Sagage

after looking at the documentations and trying out some of tutorials available at elgg.org, i’ve reached a conclusion that elgg framework looks very promising at least for one of my future projects. but, i’ll also give a shot at another tempting framework called Code Igniter to produce more readable OOP codes. i know learning a new thing costs me a lot. but, using a different development methodology like this could save my time and eventually lead me to a better path. the only question is how long is it gonna take?

guess whatsupkorea.com project works better with Code Igniter than Elgg.

have wasted a full month to prepare a fresh new start. new machines. new office. and, everything. i must be a slow starter. but, at least i am trying to do something positive here. currently i am looking at an open-source framework called `elgg`. hope it’d turn out to be little different than other frameworks that i’d once looked at.

still thinking of making a mixed breed of twitter, craigslist, and yelp based on some social networking service framework. and i’ll call it whatsupkorea.com.

I decided to quit my current job. A salary of 4 million won a month wasn’t too bad when considering my other extra incomes. but, I really like being on my own.

Been a long time to take a chance to look at my blog myself. So, here I am. Thankfully, I am still alive. doing the same shit for the local company hired me 6 months ago.

Some would say the period of 6 months isn’t short. but in fact, it is too short for a full reconstucturing. Furthermore, ever since the company hired 2 under-qualified web designer and project manager sometime around late september, the company’s project is going nowhere. I’m having a big trouble to find a fun factor in what I’m doing too.

The inferior layouts, designs, plans produced by the colleagues made me rethink what i was looking for and why i joined them. No offense to them but, working with some retarded dudes is very hard if not annoying. Or, maybe I am getting tired of wasting my time living someone else’s life.

There is no rest for the wicked.

I’ve just got a job starting next week. It’s far from anyone’s dream job but, at least, it’s interesting to me somehow, and it’s not quite different from what I’ve been doing for the last couple of years.

The company is called roadn.com and, I was told they’ve been running the website for about a year and a half. It’s just another mediocre online community website for local (Korean) auto enthusiasts. Oddly the company’s managed to run the online service with no tech guy. So, I am going to be their first tech guy there. Oh, great.

They’ve found a right guy at the right time though. Soon they’ll have to appreciate what I’m capable of. As I’ve been doing such things single-handedly for a long time, I know what I’m doing. It’d be very interesting to see how things end up with.

My wife won. It’s a new start anyway.

I used to have a personal blog to write my daily works so I could keep track of the nerdy stuffs. But, somehow, it’s gone now for several reasons. The posts I’d written to summarize my own configuration settings of servers have some privacy concern issues giving anonymous attackers a chance to look at. I wan’t quite fond of the previous script called tattertools either. I guess it’s time to start all over again.

I’ve been developing and running hanlingo.com, which is a social networking community for language exchange by the way, and currently looking at Korean ESL market to make some dough. I am also interested in building online dating website, but I’ll focus on the more feasible things for the moment.

Speaking of business, I am trying to turn myself into a business oriented guy rather than a tech geek. I believe I have enough tech skills, and a keen eye on Korean market to develop a niche market. With some helps from right person(s), I hope I can make it happen in the near future. We will see.

In case you wonder, 싸가지 pronounced [sa:ga:ge] means decorum;manners in English; しつけ in Japanese. Often believed to have a negative connotation associated with it as it’s often used in 싸가지 없는… However, the word itself doesn’t mean anything negative, and best of all, easy to remember. That suits me.

Chuck

Hello world! isn’t exactly what I was thinking to say in the first page. But, it seems to match my future audience so, I’ll leave it there. Kudos to Wordpress team by the way for their time to make this wonderful script available for free. Lovely.