At last, it’s here Internet Explorer 7, it’s still in Beta 2. Will it comply to W3C standards esp with CSS???
Will testing it soon.
Update 01/05/06: Done some testing for some of our clients, none of the design is broken, so it’s all good so far.
The interface is quite minimalistic compared to standard browsers, takes time to get used to not having too much “control”, i’m pretty sure the control is still there, but I just haven’t got chance to explore more. For me the interface is not interesting at all, but the most important thing is how it renders pages. And so far as rendering is concern, it’s quite good, no complaint here.
Update 01/05/06: some Javascript stuffs don’t work..

This is go
a be mad, today we have decided to make an online game store for our subject COMP9322: E-Commerce Implementation.
Will finally have chance to use Webratio. From what I’ve seen during the demo, it’s quite crazy.. create the data model and site model and then on the click of a button it builds the whole site (and the database) for you.. talking about rapid prototyping..

Got up to chapter 5 of Macromedia Flash MX: Training From the Source, courtesy of Safari Books Online. It’s very hands on, I think when it gets to ActionScript, it would be far more interesting!
Currently doing the tutorial, making a flash movie for a zoo..

I’m using Mandriva 2006 and the max res that I can get on my Acer 4061 laptop is 1024×768 which apparently quite a common problem for laptops ru
ing Linux.n

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nI found a hack that will overcome this limitation: 915resolution. The README is quite straightforward, the program needs to be run under root, before X starts. n

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nThe trick is how to do this automatically everytime you boot. I choose to make a service that will be run when the system boots. I created a script called 915solution on /etc/rc.d/init.d directory. Below is the script:n

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n#!/bin/bash # 915solution this script will take care of # starting 915resolutio## chkconfig: 2345 11 90# description: 915solution# processname: 915solutio

prog="915solution"nstart(){       915resolution 38 1280 800}nstop(){        echo "well, why not try ps aux and kill instead?"}ncase $1 in        start)                start                ;;        stop)                stop                ;;        *)                915resolution -h                RETVAL=1esacexit $RETVAL

This is going to be different.. we just landed a deal to do an auction site with functionalities similar to ebay. Hmph, this quite difficult and complicated..

Yeah, well, everyone is doing it, so I might as well, notice on the left bar there is google ad section? Was thinking the effectiveness of Google AdSense for personal blogs..
I suppose if you blog relevant stuffs that people want to read like Scott’s Bargain Blog you can generate good traffics, traffics that are “actually” looking for something particular and that’s when the Google AdSense can give relevant ads to those searchers.
Ministry grounds would be an excellent blogsite to be “monetized”. Hmm, so a content specific blog would be ideal.

One step forward to a life with less cables. Got Microsoft wireless desktop M5000 today from Ebay. I think I got it for quite a good value $70. The keyboard looks very nice, the keys are very soft. The mouse buttons and scroller are also quite soft to push. It’s not necessarily a wanted feature as some people like the harder (and louder) keyboard and mouse.
The keyboard keys are arranged in somewhat curvy way, which will be particularly useful for touch typist. I found that I pressed less wrong keys with this keyboard so far and I am not even a touch typist. It’s got lots of buttons that can customised, I don’t think that i will use them that much. My main reason for getting them is one reason only, wireless.
Now I haven’t tried playing games that require intensive keyboard and mouse input like Counter Strike and Warcraft, but so far I am quite enjoying this keyboard for normal typingm oh and have I mentioned that they are wireles??

In some job interviews, ppl have asked me, whether I got experience with ASP.NET or ASP?nI usually said, not really, but I have experience with PHP and from what nI know ASP is very similar to PHP, they only have different syntax.
Wrong wrong wrong!
ASP and ASP.NET are not programming languages, it’s more like framework.nTo build ASP you can use C# or VB. ASP.NET is event driven which isntotally different to PHP (err du
o what is the term for it, sequentialnexecution???). Although apparently there are some PHP frameworksnthat implement event driven.
I guess it will be quite a challenge for me to learn ASP.NET… Not only that, working with commercial technology (M$) will be different with open source tech as well.

Techmate wants us to change the database desgin to allow a product assigned to multiple categories. This kind of “small change” like this, is actually a lot of work, coz it will change the underlying design. For the customer point of view it will be just a minor change, but for us it’s quite a work to do, as we need to change the database, change the site logic both front and back, and finally we need to import their existing data to this new configuration and finger cross that eveything is ok in the end.
well, at least now i’ve got something to do.

Participating in CSS Naked Day and now having seen how ugly my site rendered without css, shows my carelesness in not cleanly seperating style from html.