The survey found similar under-representation of women in tech roles. A quarter of CIOs admitted they have no women in their technical teams while half of CIOs said they only had one woman on the tech team.

In Cambodia, at University, Computer Science major, we could see only few women in the class among 50 students. After finishing university, there are not so many of them keep working in IT department longer than 3 years. Most of them, attended more than 2 universities, that’s per my experience while passing through different IT event in Cambodia.

IT positions in Cambodia, mostly we can see as following:

• Software Developer (PHP, C#.Net, Java, Ruby etc.)
• Database Administrator (MS SQL Server, Oracle)
• Web Developer/Designer (with framework, CSS, HTML etc.)
• Network Administrator/Support
• etc.

Most companies in Cambodia, they encourage women to work with them if we read most of the job recruitment but it seems not so many of them applied, especially to Software development industries. Of course, through the announcement, that’s kind of one encouragement for women in Cambodia but in real situation, if they really accept women for this kind of works, remaining unclear for me.

Per my perspective, women is suitable for software development or other tech. analysis in terms of their straight, deep concentrated and patient in their personalities. They could do better analyze on the problem, they read carefully on provided functional specification and their detail feedback. Of course, sometimes they refer on their mood and a bit sensitive, that’s their biology and also the situation may different by culture as well.

Women should work in functional analysis for software development, designing, website development, technical document writer, tester, training, database programming (SQL), mobile application development or business software consulting etc.

Do you agree?

So to make sure if my assumption could be right or wrong, let share your idea on this matter in the comment and vote on the survey below:

Here is the solution I asked in StackOverflow and made together with the one who initialized this idea, it’s kind of a great idea you may want this experience.

We used Yahoo Babelfish translation service to translate our converted English spelling number to Italian and you can try this kind of method for any other language that exists in babelfish, check it out from here:

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION Currency_conversion(currency IN NUMBER)
RETURN VARCHAR2 IS
    txt varchar2(4000);
    tlum  varchar2(4000);
    babelTxt varchar(32000);
    req   utl_http.req;
    resp  utl_http.resp;
    webtext VARCHAR2(4000);
    webextract VARCHAR2(4000);
BEGIN
      tlum:=NULL;--used for multiple execution in the same session
    -- This is used to convert number to words in english
    SELECT CAST( to_char( to_timestamp( lpad(currency,9,'0'), 'FF9' ), 'FFSP' ) AS VARCHAR2(100) )
    into txt from dual;

    -- FFSP is used to spell Fraction second in words for example HH24SP
    -- can be used to spell hours from 0 to 23,i used FFSP to get max range
    txt:=translate(txt,'x-','x ');

    -- The below logic is taken from
    -- https://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=1122273(and)start=15(and)    tstart=0
    --need to test once
    -- request that exceptions are raised for error status codes
    utl_http.set_response_error_check(enable => TRUE);
    -- allow testing for exceptions like Utl_Http.Http_Server_Error
    utl_http.set_detailed_excp_support(enable => TRUE);

    txt:=utl_url.escape(txt);

    babelTxt := 'http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_txt?doit=done' || '&'   || 'lp=en_it' || '&' || 'intl=1' || '&' || 'ei=utf8' || '&' || 'trtext=' || txt;
    req:=utl_http.begin_request(url => babelTxt, method => 'GET');
    resp := utl_http.get_response(r => req);
    BEGIN
        LOOP
            --utl_http.read_text(r => resp, data => webtext, len => 32767);
                utl_http.read_line(r => resp , data => webtext);

            webextract := regexp_substr(webtext,'<div id="result"><div style="padding:0.6em;">(.+)</div></div>');

            if webextract is not null
            then
                select regexp_replace(webextract,'<div id="result"><div style="padding:0.6em;">(.+)</div></div>','\1')
                into tlum FROM dual;
            end if;

            exit when tlum is not null;

            END LOOP;
    EXCEPTION
     WHEN utl_http.end_of_body THEN
     NULL;
    END;

    utl_http.end_response(r => resp);

    return tlum;

    EXCEPTION
        WHEN OTHERS THEN
        dbms_output.put_line(SQLERRM);
        return '';
END;
/
exit;

If you want to adopt it to other language, please change this line:

babelTxt := 'http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_txt?doit=done' || '&'   || 'lp=en_it' || '&' || 'intl=1' || '&' || 'ei=utf8' || '&' || 'trtext=' || txt;

Example: English to French, changes: lp=en_fr

Check detail to our discussion at StackOverflow

Here, I use Eclipse 3.7 (Indigo) to introduce you all as following shortcut keys:

• Ctrl+Shift+L to get a nice list of all the hotkeys, so you might need to remember only this one.

To work with different window panels, you might need to switch, search file etc. here are the keys you need:

• Ctrl+J — Incremental Search (press the hotkeys and type the word you search, it magic !!)
• Ctrl+Shift+T — Search a type, with dynamic search on typing. You can use only the upcase letters (e.g. type “MIL” to find MouseInputListener)
• Ctrl+Shift+R – Search a resource with dynamic search on typing. Allow to find any file in the workspace (.java, .xml, etc ..)
• Ctrl+F6 — Switch between last used files -> change it to alt+q !!!
• F3 — Open declaration
• Ctrl+Alt+H — Open Call Hierarchy
• Ctrl+K / Ctrl+Shift+K – Go to the next/previous occurrence of the underlined word in the editor
• Shift+F2 – Open external javadocs, select an object type and press the hotkey to see the javadoc if configured, try it with the String object ! You can add all API you want in eclipse

On the editing panel during your coding, here are the keys you might need to use

• Ctrl+1 — Quick Fix: press while cursor is positioned at member variable, parameter, selection, warnings, errors, …
• Ctrl+Space — Context Assist: press after a ., or to use macros (for, while, sysout, …). Press in class-scope to automatically create method declarations.
• Ctrl+Shift+O — Organize Imports
• Ctrl+Shift+F — Reformat source
• Alt+BackArrow and Alt+ForwardArrow — This toggles you back and forth to the files you last had open. Is nice when I’m drilling down thru code and then coming back up again.
• Alt+Shift+T — Show Refactor Quick Menu
• Alt-Up and Alt-Down — grab the current line (or all selected lines) and move them up or down
• Ctrl-Alt-Up and Ctrl-Alt-Down — duplicate the current line (or all selected lines) above or below
• Ctrl-2 — has some nice keystrokes available for the Source menu, like ctrl-2, L for create local variable.
• Ctrl-M — Maximize and minimize the current editor

• Alt-F3 — which takes you to the _implementation_ of the item under the cursor. So instead of taking you to List.add(), it would offer you the choice of ArrayList.add() and LinkedList.add(). If there’s only one choice, it jumps straight to it.

• Ctrl + Shift + T / Ctrl + Shift + R
• Ctrl + Shift + O / Ctrl + Shift + F / Alt + Shift + T
• Ctrl + Shift + Y : To Lower Case
• Ctrl + Shift + X : To Upper Case

How about you?

I got following error:

1. Can’t add new post and got message: Are you sure you want to do this? Please try again
2. Can’t upload any media file, it stucked at “Crunching…”, image was in the folder if checked in FTP and permission of folder (755), files (644) are right but image can’t load on the screen of the media or via post

I spent around 2 weeks to search on the net about this issue but got no result after all tries.

Now it has been solved, thanks to Ipstenu on StackOverflow who spotted the right issue on Mod_Rewrite of apache that caused the issue.

On my .htaccess, I removed:

#uploaded files
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/$ index.php [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*wp-content/plugins.*
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/(.*) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$2 [L]

# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^.*/wp-admin$
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ $1/ [R=301,L]

And according to the codex of wordpress for WPMU with subdomain, I should place in .htaccess as:

# BEGIN WordPress
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]

# uploaded files
RewriteRule ^files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$1 [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ - [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]
# END WordPress

UPDATED: 11/04

I got error again after last night fix but when I put in my wp-config.php the debug mode:

define( ‘WP_DEBUG’, true );

I could see there are some errors with DB.

• I go to my cpanel to repair, optimize the tables/db
• I cleanup all unused stuffs in my current site by using: WP CleanFix plugin

And since, my site is not put on the root of the server (view by FTP), I added another rewrite rule to be able to see image after upload:

RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?siteN/files/(.+) wp-content/blogs.dir/N/files/$2 [L]

Note: siteN = Site Number, N = Site Number as well. In my case, I put my main site: so siteN or N = 1

(Ref: Issues with old WPMU installs in wordpress codex)

My final .htaccess:

# BEGIN WordPress
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]

# uploaded files
RewriteRule ^files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?1/files/(.+) wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/$2 [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ - [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]
# END WordPress

UPDATED: 15/05

Occasionally, I met this issue again that led me to recheck on the issue of db error:

• WordPress database error The table ‘*_1_options’ is full for query UPDATE
• WordPress database error The table ‘*_1_comments’ is full for query INSERT
• etc

Finally I got an answer because of the Mysql innodb issue at my hosting, thanks to this post

I solved with this change:

innodb_data_file_path = ibdata1:10M:autoextend:max:512M

Hope it won’t happen again but I will keep update the info if any more issue found.

We can now try Firefox in Khmer with Firefox 12-beta

Firefox in Khmer, Firefox 12

First Barcamp in Siem Reap

Welcome to the first ever event happen in Siem Reap, “BarCamp Angkor” will be held on March 24-25, 2012 in Siem Reap province at Build Bright University.

Register, Participate or Take a topic, details visit the site.

Why? I find feed instead of reading directly in the website? Cos it eats to much bandwidth (at least 4mb to load ~ some day) just to load on browser and I think, I do not interest with such advertising without respecting users on the Internet and you might be like me.

If you also want the RSS feed, here they are:

• Home Page feed: http://dap-news.com?format=feed&type=rss
• Local News feed: http://www.dap-news.com/2011-06-14-02-39-55.html?format=feed&type=rss
• International News feed: http://www.dap-news.com/2011-06-14-02-40-26.html?format=feed&type=rss
• Health and Economics News feed: http://dap-news.com/2011-06-14-02-43-39.html?format=feed&type=rss
• Entertainment feed: http://dap-news.com/morokatmagazine.html?format=feed&type=rss

And you just subscribe each of them in feedburner.com using Google account or with your MS Outlook, it would be fine. You can quickly read the latest news from dap-news.com, a breaking news, mostly on daily matter in Cambodia like traffic, government’s activities or social issues.

In development, we need a real use case to be sure which case match to you but this message could help you or give you a view to look more detail about it.

• Use ArrayList over Vector, HashMap over HashTable ~ set references to null when you no longer need them.
• Use Thread-Pool instead of Thread
• DB – Write store procedure to encapusulate almost all DB related to Business Logic & reduce application cycle between DB Objects for a Single Request
• DB – Create appropriate indexes for your tables, that will reduce time when you fetch data from tables
• DB – Tune you SQL statements appropriately – Example: Check your request with SQL Plan Text in Oracle

Angry Birds Game

I feel now the game is for kids, do not match to me but might be you have different feeling from that.

I think if Rovio Entertainment releases more angry birds’ behaviors as:

1. Angry birds walk and fight
2. Angry birds with sword and horse
3. Angry birds go to fight in China, in US or some where
4. More adventures or might be the game expert could found something else than this…

That would be great if so.
Since now, Angry birds’ pictures are every where in any form, on food, on toys or the clothes.

If Angry birds game is keeping the same state of actions, it might be lost interests some days as well.

How do you think?