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The following list are some things I am doing to become a better developer:

1. Find/Rediscover Your Passion
I’ve always believed that to be a great developer you have to have the passion. What is passion? You know, it’s that itch you get as you sit on the couch with your wife (or your husband) watching crappy reality TV and you can’t break your thoughts away from sneaking off to write some code. It’s that desire you feel to know all there is to know about your language, the framework, emerging new technologies, etc – just because it is fun to know it. It’s that code that is always in your head, just dying to get out. You’re not content with put in 8 hours a day writing code, you just have to find that extra time to do it just because you enjoy it. So, how do you rediscover that (or find it if you’ve never had it?). I think the rest of this list will help with that.

2. Remove Distractions
There’s always things to get in your way of improving yourself and staying focused on your goals. If you work at your home, like me, turn off the TV, shut the office door, establish a “work mode” that separates itself from “home mode”. I find it helps to turn off notification sound from Yahoo Messenger or whatever messenger do you use as well as other distracting notifications. I found that my eyes would automatically shift to the bottom right corner of my monitor every time that “ping” sound would occur. I think part of “removing distractions” involved establishing routine to some degree.

3. Blog
I’ve taken the first step here with reviving my fathir.com blog. My belief is that, while you can learn a lot from reading from other blogs, you’ll learn 10x that by writing posts yourself. The process of thinking through a topic enough to write about it is far more valuable than just reading about that same topic. Any time you can “teach” others, you’ll end up growing as a developer by leaps and bounds. This has been my experience throughout my entire career, and I do love teaching others.

4. Learn a New Technology Each Month
For me, this is something that without questions comes out when i see something. The problem is that there are just so many things I want to really learn well and I need some focus or I won’t learn enough of any of them.

5. Read and Write
the best thing you can do to be a better programmer is read. Not reading books, but reading other people’s code. I’ll take that one a step further. Not only does reading other people’s code help you become a better programmer, but getting involved in writing the code as well will take you even further.

Well, there you go. My thoughts on ways to improve myself as a developer. Wish me luck and hope you’ll find this helpful.

Current phase of alert in the WHO global influenza preparedness plan

Pandemic preparedness

In the 2009 revision of the phase descriptions, WHO has retained the use of a six-phased approach for easy incorporation of new recommendations and approaches into existing national preparedness and response plans. The grouping and description of pandemic phases have been revised to make them easier to understand, more precise, and based upon observable phenomena. Phases 1–3 correlate with preparedness, including capacity development and response planning activities, while Phases 4–6 clearly signal the need for response and mitigation efforts. Furthermore, periods after the first pandemic wave are elaborated to facilitate post pandemic recovery activities.

The current WHO phase of pandemic alert is 5.

In nature, influenza viruses circulate continuously among animals, especially birds. Even though such viruses might theoretically develop into pandemic viruses, in Phase 1 no viruses circulating among animals have been reported to cause infections in humans.

In Phase 2 an animal influenza virus circulating among domesticated or wild animals is known to have caused infection in humans, and is therefore considered a potential pandemic threat.

In Phase 3, an animal or human-animal influenza reassortant virus has caused sporadic cases or small clusters of disease in people, but has not resulted in human-to-human transmission sufficient to sustain community-level outbreaks. Limited human-to-human transmission may occur under some circumstances, for example, when there is close contact between an infected person and an unprotected caregiver. However, limited transmission under such restricted circumstances does not indicate that the virus has gained the level of transmissibility among humans necessary to cause a pandemic.

Phase 4 is characterized by verified human-to-human transmission of an animal or human-animal influenza reassortant virus able to cause “community-level outbreaks.” The ability to cause sustained disease outbreaks in a community marks a significant upwards shift in the risk for a pandemic. Any country that suspects or has verified such an event should urgently consult with WHO so that the situation can be jointly assessed and a decision made by the affected country if implementation of a rapid pandemic containment operation is warranted. Phase 4 indicates a significant increase in risk of a pandemic but does not necessarily mean that a pandemic is a forgone conclusion.

Phase 5 is characterized by human-to-human spread of the virus into at least two countries in one WHO region. While most countries will not be affected at this stage, the declaration of Phase 5 is a strong signal that a pandemic is imminent and that the time to finalize the organization, communication, and implementation of the planned mitigation measures is short.

Phase 6, the pandemic phase, is characterized by community level outbreaks in at least one other country in a different WHO region in addition to the criteria defined in Phase 5. Designation of this phase will indicate that a global pandemic is under way.

During the post-peak period, pandemic disease levels in most countries with adequate surveillance will have dropped below peak observed levels. The post-peak period signifies that pandemic activity appears to be decreasing; however, it is uncertain if additional waves will occur and countries will need to be prepared for a second wave.

Previous pandemics have been characterized by waves of activity spread over months. Once the level of disease activity drops, a critical communications task will be to balance this information with the possibility of another wave. Pandemic waves can be separated by months and an immediate “at-ease” signal may be premature.

In the post-pandemic period, influenza disease activity will have returned to levels normally seen for seasonal influenza. It is expected that the pandemic virus will behave as a seasonal influenza A virus. At this stage, it is important to maintain surveillance and update pandemic preparedness and response plans accordingly. An intensive phase of recovery and evaluation may be required.

source : http://www.who.int/csr/disease/avian_influenza/phase/en/index.html

Use of Google

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One day I take a taxi and go to the Airport. We go on the correct path when suddenly a black car jumped out of the parking lot right in front of us. Taxi drivers in the tread-brake pedal in the car and stops only a few centimeter from the car.

The black car driver is out of his head & began to scream out in our direction. Taxi drivers only smile & wave at the people. I really wonder to know why he do that. So I ask, “Why are you doing? He almost damage your car and can send us to the hospital!” When I learned that from taxi drivers about what I then called “Garbage Trucks Law.”

He explains that many people like garbage trucks. They walk around carrying waste, such as frustration, anger, frustration. Along with the full capacity, the more they need a place to remove them, and they often throw them away to you. Do not take heart, just smile, wave your hand, bless them, and continue living.
Do not take their garbage back to them to other people that you meet, in the workplace, in home or in travel. Basically, people who succeed are people who do not leave the “garbage truck” took over the day-to-day with their destructive mood.

Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regret, then:
Love people who treat you correctly, do not pray for that.
Life is about 10% what you make with it and 90% about how to face you.
Life is not about waiting for storms pass, but about learning how to dance in the rain.

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Do not ignore if you are excessively sleepy.

If you feel excessively sleepy, which comes repeatedly, especially when accompanied halusinasi, then you may be exposed to symptoms of “narcolepsy”. There are still many people in Indonesia who ignore family members, if a condition like this. Narcolepsy is not death, but can reduce the quality of life.

What is narcolepsy?

Narcolepsy is a neurological condition most characteristized by Excessive Daytime Sleepiness (EDS). A narcoleptic will most likely experience disturbed nocturnal sleep, which is often confused with insomnia, and disorder of REM or rapid eye movement sleep. It is one of the dyssomnias. A narcoleptic may also sleep at any random time.

“One of the 2000 Indonesia narkolepsi suffering, and most of them caused by the descent,” said Effy Afifah, S. Kep. M. Kes cited by Gloria Daniela Pasaribu, the magazine of the Student Voice UI. The small number is due to the many people who do not realize that the sleep disturbances they experience is narcolepsy.

How do the symptoms?

Characteristic of narcolepsy is excessive nod, even though sleep has enough time on the night. One of narcolepsy can fall asleep suddenly, anywhere at any time and the time.

In everyday language, narcolepsy can be said as a sudden attack of sleep, regardless of the place. Difficult to keep people with drowsiness, even when doing activities. Therefore, people with narcolepsy often labeled faineant, carpenters and sleep, as always nod and understaffed.

Narcolepsy is not dangerous to sufferer’s health, but can be dangerous to themselves or others. Imagine, if you fall asleep while cooking, or doze at the wheel is in the condition.

Unfortunately at this time until the drug is only to reduce the symptoms and not cure.

What if you have any family that suffers narcolepsy?

Needed all the support the family, also friends near them to support. Close friend can help patients, who often fell asleep is not in the right place, for example, is awaiting study. If this is left, then people will be behind the subjects, because they often have a dream to follow lectures, and falling asleep at the bench outside the lecture hall. If people can come in the place of study is right, even though falling asleep while studying, then the patient can still take lessons, although not as effective as his friends are normal. However, at a certain time, people can be like normal people, learning to hold a night job.

People can support the family, ask the course schedule, scheduled tasks and events every day, making it easier for monitoring, and reminding people to help build up if it’s time to leave for college. Support teachers, lecturers, to understand the patient is very important, so that patients can perform activities as college student to normal.

Is people with narcolepsy can live normal?

The answer is “yes.” Around me, at the time of course, in the family environment, I know some people with narcolepsy. When I was a student, this term has not been accustomed. I have close friends, that every hour lecture always asleep.

So, at the time of the teaching faculty who are very disciplined (or vicious), earlier Sahabatku always sit diapit friends close … that works for each time pinch hands if he has shown symptoms of slumber. How can be hand turn completed study. If he is good lecturers often melorot directly from the seat, and sleep under the benches course, be covered by a friend sitting right on the left that is not seen by the lecturer. He is suffering, and complain at the time his father, his father also said that if not more busy in the office often sleepy.

Practical, every day my friend borrow lecture notes from friends, because if forced to write, the contents of lecture notes can be funny-funny. Where is he now? After a degree and work, he was married … and now have a master degree, and became an officer in the Department of terrace. When met, I ask … “if love is still sleepy?” He said, that after the birth of children, the drowse be reduced.

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