http://blog.shahonseven.com the answer to life, the universe and everything Wed, 27 May 2009 04:37:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I know this because I scratched mine! Albeit it's just a hairline thin but it's still a scratch. I have a habit of putting the iPod in my shirt pocket and other stuffs in my pant pocket but yesterday I put a friggin' pen in my shirt pocket. Damn. http://blog.shahonseven.com/archives/2009/05/27/ipod-touch-screen-definitely-scratchable/ Just got myself an iPod Touch 2G. I really like it though I don't listen to music very much. iPod Touch comes with Contacts app but I didn't use it because obviously iPod Touch can't make a phone call (without VOIP app that is), unlike iPhone. So I thought it ... http://blog.shahonseven.com/archives/2009/05/20/sync-iphone-or-ipod-touch-contacts-with-nokia-using-syncml/ [caption id="attachment_393" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Screenshot of MaSmap showing small area of Kuantan"][/caption] Have you heard about MaSmap.org?  Well, as the title said it is an open source collaborative mapping. Unlike OpenStreetMap which use wiki-like interface (as one of their mapping methods) and aim to map the world, MaSmap instead aim to ... http://blog.shahonseven.com/archives/2009/02/13/open-source-collaborative-mapping/ Recently, I was looking for a finance manager. Managing multiple saving accounts, a unit trust account & a credit card account at a same time is a headache. I tried to manage my finance a long time ago but I really hate it because I can't do it while I ... http://blog.shahonseven.com/archives/2009/01/23/expensr-free-online-personal-finance-application/ While testing Notepad I noticed this: Apparently, the new dialog also affect Paint & WordPad. Why is it a good thing? Well as Dmitri from usabilitypost.com explains, you know what the dialog box is about just by reading the button labels — you don’t even need to read the message above to decide ... http://blog.shahonseven.com/archives/2009/01/14/windows-7-usability/ I really like the new Windows. Install took 15 - 25 minutes and boot took 30 seconds. Everything works right out of the box except my Prolink WG2000/R USB Wifi adapter. But that's an easy fix, there's a Vista driver for that device on their official website. Just download & ... http://blog.shahonseven.com/archives/2009/01/13/windows-7/ I'm building a web based application using ExtJS as the frontend and CakePHP as the backend. CakePHP built-in ACL returns 200 OK status even when the access was denied. The application uses Ajax a lot so I need CakePHP to returns appropriate response status so that I can inform the ... http://blog.shahonseven.com/archives/2008/12/24/cakephp-acl-and-ajax/ One of my past project was to develop a double-entry system which compare the same record entered by two different staff. Recently, the client complained about the system being painfully slow. My colleagues blame the helper function that do the comparison. I removed the view so the is no comparison ... http://blog.shahonseven.com/archives/2008/11/30/a-day-at-the-office/ Redline Vertigo-projects have a new and amazing racing game powered byjQuery and using the GameQuery plugin. The game itself is about one thousand lines of code, but you will need some practice to not shift too early or to avoid crashing. It's interesting to see the level of applications that we can build ... http://blog.shahonseven.com/archives/2008/11/29/fun-javascript-games-part-2/ [caption id="attachment_256" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="St. Paul's Hill"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_245" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="A'Famosa Fort"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_240" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="(Front) St. Francis Secondary School, (Far Behind) Malacca Sultanate Palace"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_269" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Proclamation of Independence Memorial"][/caption] http://blog.shahonseven.com/archives/2008/10/05/a-trip-to-historical-malacca/