Geek Category

Getting Ubuntu to work: The Heron Had Landed

In: Geek, Ubuntu

Update to Hardy Heron. Flash works, Desktop Effects work for 965 GMA and main speakers muted when headphone plugged in.

BayWords: Not BayWatch in Words

In: Blogging, Geek, Interesting, News, Websites

The Pirate Bay is launching a free blogging service called BayWords. It protect freedom of speech and the site is void of censorship if the blog is within Swedish Laws.

demonoid is back

In: Geek, News

Demonoid returns. The best file sharing network is back online. Farewell Deimos and welcome Umlauf.

Lessons from Django and Ruby on Rails

In: Events, Geek, PHP, Singapore

Lessons from April PHP Meetup. Presentation from Micheal Lim and Choon Keat on Django and Ruby on Rail respectively.

Google App Engine In Brief

In: Geek, News

Brief first look at the newly announced Google App Engine. Another time sink for developers! BigTable, GFS and the difference APIs to name a few.

Rednano.sg : First Impressions

In: Geek, News, Singapore

The papers reported that SPH (Singapore Press Holdings) launched their and the local “first” local search engine. Going by the name Rednano. It can be found at Rednano.com and Rednano.sg. I do like the idea of having a localised search engine. That will be really useful should we be searching for local history, local business [...]

Fashion Advices for Geeks

In: Geek, Random

Baseline have a very interesting and if not, very entertaining slideshow on how the different gaffes geeks are making that are costing them not to be inside the boardroom. Yes, people are still superficial at times and impression still counts. The list: Mismatching Shoes and Belt Tie and Short Sleeve Shirt The One Binary Watch [...]

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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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