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Problem with Mobile Exchange Server Sync with google apps?
May 25th
Since google changed their service agreement on google apps. I noticed the mobile exchange sync on my iPhone is no longer working. At first, i thought the google mail service is down, and it wasn’t fixed for few hours. Therefore, I tried to see if the service agreement change affected More >
Skype Heartbeat
Feb 15th
We rely on the web services more and more these days. There is no system which is 100% uptime since we are not living in Utopia. Therefore, have a service status report to the users is crucial. Skype has this interesting concept of using “heartbeat” as their status report. It’s More >
Need a landing page?
Feb 14th
Since my thesis will be a revolution tool for people organize their online life, a landing page is needed to give people the general idea about my project. Hopefully, they will be interested and use the website.
I did some research on the landing pages from the websites/application i liked (used) More >
Any Crash is probably Flash
Jan 17th
I worked for a Flash based Interactive Design company before, but I still have to admit most of the users got ABUSED by misuse Flash everyday. Oh well, for mac users, the day has ended. Say Hello to ClickToFlash.
Basically it’s replaced all the Flash with an default icon. So More >
Finally Flash external resource is indexed by google
Dec 7th
Source: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/06/flash-indexing-with-external-resource.html Google just added external resource loading to our Flash indexing capabilities. This means that when a SWF file loads content from some other file—whether it’s text, HTML, XML, another SWF, etc.—Google can index this external content too, and associate it with the parent SWF file and any documents that embed More >
LinkedIn API is available
Dec 4th
LinkedIn today announced that they will be opening up their API to developers. A key can be easily obtained by going to http://developer.linkedin.com/
I crave the clarity of many new data visualizers mashed up with the LinkedIn API and OpenAmplify’s Natural Language Processing capabilities via our API.
Source: http://community.openamplify.com/blogs/ampthis/archive/2009/11/23/linkedin-opens-api.aspx
More >Test if MySQL table exists with PHP
Nov 26th
I was building up the prototype of my thesis, and wondered how to test if a table exists in database. so I googled.
[php] function table_exists ( $table , $db ) { $tables = mysql<em>list</em>tables ( $db ); while ( list ( $temp ) = mysql<em>fetch</em>array ( $tables )) { if More >
ActionScript Getters and Setters
May 6th
http://fupeg.blogspot.com/2007/11/actionscript-getters-and-setters.html
It’s always nice when a programming language surprises you in a pleasant way. ActionScript 3 has get/set property syntax, very similar to C#:
public class Person implements IPerson { private var m_name:String;
public function get name():String { return m_name; }
public function set name(value:String):void { m_name = value; } }
What was an even More >
AS3 TextField buttonMode or useHandCursor?
Apr 28th
I was trying to find the answer of using TextField as button.
and here is the answer i found from google.
======== from http://www.adenforshaw.co.uk/?p=168 ========
Unfortunatly, no method exits on the TextField class in AS3 as it does not extend the Sprite class, which contains the buttonMode property.
This is most apparent with More >
QuickTime 7: Preparing movies for Internet delivery
Feb 25th
Prepare QuickTime streaming video can be hard.
Here is the support documentation from Apple.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2438?viewlocale=en_US
…with DreamHost and apple. streaming video is easy .
QuickTime 7: Preparing movies for Internet delivery- Last Modified: October 22, 2008
- Article: HT2438
- Old Article: 301355
With QuickTime Pro, you can create movies that can be delivered over the Internet. You can deliver a movie as More >
Drupal Clean URL .htacccess with DreamHost, GODaddy and Bluehost
Dec 26th
DreamHost users have to use following code in .htaccess for clean URL
I haven’t test on godaddy and blueshot, but they should work the same
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]
</IfModule>
Definitive Sticky Posts Guide for WordPress 2.7
Nov 17th
If you’re familiar with the loop, you’ll probably recognize the following code (or some variation of it):
<?php if(have_posts()) : while(have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<h3><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3>
<?php the_content(); ?>
<?php endwhile; endif; ?>
In order to use the new post_class template tag, just be sure to wrap the More >
Clearing floats
Nov 4th
A common problem with float-based layouts is that the floats’ container doesn’t want to stretch up to accomodate the floats.
Solution: overflow: hidden;
check out the original article at