About Me

It's me, Arif N. In this blog I'll write about my adventure related to computer, programming, and anything that I found interesting. I wish you a happy reading.. :D

What? NoSQL? Yeah, you read it correctly. NoSQL. I forgot when and where I heard about this for the first time. But I noticed about this data store technology again when I was attending the second Bancakan 2.0 meet up in last March. When I listened to the speaker, lynxluna, I remember about HBase, a [...]

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About a year ago, I created a blog aggregator, or sometimes also called Planet. This planet display all the blog posts from my registered friends. At first, I did it alone. I maintained and designed it by myself. And then, my friend Andreas wanna help me maintaining the site. So I gave him a role [...]

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Some days ago, there’s a vacancy offer in my undergraduate department mailing list. A company is looking for a programmer. I didn’t pay much attention to this email. Okay, here’s the email: Mr. XXX, my office needs a programmer with this qualification: Have knowledge in VB, Java, and PHP Have any experiences as a programmer/developer [...]

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About a year ago, I started an English conversation club with my friend in the college. Well, it’s not a real conversation club actually. Instead of doing direct conversation, we’re using instant messenger or irc. Later, I realized that I was doing it because of my own selfishness. I did it because I was lonely [...]

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Two months ago, I wrote a simple tutorial on how to create a Hadoop MapReduce program using Netbeans. Not a slightest clue in my head that this post will change my life. Okay, I’m exaggerating. I mean the post change the history of this blog. The first day after I wrote the post, nothing special [...]