I spent most of the day customizing the Mystique wordpress theme. The theme is ridiculously great. It has all of the features I’d ever dream of. In fact, I got rid of some of my plugins + widgets because this theme covers them. Also, the theme author uses jQuery on all of the UI effects.… Continue reading Mystique Theme
Something I always forget, a shortcut array syntax for Java:
I was looking around the net for this. Maybe I didn’t look hard enough but I wasn’t able to find it. Finally a coworker told me. If you use the SpringMVC framework and wish to show generic validation error messages at the top of the page, here’s how you do it: Obviously if you wish… Continue reading SpringMVC generic errors
Obviously I am nowhere near as actively on the whole personal web world as I used to be. Most of my sites are shut down. The only somewhat active site is this one. Amazingly I still get so much traffic that makes this site top the resource usage sites on the server. Today I got… Continue reading Hosting Drama
I don’t think I’ve never dressed up for Halloween and since we were invited to a costume party this year, I decided to give it a shot 🙂 Found this cute lady bug costume. Andy found a chicken costume. How fitting is that given he’s worked at KFC for 6 years. LMAO
I learned a few new tricks recently that I thought are pretty cool. If you use apache log4j, you can get very frustrated sometimes that it does not log based on what you defined in your log4j.properties file. This is because if your java web application contains other jars that also have log4j.properties, the log4j… Continue reading log4j properties loading problem + put ivy jar on classpath in ant
Yesterday I had my Lasik surgery and everything went very well. I had to listen to the doctor and keep my eyes closed and at rest most of the time. I took a nap for four hours after the surgery. At first, the eyes felt a stinging sensation. It was rather uncomfortable but after I… Continue reading My Lasik – the day after the surgery
Bored on Saturday afternoon. Plug my Karaokes 🙂
Saw this link getting dugg today. Despite a huge CSS fan, I have to agree with one of the comments. The fact that getting a 3 column layout in CSS is a feat of wonder is an indication that something is terribly wrong with the standard. Building this layout should be obvious, intuitive, and in… Continue reading CSS 3-column layout
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