Keywords: Book

It’s weekend, a long weekend, and it’s time to have super fun again (read: reading/learning many new things again).

I had my supervisor bought a great book titled (Pragmatic Thinking and Learning) by Andy Hunt. I’ve been tracing how brain works since I was in Senior High School, from Tony Buzan (Mr. Brain) books, how things work, how people can be smart, learn HOW TO LEARN (not just learn because we MUST learn), all those accelerated learning, quantum learning, including books like IQ, EQ, SQ, also things to exploit our brain power using Henry’s tricks, even only using one trick I think we can exploit our brain that other normal people would think it’s just super, there are more than 20 tricks, one of tricks I like is mnemonics, I just like learning/knowing how things can be learned in such a better environment with a bias of course to make my surrounding environment much better.

I’ll write tips I got from this book so that I can probably share thoughts and ideas with you guys (my fellow readers). Anyway, the book’s author more or less said it’s a good habit to put up a copy of every tip to a note, wall, desktop, or even work board, conference room, we’ll be returning to that. I got many blog buddies and many friends who live in other parts of indonesian islands and also outside Indonesia, so I’d just put it up here on my blog so that we can share thoughts about things we learned from this book (and the way we [my blog / online buddies and I] communicate is usually through any media and hopefully would beget to conference/workshop/seminar idea to implement)

Tip 1: Always consider the context.

Tip 2: Use rules for novices, intuition for experts. (p 40)

Tip 3: Know what you don’t know (p 42)

Tip 4: Learn by watching and imitating. (p 47)

Tip 5: Keep practicing in order to remain expert. (p 50)

Tip 6: Avoid format methods if you need creativity, intuition, or inventiveness. (p 53)

Tip 7: Learn the skill of learning. (p 56)

Tip 9: Learn by synthesis as well as by analysis (p 75)

Tip 10: Strive for good design; it really works better (p 80)

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Tip 26: Plan your investment in learning deliberately (p 168)

Tip 27: Discover how you learn best. (p 173)

Tip 28: Form study groups to learn and teach. (p 176)

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Tip 34: Learn from similarities; unlearn from differences. (p 199)

For the sake of my poor fingers I won’t type steps or stages what novice and what experts are divided in this book, you got to read this book yourself, I only draw big pictures here, besides my online buddies who are CTOs, managers, CEOs usually only like big pictures instead of freaking detail of things that I call fun :-)) [ex. how can an object oriented programming older than java like ruby make our IT Development team more productive, or detail of how we adapt or consult people to adapt SCRUM and agile principles to a work place, these two examples I gave were only meant for some of you who are curious and probably a sort of geek]

Title: rake doc:guides segalanya

Keywords: ruby on rails, rails, guides, referensi

Anda masih mencari-cari bak meraba-raba dalam gelap tentang buku buku belajar ruby on rails dalam bahasa indonesia? Anda masih mengapung-ngapung di lautan buzz buzz word word tetapi Anda kesulitan soal koneksi internet sebagaimana layaknya manusia-manusia rata-rata di Indonesia? Tidak tidak tidak … jangan berkecil hati kawan … kalau Anda sudah ada rails terinstalasi dengan benar di komputer Anda, dengan mudahnya dalam root direktori project rails Anda ketikkan saja rake doc:guides dan WUSSSS setelah itu tinggal Anda panggil saja file didalam doc/guides/index.html

Selesai Perkara (!) RTFM

OOT Mode On: Kalau Anda selalu konek di internet sih lain perkara

Title: groovy

cat ~/.profile

export GROOVY_HOME='/opt/local/groovy'
export PATH=$GROOVY_HOME/bin:$PATH

long version:

#
# PATHS
# 

# memcached
export EVENT_NOKQUEUE=1

# groovy
export GROOVY_HOME='/opt/local/groovy'

# perl
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

# svn
export SVN_EDITOR=vim
export GIT_EDITOR=vim

# postgres
export PATH=/Library/PostgreSQL8/bin:$PATH
export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH
export PATH=/opt/local/ruby19/bin:$PATH

# man port, man git
export PATH=/opt/local/share/man:$PATH
export PATH=/Users/arie/bin:$PATH
export PATH=$GROOVY_HOME/bin:$PATH

export MANPATH=/opt/local/share/man:$MANPATH
export MANPATH=/Library/PostgreSQL8/man:$MANPATH

#
# ALIASES
# 

# perl
alias p="perl"

# alias svn
alias s='svn'
alias st='svn st|grep -v vendor|grep -v db/development_structure.sql'
alias sl='svn log'
alias sd='svn diff'
alias sc='svn ci'

# alias mysql
alias mysql="mysql5"

# git
alias gst="git status"
alias gl="git pull"
alias gba="git branch -a"
alias gca="git commit -a"

# bash
alias ls="ls -G"
alias ll="ls -lh"

# textmate
alias e="mate spec app config lib public stories db README"
alias i="mate ~/i/test ~/i/spec ~/i/lib ~/i/app ~/i/config ~/i/public/stylesheets ~/i/db ~/i/vendor/plugins/shoulda ~/i/vendor/plugins/shoulda_macros &"

# vim
alias v="vim"

# ruby
alias r="ruby"
alias rr="rbx"
alias r9="ruby19"

# rails
alias console="script/console"
alias dbconsole="script/dbconsole"
alias sa='script/about'
alias sst='script/server thin'
alias psst='RAILS_ENV=production script/server thin'
alias ssst='RAILS_ENV=staging script/server thin'
alias rst='rake stats|grep LOC|tail -n1'
alias rsr='rake spec:rcov'

# export JAVA_HOME="/usr/bin/java"

Groovy Newbie in action (lol)

r:~ arie$ echo $JAVA_HOME

r:~ arie$ echo $PATH
/opt/local/groovy/bin:/Users/arie/bin:/opt/local/share/man:/opt/local/ruby19/bin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/Library/PostgreSQL8/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin
r:~ arie$ java -version
java version "1.5.0_13"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_13-b05-237)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_13-119, mixed mode, sharing)
r:~ arie$ groovy -v
Groovy Version: 1.6-beta-2 JVM: 1.5.0_13
r:~ arie$ groovysh
Groovy Shell (1.6-beta-2, JVM: 1.5.0_13)
Type 'help' or '\h' for help.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
groovy:000> Math.sqrt(16)
===> 4.0
groovy:000> println 'Test drive Groovy'
Test drive Groovy
===> null
groovy:000> String.metaClass.isPalindrome = {-> ;
groovy:001>   delegate == delegate.reverse()
groovy:002> }
===> groovysh_evaluate$_run_closure1@4985ce
groovy:000> 'mom'.isPalindrome()
===> true
groovy:000> println 'git --version'.execute().text
git version 1.6.0.1

===> null
groovy:000> println 'git --version'.execute().getClass().name
java.lang.UNIXProcess
===> null

oops

hm, now I’m looking fri in groovy (especially when I’m offline)

Title: my gemrc

r:mescin arie$ cat ~/.gemrc
---
:verbose: true
:sources:
- http://gems.rubyforge.org
- http://gems.github.com
:benchmark: false
:update_sources: true
:backtrace: false
:bulk_threshold: 1000
gem: --no-ri --no-rdoc
:verbose: true 

Title: my git global config

r:mescin arie$ git config --global -l
 user.name=arie
user.email=ariekusumaatmaja@gmail.com
color.status=auto
color.branch=auto
color.ui=auto
git-tmbundle.show-diff-check=yes
 github.user=ariekeren
github.token=oops

Anda seorang Software Architect? Creative Director? Business people? Investor? Cakaplah dengan saya, apa lagi yang boleh jadi akan boom dengan wujud transformasi ni.

ikatan rambut (max. Rp 30,000)

vitamin rambut (keknya bakal nyobain “dove therapy system” deh, gak tau berapa harganya, max. Rp 100,000 - Rp 300,000 duh, berlebihan gak yah???)

sabun cair utk cuci tangan (budget Rp 10,000 - 17,000, tidak boleh kurang, tidak boleh lebih)

nonton laska: pelangi (Rp 25,000)

oh iya, makan! (Rp 10,000 | tidak boleh lebih! )

ongkos transport naik teksi ekspress PP (Rp 40,000 | kalau lebih harus turun dan jalan kaki! ) pingin punya guide yang boleh ajarkan naik busway PP nanti kalau pulangnya ah

Total:

>> 30_000 + 30_000 + 300_000 + 17_000 + 25_000 + 10_000 + 40_000
=> 452000
>> 30_000 + 30_000 + 100_000 + 17_000 + 25_000 + 10_000 + 40_000
=> 252000

Suram, sepertinya hemat di sabun mandi, boros di kepala sama rambut nih… facial sama massage aja belum, oh iya, ntar besok mo nagih kapan shiatsu ya…

ps. persentase penyimpanan bersih kisaran 40 - 50 persen. takut kalo turun jadi 25-an persen makanya harus selalu dicatat biar gak boleh boros

ps 2. siapa yang liat saya boros sila boleh teriak keras: gak boleh boros tai kucing!

Sabun cair dari body shop, biasa beli yang satu set, jadi sama sponge, scrub, body butter, biasanya kisaran 100 - 300 ringgit di KL. pernah dulu saya beli sabun cair dari body shop yang ada di Ciwalk Bandung tu harganya kisaran 300,000-an rupiah, ya versi komplitnya juga, jadi ini termasuk murah sangat bila dibandingkan dengan harga di KL nggak tau kalo mo dibandingkan kualitasnya yaa ehm kalau dari segi pelayanan dua duanya di KL maupun di Bandung sama-sama ramah, bedanya paling yaaa kebetulan aja saya lebih beruntung dgn wanita wanita cantik di KL itu

*ahlesan! ngajak ngobrol lama-lama jadi ada maksud yah, dasar lalaki!*

Sabun mandi cair kalau lux itu harganya murah dan tetap tidak akan merasa kehilangan ataupun rugi buat kulit sensitif seperti kulit saya. nih, harganya cuma 9975 utk 1 isi ulang, nah kalo saya beli dua cuma nggak sampai 20,000 rupiah ini artinya tidak sampai 7 ringgit !!!

Mo ngomong kualitas? gini, kalau lux cair ini di kulit pas habis mandi ya kulit tu rasanya kering, itu aja, jadi waktu mbilas aja pas abis mandi itu rasanya ya kulit tu kesat. trus kalo pake yang dari body shop itu kulit rasanya jadi lembut dan licin (tidak kesat). jadi pada waktu mbilas selagi mandi itu ya sepertinya sabun tuh nempel aja mulu padahal udah nggak lagi, memang begitulah kalau pakai sabun bagus.

Trus kalau soal harum / wangi, ya memang body shop jaaaaauh , bahkan jangan coba coba bandingkan dengan lux biasa gitu doang, tapi pakai lux ini sungguh trik jitu untuk menggenjot arus masuk keuangan alias safe lebih banyak hihihi bayangin kalau biasanya hitunglah Rp 1,500,000 cuma untuk sabun cair mandi jadi Rp 20,000 saja, berarti itu artinya arus uang masuk sudah bertambah menjadi Rp 1,480,000 alias perbandingannya adalah 1 banding 75 alias ini penghematan yang hampir 100 persen !! kalo di ringgitkan lumayaan bisa nambah simpanan kisaran 500 ringgit

Nah terus, kalau di KL kenapa kok mau punya arus uang keluar sebesar Rp 1,500,000 cuma untuk sabun mandi? Nah hayo!! Gak bisa jawab! No wonder your friend said that you’re careless of your money! Ini juga jadi alasan kenapa soal arus uang keluar tentang sabun mandi cair masuk blog post kali ini, adalah untuk menjadi pengingat supaya tidak boleh careless lagi soal uang ya

oot (out of topic):

Kalau mau boros, memangnya simpanan sudah berapa milyar? hah? baru hitungan milyar sudah mau boros? tidak boleh! ayo putar duitnya! jangan biasakan dijadikan benda mati terus!

oot 2:

Lha itu di judul ada sabun wangi putih malaysia tu apa? oh iya ya lupa. itu sabun yang sebetulnya harum juga tapi keknya kulit gw kurang cocok deh. sama bau harumnya juga kurang sreg aja. lha bandingannya sama yang body shop di Kuala Lumpur (KL) tadi? oh itu kan sabun dari paris, ya wajar kalo beda. paling jg mahal mahal mbayarin ongkos transport sama pajak tuh.

oot 3:

Ah siaran siaran di TV lokal Indonesia sangat tidak mendidik, luar biasa gencatan perang dan brainwash agar berpola hidup konsumer itu digaungkan kencang-kencang dengan sangat meninabobokkan bak opium negara … sedih ah tapi biarlah, biarpun seluruh makhluk boros, aku akan menjadi seorang diri yang tidak boros! sama persis seperti kelakuan orang-orang indonesia yang jorok kalau di jalan biasa buang sampah sembarangan apalagi di pasar, saya sendiri yang mengantungi sampah di baju tidak masalah sama sekali, karena saya malu sama teman-teman yang di luar Indonesia walau tidak dilihat

Sebelum dan sesudahnya semilir semolor saya terdengar sepoi sepoi nyanyian lagu saja dulu “Kapan kapan” ….

Coba kita lihat… posting kali ini tidak saya pakai bahasa asing yg saya boleh cakap.

Many people just smirked and said those who burn money are by all mean poor people and got no wonder of it. Many people curse that phenomenon. Many people curse the unserious Indonesian government. Many people even curse Indonesia got colonialised again physically with many bombs like what was happening in Afghanistan, Iraq or that is still happening in Palestine, so that those people will be so satisfied with tremendous mercun. Many people only go to the mosque hopelessly and only pray there without doing anything helplessly to stop that mercun phenomenon. Many people are only sad and frustrated facing that phenomenon. Many people simply said nothing and left Indonesia for good because ignore is the highest hatred level meanwhile hate still means thinking about something. Meanwhile I believe that there is an opportunity for Indonesian education sector.

It is currently not a fasting month anymore and there is no mercun anymore, I feel more safe now.

Gw kenapa nggak ada pengen2nya kesana at least dalam waktu deket ini mungkin kaarena males aja, bayarnya walau cuma 4,000 rupiah tetep aja kalo yang namanya males mah, ah kalo gw emangnya kapan sih mo keluar ninggalin komputer, ke mal ato party aja males! kek gw gak tau lo aja.