Monthly Archives: February 2010

The ColdFusion website is now fully data-driven

Posted on February 28, 2010 by Robby Chen

I learned a way to write code for the menus by using database instead of using cfswich. Now the course website is completely database-driven. I used the CMS approach to redesign the links in each menu. Here is the entire … Continue reading →

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Experience with Proprietary NVIDIA Driver and one Compiz Fusion tip

Posted on February 27, 2010 by Robby Chen

After I installed proprietary graphic driver from the official NVIDIA website because of the recent decision of using Second Life on my Fedora system, I installed Compiz Fusion. I was surprised to see that the animations produced by Compiz Fusion … Continue reading →

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Still Solving Flash Problem in Second Life

Posted on February 26, 2010 by Robby Chen

Yesterday I successfully ran Second Life official viewer on Fedora x64. However, I discovered that I cannot view YouTube video and other Flash-enabled websites when testing the new Shared Media feature in SL Viewer 2 Beta. Today I found out … Continue reading →

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Finally got Second Life Official Viewer Working under Fedora 12 x64 Updated

Posted on February 25, 2010 by Robby Chen

Second Life viewer 2 beta has been out for a while. It features a web browser like interface and a new feature called Shared Media that makes me to rethink about trying to install SL viewer on my Fedora x64 … Continue reading →

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Rainbows jQuery Plug-in Makes Text Gradient

Posted on February 24, 2010 by Robby Chen

I just discovered a great jQuery extension called Rainbows. It basically adds gradient effect to the text. It is best used for the text in the logo. There are lots of great examples over its website. It not only supports … Continue reading →

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Learning PHP Object Oriented Programming

Posted on February 23, 2010 by Robby Chen

Today I have learned about using Object Oriented Programming (or OOP) in PHP. It is very easy once you understand the structure of the OOP and have lots of practice on this technique. I learned this while I was looking … Continue reading →

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Ubiquity Experiment was Ended For Now

Posted on February 22, 2010 by Robby Chen

Ubiquity was an experiment Firefox add-on released by Mozilla back in 2008. It basically added a command line interface to the browser to search almost everything on the web using Google search engine. According to the Ubiquity homepage, the first … Continue reading →

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Successfully using ColdFusion array for the First Time Without Knowing Anything

Posted on February 21, 2010 by Robby Chen

I just improved my ColdFusion class website. I used more fileExists functions to automate the detection of the project files in the URL variables. Now I don’t have to worry about adding the projects to the cfswitch statement anymore. Here … Continue reading →

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The FSF Open Letter to Google

Posted on February 20, 2010 by Robby Chen

The following is the email I received from FSF about Google’s recently purchased On2 video codec maker. I already talked about Google’s usage of On2′s VP8 codec might come true in the post “The future version of Youtube might not … Continue reading →

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Discovered a Bug in the Web Application

Posted on February 20, 2010 by Robby Chen

I encountered a small bug in my Computer Concepts web app while I was doing the assignment using the app. It seems to always output a forward slash in front of each single quote on the print layout table. Please … Continue reading →

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