Programer C&C

Posted by leepeng on October 3, 2008

This is not command and conquer.

Few days ago, we discussed the 2 Cs that a programer shall hold on to.

CAREFUL

COMMON-SENSE

A CAREFUL programmer will make no or less mistake (CORRECT). In addition, he/she will always think beyond the given instruction and add in necessary features or process to make a project COMPLETE, using his/her COMMON-SENSE.

Some examples…

1.) When a project involve multiple currencies, choose to put 2 decimal points to display currencies like SGD, USD, EUR and no decimal for currencies like YEN, Korean WON, Indonesia Ruphia.

2.) When working with Payment Gateway, checks if the Payment Gateway has a background notification system as user might close the browser or experience network error while returning from Payment Gateway to merchant website.

3.) For online renting system, when an item is returned, the status is not set to available immediately; instead a returned status which will be changed to available automatically after few hours as the merchant might take sometime to check and put back the returned item to shelve.

Our First Workshop

Posted by leepeng on October 1, 2008

Finally, we have kick-started our in-house training sessions.

Our first Workshop held on 20th Sept, exactly on Lee Peng’s birthday, was “Converting Design to HTML”.

The subjects covered were: conforming to present day XHTML standards, best CSS practices, <table> to <div> layouts, slicing techniques and SEO considerations.

Besides our programmers, we were glad to have both Mingyi and Peter from the Account Servicing team over to join us for a time of learning and fun activities.

We had a sumptuous meal during lunch at a nearby restaurant a stone’s throw away from office. After the workshop was wrapped up at 4 p.m., the majority of us adjourned over to Tesco Square for a KTV session before departing to our respective homes.

More pictures can be viewed at Peter’s facebook photo album.

Training resources can be found HERE

Hello world!

Posted by blogger on

Yes, we are an IT company.

As programmers, the first thing we learned was to create a “Hello World” program.

Therefore, Hello World from Forecepts Team!