The Hoju Saram

Your not bald until google says so.

2008-08-18T21:19:00.002+10:00

Origami Friends

2008-07-02T16:52:00.002+10:00

I can say much yet.. Except watch this space.. Origami Friends is coming and it is one of the craziest ideas I have had for a while.

Update 04.07.2008 :: I have a logo..

Gartner Application Development, Integration & Web Services Summit

2008-07-02T16:45:00.004+10:00

Just got back from the Gartner Application Development, Integration & Web Services Summit in Sydney... Pretty interesting but not for the reasons I had thought. The main focus was on Business Process Management and Service Orientated Architecture. Interesting enough, but the two "side" topics of the conference I found more interesting. These were "Generation Y" and "Cloud Computing" and how both of these are going to have a significant impact on the entire IT industry.

It was very apparent from the conference that IT has a significant problem with resources over the coming years. I had to be one of the youngest people at the conference, and I am pretty sure there was noone there under 28.

It may be that we need "Cloud Computing" because there isn't going to be anyone to do the work anyway, as there are no young people coming in and a whole lot of old people going out.

As per usual there were the usual gartner buzz words and hype, but all up it was a very well rounded and valuable conference.

Amazon Web Service play

2008-07-02T16:38:00.003+10:00

I had a bit of spare time last week so I did a bit of playing with amazons web services to download album art and track details of albums.

Thought I would share the helper I wrote for the amazon service to do this, in case anyone else is trying something like this with other services.

My WebDisk Client

2008-06-12T20:37:00.004+10:00

After a long long break from coding the webdav stuff, I have got around to doing something again. After building the SQL backend WEBDAV server I realised the limitations of windows as a webdav client and webdav as a protocol. So I have decided to start building a new server and client based on a new protocol. You can see from the screen shots that I have got the PROPFIND equivalant already working along with some nice code to automatically detect and build the associated icon for the file type.

From this client/server I am going to implement all of the standard file operations(like WEBDAV), versioning, check-in/check-out and Access Control. I will also be implementing a launcher so you can launch the the client directly from a browser.

More pics to come as I work through the development, but will probably be slow as I am finding it hard lately to find any spare time.

My house in Townsville is on the market

2008-06-11T22:59:00.002+10:00

I am not particularly happy with the pictures. So I am hoping to get the real estate to update the photos soon.

35 OCTAGONAL KELSO

오예스

2008-06-11T22:49:00.003+10:00

My kids and I are currently addicted to 오예스. In english this is "Oh Yes". They are a sponge cake biscuit. They are amazingly cheap in brisbane, where you can get a pack of 20 for $5. They are about the size of a wagon wheel.

Anyway, while eating one the other day I discovered a beatiful bit of konglish written on the packet that I thought I would share

You know that sweet things make smile.
We love to see you smile with your people
So just taste this cake.

Life Updates

2008-05-31T22:11:00.002+10:00

The last month or so has been crazy. I have sold more software and everyone wants "special" features added so I have been not been sleeping much due to my workload. But thankfully that is over now.

Around my workplace has become little seoul so I spend my lunch time eating korea food like 어징어덥밥 (spicy squid with rice). Here are my other updates

I am current addicted to 칠성사이다
Little princess has started walking.
Work is going well
My house in Townsville is on the market and I am looking for a house in shorncliffe, sandgate or brighton.
I am thinking of enrolling in a korean language course at griffith uni next year.
I am currently working on a C# project in my spare time (not that I have much) building a client for my webdav server to allow it to support all of the things XP/Vista does not.

사랑방선물 - Love room gift ??

2008-04-28T21:44:00.002+10:00

A new korean supermarket has just opened around the corner from my work. While browsing its aisles to day I came across this candy. I had to buy it because if you literally translate 사랑방선물 it says "Love room gift". Which in english is pretty funny for a packet of candy balls.

I assume however it doesn't actually mean that, but I can find any other meaning for it. Any koreans out there who can give me a hand??

Proud Father

2008-03-29T21:48:00.003+10:00

Usually I wouldn't do this but given the photos it is impossible not to be a proud dad. These are two great picture of my kids in there traditional korean dress. 한복 (E:HanBok)

Zazzle

2008-03-05T22:59:00.012+10:00

I am current making my zazzle products public so other can buy them

http://www.zazzle.com/hojusaram/products

If you want your own korean product leave a comment and I will see what I can do.

If your name is taku..

2008-03-05T22:40:00.002+10:00

.. And you are looking for a birthday present for your wife, who happens to live in Oz. Then you should probably go http://www.zazzle.com/tokki_shirt-235309297825258245 and order this shirt in a size that fits her .

**GRIN :)

2 new shirt designs

2008-03-03T22:14:00.003+10:00

I have created two new shirts.. The orange one says "Cool (or stylish) Australian" and the grey one says "Mountain rabbit" which explained here

Once I have them I will be interested to see the response..

Tried to go korean food shopping

2008-02-28T07:21:00.003+10:00

Here is my list... It seems it is hard to find most of this stuff in brisbane. I can find substitute products, but I will keep trying to find the genuine items.

1.돌아온 왕꿈틀이

2. 몽고 순 간장

3. 한일 본고장 가쓰오 생우동

4.오리온 고래밥(볶음)

5.오리온 고소미

6.롯데 꼬깔콘 고소한 맛

7. 롯데 꼬깔콘 군옥수수맛

8..오리온 초코파이

9.롯데 자일리톨 껌

10.송학 비빔쫄면 460g
11.오뚜기 마요네즈

12.오뚜기 참기름

13. 롯데 레쓰비 캔 커피 마일드

No.8 is chocopie. Yum !! (Which I can find)

It turns out it has it's very own website.. http://www.chocopie.co.kr/

Space 김치

2008-02-26T21:25:00.004+10:00

Proving once again that South Korea is now a economic powerhouse. The government has invested( wasted??) millions in getting kimchi into space ready for the very first South Korea first astronaut.

Three top government research institutes spent millions of dollars and several years perfecting a version of kimchi that would not turn dangerous when exposed to cosmic rays or other forms of radiation and would not put off non-Korean astronauts with its pungency.

Read full story

Another step towards wireless video kiosks

2008-02-25T21:55:00.003+10:00

I noticed this article this morning.

One potential use of the wireless transceiver chip has owners of handheld media devices being able to step up to a shopping centre kiosk and download high-definition files of movies and TV shows in the blink of an eye.

Seems like it won't be too long before this become a reality. I've talked about this idea before here and here.

It will be a happy day when I can go to the local train station and get a hot coffee in a can and a HD-Movie Bundle from the vending machine.

ADAM setup for AD .net memebership provider

2008-02-08T21:15:00.000+10:00

I have been working on a project lately called RAI. I am not going to talk about it here, but basically it is an external facing and internal facing application for one of the organisations I provide IT services for. For the external client we decided to use ADAM for the authentication source, so I started to have a look at using ADAM and the AD membership provider. Well lets just say that was 5 days I will never get back. So just in case you are ever in a situation where you need to get the AD membership provider to work with ADAM these are the step to installing ADAM so it is setup ready for you.

ADAM can be downloaded from Microsoft at
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=9688F8B9-1034-4EF6-A3E5-2A2A57B5C8E4&displaylang=en#filelist

The following steps are required to install ADAM for use with the Active Directory .Net membership provider.

1. Run the ADAM installer.
2. Select “unique instance” , press next
3. Set the instance name to your project name in this case I am using “RAI” , press next
4. Set the LDAP port to 50000 and the SSL port to 50001 ,press next
5. Select “Yes, Create an application directory partition” and set the partition name to “O=[projectname]” , again in this case I use RAI press next.
6. Accept default or select a suitable place for the files , press next
7. Choose default for Service Account Selection
8. Choose "Currently logged on account" for ADAM Adminstrators
9. Import "MS-InetOrgPerson", "MS-User" and "MS-Userproxy"
10. Click next to complete the install
The ADAM instance for RAI will now be installed on the application server. It must now be configured.

11. Open "ADAM ADSI Edit" from the ADAM program group in your start menu
12. Select "Action->Connect to..."
13. For name use your projectname
14. Alter the correct portnumber in the Port textbox (50000)
15. Change to “Well-Known naming context” and select “Schema” and then press OK

16. Right click on the schema item and select new object. From the class menu select “AttributeSchema”.
17. Create the following 5 new attribute schema entries

cn: PwdQuestion
OMSyntax: 64
lDAPDisplayName: PwdQuestion
isSingleValued: TRUE
AttributeSyntax: 2.5.5.12
AttributeID: 1.2.840.113556.1.6.1.1.6221

cn: PwdAnswer
OMSyntax: 64
lDAPDisplayName: PwdAnswer
isSingleValued: TRUE
AttributeSyntax: 2.5.5.12
AttributeID: 1.2.840.113556.1.6.1.1.6222

cn: FailedPwdCount
OMSyntax: 2
lDAPDisplayName: FailedPwdCount
isSingleValued: TRUE
AttributeSyntax: 2.5.5.9
AttributeID: 1.2.840.113556.1.6.1.1.6223

cn: FailedPwdAnswerTime
OMSyntax: 65
lDAPDisplayName: FailedPwdAnswerTime
isSingleValued: TRUE
AttributeSyntax: 2.5.5.16
AttributeID: 1.2.840.113556.1.6.1.1.6224

cn: FailedPwdLockOutTime
OMSyntax: 65
lDAPDisplayName: FailedPwdLockOutTime
isSingleValued: TRUE
AttributeSyntax: 2.5.5.16
AttributeID: 1.2.840.113556.1.6.1.1.6225

18. Close the "ADAM ADSIedit" program
19. The user schema object in the ADAM instance needs to be modified to support the additional attributes created in step 17. This needs to be done via the mmc ADAM snap-in. To create an MMC file for the ADAM Schema snap-in
20. From the taskbar Click Start, click Run, type mmc /a, and then click OK.
21. On the File menu, click Add/Remove Snap-in, and then click Add.
22. In Available Standalone Snap-ins, click ADAM Schema, click Add, click Close, and then click OK.

23. To connect to your ADAM instance through ADAM Schema, in the console tree, right-click ADAM Schema, click Change ADAM Server, and then complete the dialog box as follows

24. Click OK
25. In the left hand pane double click the “classes” folder to view the list of schema classes
26. Scroll down to “user” the user object and right click on it. Select properties and then select the attributes tab.

Add the five attributes create in step 21. cn: PwdQuestion , PwdAnswer, FailedPwdCount, FailedPwdAnswerTime, FailedPwdLockOutTime

27. Click OK and close the mmc console. The schema changes are complete. You must restart the ADAM service before you continue.
28. Open the windows services control panel from administrative tools and restart the ADAM service.

29. Close the services control panel.
30. Open the ADSI Edit tool again. Right Click on the [projectname] connection and select “settings”. Change the connection node to "Distinguished name" and enter “O=RAI”
31. Click "Ok"
32. Right-click the "O=RAI"-folder and select "New" and "Object..". Choose "organizationalUnit" and name it "Users", click next and then click finish.
33. Right-click the new "OU=Users"-folder and select "New" and "Object...". Select "user" and give the user the name "ADAMAdmin", click next and then click finish.
34. Right-click the "CN=ADAMAdmin" -account and choose "Reset password". Enter a password you will remember
35. Double-click the "CN=ADAMAdmin"-user and set the "msDS-UserAccountDisabled" to False , click ok and close the properties box.
36. Go to the "CN=Roles"-folder and double-click the "Administrators"-account. Locate the "member" attribute and double-click it. Choose "Add ADAM-account" and enter the distinguished name of your newly created user (CN=ADAMAdmin,OU=Users,O=RAI). Click the Ok-buttons to close the editor.
37. Right-click the root of the Connection in the left hand pane. Select “Settings” from the menu.

Change to “Well-Known naming context” and select “Configuration” and then press OK.
38. Navigate to CN=Directory Service,CN=Windows NT,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,CN={GUID of the ADAM}.
39. Right-click CN=Directory Service and select Properties.
40. Double-click the dSHeuristics attribute.
41. Set the value to 0000000001001 and click OK.
42. Click OK to the CN=Directory Service properties box.
43. The ADAM configuration is now complete.

You will obviously need to setup your application web.config to use this ADAM instance. Have a look at http://authors.aspalliance.com/aspxtreme/sys/web/security/ActiveDirectoryMembershipProviderClass.aspx and http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms998360.aspx for this information.

Long time no blog again !!

2008-02-08T21:00:00.000+10:00

Well I have not blogged for a long long time. So here is a dot point update of what has been happening.

Went on leave from work for 8 weeks

Went to Japan for about 4 days , saw taku and toki's family and went back to tokyo disney, my son got to see asimo up really really close so he was very happy. ( the pic is asimo at his home base )

Went to korea for 2 weeks to pickup my daughter. Met up with heaps of friends and ate so much traditional korea food I almost exploded. I did however get to eat buffer fish for the first time so that was great

Came home and sat around for a few weeks with my new extended family

Went back to work.

Adoption law in Queensland means that I can't leave OZ for a year, so I won't be going anywhere to exciting until 2009. Although if I can rangle it I want to be back in FIJI for christmas.

Long time no blog !! Welcome to BrisneyLand

2007-11-23T22:48:00.000+10:00

Well it has been literally months since I had the chance to blog. So here is the updates, I started 8 weeks holiday today, which is why I finally have sometime to get around to doing this.

My family has moved to Brisbane and are really enjoying the change in scenery. Am I am now working in the CBD with a nice view of the brisbane river. The city is absolutely booming, there are 3 high rise buildings going up around my building including the vision which has just begun.

I am catching the train from ferny grove to brisbane central for work, and it is really nice to live somewhere with public transport. Everyone in brisbane whinges that the trains are slow and never on time, but I have come from somewhere with no public transport so in my opinion the train is awesome.

I am leaving for south korea on tuesday to pick up Juni. We have has an amazing response from friends in australia and korea, as well as old exchange students. So we have about 10,000 people to see while we are in korea and have has a heap of offers to show us around. We are flying in to Pusan, a day trip to Ulsan, travel to Daegu and Daejeon and then to Seoul on the 7th of Dec. So hopefully we will be seeing Juni for the first time at Eastern on the 8th of December.

We are returning to oz on Dec 14th, I spent last night putting juni's cot together to remind myself how much I hate building furniture. My son is very excited to meet his sister and I am looking forward to 2 months without work and having a baby in the house again.

Since I have arrived in brisbane my work has been going well, I have been working on creating a standardised multi-application security framework, so that all of our applications can share the same security management system.

My business is also been going very well with a number of my client currently expanding their user base and require more licenses and customisation of my software. At last count I have about 2500 users of my software with a number of client installs over 500 users at a single site. One of my clients has signalled that they are looking at adding another 1500 users by the end of the financial year which means I could potential have a single site with 2000 users.

So all-in-all everything is going well. I hope to get some more time to do some blogging while I am on leave so please keep having a look every now and then.

We have a name...

2007-09-28T22:03:00.000+10:00

We recieved the documentation for Joo Eun, the other day. In korean her name is 주은 . My korean friends tell me it is a very pretty korean name. Lots of Korean names have their corresponding Chinese letters and the meaning is depended on the Chinese letters. The most popular Chinese letters matched for “주은” is “主恩” and it means “the Royal benevolence (favors)” or “the grace of God”.

We have always believed that it is important to try keep all or part of you childs name if you have a intercountry-adopted child. Some parents adhere to this and some do not. The second part of “주은” name 은 is actually quite hard to say for an English speaking person. ( It actually doesn't sound anything like how I would read "Eun").

So the advice we have received from a korean friends is as follows:

Korean people usually put an extra sound “ee” at the end of a person’s name when the name finishes with a consonant”. In the same way, “Joo Eun” is
generally called or indicated as “Joo Eun” + “ee” (주은이). But the sounds
are connected and it actually sounds like “Joo Unnie" (주으니)”. If this is said faster, it will sound like “쥬니” (Junie or Junee).

In terms of that, I can gaurantee “쥬니” (Junie) sounds good and no problem
at all in Korean perspective. “주니” (Joonie) can be another candidate, and the
name is specially popular by many Koreans for their English nickname, especially
when their original Korean name finishes with a sound “준(Jun)”.

So after some consideration we have decided the name Joonie 주니 is the correct one for our little princess.

A Little Korean Princess

2007-09-20T21:09:00.000+10:00

A while ago I blogged that the korean intercountry adoption had re-opened again. Well today I found out first hand. I am now the proud father of Kim juen.( Although I will have to wait for the paperwork with korean writing on it to verify the name). It has been a long wait, but all worth it now!!. I hope to be in Korea for December to meet her first hand and bring her back to Australia.

Language versus concepts teaching at universities

2007-09-17T21:07:00.000+10:00

Last night I has a bit of a party for my 33rd birthday. One of my friends whom came over is a IT lecturer at the local university. During the evening he asked me my opinion of whether they should teach C# in first year. He said that some of the local industry had been asking about it and he was wondering what the university should do about it.

I remember a couple of days ago on slashdot there was a discussion about programmers/coder versus software engineers, which is very relevant to this question.

I believe the question is whether not universities should teach you how to program in a certain language OR teach you the fundamentals of computing so you can teach yourself how to build computer systems ( in any language/environment). I personally prefer the later approach, because in most cases the languages you learn at university are probably not going to be the langauges you end up programming in anyway, ( l learnt fortran, pascal and c at uni ) and I believe it is much better to teach the fundamentals of computing, compilers, operating systems , databases , networking and if you are going to teach specific programming languages then leave it till the last year so that students already have the fundamentals in place, and also the languages are more as relevant as possible.

It is a big problem in Australia, because in an environment where young people can get a job in a mine driving a truck down a hole for $120000/year, there is alot of pressure to try and attract people to university. This puts pressure on universities to try and make their first year courses as "sexy" as possible. The problem with this approach is that you inevitably end up dumbing- down the course work to attract more people and teach only the most "exciting" concepts. This in-turn leads to less of the "boring" fundamentals which means graduates learn less of the things that will actually make them good system builders in the future, and have less of an understanding of computing as a whole. The end result is that noone bothers to go to university because they see the academic level of the graduates, and what they are learning and cannot see the value in it. If university degrees end up being .net ( or java ) courseware why would anyone bother.

I think that the IT industry has already suffered through alot of this, and I personally believe the best software engineers I know are people who have had experience in many areas of computing ( admin, network support , database admins ) as well as business skills.

Say goodbye to take home DVDs.

2007-09-17T21:00:00.000+10:00

I mentioned taking memory sticks to video stores in one of my previous posts . Well it looks like it might be becoming a reality in Australia.

Video Ezy CIO Steve Hogben designed the new video delivery system, which
works by customers going into a store to download movies onto a portable storage
device and then loading these on to a special set-top box at home.

I guess that means it won't be long before you can get a take-home movie from a vending machine at a train station or shopping centre. There is no detail as to how they are going to control the copying of the movie, the file format/quality, or if the movie will expire after a certain time ( to force you to return to the shop to renew it).

33 arrives with bang... literally

2007-09-17T20:55:00.001+10:00

I had been 33 for 8 hours and 36 minutes... Then BANG... My old pulsar was an inch shorter than it used to be. Rear ended at a traffic light.

Lucky it wasn't my new Captiva or it would have got ugly. The car is still ok, but the rear door doesn't close properly. Hopefully my insurance company will write it off and I can pick up a 5 year old toyota echo/yaris for my commuter car in Brisbane.

I don't think anything happened to me, but I guess I will wait for the morning to see if I got any whip lash.

hit storm from nowhere

2007-09-14T21:32:00.000+10:00

From wednesday this week http://yourtimesheets.com got a sudden massive hit increase. The problem is that none of the hits contain a referrer so I have no way of finding out where they are all coming from... It is very strange to have that many hits without referrers, especially when the hits are from all different locations... Oh well a mystery of the internet.