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Concentrate on the problem

In: Geek

The developer was before the Master and he asked the Master.
“What is the greatest ability one can have to tackle any problem?”.
“Well it depends on the problem and then you concentrate on the problem.” Answered the Master.
Bemused, the developer follow up with this. “Master, with due respect you did not answer my question.”
The Master was [...]

Optimal Default Password

In: Geek

It is part of normal development and system work to issue password to users.
Coming up with password can be fun, and with that, a crafted email to tell the user to change the password at the earliest possible chance.
But normally, is a sufficiently complex password is given, the user will just not change the password, [...]

Yourself the Developer

In: Geek, Interesting, Quotes

The Developer was before the Master.

Slides on Alternative PHP Cache (APC) from April 2010 Singapore PHP Usergroup meetup.

Omniture <a> tag in <noscript>

In: Geek

Omniture a tags around img in noscript tags are questionable as it creates backlinks to omniture readable only by search engine and crawlers.

Barcampsg5 and Scent and Sensibility. The summary and coverage of the attended talks.

Here is the necessary sql to create a user and database of the same name. Note to my future self.
CREATE USER ‘username’@'%’ IDENTIFIED BY ‘password’;
GRANT USAGE ON * . * TO ‘username’@'%’ IDENTIFIED BY ‘password’ WITH MAX_QUERIES_PER_HOUR 0 MAX_CONNECTIONS_PER_HOUR 0 MAX_UPDATES_PER_HOUR 0 MAX_USER_CONNECTIONS 0 ;
CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS `username` ;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON `username` [...]

The Chopsticks Nemisis

In: Geek, Interesting, Random

It was a good dinner in the company of good friends. Lots of catching up and some alcohol to go along.
Till a almost mathematically perfect piece of honeydew was presented on my plate. It was shaped like a pyramid. Not those with a square base that housed mummies. The pyramid shaped honeydew had a triangular [...]

Playing with QR Codes

In: Geek, Interesting

QR Code from Google Charts API

The Blog Post on BarCampSg4

In: Events, Geek, Interesting, Singapore

Experience from Barcampsg4.

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ThinkingNectar talks about the interest of Chin Yong, a PHP/Python/Web developer residing in Singapore. Life, society, and codes should entails most of what goes between the ears of this coffee drinker.

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