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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 [...]

Kubuntu

January 7th, 2007

Okay, I’ve had it.
This is the second time I’m installing Kubuntu on my system. As soon as I update via Adept and restart, I find I can’t log in. It authenticates me successfully but brings me back to the login screen.
What’s worse, it eliminated the bootloader on my first [Windows XP] hard disk and [...]

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 [...]

Bonding

December 22nd, 2006

Are Apple and Microsoft beginning to bond? Or are these ads serving to poke fun at Microsoft?

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 [...]

Hello world!

December 20th, 2006

At last, I shall be free to rant in peace. I’ll hopefully be moving most of my code section over here.
The old links to my page content will still work. I set up 301 redirects to the new content.

Status

December 3rd, 2006

I tried installing Slackware today. I was too lazy to look up the parameters for fdisk and cfdisk, so I got out my Fedora DVD and wiped my second hard disk clean (there’s a Fedora install on it but my Windows Vista RC1 installation erased GRUB and installed its own tacky boot loader).
Dumb me! I [...]

Working

October 22nd, 2006

I’ve already mocked up a design for Authware and tweaked the database layer — I was able to communicate successfully with PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQL Server. Hopefully, any other developer interested should be able to write a layer for mySQLite or some other obscure database. I used PHP 5’s Interface feature — the classes only [...]

Designers vs. Developers

October 8th, 2006

I’m in charge of overhauling a site (http://www.i55.org) and moving it to Joomla. Here’s the test site [before it goes live].
I’ve been slaving away at this site for quite a while, rewriting components to fit the design I was given as much as possible. I proffer my work to the client, and he’s quite satisfied [...]

Changing Compilers

September 16th, 2006

I updated my archaic DevC++ installation today — and holy of holies, I couldn’t compile something I was working on. I decided to try out a “Hello World” program, but I still couldn’t compile. I was beginning to think the problem was from several installations I made recently so I uninstalled them — the errors [...]