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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 ...
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 ...
Yesterday Google Book Search officially launched a set of free tools to allow anyone to embed books from the Google Book Search Index. And it also introduces Book Search API for greater integration to its search index and readers’ ratings, reviews and book collections.BookJetty is glad to be able to integrate with Google Book Search, ...
I saw this book when I was hanging out in library@orchard. It was displayed on top of a bookshelf. The colours of the book cover were so vibrant and eye-catching that it was hard to ignore; they justify the book title, Colour Management. Judging a book...
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 ...
permalink_fu has been great to create a Search Engine Optimized (SEO) friendly URL, but I was a bit irritated when the-permalink-is-getting-too-long-with-too-many-unecessary-keywords.From some of the SEO tips I read, it is advisable not too put too many keywords in the URL, so unecessary stop words such as ‘the, a, in, on, and the list goes on’, ...
I like Adium, but recently there were just too many spams from my MSN account, I tried finding the privacy settings under Preferences, only to find out later that it was not there. The secret is it’s under Adium menu (on top left screen) > Privacy Settings (Alt + Cmd + P). Choose your MSN ...
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 ...
There is a common proverb that says ‘Work hard, play hard’. I have been working hard, so I am gonna play hard also.
Taking a break from work this weekend, bringing my wife to Cameron Highland for a short break, go hiking and visit farms, get some fresh air, catch up a bit with my reading, and hopefully coming back recharged.
Afterall, we work to enjoy life, not …
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. ...
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 ...
(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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 …
Some time ago I wrote an article about CSS PNG Fix for IE by Rogie King, from Komodo Media, which is a great fix. But whether you realized it or not, there are some issues with the script if you monitor it closely, and some observant people have also notified me about it. The problem ...
Coming back from Cameron Highland, after a hectic month completing two projects, and meeting interesting people at E27, I realized that I started to like my job more and more. Not because I am doing a totally different stuff right now, but I think I am begining to know the difference between what I want and I what I need more clearly.
Last time, I did what I needed, I needed …
I had a wonderful meeting at E27 last week, it was interesting to get to know the other startup founders such as Uzyn and MingYou. And it is comforting to know that there is a common trait that we shared out of the four startups presenting that day, i.e. the three of us started alone.
Uzyn developed Ping.sg himself, still a student and freelancing between lessons. MingYou …
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