Antony’s Life Blog

I am currently doing major upgrade on AntonyPranata.com. You will find experience of my web site and blogs in the next couple of days. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Here is the summary of the upgrades that I am currently doing:

• Move my web hosting to a better company, which provides more space, more bandwidth and better spam filtering.
• Move all the static contents to CMS. I’ll be using Joomla as the engine.
• For the blog engine, I’ll still be using WordPress. However, I would need to change the theme because of the second change above.

(Picture is courtesy of CarbonNYC @ Flickr.)

ADC-Soft is my own company that sells puzzle games. It is one-man company. I do everything from development, marketing to customer service. One of the most popular games is B-Jigsaw that allows you to create jigsaw puzzles from your own pictures.

It was started as a hobby project. I love programming so much. During Web 1.0 booming, I started to create a web site, called Antony’s Download Center (ADC), where people can download my applications. It is where the name ADC-Soft came from. My first web site was hosted on Geocities.com. For those who don’t know, Geocities.com was one of the first free Web hosting services. Later on, they are acquired by Yahoo!

My first web site was alive on my 23rd birthday, which is September 19, 1998. Since then, I have been selling thousand of puzzle games. I signed a contract with a Japanese company to translate and redistribute one of my games too. One thing that I can be proud of, I was able to pursue M.Sc. degree in Germany with the money from my own business.

After being around for almost 9 years, I decided to kill ADC-Soft. It’s a bad news, indeed. Unfortunately, I have to do it. I have limited time to do further development and support. What’s next? I am planning to start another business in the mobile industry. The plan is to have everything ready on my 32nd birthday this year.

Wish me luck….

I will be away for a couple of weeks. I will have full access to Internet in the next two weeks. However after that, I will have very limited access to email since I will be on a vacation in Europe (honey moon, to be exact).

My posting will be very sporadic in the next 2 weeks. After that, you can expect no posting at all.

See you in June…