Posted by: hazlan
on Apr 30, 2008
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I stand now upon the crossroads between the paths of dreams and newly acquired ambition. It was a tough struggle, but I have made my choice and put it into words, a delivered letter and now into this poignant blog post.
I shall be leaving Azrul.com after today, bidding a fond farewell to the kind folks at AzrulStudio, leaving the "Talk To Us" and support tickets, the many interesting interludes and memorable moments. No more shall I be dotting "i's " and crossing "t's", at least not at AzrulStudio, as I moved onward and into my journalistic future.
Posted by: hazlan
on Apr 22, 2008
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While it has been a blast answering all the inquiries and issues from your support tickets. I have decided to take some time off this week to pursue my hidden passion, performing my poetry to a public audience! I have been writing poetry ever since I was in highschool, but mostly I am a closet poet-wannabee who hides his works in his back pocket, so to speak.
I have fallen in with some rowdy poetic types of late, folks from the "Poetry Underground" From the Malaysia Network on Facebook, and have been inducted into the ancient art of poetry performance. I have had my virgin entry into this art last Saturday at a "Readings @ Seksan" session with some local Malaysian authors and a visiting Kunal Basu of "The Minituarist" and "The Opium Clerk" fame at "Seksan's" a local art gallery. "Readings @ Seksan" is a monthly affair organized by local literary figure Sharon Bakar as a place for local and regional authors to gather, network and read from their literary masterpieces. I was nervous and only managed to put on a passable read of my "To Thee O! Sweet Angel", a poem about my first love. Though honestly, I and my poet friends were only called upon to perform to fill-in the time for some absent authors. But that is fine with me!
Spurred on by this, I have signed up for a poetry performance workshop to be conducted by Britain's Jacob Sam la Rose courtesy of British Council, Kuala Lumpur. I shall be attending the workshop on the 24th and the 26th. I have also registered to enter the KL"Go Green" Poetry SLAM, so named in honour of Earth Day. I shall be competing with other performance poets in a SLAM style poetry recital. It shall also be on the 26th, after my workshop. I would like to beg your forgiveness if I may be a bit late in replying to your tickets from during that time (24th - 26th April. Though as always, Mark and Azrul himself will be online and on duty.
Posted by: hazlan
on Apr 21, 2008
While we wind our way through the hustle and bustle of coding our components and the all important business of answering your support tickets, here at Azrul.com, we also aware of the bigger picture. The greater issues that engulfs us all, as one big family of humanity and our shared home, planet earth.
In order to observe and honour Earth Day, which is tomorrow, the 22 April of this year, Azrul.com will run its operations without lights and as paperless operation for the entire day. The lights at our office shall be turned off at the close of operations today and shall not be turned on again until the morning of 23 April. We shall also turn off our printers and put down our pens and pencils tomorrow and run without our usual scribblings and writings and printings.
A drop in the bucket I suppose and symbolic gestures at best. Though we do hope to slowly work towards helping to reduce the burdens upon mother earth and run our operations in a sustainable manner. Till then we solemnly observe Earth Day and pledge our support for our Earth, our future and our childrens's future.
Posted by: hazlan
on Mar 19, 2008
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With the tick tock of clocks and the setting of suns, it is now near the end of 2008's first quarter. Wow! How time does seem to fly, does it not? It is almost just like yesterday that we were releasing our components for 1.5 and it seemed like just but a few moments ago that I was welcoming this year of the rat. Now here we are, fully 1.5 compatible and in the midst of new tales, fresh adventures and latest tidings.
First off, Azrul Studio bids a fond farewell to Eddie Yanto a while back, our bona fide hard core code- cruncher . While his time here has been a blast, he has set his sights on other things and we bid him good luck in his new journey. Needless to say we will on the lookout for talented programmers to flesh out our dev team. Anyone interested can email me at hazlan@azrul.com. We also offer a sizeable bounty (RM2000) to anyone who can refer to us suitable candidates. We are looking for keyboard cowboys and code jockeys. With intimate knowledge of PHP, MySQL and Javascript. As always AJAX, JSON and PHP framework knowledge will be an advantage.
Posted by: hazlan
on Jan 16, 2008
Hello all, its me Hazlan the odd duck and ugly duckling at Azrul.com. The odd business developer living in a software developer's world, having joined the company in November of last year.
Well, its now January 2008 and everyone at Azrul.com is buzzing away as busy as a hive of worker bees working to usher in Azrul.com into another brand new year, with new resolutions, high hopes and great expectations.
Posted by: hazlan
on Nov 6, 2007
The atmosphere at Azrul Studio's offices is a mixture of may day and mayhem today as members of the coding team celebrated their success in achieving that holy grail of Joomla! component development, version
