Scott Yang's Playground

Found this nice app for my Nokia today — Mobbler, an Last.fm client for Symbian S60 phones, i.e. most of the Nokia smartphones. It lets you sign into your Last.fm account, start a station, or scrobble the music files you have played through the Nokia Music Player on your phone. A very nice way to [...]

Went to the Aussie Bloggers forums this morning and spotted this post on an urgent WordPress upgrade (yes, I usually troll in the forums early in the morning instead of reading RSS feeds). WordPress 2.3.3 has been released fixing a few minor bugs and a security issue. Yes, again — less than two months after [...]

Thunderbird 2 has just been released. There are quite a lot of new features in this new release. Most useful to me must have been message tags, i.e. you press 1 to mark the mail as important, 2 to mark it as work related, etc. It is a feature that has been available on Outlook [...]

WordPress 2.1 “Ella” has been released, only a few days after RC2 was out for testing. I have upgraded all my WordPress blogs (and shared my experience here). So far so good, but I won’t say there’s any wow-factor in it. Mark was frustrated that Atom 1.0 is not supported. Well, so far FOCUSer blogs [...]

WordPress 2.1 “Ella” has just been released. The upgrade is much more painless than upgrading some of my sites from Drupal 4.7 to 5.0. Just do the following on the command line. $ cd /var/www/scott.yang.id.au/htdocs $ svn switch http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.1/ $ curl http://scott.yang.id.au/wp-admin/upgrade.php?step=1 > /dev/null 2>&1 And that’s it! Don’t let the detailed step-through scare you, [...]

Mark Pilgrim: WrongRoom “These programs ((Write|J?Dark)Room) aren’t for serious writers at all. They’re for the writer’s equivalent of script kiddies — people who want to go to Starbucks and pick up chicks with their MacBooks and their iPods and their glowing full-screen text editors.” Exactly what I thought when I first looked at WriteRoom. If [...]

10 days after WordPress 2.0.6 has been released, the developers have just announced the release of WordPress 2.0.7, because of an SQL injection issue. Kudos to the dev’s for such a quick turn around, unlike some unnamed big company who would only patch on the holy Tuesday day of the month. Just updated 4 of [...]

Habari: a new PHP5-only, object-oriented and PDO driven blogging tool. Well, everyone has written a blogging tool or two, but I think what differentiates Habari is the momentum behind it — well known names like Michael Heilemann, Chris Davis, Scott Merrill and Khaled Abou Alfa (i.e. many WordPress contributors) were amongst the developers. I guess [...]

Bram Moolenaar announced the released of Vim 7.0. New features since 6.4 include (sorry only list the ones that I am interested in). Vim script enhancements — now you can have List, Dictionary and Funcref inside Vim scripts. One step towards becoming Emacs? Spell checking built in — use :set spell to underline the mis-spelt [...]

I have been using Internet Explorer 7 beta 2 for the last few days just to check out whether the web application we’ve developed still work on Redmond’s latest offering. Here’s my impressions. Feel free to comment. Interface looks sleek. Nice shades. No more menu bar (unless you want to be called a classic). Now [...]

Who cares about Web 2.0, as I have just found the single most useful Ajax application of all time — AjaxTerm, powered by QWeb the Python web framework. From its own description: Ajaxterm is a web based terminal. It was totally inspired and works almost exactly like Anyterm except it’s much more easy to install. [...]

Planned to start a new site. Topic? All set. Hosting? Will be at my new VPS. It is going to be a light traffic site on a specific topic updated maybe once or twice a week, so I think a simple blogging app will suffice, i.e. no complicated CMS system. So far I have two [...]

Steve Rubel thinks Scuttle is ridiculous because why the heck do we need another social bookmarker. Probably because Steve did not get it — Scuttle is an open source project that you can install on wherever PHP is (it is actually one of better written PHP app that I have seen), and that alone makes [...]

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.

Via /., Firefox 1.5 has been semi-officially released. I haven’t been able to find them on Australian mirrors early this morning, but you should be able to pick them up in the US mirrors. Actually, it is exactly the same as RC3 released over a week ago, so there is no need to upgrade if [...]