Sep30

FON Free WiFi

I’m sure you will agree this is nothing new but I’ve been intrigued by the FON Free WiFi service for quite some time, just never got round to sharing my thoughts. With the recent horror stories about wireless mobile subscribers racking up thousands of dollars in mobile data charges I thought I’d finally blog a [...]

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Sep29

Microsoft to adopt jQuery

Some exciting news just came out — Microsoft plans to adopt jQuery making it part of their official development platform. So it will be shipped with Visual Studio and have all that intellisense goodness. I’m pretty excited about this news. Though I no longer use Microsoft development products it is a testiment to the world [...]

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Sep07

Another Barcamp bites the dust

Photo: Ryanne Lai Like last year, this years’ Barcamp Hong Kong attracted some amazing people. The sponsors have clearly grown too with big names such as Yahoo!, Adobe and Microsoft added to the pot. Unfortunately I missed most of the morning talks, including the HKSUA launch. I arrived just in time to catch the last [...]

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Sep07

The story behind Google Chrome

Niall Kennedy tells us the story behind Google Chrome. A facinating read and interesting karma behind staff hires and acquisitions that made Chrome possible. Whether by chance or calculation it is a Win win situation for all of us!

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Sep05

Django: cheat sheet

The guys at Mercurytide have released a new Django 1.0 cheat sheet. Thanks guys this will be very handy indeed!

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Sep04

Django 1.0 released!

Wohoo! OK, maybe not as big as Chrome but Django 1.0 released yesterday! Django is a brilliant Python Web framework designed to make our lives easier. Django takes DRY to its extreme and comes with myraids of documentation including an online book! Django is like Lego, first you start with many dispersed pieces; you then [...]

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Sep03

Google Chrome

As you may have heard Google Chrome (Chrome) went live yesterday. The Chrome team also released a comic explaining some of the innovations and ideas around Chrome. After installing Chrome the first impression I got was it’s a very slim-line and compact browser. The UI reflects this totally. There isn’t the usual File menu above [...]

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Sep01

Barcamp Hong Kong

The second coming of Barcamp Hong Kong has arrived. I’m a bit late to the party because somehow I’ve been dropped off the mailing list — someone does not like me Anyway, do not fret! There is still one week left until the event so RSVP now!

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Sep01

jQuery.com website redesign

The long overdue redesign of jQuery.com has finally landed! I like the new design as it’s more intuitive and inline with jQuery UI’s design. This redesign will certainly help pitch jQuery to new comers; for many the decision to go with another framework has purely been based on the ugliness of the old jQuery website, [...]

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