Thursday saw the latest instalment in the Agile Malaysia journey. After an extended hiatus, we got together at the MYOB office courtesy of Jeff Au. We had a good turnout with a mix of folk from MYOB, iProperty, Experian, GrassValley and more. … Continue reading
(This is a paraphrasing of a talk I did at WebCamp KL in October 2012.). (This presentation is intended to give a brief overview of some of the core AWS services and how iProperty has made use of them. It’s … Continue reading
This is a paraphrasing of a talk I gave at the DevOps Usergroup Malaysia Meetup in July 2012. The idea of the talk was to present some thoughts on how to move from manual deployment to automated deployment in a larger organisation … Continue reading
Some coverage from Computerworld Malaysia of our recent announcement of a mobile-first strategy. We’re very excited by the opportunities and potential that mobile has for our industry. Headquartered in Malaysia, online property firm iProperty Group has gathered a team of … Continue reading
You might have read this answer to the question “Why are software development task estimations regularly off by a factor of 2-3?” by Michael Wolfe on Quora; if not, go ahead and read it now. It’s a great analogy and … Continue reading
As well as hosting sites on the Windows/IIS/.Net platform, we also have quite a few sites that run on the LAMP (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) stack. Although Apache had been tweaked and tuned, we had periodic issues with unexpected load hitting Apache and … Continue reading
This week, DataManager magazine in Italy published an interview with me about iProperty, online business and IT in general. You can see the article here: http://www.datamanager.it/rivista/cio/iproperty-il-mercato-immobiliare-va-online As you’d expect, it’s in Italian, so I’ve put a translation (automated, from Google … Continue reading
This is probably my third or fourth attempt at blogging. I’ve tried restricting myself to various topics before and it’s never really stuck. This time I’m going to go for anything that comes to mind about my life. It may … Continue reading
Malaysian television channel ntv7 featured me talking about the iProperty Android app and giving some tips on finding housing.