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how fast does google crawl?

This blew my mind. I submitted a topic on my message board to ask someone to preview a layout for me in mac. And about five minutes later I did a google search on “preview layout in mac,” that thread showed up in the first page of the search results. UN……REAL!

geeky · non php code

OpenLaszlo

This looks really cool. Maybe I will write a simple guestbook with it. http://www.openlaszlo.org/demos Bonus, found a tutorial for OpenLaszlo front end and php back end. Too bad it does require a java container to run. There are ways to get around that I guess. I was watching this video produced by the author. It’s… Continue reading OpenLaszlo

geeky · love n family · mixed · personal · photos · rants

dodo has been online for ten years

the other night i realized something amazing. i’ve been to the online world for ten years. i got my first modem at home when i was 16 and i’m turning 26 soon. TEN YEARS.. that’s a long time. a very significant part of a life. from 16 to 26, a person can change so much.… Continue reading dodo has been online for ten years

geeky · plug · wp hacks

upgraded to wordpress 2.3

I’ve upgraded to wordpress 2.3 mainly to use their new sidebar widget feature. I thought it will be overly cool to not have to rewrite the sidebar.php for every theme. However, I’d like to have different sidebars for different views. Like the sidebar for my index page would look different than the sidebar for my… Continue reading upgraded to wordpress 2.3

geeky · pc tips

where is IE7 refresh button?

I can’t believe I googled on this. I thought IE7 took out the refresh button but in fact they just moved it. Moved it to the end of the address line. This also shows how little I used IE7 even tho I’ve been using Vista for over 9 months.

geeky · non php code

transparent PNG background

I finally found some time to put back the transparent PNG background tutorial. It’s by far the most requested tutorial from Dodo’s New World. People email me from this original post.

geeky · pc tips

taskbar shuffle

I used to use a free software called task arrange for windows XP to rearrange my buttons in the taskbar. But the software does not work in Vista. I found another software named taskbar shuffle today that allows you to drag the buttons around in your taskbar. On top of that, it comes with two… Continue reading taskbar shuffle

geeky · school n work

How to STYLE a table using CSS (JSF examples)

Tables are very important parts of the web interface. They are (hopefully) used for tabular data. It is one of the oldest and most basic HTML presentation tag but in order for it to smoothly fit into the new CSS age, we need to look at the most practical way in correctly setting up the… Continue reading How to STYLE a table using CSS (JSF examples)

geeky

Clear left workaround

You may have run into this problem, you may have not. But I found an acceptable workaround to this particular problem. Here’s the scenario. So I have a two column layout where my navigation list (red) is floated to the left and my main content is on the right. In my main content I have… Continue reading Clear left workaround

funny · geeky

Cutest Firefox poster!

My coworker just sent me this cutest Firefox poster!! Everyone should get one. I was very enraged by the JSF tag Because it renders the radio buttons with the TABLE tag @_@ instead of something CSS friendly like list or div tags. Fortunately if you use the tomahawk’s version of You can render the radio… Continue reading Cutest Firefox poster!