UPDATE: I have since switched to WordPress due to spam issues. See my Battle of the Blogs: Part 2 entry.

This site is powered by b2evolution if you haven’t noticed. Why did I pick it? First of all, I searched on SourceForge.net on “php blog”, sorted by number of downloads and b2evolution came up at the top, with over 150k downloads. Now even though I have heard about WordPress before, it didn’t come up in the search. Even though they claim that they have moved off SourceForge.net, still a big mistake on their part to have neither “php” nor “blog” in their listing.

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I haven’t been involved in marketing a website for a very long time. Although my team does develop websites in my current line of work, they are either non-search-engine important, or the marketing aspect is, well handled by the Marketing department.

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The site is finally re-launched! There are still more tweaks that I want to do, and more stuff I want to post. But this is presentable for now. I really want to post up what little I have of The Hindersons for all to read. But in the interest that it might get finished/published one day, I shall keep it under cover for now

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Blizzard just rolled out their referral program for their World of Warcraft players to earn free game time by referring users. I took a peek and the implementation is pretty smooth. No icky copy and pasting a weird link into emails and then wonder if your friend has signed up. It’s all done via the Account Management home page, with status of each referrals shown.

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Thanks to one of the software directors, we have been introduced to Scrum via the Managerial Bookclub. After some consideration, I have decided to implement it on two of our projects. The team is all up for it. That’s one of the many things that I love about my team. They are not afriad of changes and are always looking for ways to do things better.

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Please pardon the dust as I re-launch rayyu.com. It’s undergoing its long-overdued overhaul (since 2002!)