Rest In Peace

My mobile rang last night... Someone told me that Mr. Willy Setiardja has passed away...

I remember him well... He is my Latin language teacher when I was in Seminari Mertoyudan High School.

He is a very smart person but very low profile.... He masters many languages such as Latin, Greek, Netherlands, Portuguese, English, etc....

I love the way he taught.... sometimes he forced us to learn the vocabulary, grammar, etc... but sometimes he told us ancient stories... the one that I love was Trojan Horse.

His house is in Jogjakarta, it's 60kms from Magelang (our school)... and he went there couple of days in a week by bus.... I met him when he was more than 60 years old... he still taught us with full of spirits.

His brother, Gunawan Setiardja, is a professor of law in Soegijapranata Catholic University.

Mr. Willy, there are hundreds of students who pray for you and thank to you..... be in peace... we love you.

Amo et facio quod volo

(I love and do whatever I choose)

Absence makes love grow fonder

Well, yes.... absence makes love grow fonder.... not much to say :)

First provisional mark of this semester

Glad..... that's what I feel now...

What I'm afraid about is just this subject... it's a Haskell thing which learn about inference rules, induction proof, virtual machine, exception, concurrency, etc... but all are learnt in the concept level and simulated by using Min-HS language....

The first day, there were about 20 students in the class....

The third week, it becomes about 13 students....

and after the sixth week, it just 5 I think....

Anyway... I tried to love this subject... it's very challenging...

However... it's too difficult, huh..... I just got 60% off all the assignment, 50% on the mid exam, and 70% on the final exam.....

I'm doing well on the other subjects... but I felt that I will not pass this subject....

finally the provisional mark has came.... and I got... CREDIT.... yay...... I pass this subject.....

and I got the second rank of 5 postgrad students...... so, possibly no one gets more than CREDIT for this subject... heheh.....

ClassKey: 08s2COMP9161

StudentID: 3228xxx

Name: Nugroho, Robertus Setiawan Aji                    

Program: 8682  

Plans: COMPCS       

Login: rsxxxxx

tut: tue14a

midsession_q1: 3/6

midsession_q2: 16/19

midsession_q3: 6/22

midsession_q4: 6/6

final_q1: 19/20

final_q2: 4/20

final_q3: 14/20

final_q4: 15/20

final_q5: 20/20

final_provisional:   66 CR 

rank:   2 /  5

It remains me on what I got from the last semester... I got the 10th position of 67 students... and it was CREDIT as well... If I'm not mistaken 22 of them were failed...

Well... study abroad is not as easy as we think.... but as long as we work hard... at least PASSED is easy, hehehe...... 

The concerto of the week

Many things happened this two weeks.... just like a harmony in a violin concerto (which I haven't finished since 4 months ago)

Last week :

  - Fortissimo: Finished the final exams, beers....

  - Pianissimo: Well sleeping... ahhh... after many weeks of the hell....

                      having cam session with family all day long... watching Andra riding his baby walker.... cancel all appointments.. hiks..

This week:

  - Jazzy at the first day... not much thing to do in the office..., pitching with friends and clients.

 - Staccato at the second day.... huh... project deadline is two weeks left... 40hours anyway...

 - jazzy again tomorrow.... Iphone tech talk...

   hope till weekend, hahah... many appointments anyway...

Wondering to continue the third page of eight pages concerto :D

Transport Telematics

You must be familiar with "telematics" term..... either heard it from television or newspaper.

There is a telematics expert as well in Indonesia... 

but really, it's not just about determining whether an image is original or not, or analyzing video :)

Telematics is the integration of telecommunication and information system... have a look at wikipedia for more information.

So what is "Transport Telematics"? It's the implementation of telematics in transportation sector. The well known synonym for this term is "Intelligent Transport System" (ITS), or some people call it "Vehicle telematics".

The example of transport telematics are Electronic Road Pricing, Emergency and Breakdown System, Intelligent Speed Control System, etc...

We should proud, Singapore as part of Asia is the first country which implements ERP and it has been followed by many countries around the world.

My latest writing is about "Location Based Service" as the backbone of ITS. The characteristics of LBS as a Location-aware Application are aware of:

   - where the user is

   - when the user using the service

   - what is the user using the service for

Those three questions must be addressed by a good LBS application. And hence, it could be a great support for ITS since position and time are very important for transport telematics implementation.

Transportation is indeed a very important system that needs to be well managed to support the economic growth. It becomes the basis of industry society.

Indonesia as developed country could benefit from the implementation of transport telematics. Traffic congestion, speeding, safety are some issues that can be solved by ITS implementation and dependency to human resource such as police officer could be decreased. Well, of course the mentality of the driver needs to be managed as well :)

Abstract 

Transportation is an important aspect of economic growth. It becomes the basis of 

industrial society. Hence, good transportation management is needed. Intelligent 

Transport System (ITS) is a technology to address that issue. Transportation problem 

such as traffic congestion, speeding, emergency and breakdown service, traffic 

condition, and route and navigation can be solved by ITS. Location Based Service 

(LBS) as the basis of transport telematics, plays important role, specially it provides 

opportunity to private sector to be able to supports transportation regulator. 

Keyword: Intelligent Transport System, Transport Telematics, LBS 

*Image taken from: http://www.hel2.fi/liikenteenohjaus/eng/pt_telematics.asp

Mapping, the essential of Location Based Service

Today, I finished my another writing about Location Based Service... Well, it is not a deep discussion about LBS itself nor the mapping technology. My concern is about how essential is mapping to a LBS application and what will be the challenges and future developments that need to be addressed by software developer. I have done many mashups projects this year (recent one is property.adandsell.com.au) and GIS websites such as mymarket.com.au (demographic website based on the trend of gardening data in Australia -- Liquid Vision rebuild project). I found that map is an important visualization for the LBS or future of the Internet (It's proven by the increase of visitors for more than 150% in the property site and 30% of selling rates). Map provides better visualization especially for navigation services rather than lengthy text based information).

Abstract 

 Mapping is an essential component on a LBS application. Mapping provides better 

visualization of information to user rather than lengthy text based information. There 

are a lot of mapping Application Programming Interfaces (API) that can be used by 

LBS software developer to enhance their application. This ease-of-use API is a 

breakthrough in LBS development and is proven to generate thousands of location 

mashups that are very useful for user. There are a lot of challenges that needs to be 

addressed by software developer related to accuracy, clarity of information, user 

contributed content, dynamic content and other attributes such as richer road 

attributes and richer Point of Interest. 

Keyword: LBS, Mapping, Map API

My next project will also related to LBS system and the use of PDT (positioning determination technology) such as GPS, WIFI and cell based communication. Hmmmm..... I'm just afraid whether it could be finished in a semester or.... save some parts of it for the better future, hehehe.... 

Well... dunno.... I still enjoying the new programming language Haskell.... which is not related at all to my project. Hiks.... why I start to love this functional programming.... It's just so beauty... the syntax, concepts, and the difficulties of learning it....

My impression about Australian television

Hmmm... I'm still watching SBS station now :)

just want to comment that it's so different compared to what I found in Indonesia....

I just came home from work this arvo, then slept for a while.... 

Then... yeah.... watching TV...

it was about the philosophy of coffee.... how the coffee change the world... in Australia, it's just like a culture to go to cafe and just enjoying latte or cappuccino.... It's showing how starbucks penetrates the world with it's standardization of drinking coffee... hem it was mcdonalization... now perhaps starbucks-ization :)

Then, the followed by The inside mind of Hittler.... (which is I'm watching now).... insightful and worth it to be watched.

How full of knowledge for audience those..... Hem...wondering if we get those kind of series rather than soap operas (sinetron) as what can be found on most of channels in Indonesia...

cheers