Posts

• May 28, 2024

  Stop handling HTTP requests with HTTP response

• Mar 5, 2024

  Null Is Maligned

• Mar 4, 2022

  Re: REPL

• Mar 1, 2022

  Re: Statically Typing Big Erratic JSON

• Mar 1, 2022

  Re: The User Wizard Scenario

• May 16, 2021

  Awkward error handling is a code smell

• Aug 26, 2020

  Make bugs into type errors

• Aug 24, 2020

  What does it mean by `Html Msg`?

• Oct 7, 2019

  Code Usability

• Sep 12, 2019

  The Elm Json Decoder "Object"

• May 31, 2019

  Database Schema Migration

• Oct 28, 2018

  Getting from A to B

• Sep 12, 2018

  Currying

• Aug 22, 2018

  Rails Hiatus

• Oct 29, 2015

  File Uploads 2015

• Feb 18, 2015

  A New Plan for Spam: Turing

• Sep 4, 2014

  Robot Vacuum Cleaner

• Feb 10, 2014

  Better incoming email handling for your webapp

• Aug 14, 2013

  Connecting Dots

• Jun 24, 2012

  Learn hacking, not ABCs

• Jun 1, 2012

  TDD for Those Who Don't Need It

• Jan 31, 2012

  Nokia Lumia 800

• Sep 24, 2011

  Ruby for Rails Beginners

• Dec 17, 2010

  Giving Feedback On A Design You Are Paying For

• Sep 18, 2010

  Loremipsumizer

• Aug 29, 2010

  FOAF Rewards

• Jul 8, 2008

  So love this film

• May 7, 2008

  Lightbox, Thickbox, Greybox - Ugh

• Apr 18, 2008

  "Go away or I will replace you with a very small shell script" v2

• Apr 16, 2008

  Poor Man's Trends

• Apr 10, 2008

  Ruby on Rails - Sharing Session for Singapore PHP User Group

• Mar 26, 2008

  No Template is the Best Template

• Mar 22, 2008

  Tryanslator2!

• Mar 21, 2008

  Information overload? Read Later!

• Mar 19, 2008

  A Clearer Layout For Viewing Timezones

• Feb 6, 2008

  Microhoo

• Nov 30, 2007

  Singapore-RB meetup: OAuth4R Presentation PDF

• Nov 23, 2007

  The "No Special Case" Pattern

• Nov 21, 2007

  Learning Web Development

• Oct 16, 2007

  Lesson #1 after using the iPhone: Automatic Orientation

• Oct 5, 2007

  Automated self.down in Rails Migrations

• Sep 25, 2007

  Unproductive Day

• Sep 11, 2007

  Black Magick

• Sep 6, 2007

  Just another day in paradise

• Aug 29, 2007

  SharedCopy gets an upgrade

• Aug 24, 2007

  True False parameters

• Aug 19, 2007

  Using PC keyboard on MacBook Pro (aka swapping Cmd and Option keys)

• Aug 16, 2007

  A painful lesson for myself to remember

• Aug 15, 2007

  24hr Programming Competition in SG

• Aug 7, 2007

  Tiong Bahru Estate: Where are the Privates and where are the HDBs?

• Aug 7, 2007

  Looking for 2 x Developers, preferably Ruby On Rails

• Aug 3, 2007

  Migrating Typo to Typepad

• May 23, 2007

  Let there be "Rails Distributions"

• May 18, 2007

  RssFwd is now part of Blue Sky Factory

• May 17, 2007

  Drop that AJAX.. step back and listen up. NOW

• May 11, 2007

  Techcrunched!

• Apr 28, 2007

  SharedCopy calls you back

• Apr 4, 2007

  Upload a Logo get Color Scheme

• Apr 2, 2007

  Now I've finally gotten this out of the way...

• Mar 26, 2007

  Apollo! And its a Slingshot back to your Desktop

• Mar 23, 2007

  SharedCopy + WebMarker

• Mar 20, 2007

  Netbeans6 + Ruby

• Mar 14, 2007

  As easy as passing on a link

• Feb 28, 2007

  Retrieving a sensible file extension for a given MIME string in Rails

• Feb 28, 2007

  Class (re)definition in method body

• Feb 22, 2007

  ActiveRecord: Optimistic Offline Lock

• Feb 21, 2007

  RMagick: Rendering a chunk of lengthy text into a fixed size image, with a selected font color

• Feb 9, 2007

  Repurposing The Web

• Feb 3, 2007

  Yea, its startups and demos time!

• Jan 24, 2007

  Assumptions about RSS-to-Email as archives

• Jan 10, 2007

  Its 2007 and my phone is still charging stupidly!

• Jan 8, 2007

  Role Playing

• Jan 5, 2007

  RssFwd: Better cluster template, better auto-discovery. Better.

• Dec 28, 2006

  Brokeback

• Oct 29, 2006

  Its that time of the year. Again.

• Oct 25, 2006

  To Hell and Back

• Oct 17, 2006

  The Real Google RSS Reader

• Oct 11, 2006

  Yet Another Tool To Program In Workflow

• Oct 2, 2006

  Wash, Iron, F..., Etc

• Sep 15, 2006

  Designer-Developer Gulf

• Sep 8, 2006

  Spamming also needs to be learnt

• Sep 8, 2006

  *BEEP!* Substitution

• Aug 30, 2006

  On SVK

• Aug 24, 2006

  Todo: Compiled KRJS

• Aug 14, 2006

  Quoted-Printable: Bitten for the N-th time!

• Aug 11, 2006

  Rails 1.1.5 Brouhaha

• Aug 5, 2006

  Rails: Calling render() outside your Controllers

• Jul 25, 2006

  USB Paranoia

• Jul 25, 2006

  Synergy: One keyboard (and mouse) to rule them all

• Jul 19, 2006

  HpricotForms

• Jul 19, 2006

  Automating Tasks: Data Migrations

• Jul 11, 2006

  Simplify, simplify...

• Jul 8, 2006

  Every few years, some shit must happen

• Jul 2, 2006

  Singapore Ruby Brigade

• Jul 1, 2006

  Are you an elephant in a circus too?

• Jun 30, 2006

  Sorry U-Zyn

• Jun 28, 2006

  RailsConf 2006 End Note

• Jun 25, 2006

  KRJS Explained

• Jun 25, 2006

  "CRUD! CRUD! CRUD!": DHH

• Jun 24, 2006

  RailsConf: Martin Fowler Keynote

• Jun 23, 2006

  RailsConf: Dave Thomas Keynote

• Jun 22, 2006

  Back from E27, Off to Chicago

• Jun 14, 2006

  Essential Webdev Tools: Firebug

• Jun 12, 2006

  KRJS: RJS without messing the Views

• May 31, 2006

  (Not) Managing Software Developers

• May 29, 2006

  Bye bye, G-Buy

• May 26, 2006

  Dirty Little Secret

• May 25, 2006

  Google Toolbar for RssFwd

• May 24, 2006

  Version Control: That missing module in CS101

• May 15, 2006

  svn2svn

• May 10, 2006

  Firefox View-Source

• May 8, 2006

  The Code Breakers

• May 8, 2006

  Margin at Aljunied was decisive

• May 2, 2006

  E-mail Digest is so Old School

• Apr 28, 2006

  God giveth; God taketh away

• Apr 3, 2006

  RssFwd Blocked In China?

• Mar 23, 2006

  Peeking at the Browser's History

• Mar 21, 2006

  Re: Additional Thoughts on Why Ruby isn't ready for the Enterprise...

• Mar 20, 2006

  People, Process, Tools?

• Mar 19, 2006

  Bandwidth Ceiling Hit

• Mar 16, 2006

  Notes from Rails Bootcamp @ SMU

• Mar 13, 2006

  Mini Rails Camp in Singapore

• Mar 10, 2006

  1 Click Writely?

• Mar 8, 2006

  World Wide Web... meet Copy and Paste

• Mar 5, 2006

  Upgrade!

• Mar 1, 2006

  Question: Why don't elevators indicate which floor it is going to?

• Feb 22, 2006

  My Own Singapore Media

• Feb 21, 2006

  Tailrank: Personalised "Google News" for Blogs

• Feb 17, 2006

  Krugle: Finding Code

• Feb 15, 2006

  Yea. Blogs Need Email

• Feb 9, 2006

  link_to_block in Rails?

• Feb 2, 2006

  RailsConf!

• Jan 24, 2006

  Google Local Singapore?

• Jan 19, 2006

  The Extra Step: Email Verification

• Jan 19, 2006

  Composite Blocking List?

• Jan 16, 2006

  Psychic Playlist

• Jan 15, 2006

  A Glitch. Service Disruption.

• Jan 3, 2006

  What's the easiest way to learn Ajax?

• Jan 2, 2006

  Crazy thoughts: A Rails Distribution

• Dec 30, 2005

  Translate from?

• Dec 27, 2005

  JDWP is underrated. Why?

• Dec 20, 2005

  Browser-based Application

• Dec 15, 2005

  The Orange Icon

• Dec 5, 2005

  RailsConf 2006

• Nov 20, 2005

  FAQ: As a publisher, will I have access to the email addresses of my subscribers (like FeedBlitz does)?

• Nov 19, 2005

  Huh? DVD Jon couldn't get a job in SG?

• Nov 15, 2005

  Picking up the good habit of Testing

• Oct 15, 2005

  RssFwd Migration

• Oct 14, 2005

  How to Make 1 Million Friends on MySpace

• Oct 12, 2005

  Text-only emails

• Oct 10, 2005

  html2text function in Ruby

• Oct 9, 2005

  Oh, btw you might also like...

• Oct 6, 2005

  The Wake-up-Call Book Arrived :-)

• Oct 6, 2005

  Not Your Everyday Photograph of an Eclipse

• Oct 3, 2005

  I Spy With My Little Eye...

• Oct 3, 2005

  And That's Why He's Hired To Blog...

• Sep 30, 2005

  An Obvious Idea. Doh!

• Sep 22, 2005

  RailsFS! Neat!

• Sep 21, 2005

  RssFwd Now Supports Enclosures (aka Podcasts)

• Sep 13, 2005

  Singapore Makan Places - Google Style

• Sep 11, 2005

  RssFwd Optimized To Per Hour Polling

• Sep 9, 2005

  What A Pretty Ad

• Sep 9, 2005

  Hello [Real-Time Rendered Cinematic] World

• Sep 8, 2005

  SproutIt + RssFwd

• Sep 7, 2005

  RssFwd an "app-less" web-app?

• Sep 7, 2005

  Real-Life Competitor's Ad Filter?

• Sep 6, 2005

  Yanime In SourceForge

• Sep 5, 2005

  Yanime: Now, Its Purely Code

• Sep 3, 2005

  I Love the Comex PC Show

• Sep 2, 2005

  Yanime?

• Sep 2, 2005

  Its Not About India, or China. Its You. You. You. You!

• Sep 1, 2005

  Love It When Others Articulate For You

• Aug 30, 2005

  Google Earth Virtual Tour

• Aug 29, 2005

  What's the Big Deal that Rake is expressed in Ruby, not XML?

• Aug 25, 2005

  Bye Bye Desktop E-mail!

• Aug 25, 2005

  Another Third Voice

• Aug 24, 2005

  Google Talking

• Aug 23, 2005

  Brilliant Web App

• Aug 22, 2005

  Learning from The Apprentice

• Aug 18, 2005

  Export or Manage Your Rssfwd Subscriptions

• Aug 17, 2005

  RssFwd is sick today

• Aug 15, 2005

  When you have too much time...

• Aug 15, 2005

  Double Happiness!

• Aug 11, 2005

  I must say again...

• Aug 10, 2005

  Firefox: View Selection Source (i.e. see Javascript modified HTML)

• Aug 8, 2005

  Rssfwd Makeover

• Aug 5, 2005

  What Business Can Learn From Open Source

• Aug 2, 2005

  I *Heart* Scripting Language

• Jul 29, 2005

  Life imitates Fiction

• Jul 26, 2005

  Re: Up or down?

• Jul 25, 2005

  Lighter Frontpage for Rssfwd

• Jul 21, 2005

  [Update] A Call For Help From Xiaxue, and now WonkyTong??

• Jul 21, 2005

  Corporate Site: About Us?

• Jul 19, 2005

  The day ST said Bad Word

• Jul 19, 2005

  Occasionally Connected Web Applications

• Jul 17, 2005

  Wait

• Jul 17, 2005

  Blogger.SG

• Jul 16, 2005

  Ruby has Rails, Python now has Django

• Jul 15, 2005

  Transformers Movie!

• Jul 15, 2005

  Rssfwd: Special treatment for laggards

• Jul 15, 2005

  Rails Q&A

• Jul 15, 2005

  Desktop Linux. Still Don't Get It.

• Jul 11, 2005

  Rails. The 2nd Movie. Watch it, or be Irrelevant

• Jul 7, 2005

  Bittorrent the Protocol

• Jul 4, 2005

  Do you know a consistent UI when you see one?

• Jun 29, 2005

  Rssfwd Fixes

• Jun 24, 2005

  How long more?

• Jun 21, 2005

  Funny Army Rant

• Jun 15, 2005

  User Experience on the Web

• Jun 15, 2005

  OpenSolaris website may be hacked soon

• Jun 15, 2005

  As Things Turn Out...

• Jun 14, 2005

  Wrong Fight

• Jun 14, 2005

  Creative Bashing

• Jun 14, 2005

  Bloggers.SG - Singapore Bloggercon Episode I

• Jun 13, 2005

  Segway!

• Jun 10, 2005

  I Love A Good Theory: Why Apple + Intel, by I, Cringely

• Jun 7, 2005

  Local Talent

• Jun 6, 2005

  Railsday Aftermath

• Jun 1, 2005

  Woot! We're Picked!

• May 31, 2005

  Railsday!

• May 29, 2005

  Upgrade!

• May 24, 2005

  You Have Arrived, Firefox

• May 24, 2005

  Not Doing Housework

• May 19, 2005

  HOWTO provide GUI feedback when a Job is completed

• May 18, 2005

  So many things.. so little time...

• May 18, 2005

  Rssfwd was Down

• May 12, 2005

  Yahoo Music Engine? [updated]

• May 12, 2005

  Writing Defensively: Making Wrong Code Look Wrong

• May 12, 2005

  David got his wish. Kind of.

• May 12, 2005

  Amazing Self-Replication Robots

• May 9, 2005

  Why org.eclipse.jdt.launching.DEFAULT_CLASSPATH is always TRUE? And more on launching Ant tasks programmatically...

• May 9, 2005

  Implementing Feature Project add-on to an Eclipse Plugin Project

• May 6, 2005

  Space-Time Interface

• May 5, 2005

  Modified Newsmasher: Tagsurfeit

• May 4, 2005

  As Adam Curry Put It... 'Your DJ Has Only Just Begun'

• Apr 28, 2005

  Why your single, available girl friends should hookup with a geeks

• Apr 28, 2005

  Mobility. There May Be Hope Yet

• Apr 25, 2005

  Recovering from Post-Reservist Syndrome

• Apr 3, 2005

  Boy, Interrupted

• Apr 1, 2005

  Kewwwwl... Every New Gmail Anniversary Feature Is Almost Like An April Fool's Joke..

• Mar 28, 2005

  You have a Camera (Phone) ? [Update]

• Mar 28, 2005

  Newsmashing.. aka 3rd Voice Redux

• Mar 25, 2005

  When You Feel Down.. And You Are Wearing A Frown.. [Update]

• Mar 24, 2005

  Leaders Talking

• Mar 23, 2005

  Nice intuitive interface for selecting Timezone

• Mar 23, 2005

  Never Underestimate The Power Of 'It Just Works'

• Mar 23, 2005

  I'm Impressed With Localbrand.Net [Update]

• Mar 22, 2005

  I Didn't Know (Part II)

• Mar 21, 2005

  Most basic, foundation understanding of Eclipse framework before diving to anything else..

• Mar 21, 2005

  Bad Day At Customs? Say "I Blog"

• Mar 18, 2005

  Oooh.. a first

• Mar 17, 2005

  A Blog Before Marriage

• Mar 16, 2005

  Bad Aircon

• Mar 11, 2005

  Congrats Activate!

• Mar 11, 2005

  (Almost) Tata Ta-da. Hello Basecamp

• Mar 10, 2005

  The Framework For Editing XML Document

• Mar 10, 2005

  In Other News..

• Mar 8, 2005

  Would You Like To Go To The Movies.Com With Me?

• Mar 8, 2005

  I May Just See ZOIDS In This Lifetime. [Update]

• Mar 3, 2005

  Define: Stupid

• Mar 1, 2005

  Rocket Citizens Boleh!

• Mar 1, 2005

  New Media Consumption Habits

• Feb 23, 2005

  Sample Eclipse Action (with Keybindings) in a Existing Menu

• Feb 23, 2005

  HOWTO get the Real, Physical Path from linkedResources (IPath)

• Feb 23, 2005

  HOWTO Add Accelerator Keys, aka Keyboard Shortcuts, aka Keybindings to Your Eclipse Plugin

• Feb 22, 2005

  Putting Money Where Your Mouth Is

• Feb 16, 2005

  What-I-Want-This-{enter special occasion}

• Feb 15, 2005

  Gee Wish for Reading RSS

• Feb 13, 2005

  Respect Encoding

• Feb 13, 2005

  Linux and NTUC

• Feb 8, 2005

  P for Parody

• Feb 3, 2005

  A Delicious Little Tour

• Feb 1, 2005

  Another '*-ster' Is Rocking The Boat

• Jan 31, 2005

  Raising Funds For Dixon, Son Of Man Who Died On LandRover Mission To Thailand

• Jan 30, 2005

  Helplessness Of Giving Your Email Info - No More?

• Jan 29, 2005

  Flickr-Style Listing

• Jan 28, 2005

  Old is Better. New is just More

• Jan 24, 2005

  Tada - Share A List

• Jan 22, 2005

  Understanding 'Derived Works'

• Jan 20, 2005

  Invented: See Through Wall Technology

• Jan 13, 2005

  Few Days I Never Listen Only, Then Close Down Liao?

• Jan 12, 2005

  Voice Over IP is HERE!!

• Jan 12, 2005

  Taupok: Might As Well Start A Sitcom Now

• Jan 12, 2005

  Bye Bye Norton Anti-Virus!

• Jan 11, 2005

  Peeping Tom For Dummies

• Jan 10, 2005

  Open Fire!

• Jan 5, 2005

  was formerly titled: Ewww! Integrity is dead

• Jan 4, 2005

  Social, Sharing, Keywords

• Jan 3, 2005

  Japanese phone (on the move) can download faster than your big fat broadband

• Jan 1, 2005

  Animal Instinct

• Dec 30, 2004

  Videos of Tsunami

• Dec 30, 2004

  The Next Tsunami

• Dec 29, 2004

  OMG! Good Ol' Apple II Comes Alive!

• Dec 24, 2004

  Bad Behavin'

• Dec 21, 2004

  Hacking Coke Vending Machines

• Dec 20, 2004

  Chicken Pox!

• Dec 19, 2004

  CommandLineTask: Running Ant repeatedly without the slow inits

• Dec 17, 2004

  P2P File Editing Mechanism

• Dec 15, 2004

  Power In Print

• Dec 14, 2004

  The anticipation of having something is often more fun than actually having it

• Dec 14, 2004

  Serendipity

• Dec 13, 2004

  Today is Monday.

• Dec 11, 2004

  You gotta love Google's Javascript/WebUI Team

• Dec 11, 2004

  Standards Agnostic Design of RssFwd

• Dec 8, 2004

  EasyI18N: Making software internationalisation (i18n) as an after-thought

• Dec 7, 2004

  Poor Man's CRM

• Nov 27, 2004

  a2e: Arctic to Equator!!

• Nov 22, 2004

  Pet Peeves and Java

• Nov 15, 2004

  myRssFwd: The Desktop Application

• Nov 14, 2004

  RssFwd v0.2

• Nov 11, 2004

  rssfwd v0.1a

• Nov 2, 2004

  Batteries Not Included

• Oct 30, 2004

  One, To Rule Them All

• Oct 15, 2004

  Puffin! At Long Last!.

• Oct 14, 2004

  A dotcom content management would've been so different

• Oct 5, 2004

  Upload Applet - Part 2

• Oct 4, 2004

  Monday, Latest, Final, Final_fixed, Final2

• Sep 27, 2004

  Hello again, Xbox

• Sep 23, 2004

  Paradox of a Programmer's Worth

• Sep 15, 2004

  Unit Testing Framework

• Sep 8, 2004

  Groovy Rails

• Sep 5, 2004

  Hello Xbox. Hello Linux. Hello my new PC.

• Sep 3, 2004

  Blog On!

• Aug 31, 2004

  iMac G5

• Aug 30, 2004

  Boot from Google anyone?

• Aug 18, 2004

  Groovy Ruby

• Aug 11, 2004

  How Now Brown Cow?

• Aug 10, 2004

  Dollies

• Aug 6, 2004

  Best Game Review I've Seen

• Aug 2, 2004

  Calling it a day

• Aug 1, 2004

  Sour Grape

• Aug 1, 2004

  Born Free

• Jul 23, 2004

  Upload Applet

• Jul 16, 2004

  Biased about Google's Picasa?

• Jul 8, 2004

  Patch Process

• Jul 6, 2004

  Gmail - Action Pack #2

• Jun 29, 2004

  Programmers Aren't Designers

• Jun 21, 2004

  Gmail - Action Pack #1

• Jun 17, 2004

  Gmail... Love'em.. Hate'em

• Jun 13, 2004

  Bugs. Process of Testing

• May 28, 2004

  Algos

• May 25, 2004

  How's Puffin gonna do it?

• May 23, 2004

  I Dedicate This To [Insert your boss's name]

• May 23, 2004

  Finally!!!... Puffin... search your own PC!

• May 20, 2004

  Gonna get busy

• May 13, 2004

  Quote of the Day

• May 11, 2004

  i18n.. aka Internationalisation

• May 11, 2004

  Hougang?

• May 11, 2004

  Feedback and FAQ

• May 6, 2004

  Awesome!

• May 4, 2004

  Open Sourcing Enabling Technologies as Business

• May 4, 2004

  First Day

• May 3, 2004

  Open Source MMORPG?

• May 2, 2004

  Official Hosting

• May 2, 2004

  Granny Birthday

• Apr 27, 2004

  Navigating, instead of Browsing

• Apr 27, 2004

  How many crazy ah-bengs can you meet in a single drive home?

• Apr 21, 2004

  Another Blackout?!

• Apr 19, 2004

  Much Ado About Nothing

• Apr 15, 2004

  Y-Anime internal version 1.10

• Apr 15, 2004

  Good Beginnings

• Apr 6, 2004

  four and a half years

• Apr 4, 2004

  iso-metric engine

• Apr 3, 2004

  My Demise

• Apr 1, 2004

  Late nights

• Mar 31, 2004

  I am back

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