This is goa 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 [...]

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 running Linux.
I 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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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

Googled “data model repository”, couldn’t find anything resembles that i have in mind. Want to find whether there are catalogues of commonly used data models (ER diagrams), just like design pattern catalogue which describing common OO models.