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I got a mail last night, a short email from a close friend of mine in Indonesia. She started her line with, “[name]’s mum has just passed away. …”, and cloes it with two lines of Buddhist chants, which I did not understand; but I know they are usually said after someone has just passed away. She said the same chants when her mum passed away some years …
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 …
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 …
This morning, I found out that NLB online catalogue (Vistaweb) has enhanced its site to limit the number of connections per IP address or you can also say per PC if have no idea what IP address is.
Basically, if you are creating more than 5 sessions from the same IP, you will get this message below, and you are asked to reuse your last session. Note that a new session is …
I do not usually design logos, other than for my own business or application logos. Having been busy coding for the last couple of weeks, my brain yearns to do something creative. So I took a break yesterday and design a new logo forIndonesian Professionals Association (IPA), a pro-bono work that I have promised them some time ago.These are the two drafts that I’ve come …
I’m glad to announce BookJetty first books giveway, thanks to Hachette Book Group USA, 10 best selling books offered for free! For 5 lucky BookJetty users.To be entitled you just need to write one book review in the month of September, and winners will be picked up randomly, surely the more reviews you write, ...
This morning, I found out that NLB online catalogue (Vistaweb) has enhanced its site to limit the number of connections per IP address or you can also say per PC if have no idea what IP address is.
Basically, if you create more than 5 sessions from the same IP, you will get this message below, and you are asked to reuse your last session. Note that a new session is created …
Initiating AJAX requests can be addicitive; you started with independent requests, and soon you will initiate chained requests. Executing chained requests is easy, but how do you pass common variables across these requests.
There are three ways that I have used, depending on your AJAX response type, sample codes shown using Prototype javascript library, but may be applicable …
TV shows have been amazingly good these days, with shows like Boston Legal, Project Runway and Prison Break, I was wondering who needs go to cinema nowadays.
I have been a fans of Project Runway from its first season, and the third season has just started last night. What I like about Project Runway is, it shows a very humane side of fashion industry, which I think very …
If you are using Amazon Web Services or Product Advertising API, Amazon probably had been bugging you to sign your requests by August 15.If you have not, by now all your requests should have failed. For those of us who are using amazon-ecs, fear not that the latest version amazon-ecs-0.5.6 is now able to sign ...
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 …
The plan for the new BookJetty was to bring social elements to BookJetty and to build a platform for more book-related applications to be implemented in the future.It was a daunting task from the beginning, considering there were so many things to do with very limited resources. The bad news also the existing codebase did ...
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 …
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 …
I was just back from my hometown a couple of days ago, and in the midst of catching up with a project dateline after the no-working mood celebrating Chinese New Year in Indonesia, I was fortunate enough to be interviewed by Bernard Leong, from SG Entrepreneurs.For the rest of the interview please click here. And thanks to SG Entrepreneurs.
Now we can talk and share information in BookJetty. Introducing two new features, i.e. the Shoutboxes and Send Message.Shoutbox I wanted an easy way where we all can talk and chat about a book. I thought about the ‘Comment’ feature, but I find it a bit too stiff, and it can get too long in a page. So shoutbox pops up immediately. It feels more relax to shout and …
It was about a year ago when I read a similar article by SYS-CON about the predictions in Internet technology in 2006. That was the time when I read about the prospect of Rails, AJAX, and Web 2.0. That aricle intriqued my curiousity. Looking back, a year has passed, I was glad that I’m jumped ship, and learned more about Rails and AJAX and Javascripts.This year’s …
After a week of coding, I joined a photo marathon organised by Cannon yesterday.
There were four themes given out throughout the day, 3 hours interval: 2 hours for shooting, an hour for uploading files and resting at the same time.
The image on left was my attempt on the first theme “Faces”, thought it will be shortlisted, but it was not. Second theme was …
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 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 …
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