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Since Prof. Schubert Foo mentioned about BookJetty in VALA conference, there have been quite a number of requests from BookJetty users and librarians to link up their libraries with BookJetty.And BookJetty welcomes the 10 most recent libraries that BookJetty links up with:AustraliaCity of Boroondara Library Corangamite Regional Library
The VALA Conference is the Australian forum where the use of technology in libraries is discussed. Held twice a year, this year’s conference is the 14th Biennial Conference, and it continues to draw participations from librarians worldwide.The 2008 conference was just over, held from Feb 5-7, 2008, at Melbourne Convention Centre, featuring keynote speakers, Prof. ...
I know this is an old problem, but I was still not satisfied with the current way of testing flash.now messages. If you have been a test addict, I’m sure that you will bump into the problem of testing flash.now message in your controller.We usually use flash.now to display a message for an immediately rendered ...
You know that it’s funny that I read the same article about a year ago forwarded by a friend. He said, “Herry, check out some of the young entrepreneurs in the region”. I remembered how I was feeling proud, yet couldn’t stop to be envy for them to have started out at such a young ...
If you are a web designer, you know that PNG image rocks for its fine transparency support. But lacking of support on IE6 and below probably has gotten into your nerve at some point of your life.The quest to solve PNG image fix has started long time ago, but it all voice back to the ...
I have a granny who never saw many of her grandchildren growing up. She and grandpa fled from China on a boat probably in the late 1930s. She said they were still a kid, and they were running away from war.They landed on a small village on the south east-coast of Sumatra. They got married ...
BookJetty is preparing itself to support the social elements so you can follow your friends’ or strangers’ bookshelves, and start a discussion thread.Did a face lift, opting for a simpler homepage, adding friends ala Twitter, with simple news feed to keep you updated of what’s new. This is probably the biggest change ever at one ...
The Digital Movement guys are back in action with PopOut 07. Thanks to them for inviting me to share about BookJetty, and I also look forward to learn from the sharing of other startups which have already made the cut, like Bezurk.com, Recruit.net and the others.It’s a short meet-up, two and a half hours, this ...
(continued from previous post)I reached School of Information System at about 10:35am, registration starts at 10:30am, briefing at 11::00am and competition starts at 12:00pm. I was early, but yet so many people were already there, eager and ready to get started. I found a corner, sat on the floor, shortly after three familiar faces walked ...
It has been a while since the last time I took a break from work trekking in Cameron Highland.Last week, after attending a friend’s wedding in KL, I took another break, I thought it is about time, living in old estate in Ang Mo Kio, every now and then I was reminded that life is ...
When I built BookJetty, I knew that I am not going to stop at just one library, our good home library, Singapore National Library Board. I dreamt for BookJetty to integrate with a lot more libraries worldwide, and to benefit more book lovers around the world.Three weeks ago, I started the quest to fulfill that ...
Yes you get it right, it is a web service and it is with Singapore National Library Board (NLB), and it has been successfully integrated nicely with BookJetty for slightly over a week in stealth mode, and today after it is more or less stable, I can finally announce it. This is probably one of ...
I have to ashamely say that I read this at Kinokuniya book store, after a failed attempt to look for a sketch book this afternoon.If you look at the cover, the part where the stick man sta …
BookJetty is slowly coming into pieces, last night, I applied the ‘Add to Favorites’ feature replace it the ‘loveit’ tag.Now we have an addition nice little looking flower pattern favourite icon on your book list. Following it’s cousin the AJAX-based star rating system, adding to favouries is a breeze, by just clicking on the icon ...
I was playing with SOAP4R again lately, as I needed to connect to a web service, and the experience had been smooth, from the code generation using wsdl2ruby up to the part when I tried to connect to the service; my SOAP request could not be translated by the server, because SOAP4R will automatically append ...
Apple Worlwide Developers Conference 2007 has passed for almost two months by now, and all the huzz and buzz of iPhone has started to calm down.But, time-travelling to about a month ago, the day when I met Joe Goh, one of the very few Mac developers we have in Singapore. It was over a-cup-of-coffee talk, ...
My last Rails project, I implemented a full text search using acts_as_ferret (AAF). For production environment, you have to use AAF DrbServer for centralised access to the index files, or you probably will scratch your head, bumping into an error message similar to this, due to concurrent manipulation of Ferret index files:File Not Found Error ...
I have long yearned for BookJetty to support rating and review features, and finally last night, after days of late-night sleeps, I finally got them out, and here are some highlights of BookJetty new features:AJAX-Based 5-star ratingI was considering between digg-style rating, 4-star rating and 5-star rating. But after weighing the pros and cons; for ...
Two days ago, I was tagged by Design Sojourn with a meme, because he would like to dig out some my dark secrets I have in my life. And here you are eight things you probably don’t know about me:For once, when I was in high school, I thought I was going to die, I ...
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