Category Archives: Web Development

Remove Part of File Names using PHP

Posted on September 2, 2010 by Robby Chen

Since David’s Batch Processor was pre-installed in GIMP on Ubuntu Studio, I used it extensively in the ICAF Gallery project today. My goal for these images is to resize their thumbnail version to 10KB or smaller and retain the original … Continue reading →

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Changing Back to the Original Schedule and First Video Post (Updated)

Posted on August 24, 2010 by Robby Chen

Update (08/25/2010): The video quality has been improved thanks to OpenShot. Note that to watch the original HD quality, you must switch to 720p or 1080p. I also fixed the PHP script to exclude the XML file inside the background.xml … Continue reading →

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My Latest Project

Posted on July 30, 2010 by Robby Chen

I have been volunteering at ICAF (International Child Art Foundation) since April of this year. When I first started off, I was assigned to be a video editor to edit pre-recorded videos for some international festivals. The reason why I … Continue reading →

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My Almost Completed Second WordPress Theme

Posted on July 16, 2010 by Robby Chen

I have been making this second Worldpress theme for the final project in my CMS class. Compare to the first theme I made, it has more customized features such as custom background and custom navigation menu, the design of the … Continue reading →

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First Basic WordPress Theme

Posted on July 5, 2010 by Robby Chen

I was wondering around on WordPress functions reference page today and created a basic WordPress theme. The theme is static, neither could customize it nor add widgets. It uses seven main functions: get_header(), get_sidebar(), get_footer(), get_posts(), get_categories(), wp_nav_menu() and bloginfo(). … Continue reading →

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Planning to Create my Own WordPress Theme

Posted on June 16, 2010 by Robby Chen

After read about the malicious code in free WordPress themes, I have decided to learn and make my own WordPress theme after I complete the redesigning project. Since I created this blog about one year ago, I only used two … Continue reading →

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NetBeans 6.9 was Released Today

Posted on June 15, 2010 by Robby Chen

I’m exited to know that latest NetBeans was released today. I happened to download 6.9 during the class at Montgomery College today. I have no idea about today’s latest release until I downloaded and installed it to the Windows XP-based … Continue reading →

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Pass a Value to Multiple PHP Variables

Posted on June 11, 2010 by Robby Chen

I had been taking UMUC 411 this week, an one-week online test drive class for University Maryland University College. I was too active in the class that I didn’t have anything to write about on the blog. Now the class … Continue reading →

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Four PHP Command-Line Functions

Posted on June 7, 2010 by Robby Chen

Typically I never read the technical articles on ibm.com. They are long and complicated. However, I was very interested on an IBM article today when I googled “php linux command”. It is titled Use Command-line tools in PHP. I experienced … Continue reading →

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Writing a New Class

Posted on June 4, 2010 by Robby Chen

I have been writing and testing a new PHP class today to make me easier to create my new site menu bar called menu class. It contains a nested unordered list and a for loop to create the sub-menus. I … Continue reading →

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