but my work
hasn't finished yet not only because I got trouble of my internet
connection for few days last week that result in I couldn't work much but also I want to keep working on
MetaCPAN as a contributor and maintainer.
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Last time I posted the proposal about
changing search result page. I want to say thank you for those who
donated their time and gave me a really helpful comments to improve
this feature. I had an idea came up back and float there are some
ideas to put the tab into horizontal on the left side which is almost
the blank space now put this could cause confusing and not so good
appearance in mobile version. So, I'm work on the design to make UI
improvement display nicely in any devices. That feature is also my
last task from OPW timeline.
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For me the finishing program doesn't
mean I should stop doing Perl or working MetaCPAN but I think it was
just a milestone to set me more freedom to contribute more in other
FOSS Projects. It's ending to start new thing for me. What I plan to do after OPW are</div>
<ul>
<li>I'm going to join YAPC::ASIA in the
end of this month and surely I will share you the event report
after I'm back to Thailand on this blog please still follow my blog
and my post if you like to see. I will also travel a little while
in Japan after the event finished.</li>
<li>I'm looking for a freelance work
I'm trying to take a part in more project what I'm interested in
now is DuckDuckGo from to my passion in search engine technology. Also any other FOSS prjects, please let me know if you know any of it I'm happy to help even
it's a free work as long as it's cool project ;)</li>
<li>I'm going to study in a master
degree in Germany in October in the Clausthal University of
Technology. It locates in northwestern Germany close to Hannover.
See you Hannover.pm !</li>
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Finally, I want to say thank you to …</div>
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The Perl Foundation to give me such
a great chance to work on MetaCPAN.<br />
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GNOME Foundation to establish this
cool program.</div>
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MetaCPAN and my mentors <a href="https://github.com/rwstauner">Randy Stauner</a>, <a href="https://github.com/oalders">Olaf Alders</a> and <a href="https://github.com/tsibley">Thomas Sibley</a> for your time to give me
learning so many things.</div>
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Contributors and users of MetaCPAN for
your comments and suggestions to me in any issue I worked on and they're really useful for me learn in many perspectives. <br />
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Thank you so much !</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14909795053559868260noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4329329678459580871.post-28785666475626562482014-08-06T20:02:00.000+07:002014-08-06T20:05:54.954+07:00Work report and sketch of new MetaCPAN result page.<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
Last week I worked on API Document
reorganizing, it sounds simple but not for me because in order to
arrange it we should understand the content especially technical
content. I spent a while to understand the document and how the API
works. Finally it has been done.
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There're only 2 weeks left in my OPW
program, I'm going to utilize my skill on a new feature of
MetaCPAN. The new feature is introduce the new type-based search
result page. The original idea is from issue <a href="https://github.com/CPAN-API/metacpan-web/issues/287">#287</a> on metacpan-web.
The idea is providing user search result in specific result data
type. For example, display only distributions or authors which is
relevant to the query on result page.</div>
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I'm presenting the prospective search
result page to be in tabs which contain each type of data e.g.
distribution, modules and authors. This is the sketch to prove to
idea:</div>
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I will appreciate with any suggestion or comment whether you like it or not. Please left the comment and discuss about this feature on <a href="https://github.com/CPAN-API/metacpan-web/issues/287">Github</a>. Thank you in advance ! </div>
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This is quite a big change of MetaCPAN for me. I'm really excited with this task and I'm looking forward to implementing it. :D</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14909795053559868260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4329329678459580871.post-85940594269654061582014-07-26T22:36:00.000+07:002014-07-28T21:27:35.971+07:00Work report and a lovely story.<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
Most of my work in past 2 weeks is fix
the existing issue and improve code quality.</div>
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I have 2 major tasks that needed to be
done first which are Bootstrap upgrading and Open ID login.</div>
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The Bootstrap almost completely done
waiting for code review but for the Open ID the I've got test failure
that I can't solve it until now. It is a bit weird that first time
when I implemented it I made the test function and proved it and it
worked properly but it failed after I pushed to Github. That sounds
crazy but it's real. I still keep fixing it with my mentor help.</div>
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I don't have any thing much too talk
about my work since it's quite similar with last topic update and I still
fix my code again and again.</div>
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I have a lovely story that I want to
share. There was a girl came to ask me about how to contribute Open
Source ( I think maybe she is reading this post). I was figuring out
a while – this is an open question that has so many answers for me.
For me I think the best way to get start is finding what we like to
do. I think if we have a passion or inspiration on it that would be
easy to get through it. I told her to find the Open Source project and
trying to find the contributor or maintainer of the project. I'm sure
that those people in the Open Source always be nice with a newbie as
I have experienced and they could help her to get start. Of course I
can help her to get start with Perl or MetaCPAN but since she is absolutely new I think she could choose which technology she likes to learn.
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She wants to contribute to Open Source
because she wants to make some small contribution before she can
apply for the OPW program next round. Although, I think it's a bit
too early to contract a mentor before the time of the application
submission and we don't know yet which organizations are going to
participate in next round and who volunteer to be mentors. However,
be ready and well prepare is always more impressive. So just told her
to prepare for the technology that organization is using and self
study.
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Overall, I want to share this story
because I'm so impressed with her motivation and education in her
environment. She is younger than me and she is still a student. I
believe she will get 'multi-view' of study from the OPW which I
didn't experience in my school life I would say. I think every
program in the Open Source community – Google Summer of Code or The
Outreach Program for Women are really cool program that I wish I have
known that since I was in the university. It didn't happen anyway but
I wish I could share this such a great program to Thai students to
learn more and get involved in the Open Source community as I have
been. I'm so happy that I have a chance to give that girl some
advice and I hope in could do more. So if someone reading my blog
please feel free to contract me to help even I'm also a newbie too!
:)</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14909795053559868260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4329329678459580871.post-54303512978968539722014-07-12T11:10:00.001+07:002014-07-12T11:11:41.671+07:00Obstacle in half way of OPW.<div class="p1">
Now, I have been working on week 8 of The Outreach Program for Women program with proposal to work on the index issue of MetaCPAN search. But my timeline a bit messed up now since the time block has been split into Bootstrap upgrading and fixing the broken as an effect from new Bootstrap.</div>
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I’m supposed to work on the new things but I cannot since I have to complete the current pull requests with fixing and cleaning a mess I made. </div>
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For me, I think this is some kind of classic problems in software development life cycle — it’s hard to make the code perfect in the first solution especially when you lack of experience. Even that’s the best solution in that moment but may not last long. It still need be maintained, fixed and improved like an endless development. </div>
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For me the difficult thing to be a programmer is when you have to ‘estimate' when the job will be done but the more difficult thing seems to be make it 'completely done' in the time you have estimated. We will never know whether the job is difficult or not until we work on that which I think it’s a challenge of programmer job that people like. </div>
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However, we did estimate and we are overdue sounds better than no estimation and no goal. Then we could learn about our performance and speed in each job.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14909795053559868260noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4329329678459580871.post-58401794320979041302014-07-06T23:59:00.000+07:002014-07-06T23:59:07.233+07:00Bootstrap 3 migration and some funny ideas. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3999999364217122; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I have spending a week to upgrade Bootstrap from version 2 to 3, although it wasn’t in my original proposal but it is my new purpose to work on that because I think we could move to future and it is time consumed task resulted in no one has time to do it but now I’m working on it for full time. I could donate my time to do that. I really appreciate my mentors for a respect for my opinion and let me keep on doing that.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In my programmer life I think I have an objective when I write the code that it should be ‘effective’ and ‘efficient’ which are enough for productive work. However, one more thing I have learn recently from Open Source work and I should apply to my code is it should be ‘easy to read and understand’ as well. I realized that I never experienced this issue seriously before since I worked with the same colleagues in the same team for long while so we could understand each other coding style. But this is Open Source, programmer are from around the world even we’re coding the same language but it can result in many ways to do it. I think maybe that’s why </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TIMTOWTDI</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">is extended to … there’s more than one way to do it, but sometimes consistency is not a bad thing either (TIMTOWTDIBSCINABTE) which I think I quite agree with that ;)</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14909795053559868260noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4329329678459580871.post-43442793819028158352014-06-19T22:15:00.000+07:002014-06-21T10:37:02.011+07:00A month on MetaCPAN - A challenge on User Experience.<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3999999364217122; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I confess that I forgot to update the blog about my work, I didn't realize that I started this program for a month today. Some says that the enjoyable time always go by so fast, I believe that's true. </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14909795053559868260noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4329329678459580871.post-82291655964746962252014-05-29T21:59:00.000+07:002014-05-29T22:36:45.548+07:00First starting on MetaCPAN in OPW program.In my first week on MetaCPAN. My timeline is setting up environment and documentation.<br />
I have had <a href="https://metacpan.org/">MetaCPAN web</a> project running locally for a while since my first contribution to apply for the OPW program but I found that I did a mistake in installing node.js and it didn't work properly so I spent about 2-3 days in to import the new VM and set up the <a href="http://api.metacpan.org/">CPAN API</a> project which I didn't have before. This also was the first time that I could install ElasticSearch and index data my in machine. It was really amazing to download minicpan and realized how much data from a long live of Perl programming.<br />
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I tried to improve some of document which was a bit outdate, some suggested modules has been deprecated. We have changed the example code and we needed to update document too. I tried to look at the code to see which module we're using add update document with existing code. I found the code is also outdate, however we will do the document to suggest people with the the right way to use not the way that we're using. ;)<br />
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My second week is to improve the user User Experience from User Interface or easy to say the front-end things. Although, I worked as a software developer before OPW program but I worked as Back-end developer so I didn't have much chance to work on front-end stuffs such as CSS, HTML and JavaScript. I looked at the issue about font on No result page is too small as well as another issue to provide more information to No result page. I'm trying to make No result page brighter but just realized that we have Bootstrap in old version and has not so much components. So I volunteer to upgrade it. I confess that I'm a bit frustrated with this task. I've never done setting front-end environment by myself because it always was a task for Front-end developers.<br />
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But this was my intension to set up my schedule 2 weeks for front-end stuffs. I think this will be such a good chance to spend time to learn new things that I'm not familiar with and this is also why I wanted to participating in OPW and MetaCPAN. Even I'm a bit nervous with the the task that I'm not used to but I won't give up !!!<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14909795053559868260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4329329678459580871.post-52716750246047524062014-05-25T22:41:00.001+07:002014-05-29T22:00:46.738+07:00Bangkok.pm 1 meet up has been ended warmly.I was a great event that we spending time together and talking about our favorite programming language and get to know each other better. It happened while Bangkok is being in political crisis but most of us didn't make it be obstacle to this meet up. See more pictures on<a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/113012300198768715675/albums/6017375310062718145"> my gallery</a>.<br />
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Looking forward to seeing you again! :)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14909795053559868260noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4329329678459580871.post-73507894261107800722014-05-15T19:56:00.000+07:002014-05-29T22:01:00.383+07:00I will give a talk about the Outreach Program for Women in Bangkok.pm 1st meet up<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">Some of joiners who are my colleague may have known about it already.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">But I have second thought; this will be a chance to let more people know about such a great project then they can share it with other people if they may interest in. Especially, we don’t have much alumnus or participants in sponsorship of Perl Foundation. I believe that we have a lot of women who’s coding in Perl but never take a part in Open source project before. I hope this talk will be some kind of guideline if they want to join it the same as me. </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14909795053559868260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4329329678459580871.post-60907719334462054412014-05-07T22:45:00.000+07:002014-05-07T23:08:11.126+07:00Bangkok.pm 1st meet up is happening. The first Bangkok.pm meet up will be held in the center of Bangkok on May 25, 2014. <br />
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It's the first time that tell Perl mongers from around the world what we're still alive!<br />
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Mostly we talking to each other on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/340404552726993/">https://www.facebook.com/groups/340404552726993/</a>.<br />
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The main idea is on the first meet up will be like 'get to know each other better'. Now we know only current and former employee of my company and a foreign Perl hacker volunteering to be a speaker to share experience about using Perl in his old company.<br />
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Hopefully, we will get to know more Thai Perl hackers from other company to share experience with us. We know this time we cannot expect too much about the number of participant. We will set up the the first meeting the be like the 'example' of Perl meet up. Then when people will see how we enjoy in this community and it will urge those shy people to join and show how they like of programming in Perl.<br />
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Although, we have some problem about lack of experience about activities of Perl meet up since on-one have experienced it in anywhere else before but we're working hard on that. Any suggestion will be useful for us.<br />
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Can't wait to join it ! :)<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14909795053559868260noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4329329678459580871.post-76495441875575284952014-03-26T21:15:00.002+07:002014-03-26T21:15:54.701+07:00Just ask away !I was born with questions and I love to get the answers so I have to ask. I had an issue with CPAN module, I want the author to fix it or I can fix for him if he likes. But he didn't share the link of his repo to Github, he didn't released new version of that module for almost 2 years.<br />
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I needed some help .. .I thought that might not a smart idea to go to #metacpan chat room ask ..<br />
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"How can I make some change to this module ?" .. this #metacpan room contain a lot of CPAN authors, sure that they knew and they might assume everyone in that chat room would know the same but not me.<br />
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If I never experienced people pasted the link of a guy who created a ticket on FireFox board with worrying about the source code was 'opened' to public because he never knew that FireFox is Open source project. I would be more confident to ask. But I saw some people made a joke at him. Not in person but in some community that some people think he's silly that he didn't know Opensource.<br />
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No, that's not a joke, not funny for me. I might be like him I were brave enough.<br />
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He is an adorable and brave in heart guy!<br />
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So, when the situation forced me to hunt for the answer, I needed someone to ask.<br />
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I chose my mentor of the project, yes ! he's the right person to ask. He knew me and wouldn't think that I asked stupid questions since he knew I am new for this community.<br />
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But he didn't answers, of course not, this is his bed time. My bad :(<br />
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I couldn't wait .. seem I need to say in the public room and hope some one nicely who has time zone not so different from me to answer.<br />
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After I figured our and re-arranged my question a bit and I did ask way.. It worked ! I got a good suggestions from 2 people I tried to tell them first that I am a newbie. They're really nice and the answers did help my problem solved.<br />
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This wasn't my nature, no, I'm always a self confident person, but sometime I lack of it when I have to interact with people. Since I'm sensitive with feed back from people. I like and expect people to behave nicely to me. I also try to do but sometime I'm disappointed.<br />
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I confessed that with my mentor and he said some spiritual speeches. It is not a stupid question as long as there's reason to ask. So just ask away. I was really appreciate that.<br />
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It doesn't mean that I'm cowardly and not eager to learn. I do ask a lot of questions when I work. I'm more confident. I can act naturally because I know that I and my colleagues have the same goal , we want to make the job done perfectly. If I have question and don't ask then no job done or I ask but no-one answer that doesn't help either. But in the opensource community if I ask, nobody have to care if I will get the answer or not. I have no effect on their lives but there is something called 'spirit' which people always offer to each other in this community. The important thing which I think it's driving opensource community until now.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14909795053559868260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4329329678459580871.post-50315098990368571172014-03-20T00:21:00.000+07:002014-03-20T00:23:16.257+07:00First commit on MetaCPAN has been merged! I've got karmas from my colleagues as well. For my programmer life, I think nothing better than seeing your code, your change your or improvement is using and being helpful for users ( they might not notice though).Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14909795053559868260noreply@blogger.com0