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And Wake Up Where The Clouds Are Far

Posted by Hau Ngo on Jan 18, 2011 in Photography | 0 comments

I’ve been flying to Cincinnati for work, so most of my time is spent staring out the windows.

This capture was taken earlier this week with my iPhone4. Enjoy!

Original on Flickr

Leaving Yahoo Mail Plus

Posted by Hau Ngo on Jan 14, 2011 in Life Hacker, Personal | 7 comments

Admission: I have a love/hate relationship with Yahoo Mail Plus.

I’ve been using Yahoo Mail since 1996 and I signed up for the premium service known as Yahoo Mail Plus in 2004. The feature that won me over was their disposable email addresses that allows you to organize incoming email and fight spam.

Having a set of disposable email addresses in my pocket was like wearing an invisibility cloak online and the geek in me fell love!

7 years and 25,000 emails later, I quit.

Griffith Observatory (Los Angeles, CA)

Posted by Hau Ngo on Jan 13, 2011 in Photography | 0 comments

Last Saturday, Melissa and I visited L.A. to see friends and to have some all-you-can-eat Korean BBQ.

We had an hour to spare, so we decided to pay our first visit to the Griffith Observatory (after having seen it on Flickr under Most Interesting in Los Angeles).

Estimating Complexity for SAP Netweaver BW BI

Posted by Hau Ngo on Jan 11, 2011 in SAP Business Intelligence | 0 comments

In my line of work, the high-level requirements for most developments are fairly straight-forward.

“I need a report that shows my on-hand stock quantity.”
“I need to see all returns for a given batch at a specific plant.”

The known requirements are easy enough as they allow a developer to locate the source table and fields and extrapolate the required development needed to build custom data models and reports.

Unclear or unidentified requirements are another beast altogether. Fuzzy requirements and undefined expectations will double (if not triple) your timeline.

“Properly defining business requirements is among the most important contributors to successful IT programs and projects“, Michael Krigsman of IT Project Failures