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How to hire the best engineers without killing yourself

~2 years ago by sausheong on saush.com.
Garena, where I work now, is in an expansion mode and I have been hiring engineers, sysadmins and so on to feed the development frenzy for platform revamps...

Umbrellas to work, or why engineers should get married

~2 years ago by sausheong on saush.com.
When I was working in Yahoo at Suntec City, I used to take the MRT to work every day and my route is completely sheltered right to the doorsteps of the...

Clone TinyURL with 40 lines of Ruby code on Google AppEngine for Java

~3 years ago by sausheong on saush.com.
Amidst the wretched events that happened at work recently, I forgot about an interesting development in running apps on a cloud. Google AppEngine finally...

My new book is out!

over 1 year ago by sausheong on saush.com.
It’s been a while from the day I started writing Cloning Internet Applications with Ruby but it’s finally out! You can get it from bookstores...

2010 in review

over 1 year ago by sausheong on saush.com.
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter...

Generate MP3 waveforms with Ruby and R

~1 year ago by sausheong on saush.com.
I blame Rully for this. If it wasn’t for him I wouldn’t have been obsessed with this and spent a good few hours at night figuring it out last...

Create 3D anaglyph images with 3 lines of Ruby code

10 months ago by sausheong on saush.com.
3D has always fascinated me. When I was young my brother and I had a ViewMaster and a Pan-Pet Panorama Stereo Viewer, both of which totally bowled us over...

Edge detection with the Sobel operator in Ruby

~1 year ago by sausheong on saush.com.
I was never much into image processing. Sure, like most programmers I dabbled into it for cropping images or doing some fancy-schmancy filtering effects...