02 Apr, 2010
Posted by: Tabby Cat In: Social Media| Web 2.0| Web Design| technology
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, [...]
21 Mar, 2010
Posted by: Mr Otter In: .NET| DNN| Web 2.0| Web Design| technology
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.
Hmm. Just came out with an interesting Mind Map….
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.
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 [...]
03 Apr, 2009
Posted by: Mr Otter In: .NET| Tech Talk| Web 2.0| Web Design| technology
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. [...]
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
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/
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
