Archive for the 'General' Category


Goodbye Google Reader

February 8th, 2007

I know Google Reader’s still in the Google Labs section but I’ve had enough trying it out for the past one week. What feed aggregator marks feeds with the time it retrieves them instead of fetching what’s in the Atom or RSS information?
I could handle that for a while but I guess enough becomes enough [...]

WritingInn

December 23rd, 2006

I’ve long had a dream of connecting with other writers on the web. Writing.com? Paid for. And I’m not too sure I like any of the others I’ve come across. It’s because of just this, that I decided to work on WritingInn.
The idea’s been kicking around in my head for a very long time, and [...]

Caught up

December 21st, 2006

I’ve been so caught up watching movies that I’ve hardly done any real coding in the past few weeks. I’ve been forced to stop waxing philosophical about anything geeky on my other blog, so this has been a long time waiting in the sidelines.
I’ve rewritten the db abstraction layer for Authware. It was never anything [...]

Is PHP Dead?

July 22nd, 2006

I’ve had some people try to pull me onto the RoR train in the past, saying it’s the hottest thing around. Others have pointed Flex as the way forward. I’m just not so sure about things anymore.
Trust me, I’ve worked with the .NET framework both in and out of the web context and the problems [...]

Logs, AuthWare

June 21st, 2006

I’m feeling very lazy these days — I haven’t touched AuthWare in quite a while because I’ve been trying to do my research on writing a plugin system. The consensus seems to be that it’s highly complex, so for now I’ll forget about plugins.
1 & 1 is driving me crazy. I don’t like the way [...]

Yahoo and Ajax

May 18th, 2006

Google popularized Ajax with GMail. Yahoo’s taken it over the top with their new homepage. It’s just as well that Yahoo moved over to Ajax because I know Microsoft was planning something along that line with Live.
If Ajax doesn’t turn out to be another fad, then bby 2008, most sites will be more like applications.
I [...]

Not Enough Time

May 18th, 2006

It seems I want to learn everything there is to know in this world — maybe it’s because I get my feeling of prestige from knowing a lot. I’ve always known I can’t know it all — yet, I keep trying.
I’ve always eyed hardware programming right from when I started out. Hardware has always fascinated [...]

Web.config

May 16th, 2006

IIS is a great server — writen especially for Windows, it functions exactly the way it’s meant to, ignoring the security breaches and high response time from the folks at Microsoft.
One thing that gets me annoyed about using PHP and IIs is the lack of support for url-rewriting. Except you’ve installed some third-party tool like [...]

So far

February 19th, 2006

Simplicity’s coming along well. Maybe I’m lazy but after writing all that Ajax code I felt I deserved a rest. I’m still doing some brain-storming on the form handling - for now I think Simplicity will be an in-house thing.
Thomas Breton of H-Inventory(http://h-inventory.com) wants me to build a template for them, and to maybe bring [...]