Scott Yang's Playground

Camino 1.0 has been released. Best browser on a Mac — at least for those of us who stuck in older version of Mac OS X. And yeah, there is one more thing that Camino, the Gecko-based browser, kicks Safari 2.0′s ass — XUL.

Yahoo! UI Library, recently released by Yahoo! under BSD license, is quite a shining piece of web development toolkit. It has all the nifty Javascript utility functions/classes to build your next Web 2.0 application, in a similar fashion to other toolkits like Script.aculo.us or Rico, but backed by one of the largest company on the [...]

MacSlash: Why Apple Really Ditched PowerPC. Because Intel can provide what Motorola/IBM cannot provide to Apple? It tells me nothing more than “Why I should no longer read MacSlash editorial”. And what stops Intel from also staling from its desktop CPU development? Better question to ask is — who will be the next chip maker [...]

What has been predicted is now here. iPod Nano now has a new member in the family — the junior 1Gb version that sells for AUD219 here in Australia. With 1,000 megabytes of storage that is capable of only storing 140 songs, the obvious question is why bother, when the cheaper iPod Shuffle 1Gb has [...]

Via Neil A, CMS has put their 2006 Summer School talks MP3 on the net for free download. It is Peter O’Brien on Ephesians, and each talk is around 10-12Mb. I have always enjoyed CMS summer school talks, and it is great they have offered the talks for free, for those who have not been [...]

Sorry that I have not been blogging here for weeks — very busy at work which translates very little time coding for my own. I wish I can just write about all the WTF I’ve enountered at work over the past weeks, trying to make a multi-threaded CORBA-interfaced Python app server scalable (note “multi-thread”, “Python” [...]

I have read a few John Dickson’s books. They’re great — his books are easy to read, not too difficult, not too many jargon, and are perfect for new believers or non-Christian to discover Christianity. However I have never had a chance to listen to him speak, until today. From this week, John Dickson will [...]

coComment: “… enable you to efficiently track your comments comments and conversations with others across the blogosphere.” I am just giving it a go at the moment and it has been very useful so far. Have you ever wondered where have you left a comment, and whether anyone else has replied you? Sometimes it can [...]

Steven and Shirley dropped me back home at around 5:15pm this afternoon, from the annual FOCUS Long Termers’ weekend away at the Rafferty Resort. Long Term Leaders at FOCUS are those who have finished their degree but have continued to stay in FOCUS for the sake of overseas student ministry, and this weekend away has [...]

Woke up this morning, and found WordPress, the software that powers this blog, released a bug fix version 2.0.1. So I logged onto my DreamHost account via SSH, and $ wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz $ tar zxvf latest.tar.gz $ cd wordpress/ $ tar cf – . | (cd ~/scott.yang.id.au; tar xvf -) $ wget -O – http://scott.yang.id.au/wp-admin/upgrade.php?step=1 [...]