Duc Ban’s blog | Standardizing your mind

At the beginning of my career, I am not a web designer who can use Photoshop to make web layouts. I came to Saigon to work as a PHP team leader of ASINVN 4 years ago. But now I cant do anything with PHP. Well, time can changes everything. The lesson that I learned from the beginning until now is PHP maybe is one of the best programming language to build the Web, but HTML is the structure of the Web. PHP can be replaced by Python, the young and wide programming language, but nothing can replace HTML. This is the reason why I am in love with HTML.
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My friend Uotmi will open her second exhibition about digital art on this Sartuday (Nov 29th, 2008). This event is the exhibition of digital paitings from Zidean Art’s digital artists, who want to praise the art of digital painting to people, has been successfully organized last year. The exhibition runs from Saturday Nov 29th 05:00 PM to Thursday Dec 4th at Van Art Gallery, 2B Chu Manh Trinh, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City.

You can come to participate in the inauguration of the exhibition on Sartuday Nov 29th 05:00 PM, enjoys the digital artworks and buy some if you love. The artists will be display with their artworks to answer all your question about its. This is a great change for to know what these talents thinking while they creating their arts. And, all are free.

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Just back home from my 2-month-wedding-anniversary. Tonight is really fun, I was sang a lot although my mouth have some pains. Thanks Nguyen and Khoa for sharing our sweetest moment at the Karaoke tonight. And thanks to my wife Anh Thu for always be on my side. I love you damn much, my sweetie.

Before our celebration, we have came to RMIT to join Barcamp Saigon, the first user-generated-content event in Vietnam. The event was great with so many interesting sessions. I met a guy who are an expert of Drupal, he’s rock. Mr Nghia, my friend and my co-worker, was presented about how to make magic with Python. And I really enjoyed the presentation about how to make a multi-touch surface with just 3 dollars.

The contents aren’t the only interesting part of Barcamp Saigon. Barcamp Saigon is a very 2.0 event, where people make contents and discuss about them. I also met some young and active boys and girls in Barcamp Saigon. They are so amazing. :). I have to say Barcamp Saigon is a very good organized event. The organizer know how to get things done, so impressed.

The good thing is I know what I have to do in my future plan. There are no time for a lazy guy like me to catch up the experts I met at Barcamp Saigon. I have to make a really plan, and do it, right after now.

A good day hah, I have some new friends and then have a good time with my closed friends. Hope Barcamp Saigon can be organize in next year, so that I can present in my own session. Time for bed, goodnight!

“To be King, everyone have to fight” - Ban, Nguyen Duc.

Web 2.0 Vietnam are Zero. Everyone can say that. I have my own thousand of reasons to tell you, and my network pals too. They don’t build from people needs. They don’t have any platform to rely on. They cannot make money by their services blah blah blah…

The point is we still need these services alive. What’s for? To keep hope alive. Web 2.0 is our hope, and if these services getting better, we will use them.
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“There are three kinds of Vietnamese Apple iStore. Suck, fucking suck and Future World.” - Ripped and edited by me.

Two months ago, I bought a Macbook Pro from Future World, one of Vietnamese Apple iStore. At this time, they don’t have any 4Gbs RAM Macbook Pro to sell. They was gave me an advice to buy a 2Gbs RAM Macbook Pro, and they will upgrade the RAM to 4Gbs whenever I need. The stupid me, who was stupid to believe these lies, was bought a 2Gbs RAM MacBook Pro and really happy with it.

Today, when I call to this iStore to talk to its manager that I need to upgrade my RAM to 4Gbs, he refused me. He explained that 4Gbs RAM’s cost is now too high for them to keep the deal. He said “I am sorry but you, the client, should be the one who suffer the damage, not me”.

Wow, what’s service! How can they do that? I means keep given promises and become some fucking liar? I cannot do that, and I cannot believe there are any human being can do that. Thanks Future World for teach me a lesson about Vietnamese after-sales services. What can I do now? All I can do is just write this blog to make an announcement for my friends. That’s all!