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22 Feb, 2010

Neat and Tidy Web Development

Posted by: Mr Otter In: eclipse| technology

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.

01 Jul, 2009

Opera Unite

Posted by: Mr Otter In: technology

The idea is cool.. but the wordings of the video… well, I liked it so much as to type out everything…
We start our story with the invention of the modern day computer…
 
Over the years, computers grew in numbers and the next natural step in their evolution is to connect them together.. to share things.
 
And as [...]

Microsoft has launched Silverlight and as any other product it is gaining fame for itself. So, let’s review if it really has something new and advance to offer other than the old and most used flash. I have taken a course to compare both silverlight and flash side by side for each feature and functionality. [...]

15 Mar, 2009

Google Map Widget

Posted by: Mr Otter In: google| javascript| technology

Well, after playing with it a little bit more, just enhanced it a little to be displayed in a configurable widget.  Of course.. .this is only the beginning… haha.. more fun things are coming up!
Stay tuned!
http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/singapore-maps

15 Mar, 2009

Google Maps - Its Fun!

Posted by: Mr Otter In: google| technology

Well, just spent today browsing through some of the Google Maps API and was really surprised at how easy google made it.  Hmmm.. if only coding was so simple… it would have been a lot, lot more fun… :P
Anyway after a few hours of work, here goes my little map!
http://xtremax.com/googleMap/

07 Mar, 2009

Server overloaded? Check Linux Load Averages

Posted by: Mr Otter In: linux| technology

Ever wondered if your server is overloaded?  Its a common practice for System Engineers to run the top command and see which process is consuming the most CPU and Memory.  However, with virtualisation and servers with multiple processors, this statistic becomes less relevant. 
CPU just reflects the amount of time which a process is hogging a [...]

05 Mar, 2009

Automated Search Engine Marketing

Posted by: Mr Otter In: SEM| technology

If you have worked on Search Engine Marketing, you will realize that it is heck of a lot of work.  It is a whole cycle of:

Finding the keywords to target
Crafting Ads for each keyword
Monitoring the position of these ads and changing the CPC accordingly
blah blah blah…

That is a lot of work… especially if you [...]

04 Mar, 2009

US SME and Website

Posted by: Mr Otter In: Web Design| technology

I always thought that the United States being the pioneer of most internet technologies will be a country swamped with corporate websites.  Hmmm… surprise, suprise… on the average .. only 50% of US enterprises have website. 
The stats are:
45% - Revenues of $100,000 to $499,000 49% - Revenues of $500,000 to $999,000 [...]

01 Mar, 2009

Manipulating HTML elements with JQuery

Posted by: Mr Otter In: css| javascript| technology

Well, had to do some prototyping for a NCC website recently.  Was working on a facilities booking page where the form elements had to change based on the type of facilities which the public needed to book.  Hmmm… well, this could be done by manipulating the style of the divs, i.e. display and visibility… in [...]



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