Over the last two months or so, one of my co-workers has been working at making sure that the online store we are running is bullet-proof in term of security, as well as performance. Due to the rising protests against the big event we are having here in Canada, we have been speculating of what might happen on the D-day. Are we going to get DDOS attack? Will our site get defaced, etc? So we have run several simulations of possible attacks, and we handled them pretty well, I think.
Two days ago, it was the kick-off the event. Early in the morning, alerts were released that the store was down. Suddenly the first thought we had was we got attacked by irresponsible hackers around the world. The traffic to the site has inclined tremendously.
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Dalam relasi satu dengan yang lain, setiap orang ada suatu batas/tembok/jarak yang dibangun. Makin dekat seseorang dalam suatu relasi, jelas batas yang ada semakin tipis, semakin terbuka seseorang. Tapi, batas itu tetap ada, biarpun hubungan suami istri sekalipun, tetap ada. Ketika kita membangun relasi, pasti ada titik dimana kita mentok gak bisa kenal lebih jauh. Ya mungkin karena gak ada kecocokan, status orang itu udah married/pacaran sama orang lain, usia orang itu beda jauh, orang itu emang cuma sekedar teman kerja aja, karena emang orang itu yang gak mau membangun relasi lebih jauh, atau emang karena beberapa orang emang butuh waktu (gampang deket sama orang ato ngga), dsb.
Seiring perkembangan teknologi belakangan ini, rasanya batas itu dibuat semakin hilang. Dulu jauh sebelum masa internet, saya ingat saya masi suka kirim surat sama sahabat semasa SD yang pindah ke Jogja. Udah ada email, komunikasi makin gampang, makin mudah tuk berelasi. Jaman friendster di awal2nya, wah keren banget nih bisa ketemu temen2 lama. Friendster berlalu, facebook pun tiba, lebih keren lagi nih, bisa update status segala.
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It’s a productive Friday. I managed to finish some of my to-do lists. One thing that holds me back days few weeks ago was WSDL. These days many web application or ecommerce sites are enabling web services for their client. My company is using Salesforce as their CRM tool. And since the beginning, we customize the Salesforce to accomodate our needs. This customization mostly focus on cases, accounts, and contracts.
Having said that, every time we changed something in Salesforce, we need to regenerate the API code so that our front-end stuffs are up to date with the functionality. And it’s been a while since last update. My company is still running API 6, while the latest API is version 16.
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For the first time since 2004, my Gmail Inbox is empty! It took me years to realize the “archive” function and it took me a year or so to archive the emails. Some emails are important and need to be followed up so I keep them in Inbox. But today I’ve replied all emails, yay. Fortunately I only use this email for personal emails, all other emails from mailing lists are securely stored in my secondary email address.
Realizing that I am currently using 2653 MB (35%) of my 7380 MB, I sometimes wonder what would happen if Gmail crash. So there’s gotta be disaster recovery plan or some sort :p. There are several ways to back-up your Gmail. Easiest way is to use email client (Outlook, Thunderbird, Mail, etc). Second method is to use Gmail-backup program. And last method is to forward all your emails to secondary email address. I use the latter.