Scott Yang's Playground

The 5-year-old Nissan Pulsar that I got has been serving me well. I drive it to work Monday to Friday. It took me to Canberra a couple of times. It has been to Queensland and back twice. It even has its own moment of fame to be part of J & V’s bridal party last [...]

In response to MeanDean’s request, I have migrated my original PHP scripturizer to the same level of functionality as his latest Perl version, as well as adding WordPress plugin capability to add Bible reference links through content filter.

One thing that I dislike about WordPress is its default wptexturize filter that messes up with my HTML code. The default behaviour makes code listing very difficult to read, as it attempts to add paragraph tags to <pre /> tags. Here is one of my first attempts in WordPress plugin coding to rectify this issue.

As of this morning, “Scott Yang’s Playground” has yet again changed its software that powers the site. Last time, which was over 18 months ago, it was a conversion from PhpWiki to Movable Type. Since the Six Apart changed the license terms with Movable Type 3, I have been thinking of jumping ships – to [...]

I don’t usually blog about interesting things happening at work, because: Confidentiality. No, I would not mention any of our world domination plans. What interesting things? What do you expect from a room full of code monkeys? Colleagues do check out this site once a while. How annoying!

Proogle Prog the search engine, allows you to look up PageRank in the Google search result.

If you don’t see me blogging over the next few days, I would be busy migrating this site over to WordPress 1.2, which was recently released a few days ago. I have been playing with it yesterday. I have been hacking some Perl and PHP to get Movable Type import to work property, so I [...]

Blog Software Breakdown – comparing featureset of all existing tools.

The computer that serves you this page is dying. Not yet, but bits and pieces are falling apart. My vintage CD burner has been generating more frisbee than ever. It started last week, and has so far produced half a dozen useless coasters. Using cdrecord, it would report that CD writing has achieved nirvana speed [...]

一個週末又是這樣過去。除了教會的活動外，似乎剩下的就只有吃、睡、玩，但彷彿又點滴著不忍忘卻的回憶。

WordPress 1.2 final is out for grab. I can hear a lot of people jumping ship…

You can still download Movable Type 2.661. Not that obvious, but still useful for those who do not want to be restricted by the 3.0 license.

Saw this comment on Slashdot‘s pool, “Favorite Wielder of the Force?“. Very very funny, at least to a Starwars fan.

Reports are saying 71% of spam emails coming from servers in China. Doesn’t that make me proud? Not!

Release Candidate of WordPress 1.2 has been released. Time for you to upgrade, or switch.