Monthly Archives: May 2010

Site Menu Animation Prototype

Posted on May 31, 2010 by Robby Chen

I have been playing around with MooTools recently and came up with an idea to allow users to change the orientation of the menu for my updated site with animation. MooTools is an Object Oriented JavaScript framework similar to jQuery. The main … Continue reading →

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Text-to-speech web service Odiogo (Updated)

Posted on May 30, 2010 by Robby Chen

Update(06/01/2010 10:30 AM): The audio version of this post is now available. You can click the above “listen now” button to listen to this post. Update (05/31/2010 11:25 AM): Apparently, Odiogo hasn’t converted this newest post to audio yet. According to … Continue reading →

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Created a new logo

Posted on May 29, 2010 by Robby Chen

I decided that the logo redesign is my next step for the project. Blender and GIMP are two editors that I used to design the current logo. The tools I used to create redesigned logo are Inkscape and GIMP. I … Continue reading →

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Color Theme Successfully Changed to Ubuntu Radiance (Beta Site)

Posted on May 28, 2010 by Robby Chen

As discussed in the last post, I’m beginning to update my main site’s layout and color theme. Today I was trying to apply the Ubuntu Radiance theme onto the color theme for the site. I’ve mainly focused on the window … Continue reading →

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Played Around with Drupal, Upcoming Site Update, and more …

Posted on May 27, 2010 by Robby Chen

I hadn’t write any blog post since last Thursday. The reason is because I had been playing around with Drupal. Drupal is a Content Management System that is similar to WordPress, in my experience, because it can install additional plugins … Continue reading →

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Variable Rules – C vs PHP

Posted on May 19, 2010 by Robby Chen

Here is my first post about C programming language which I decided to learn this summer. Today I compare the variable declaration rules between C and PHP. The main difference between C and PHP’s variable declaration process is that C’s variable … Continue reading →

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Create own VR Server with OpenSim

Posted on May 18, 2010 by Robby Chen

OpenSim is an open source VR (Virtual Reality) server that is similar to Second Life, but the land is hosted on your own computer rather than hosted on the Second Life server. This means that there is no more expensive … Continue reading →

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Starting to learn C Programming Language

Posted on May 17, 2010 by Robby Chen

I have decided to learn a new programming language during this summer break. I chose C because I have already learned the basics of C++. The C++ programming language is the object oriented version of C after all. Another reason … Continue reading →

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HTML Template PHP class

Posted on May 16, 2010 by Robby Chen

This is my first fully-written PHP class to ease my HTML page creation process by pre-set the DOCTYPE and other required tags in a normal HTML page. The class is inspired by this article where it talks about wp_header and … Continue reading →

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Use str_replace to Easier Delete Characters in a String with PHP

Posted on May 15, 2010 by Robby Chen

After I used the removeChars CF function yesterday, I was thinking that there should be a better way to delete the characters using words instead of numbers. I found an article that talks about using substr PHP function to delete … Continue reading →

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