WordPress 2.3 “Dexter” is now ready for the world, and the new features include native tagging support, plugin update notification, URL handling improvements and more. It has been five months since the release of 2.2 “getz”, and they are indeed picking up the development speed. Great if you love the bleeding edge of everything. [...]
Due to personal committment elsewhere, I have not been able to blog as much as I would like to so I am in the process of merging existing blogs that I have. I shall be closing down FuCoder.com, which was started 2 years ago, migrating all the posts back to my personal blog, and continue [...]
eWeek: Opening a PDF file on your Windows PC can get you pwn3d, recently discovered by researcher Petko D. Petkov (his blog is no longer online at this point in time). It’s the same guy who discovered Apple’s Quicktime flaw and how you can infect someone’s PC via Firefox and Quicktime. Interestingly the open source [...]
Went to the big crowded East Garden Saturday morning, and bought this from Big W. $14.82 each, and comes down to total $44.46. Once in a while my heart feels a sense of completeness. Saturday morning was one such occasion. Now with Episode I to III (all with double DVD), it is now complete with the [...]
High Scalability: Making Twitter 10,000 Percent Faster detailing how Twitter, an RoR application running on Joyent Accelerators, scale to its current size. Information obtained from various sources. Interesting point on Erlang: “How do you get a broken server running at Sunday monday with 20,000 users waiting? The developer didn’t know. Not a lot of [...]
Dilbert: Wally showed Asok how to dodge a question in the meeting by bringing up the term “Web 2.0″, and a debate will sure follow. “Um… I was wondering if our new service is Web 2.0 or Web 1.0.” Maybe I should give it a try at meetings sometimes.
Yes. It was released this morning. Now the iPod family consists of: iPod Touch 8GB/16GB solid state with iPhone-like touch-screen interface, 3.5″ widescreen display, Safari web browser and Wi-Fi. $419/$549. iPod Classic 80GB/160GB 1.8″ hard disk with an all metal design, 2.5″ widescreen LCD, weight at 140g/162g, $349/$479. iPod Nano 4GB/8GB solid state, 2″ widescreen LCD at 320×240, weight at 49.2g, $199/$279. iPod [...]
Saw it on Twitter: jjprojects: Honestly, you feel like you are being watched by snipers out there, which is probably the case. Warlach: @jjprojects http://www.flickr.com/photos/hugosharp/… thanks to @hugosharp. Yes. Watch out! There might be a sniper on your roof! (Credit to Hugo Sharp. Trying hard not to make any Team-Fortress/Counter-Strike inspired jokes) APEC 2007 has really transformed Sydney into a [...]
Playground is the personal weblog of Scott Yang, a Chinese-Australian Christian who works as a software developer in Sydney Australia.