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On April 1, 2010, our team sat through a launch ceremony of a website that we have painstakingly taken few months to do – a community portal that aims to engage the fathers in Singapore to be “present” in their children’s lives. The website - www.dadsforlife.sg - is sponsored by Ministry of Community, Youths, and Sports and, designed and built ……by Xtremax!!!!
The website, launched by Vivian Balakrishnan, is designed with web 2.0 tools, such as Forums, Twitter, Youtube, Widgets, Facebook to create a thriving Dads’ community. It is a resource portal that provides fathers with tips and tools to stay connected with their children.
Before this web design project for Dads for Life, I didn’t realize the seriousness of the problem of Father-Absence. A society built on uninvolved fathers is often plagued with problems like “a higher rate of poverty, failure in school , teen pregnancy , substance abuse, violent crime, depression, and ultimately loss of hope.” (source : National Center for Fathering.) Wow, that is very serious.
So fathers, go to www.dadsforlife.sg and make your commitment today.
Was just rummaging my old tired brains on all the different programming languages and frameworks that we have worked with in Xtremax in the recent years.
Just the other day, a web design client asked us whether we knew about their survey campaign that was advertised on TV recently. Our immediate response was “errr…..we don’t watch TV.”
Whatever we can get on TV, we get even more on the Internet. So why bother using that remote?
Times are changing. To reach us, the young working adults, who prefer to have a higher level of participation with our mediums, you need to be where we are - Social Media. You need to work this in when designing your websites if you want your websites to have stronger user engagement.
We are where we can interact with others on line - the Social Media and it takes on many forms: Blogs, Microblogs like Twitter and Plurks, Social Networks like Facebook and Friendster, Podcasts, Vodcasts Wikis, Social Aggregators, Virtual Worlds, Photo Sharing Websites like Flickr, Video sharing websites like youtub and vimeo, just to name a few.
Still clueless? I found an excellent video that explains Social Media in Plain English.
I am not the tidy soft of person. In fact, I hate doing housework. But something about untidy codes really irks me. Recently, we adopted the use of crucible as a code review tool. It revealed a whole lot of badly formatted codes in our projects.
After doing quite a bit of development in Joomla, I was getting used to the very friendly J!Dump to list out all the objects value in a dhtml tree format. Recently, I have been tasked to customise some e-marketing product codes. Hmmm… sounds like I needed something handy like J!Dump…
Thankfully, there was Krumo. Once Krumo has been installed properly, you can do a dhtml tree dumb of an object values with 2 simple lines:
Well, with limited memory on my computer, I needed an easy way to access the table data and perform simple CRUD operations on it. I ended up trying DBViewer.
I just hating with for my Visual Studio to recover from its periodic hangs. I was thinking about it.. man. why not I just do the .NET development on my Eclipse IDE? Surely, all I need is a XML editor for the front end files, i.e. .ascx and a .NET editor for the CSharp codes?
Well, for the XML, I can easily use the Eclipse built in ant editor. For those that have installed the enterprise version of eclipse, I think they did include a pretty good HTML editor plugin as well.
For CSharp there is not so much choices. Guess we will need to go with Emonic. They do provide quite a decent CSharp editor.
If you have worked on a DNN project, one of the problems are that the images entered using the HtmlModule is hardcoded with the location of the context path. This essentially means that any changes in the context path of the web application will result in a tonne load of missing images.
Well, I did remember that MySQL had some simple string replace function to address the problem… and after some surfing on the net… wola… The solution to changing all the image path:
update dbo.dnn_HtmlText set DesktopHtml = REPLACE(Cast(DesktopHtml as NVARCHAR(4000)), ‘/aapaf/Portals/0/banners/side’ ,’/aapaf2/Portals/0/banners/side’);
Yes… I know this is not rocket science… just wanted to blog it down here to remind myself during the migration process… and hopefully.. who knows? It might just help some frustrated soul in the future…
This is all about a group of hard-core web developers who go about rambling about their daily efforts to make the internet world a better and more accessible place.
