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November and December, so far, has been a bit off my normal programming: a quick trip back to Malaysia and a small side trip to Singapore, part-timing in Exoweb, getting kicked out of my apartment (many thanks for Exoweb in allowing me to live in the office apartment temporarily) and hacking in cafes with free-wifi.

I haven't been blogging much due to my self-imposed time constraints, more along the lines of I am busy, but with what I wonder, or possibly laziness. However, I've been reading a bit more, mostly tech stuff, from my already overflowing feeds. Its nice to have the mark all as read in google reader, to make myself feel better at times.

Actually I am not sure what to write these days. Everything is happening so fast I don't have time to think and reflect. Just going with the flow without much braking, hopefully in the right direction.

Its the end of the year again, time to reflect I suppose and think about what has happened in this whole year. Its been quite a hectic ride this year. Bouncing around quite a bit and doing a lot of stuff that I never did before. Hope I can write it up in a more detailed blog later.

I mainly blog for myself. Because it helps me remember. It helps me to stop a bit and think a bit more. Hopefully learn something from this. If it ever helps someone, I would be so happy.

The one and a half week trip back to Malaysia was a quick learning trip about the malaysian VC world. There is only so much you can read about. Its so much clearer when you can see it and feel it happening. I wish I did what Paul Graham preached during my college/university days.

There is so much I want to do for the work in Exoweb, but we're constrained by our natural limits. I always wished for 48 hour days, but I wonder if that ever comes true if it will change anything. Maybe I'll just waste more time in the end. I suppose the closest thing we have on that is the polyphasic sleep but I don't think I would ever do that though.

While learning and using agile practices and writing code in Exoweb, I have always thought about writing a tool or system to make project management and software development slightly simpler so that we can concentrate on the task at hand but I never found a good answer or never got to it. Here are some of the things that bug me in some way or the other:

• Inoffensive time tracking
• Easier tracking and management of tasks, from requirements and design to it being live in production systems
• More accurate estimation of tasks
• Simpler deployment, like one-click deployment
• Less time in administration, automate like crazy when useful, but more time in management instead
• More effective coaching, documentation and communication of project goals

What bugs you? Or maybe you've found a slightly better way to deal with the following issues? It would be good if we can discuss more about them.

I think my blogging time is up for now, I don't really know what else to write. Maybe I'll have more ideas later.

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