Laravel is a PHP framework, which offers clean solution to build your website, especially data driven ones(i.e. not static pages, rather the content is retrieved from a back-end database like MySQL) . I’m not going to discuss much about Laravel’s terms, such as
New theme – Spacious
Just discovered this new WordPress theme, Spacious and this is the one I’ve been looking for a long time. It’s beautiful with a lot of features I like: Elegant design, layout and colors Header image(which can be put on header), Carousel(image
Microstrategy derived metrics
I’ve been using Microstrategy for more than a year by now, never used derived metric before until recently discovered the beauty of derived metric. Derived metric, a Microstrategy’s term, I’d rather call it report function. Basically it’s a function that
Microstrategy movingsum
Have been using Microstrategy 9 for a while, had a moving sum problem recently. The customer basically needs moving sum for the past 12 months for each state/branch. Of course the month is based on accounting period, i.e. 1 May
The new trend
There have been a lot of discussions/recommendations telco companies offer minute based billing instead of the current “$” capped plans. Unfortunately it’s never been offered, the reason is simple – they want to make plans appear attractive therefore keep profit
Further discussion about fleet plans
There are suggestions to further discuss fleet plans. Unfortunately there is not much information published on providers website so I can not do a plan-plan comparison like my previous post. What I will discuss below is based on plans offered by
Plans analysis
Further to my previous discussion, telco companies nowadays use increment and so-called cap plans to promote their margin. Regardless of what “included value” is, you should look at the rates carefully to avoid traps. Just for demonstration purpose, I analysed 4 low end
Data trick
Many telcos round up mobile sessions to the nearest megabyte instead of kilobyte, this is the same trick they played/play in voice. Below is an interesting article published on Sydney Morning Herald: Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/mobiles/vodafone-ceo-hits-out-at-rivals-data-rip-off-20130408-2hgoa.html#ixzz2PsVxNY27
Fleet plans
Fleet plans offer you the freedom of splitting usage across several numbers. Unfortunately this brings in a lot of complexity on billing and reconciliation. Make sure you fully understand “Terms and Conditions” before signing a contract. Also do a bill
How I built this site
Just briefly documenting how I built this site: After months of searching/comparing, I decided to use WordPress instead of building everything from scratch myself. Had some issues: Which theme to use; Difference between post and page; Why menu doesn’t work;