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My first encounter with Singapore National Stadium was about 4 years ago. I was there to visit the stadium’s gym, I heard it was cheap and good, $2.50 per entry. I had given up signing for gym membership, as I always ended up donating my membership fees after the third month.I had heard a lot about the stadium, read it on paper, seen it on TV, and I never missed …
We have just had our monthly Ruby Brigade meeting last night, and I shared for about how to create an easily customisable widget with Rails.A simple framework that I used when creating BookJetty widget. Web widget has been like bread and butter for web 2.0 sites, it’s an amazing tool that will help to spread the word for your site, and with a good implementation will …
I bumped into this site this morning, faceyourpockets.com, basically it asks you to empty your pockets, arrange your stuff on a scanner, and lastly place your face and scan it. I thought it’s silly, but when I look at the scans from the others, I was really impressed by the creativity shown, now I think it’s fun and artistic too.So I took a break just now, empty …
BookJetty now supports four different types of listing, i.e. library list, default list, cover list, and simple list. I have also redesigned the display of the book attributes, less important attributes like ISBN is now moved to the tooltip area, while pricing information has also been removed from the listing area, since they are not referred often. The labels have also been …
There were moments in life when it feels so happy, serene, and beautiful.This is probably one of those moments, snapped at Yeow’s wedding, June 9th, Kuala Lumpur.
Remember how do you usually find a book from the library book shelves? You write its call number on a small piece of paper, you slip it down in your pocket, sometimes in your wallet. When you are in the library, you search your left pocket, right pocket, take out your wallet, go through each of your wallet compartments, and !*#@$#$%, you left it on the table.From today …
I am not sure how many of us are into blog-adding spree, when you are starting, it’s kind of fun, but after a few weeks, it’s kind of scary, as the list of blogs gets longer, and it’s heart-throbbing to look at hundreds of new posts showing up each day at your blog reader.I ended up with creating a new must-read category and choosing best-of-best blogs I …
Image rollover is the classic effect that we all have been playing for ages when designing a website. And we use it often to rollover image tabs or menus.It started with the traditional lengthy Javascript codes that preload the rollover images, and and setting the onmouseout and onmouseover events for each of the link involved. <script text="type/javascript"> // …
A few months ago, when I migrated BookJetty from Java to Ruby On Rails (RoR) platform, one obstacle I faced was I could not find any object pooling library that checks for idle objects on a fixed interval, and evicts invalid and expired objects in the pool. While in Java I used Apache Commons Pool, in ruby, I was scratching my head back then.But, the beauty of ruby and rails …
Time flies, the last time I worked on BookJetty, it was in February, three months has passed, and I’m glad that I finally am able to work on it again. The recent features added are meant to make BookJetty more blogger friendly. We all love to show some books on our blog, be it the recommended list, currently reading list, wanted list and etc. So the first feature the …
Following up my work for Indonesian Professional Association (IPA) new identity design; after the initial designs, we finally conclude the new logo for the association.The budding leaves represents how we as a community of Indonesian professionals in Singapore can help to support each other and to grow together. Red for one of the leaves represents our national colour, the …
Pricing is always a very sensitive issue, pricing it too much you lose a deal, pricing it too low you make a lost. But what is the right price? And how should you charge, per project, hourly or per retainer basis? These are the hard questions that we all have to deal each day, be you the vendor or the customer. Brian Ling from Blue Flavor, has written a great article about …
We are meeting up again, this time we manage to get to a proper room with Wi-Fi connection at Central Lending Library. Thanks to Doug for organising this meetup, and to Ivan Chew, from Singapore National Library Board (NLB) for facilitating the use of this room.It is the first time we are having presentions, and two of our top brigades are presenting, here is the …
Some photos taken about a month ago at lower seletar reservoir. I was there with Roy, it was our virgin visit to the reservoir. Roy said, “Don’t feel ashamed, you usually won’t come here unless your school teacher organised the trip”. So, I assumed it was not my fault then.It was a quiet and serene place when we were there, the dragon boat competition …
Today, I have just completed my second Ruby On Rails project, after BookJetty, it was a proposal submission, review and project collaboration system, which behaves very much like Basecamp, focussing on simplicity and interface design user-friendliness.We thought of doing something different initially, a more conservative approach, but since I was using Basecamp to monitor the …
I was at 43Things.com, it is a weird social networking website that allows you to list down your goals and meet people with the same goals. As I am writing this, 43Things has the population of 943,117 people in 12,075 cities with 918,625 goals. What is interesting, it allows you to tag your goals, and don’t you curious what the popular tags would be, well, I was.So I …
I love Ajax.InPlaceEditor, cause it allows me quickly edit a field by just clicking on the text value. If you have used Flickr, I am pretty sure you know what I meant.It is easy to create an an in-place-editor if you are using Ruby On Rails (RoR). # Controller class BlogController < ApplicationController in_place_edit_for :post, :title end # View <%= …
I was looking through some of the old photos that I have and I found this sunset photo I took in Bako National Park, Malaysia. Nowadays, we hardly can find a quiet beach, and I was lucky that day; after setting up my camera on a tripod, I saw two people taking a stroll on the beach, and I quickly pressed the remote release and took this beautiful snap. The two people walking …
There has been a lot of buzz about un-conferences lately with the events organised by Barcamp and Enterpreneur 27. But for this month, the event gets slightly bigger, it’s back to a conference style, called Nexus 2007, organised by Digital Movement. If you have heard of Barcamp and Entrepreneur 27, you probably should have heard about Digital Movement, if you are not, …
It is easy for people to bullshit about their product or service, in fact it is so easy now that you can automate the process. Leslie Lee did just that, he has written a JavaScript that randomly combines commonly used verbs, adjectives and nouns people use to bullshit. I bumped into his site again yesterday; I have tried his bullshit generator before, yet I could not resist …
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