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Faster Horse

One of Henry Ford’s famous quote: “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”

Don’t ask customers for what they want. Instead, ask customers for what the pain points are.

When you ask what customers want, you will be given solutions. When you ask what customers’ pain points are, you will be given opportunity to invent something different.

#innovation #matter of perspective

The best way to build momentum and create a movement is to tell a good story.

Daron Roberts

#momentum #90 days plan #consistency

The 90 Days Mantra

You’ve been asked to move a mountain. What to do? By the sounds of it, it is an absolute impossible task to do.

In our life, there are so many ideas we want to do. But in reality, the ideas were probably just gone nowhere. Or we’ve probably started some of ideas, but didn’t really progress much. Because we were running out of puff. Too much.

But, what if we think and start small. Focus at the best idea we have, and set the 90 days plan to execute it. It helps us to set our end goal, what we want to see by 90 days. Then, be consistent on working on the idea for the next 90 days.

By the end of 90 days, do the retrospective and the celebration. Then set up the next 90 days goal.

I’ve been doing this on my best start-up idea. I let you know when I’ve moved the mountain.

Big things often have small beginnings.

#startuplife #entrepreneur #get things done

Your Career is Your Responsibility

Stop assuming that your career depends on your manager. It is easy to blame your situation / your manager why you are stuck.

The fact is, no one owes you a career. Your career is literally your own business. You have to take ownership of your career.

You are responsible for upskilling yourself. You are responsible for choice you made.

Speak up. Put hands up when an opportunity arise.

Think like when you run your own business. It is your responsibility to make it successful.

#career #leadership

Continuous improvement is not about the things you do well—that's work. Continuous improvement is about removing the things that get in the way of your work —the headaches, the things that slow you down, that’s what continuous improvement is all about

Bruce Hamilton

#continuous improvement #kaizen

What If We Focus On What We Can Do Better Tomorrow?

We were taught how to compete since we were little.

Parents are always trying to compare their kids with others.

At school, students are given grade to measure how they performed. Putting us in competition with other students.

At work, managers always in the look of high performers. Who is the star of the team. Putting us in competition with our colleagues.

In business, companies always try to outdo their competitors. Putting pressure to business to keep it competitive, by cutting price, adding new features, etc.

The competition nature often distract us from our goal. It put lots of pressure because we want to stay relevant.

Here is my thought... instead of focusing on our competitors, what if we focus on making ourselves better tomorrow. Next month should be better than last month. And next year, I will be better than I am today.

Simply try to get better each day.

#leadership #self improvement

Inverse Conway's Law

From wikipedia, here is the definition of Conway's Law:

It is based on the reasoning that in order for two separate software modules to interface correctly, the designers and implementers of each module must communicate with each other. Therefore, the interface structure of a software system will reflect the social structure of the organization(s) that produced it.

In software development, we often discuss separation of concern. Conway's Law suggests communication must present between the builder and the implementer. Hence the tightly coupling between two, and it can cause many unintended friction points.

A better way is to allow freedom for each team to achieve desire architectures, while constraints are put in the place in the very high level architecture.

#microservices #conway's law

JSONP and Backbone JS

Recently, I wrote a simple app to consume my test web service which I setup in different domain. When I run the app, the chrome console throw this error: "Origin ... is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin."

I concluded that by default Backbone JS won't do anything to enable JSONP. So, after digging the documentation and source code, I discover two way to allow JSONP request.

The first method is by overriding options of Sync function. Here is the code snippet:

var FriendCollection = Backbone.Collection.extend({ model: Friend, url: "http://myrest.com/friends", sync: function(method, model, options){ options.dataType = "jsonp"; return Backbone.sync(method, model, options); } });

The second method is by adding "callback=?" to the URL querystring, and Backbone will magically turn the data-type into JSONP.

url: "http://myrest.com/friends?callback=?"

#backbone js #jsonp

Note: This is not my quote.

Three Simple Rules in Life:

If you do not GO after what you want, You’ll never have it. If you do not ASK, the answer will always be NO. If you do not step FORWARD, you will ALWAYS be in the same place.

#leadership life

Request Throttling in IIS7

When building REST API, I used to implement my own request throttling in the code. And I just came across this awesome IIS extension "Dynamic IP Restrictions" which seems to do most of the job to limit number of concurrent requests.

Of course, for more advanced scenario such as limit max. API calls per day, you need to come up with own implementation.

#IIS7

Quick Way to Debug Umbraco

Often we are just got so frustrated when writing macro or user control in Umbraco. Common errors we are getting such as Error loading MacroEngine script or Error creating control without mentioning the actual error is.

There are many way to debug of course, by the quickest way you can do is just to append this querystring "?umbDebugShowTrace=true" in the URL, and viola, you get much detail informations about the error.

Tested against Umbraco 4.7.

#umbraco debugging

Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like.

Will Smith

High visionary leaders require high level encouragement

#leadership #encouragement

If there is one virtue that should be cultivated more than another by him who would succeed in life, it is punctuality; if there is one error that should be avoided, it is being behind the time.

Freeman Hunt

#punctuality #leadership

I have a confession to make. No longer I put sugar in my coffee.

Knowing is not enough, you must apply; willing is not enough, you must do.

#leadership #knowledge

Hello World

Hi everyone.. welcome to the world of mine..

Judging from the title, you can guess my background is in software development. I'm writing software for living. My passion is in software architecture. I hate ugly code and unmaintainable code..

My primary language is C# and .NET framework as the platform. But I am also into Ruby development and Rails framework. I love Ruby because of its simplicity. Many ideas I've been extracted from there.

I've recently enjoying cycling, just after my wife bought me a push bike. Sometimes I ride my bike to work. But often, the weather is my primary excuse not to ride :)

Ok, I guess it's enough for the "Hello World" introduction. I hope I can regularly post to this blog to share what I've learnt around software development, my awesome relationship with wife, and everything else.

Hope you enjoy my first post :)

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