Jun 15

Snakes and Camels?

I was intrigued by an email from a vendor that mentioned snakes and camel case for the field names from an API call. “What snakes and camels? Since when do animals come partying in our project?”, I wondered. These terms are quite rarely heard these days. Typically people deal with…

Coding

2 min read

May 29

Terra Luna Fallout — Retrospect & Takeaway

The Terra Luna fallout needs no introduction, especially since it had became global news and the impact was so great that it was the talk of the town amongst common folks who were totally clueless on cryptocurrencies. That had also painted a big red bullseyes for the regulators. It also…

Cryptocurrency

5 min read

Terra Luna Fallout — Retrospect & Takeaway

May 11

Business Central — CLEAR vs INIT function

What is the difference between CLEAR and INIT functions? Clear(Record) vs Record.Init() CLEAR function When used on a variable, i.e. Clear(SomeVariable), it simply clears the value that is stored to its default state. For example if it is a number variable, it will be set to 0 (zero), a date…

Business Central

1 min read

Apr 27

Coinhako — Minimum Earn Amount

Coinhako doesn’t seems to have a FAQ on the minimum amount of crypto that is needed for their Earn feature. Hence, I have consolidated a list here for easy reference. Hope it helps.

Cryptocurrency

1 min read

Coinhako — Minimum Earn Amount

Coinhako doesn’t seems to have a FAQ on the minimum amount of crypto that is needed for their Earn feature. Hence, I have consolidated a list here for easy reference. Hope it helps.

Apr 20

Coinhako — Doufu’s First Foray into Crypto-land

Coinhako was my first foray into the crypto rabbit hole, by some twist of fate as Crypto.com had been my first choice. …

Cryptocurrency

3 min read

Coinhako — Doufu’s First Foray into Crypto-land

Apr 7

Is this Web 3.0?

I was reading up on Web 3.0 few months ago and the search results were mostly blockchain technologies, decentralization and cryptocurrencies, especially Polkadot, due to its relationship with Web3 Foundation. Hidden beneath this huge pile of digital coins and tokens, there was a brief mention on distributed web via IPFS…

Web 3

6 min read

Mar 20

Is Gold a Bad Investment?

Commodities prices tends to go up, especially during war or disaster. Gold is no exception. Gold prices rose in response to the Ukraine War amidst inflation worries. This war is unprecedented in recent history and has far reaching implications for the world and our future. One should not underestimate and…

Gold

7 min read

Mar 10

Business Central — How to change primary key of a record

Typically when we want to update the contents of a record in BC, we would just use the modify function. For most cases, that would suffice, but what happens if the field you want to update is part of a composite primary key? Or when updating a record in which…

Business Central

2 min read

Feb 21

What will my occupation be if computer science never exists

What if computers never existed? What if the world we know today operates without computers, internet, smartphones and all those technology under IT industry? What will I be working as? What kind of job will I be having now? This is a question that I have thought from time to…

Thoughts

3 min read

Feb 9

Crypto Noob Doufu — Primitive Beginnings

Join Doufu in his noob journey into the cryptocurrency rabbit hole. Experience the excitement, the angst, the fear, the greed and most importantly, the lessons learnt. We start off with the usual disclaimer that I am not a financial advisor nor am I giving financial advice. I am just sharing…

Cryptocurrency

5 min read

Crypto Noob Doufu — Primitive Beginnings