Scott Yang's Playground

Via Neil A, Michael Jensen opened an discussion about Christian schools in Australia, where he asked “If Christian schools were really Christian, would anyone (other than Christians) want to send their kids there?” Good to think through before we send our kids to school in a few years. However, personal experience wise (yup, I’ve only [...]

Firebird 2 Release Candidate 3 has just been released, and you can now download binaries for major platforms here. For Windows the FB 2 setup exe comes with both classic and super-server. We actually have been deploying only super-servers, on beefy boxes with 2x dual core with 2x HT each (8x processing unit in total), [...]

Via Joel on Software, Elastic Tabstops is an attempt to use expanding/elastic tabstop characters to solve the tab-vs-space issue. Yup. Tab or space. Or in the case of “space” — how many space characters? Also recently debated on wp-hackers mailing list when Matt released the WordPress coding style, every single programmer seems to have his/her [...]

I have updated Playground to a new WordPress theme. It’s pretty much derived from the old theme, 100% hand coded. These are the things I want from a new theme. Simple one column layout. White background, dark gray fonts, and nothing fancy. Bigger text font. Probably better for those who do not have 20-20 eye [...]

Rick Warren addressing at the Hillsong Conference last night, reported on Sydney Morning Herald: “I don’t think it is a sin to be rich, it’s a sin to die rich,” he (Rick Warren) told the Herald earlier. “I want people to make as much money as they can as long as they give it away [...]

Saturday Anna woke up at the usual time, saw the tricycle sitting on the lounge room coffee table, and could not get her hands off it. She can quickly get herself on the tricycle, but still not strong enough to paddle. Went to China town to pick up the cake (thanks to Leo for ordering [...]