Meaningless Idea

Testing a job board widget

2010-04-21T11:35:00.000-07:00

Trying out IntenseDebate

2009-11-25T17:27:00.001-08:00

Found Intense Debate today so trying it out on here...

Free Stock ... Photos

2009-02-20T15:31:00.001-08:00

It's not that the stock market is doing so bad that I'm giving away free stocks. I'm talking about those nice images that we always seem to need.

Check out sxc.hu

UPDATE: Wendy Boswell compiled a big list of stock photo site here. Check it out.

Fonts Squirrel To The Rescue

2009-02-19T14:16:00.000-08:00

Next time when you need to spice up your design using fonts, call upon our trusty superhero .... FontSquirrel.

Be Lazy And Use Generators!!!

2009-02-13T18:21:00.000-08:00

Here again is a list of online generators for those of us that like to make nice looking website but don't want to do the heavy lifting.

25+ Web 2.0 Generators to Resue from Desizn Tech

UPDATE: 12 Free Online Background Pattern Generators

Progress Circle For Lazy Programmer

2009-02-02T16:55:00.000-08:00

Okay there is another post for lazy programmer, yup that's me.

Have you ever try to come up with some nice loading animated gif like so many of the website out there now? It's not easy to do it from scratch. Well with AJAXLoad.info it's only couple clicks and you it's nicely generated for you.

Top 10 Web Template Site 2008

2008-10-14T13:20:00.000-07:00

As a programmer, I consider myself very lazy. I don't like to reinvent the wheel. I rather spend time researching and learning instead of coming up with my own solution. This is why I always look for reviews and top ten list of stuff. These top ten list usually are good indicator of the best-in-class resource. Today I found a great top 10 list for website for web template.

Rounded Corners

2008-09-16T14:07:00.000-07:00

Well, I was looking at how to do round corners and found 25 Rounded Corners Techniques with CSS

Color

2008-07-11T17:12:00.000-07:00

Well, I've been working trying to figure out how people create nice website. One of the key is to have coordinated color scheme. Here is a list of tools for make the simple boring site into a colorful canvas.

Online color scheme generator 2 with lots of options for contrast and tone.
Predefine color scheme allows you to search predefined color scheme.
Firebug need I say more?
Web developer is a FireFox add-on.

PictoBrowser!!!

2008-06-25T22:39:00.001-07:00

Takayama

Kyoto

Wow, found this great Flickr based picture browser call PictoBrowser, it took less than one minute to make it work. Awesome.

Buy vs. Rent

2008-05-28T12:58:00.000-07:00

Since I've got married about a year ago I've been very interested in the economics of real estate market. In particular the more imperial side of things. I religiously check on the local blog sphere about the latest data on listing and price on different areas of the city. I always have the believe that when someone trying to tell me something without data backing up their claim is simply advice I cannot trust. This goes for personal relation as well as information from news media.

Well today I ran into this really cool tool from NY Times that help people decide whether it is better to buy a house and enjoy home ownership; or keep paying rent and enjoy the lower living cost. The answer it turns out is base on whole bunch of variables but with this tool from NY Times it's easy to figure out the answer.

For me, it turns out that it's still better for me to keep renting our current 1 bedroom apartment until two things happen:

Our circumstances change in such a way that we need more place and therefore have a significant rent increase AND
The housing price have a -10% adjustment.

It's hard to say whether these things will happen soon but at least our decision to rent and wait was a good call.

Obviously with the US housing bubble there is no shortage of blog to read about the topics of real estate market. However I am mostly concern about the Vancouver BC market and as mentioned above I'm mostly interest with raw data rather then opinion alone. So here is my plug for the similar minds on the Canadian west coast:

Reboot & Why is my site so SLOW?

2008-05-27T15:07:00.000-07:00

I really need to start blogging again. I find myself wanting to bookmark more and more site during my research on different technical issue and maybe after a few days I cannot remember where the the bookmark is filed under.

What I really need to do is to create blog entries for each topic.

So here is my attempt to reboot my blog.

Today I was looking at ExtJS library for a rich GUI control JavaScript library (which hopefully I'll blog more later) and run into the really cool YSlow site. "What is YSlow?" you ask. Well have you ever ask yourself "Why is my site so SLOOOOW?" Yahoo actually have a performance team focus at the performance of Yahoo's various web real estate and they like to share their insight with the world. They even created a Firefox add-on call ........ YSlow.

I haven't fully gone through all the best practices they recommended on the site I've done but will definitely come back and check these suggestions when I finish any new projects in the future.