It’s been a while since the last time I updated this blog (read: portfolio & more). No, I wasn’t playing stock, I’m simply not that good in economic stuffs - do I need to mention about THE crisis? And I wasn’t watching the election neither (I know that Obama won however, through some stories on [...]

Yes, it’s been a while, and finally my favorite PHP framework has released its latest version 1.7.0 (Actually it was some 7 days ago but I missed it, what a shame). When the previous version (1.6.3) was just more or less about maintenance and bug fixes, 1.7.0 makes a step further to add many new [...]

Just like most of us here, I love WordPress, and I like Digg. And as you may know, Digg allows us to integrate the “Digg This” button into virtually any web page. Yes, this naturally includes my WordPress posts. Yay! The integration is dead simple. To display a “Digg This” button in my post, I [...]

Yesterday I received this small project to fix a Rapidshare searcher script. They were using an X-request from their server to FilesTube search form, then got the HTML result in a string and explode()‘ed it. Yes, you can tell it was once working like a charm, but not stable at all, since just one small [...]

Okay, so PHP is cool, PHP rocks, PHP is easy to learn… However, just because it’s cool and easy doesn’t mean that you know everything about it. There are gurus (YES!!! LOTS OF THEM!!!) and then there are newbies (WHOHOO!!! Why am I so exciting?). As a guru, you know do-and-don’ts. But what if you’re [...]