Category Archives: PHP

Simplicity

I was thinking through about the design of a software that I am working on.
One of the objective that I would want it to achieve is, Simplicity.
Consider this. How many of the built-in features that comes with your mobile phone do you use on a regular basis ?
3-5 maybe. Phone, SMS, Camera ? What else?
If [...]

Sortable DataTable: Yahoo UI, Rico and SortTable

I was working on an enhancment on the UI for a web application.
Among the to-do that I have in mind is to make the data tables more useful.
Data tables are really one of the key views that a user will see. They search for something, and the results is returned in a table format with [...]

Should REBOL be renamed?

Carl posted an interesting question on his blog.
Should REBOL be renamed?
This arise from a commercial deployment of REBOL where corporate IT staffs not familiar with REBOL start thinking that it is some kind of rogue processes.
I posted my thoughts on the blog.
To me, the million dollar question is not “Should we change the name?”. Rather, [...]

Open Source Dealer Management System (DMS)

We issued a press release today, outlining that B.Synchronized, our dealer management system (DMS), will be open sourced.
A huge portion of the decision is tie back to what I want Neusteps to be ; helping companies be efficient.
We believe, with this approach, more car dealerships can benefit from lower cost implementation. And this is especially [...]

Running Lighttpd on windows

For some reasons, Apache2 on my windows seems to be getting sluggish. A huge part of it is due to the number of services running on my machine.
I took the opportunity to make a switch from Apache to Lighttpd .
Kevin Worthington has compiled a windows build that allow one to easily install it on [...]