If you’ve arrived here looking for the old forums, sad to say it’s gone for good now. I appreciate all the efforts of the FSKTM regulars that posted a wealth of knowledge on Linux, recruitment opportunities, movies among other things. Others hung out just to chit-chat and it was really a nice place to login to.
However, in the more recent months, it’s been pretty idle. Not because of anyone’s fault though. I reckon that there are indeed better places to network and meet virtually. A lot of social networking websites are around, so I it’s better we meet up there instead. And of course, there’s always plain ol’ instant messaging and SMS.

Maybe putting off doing, can already be considered as doing something already. Confused? Don’t be. Read more here - Are you procrastinating? Or are you just thinking?. The author is a programmer that finds beginning coding immediately usually, if not always, results in spaghetti code. And I agree. And in my opinion, that’s why the software engineering discipline was created. Not only must you think before doing anything, but software engineering also requires that you be able to express that thought in a structured way via diagrams.
So putting off that project while letting your gray matter process it is good, but doing it in disciplined and structured way is even more crucial. The Internet is filled with resources regarding software engineering, so try Googling for Personal Software Process if you’re a lone programmer of just Software Processes for team-oriented work. While you’re at it, I highly recommend Googling for Agile Software Process as well.

Side note: Engineering is important because faults in the hardware / real world is hard to fix, costly and most of the time - outright dangerous. But for some obscure reason, people see software engineering as optional. It is NOT.

After much waiting, I’ve decided to start my blogging from scratch. The recent server crash lost all of my data. Yes, all those posts are now only available in Google’s cache. No, I’m not going to try to restore my previous blog entries using that cache, it’ll take too much work. Look forward to the future rather than hanging on to the past is a better option.

I’ll practice a stricter backup regime after this.

Update: I’ve managed to find the more recent blog articles and re-post them.