Almost every site that i’ve go to had this as their main highlight. OMG !!
readwriteweb
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How important are you ??
January 17th, 2011 by xiao bai
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My New MacBook
July 3rd, 2010 by xiao baiYes, the shopaholics virus has attacked again.
I’ve got a new MacBook. But i can only play with it at the end of the month when i’m back in Singapore.
- 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
- 2GB DDR3 memory
- 250GB hard drive1
- 8x double-layer SuperDrive
- NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics
- Built-in 10-hour battery2
- Polycarbonate unibody enclosure
Google Chrome vs Firefox
June 9th, 2010 by xiao baiI can’t help but i must says Google Chrome really save my day. Been trying to upload 20 videos files which are quite large and on top of that the connection to the server is crawling. Tried doing that in Firefox and it stops at the loading page, which i’ve been guessing : “Is it still loading” or “It hangs?” ….
In Chrome, they actually cater a loader bar and indicates the percentage. This comes with the browser without having the developer to code for it. Isn’t that wonderful.
Loading Bar Indicator
But seriously, Firefox needs to do something on their end. The latest version 3.6.3 is really slow in loading up and keeps crashing my Zimbra. If this goes on, they are losing the browser battle ……
Qingdao new office in 2010
March 27th, 2010 by xiao baiHere are the photos of the 2nd office in Qingdao.
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- Programmers and Testers
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- Frontend coder and designer area
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- Admin desk
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- Management room
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- Meeting room cupboard
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- Meeting Room whiteboard
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- Playroom and Pantry
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- Playroom and Pantry
User Testing Experience
March 11th, 2010 by xiao baiAfter going through 3 painful projects with very detailed test users for the past 2 months, i’ve gather the top 10 list of things a tester will do.
1) Enter <space><space>Text<space><space>.
Most likely it will store as it is. Must remember to trim trailing spaces
2) Enter HTML tags in text field
This is the time where you will see all the layout will break
3) Enter a super long text with no spaces
This is the time where you will see all layout will break
4) In the text area, enter paragraphing.
End up in most cases the formatting is gone. End up with no line break.
5) Enter the character all the funny character, most importantly ” ‘ ”
You will find ” ‘ ” could be replaced with ” ” “.
6) Enter the character <space> and submit.
Normal cases it will goes through which by right it should not.
7) Enter text that is more than the defined characters.
This is the time where you will see all the layout will break
Enter non english character.
Chances you will get funny character stored in database cause we are too used to just english
9) Upload image that is CMYK. Most probably you will not be able to see the image on the browser or the photo will be discoloured.
Depends on what you use to upload image, will need to convert the profile in the process of uploading. This is to be done before the crop or scale process.
10) Last but not least …. BROWSER TESTING.
IE 6 is KILLER !!!!!
Hybrid Tablet from Lenovo
January 25th, 2010 by xiao baiCheck this out …
McDonald Office
January 25th, 2010 by xiao baiThis is where we spend our late nights during the rushing period for their intranet project
Portable Application
October 18th, 2009 by xiao baiDiscover this open source software about 2 weeks ago and is called “Portable Apps”.
What i like about this application is that I can carry around this application around in my USB flash drive. With that, i’ll have access to my commonly used software and personal data just like my laptop. And when you unplug the device, none of your personal data is left behind. To read out more on this portable apps, you can go to http://portableapps.com/about/what_is_a_portable_app
Live Scenarios Usage
Example 1 - If i carry an open office document for presentation and realised the client’s pc do not have the open office program. I would just need to plug in my usb thumbdrive and open the program via my thumbdrive.
Example 2 - I’ll have all the websites bookmarks at my convenience and recommend to a friend or colleague, when there is a need.
Example 3 - edit an image on the client’s pc and realised no photoshop ( pls do not say there is paint program). i will have at least GIMP to
handle basic image editing.
Example 4 - for developer XAMPP is 1 of the program which you can add to the lists.
Best part of this application is that doesn’t leave files or folders behind on the PC, not even registry entries.
To try the software, you can go to http://portableapps.com/suite
To find out more on the technology used, visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_virtualization
Text Resizing
August 8th, 2009 by xiao baiIn the midst of searching solution for a recent project requirement, that needed the text size to resize accordingly to the screen resolution. I stumbled upon http://www.reuters.com/ and selected on one of the article for leisure reading.
What caught my attention was when i clicked on [-] Text [+], the entire webpage did not ’shift’ or have any slight ‘jump’. This function only target the article section instead of the entire website. Below are some screenshots which i toke when i increased or reduced the font size.
how the page looks when first load
how it looks when i increased the text size
how it looks when i decreased the text size
As for coding, is the usual using javascript and css to control. This is how it looks like for references:
[<a modid="technologyNews|Text|3098077_Article Tools" href="javascript:sizeDown();" class="control">-</a>]
<a modid=”technologyNews|Text|3098077_Article Tools” href=”javascript:resetCurrentsize();”>Text</a>
[<a modid="technologyNews|Text|3098077_Article Tools" href="javascript:sizeUp();" class="control">+</a>]
Another thing that i feel this feature is well thought , it will detect for the selected languages such that it will only works on English. As for Japanese and Chinese text, it will have no effect when clicked on [-] and [+]. For those who have deal with multi-language before, will know that these 2 language if the font size varies the readability will be bad.
In general, i feel the approach and thought process are well taken care for this feature.