A cute story which happened a short while back truly begins a couple years ago when I bought the domain failnation.com. The objective was to use it to host mini-tutorials on correct grammar and netiquette in IRC chatrooms. Whenever somebody was unfamiliar with the social protocol (no pun intended- well no, I kid- pun definitely intended), [...]
Today I wanted to talk a bit about the birth and objectives of WIPUP – a subject I haven’t really revealed before. WIPUP, for those who aren’t already familiar with it – is an open-source web application I created which allows people to document, share, track, and critique their works-in-progresses, or in short, WIPs. The [...]
During the past few months, I have been doing my fair share of web development work. Although I cannot share most of my projects, I did recently build a system for a friend at the London School of Economics to help students exchange textbooks and other scholastic items for dirt cheap (see: free). It’s wittingly [...]
Today I was reminded about the lack of activity on my blog and on WIPUP, so tonight amidst my other projects I have sat down and I’m here writing. The last post was back near the end of my first semester, first year in architecture at the University of Sydney. Since then I’ve spent a [...]
A while back, I announced that holidays had started (well, now officially they have, just handed in my last assignment today) and that I was going back to all my projects and blogging more. The latter, obviously, was a complete failure, but hopefully this picture-filled post (all 20 of then, oh yes) will make up [...]
The past month and a bit has been terribly hectic, working on our last pieces of our various projects and preparing for portfolio submissions which happened on Monday and yesterday. Sleep had been lost, excessive eating out due to time constraints, and in general all other projects slowed down to a crawl. Now, however, the [...]
WIPUP is a way for you to share your long-term projects and discover the passions of others. Easter has started, and lots of interesting things are cropping up here and there – one of which is that WIPUP has seen a much-needed update. The last time this happened was way back in November, which is [...]
A brief history lesson. The introduction identifies KDE.org as a wall of text with a pretty frame and explains why there is a problem. Part 1 sets conversion goals on our two target markets. Part 2 restructures the sitemap to make sense. Part 3 dabbles a bit on concluding the design criteria for the homepage, [...]
Firstly, some apologies for the lack of life on this blog. Things are trickling in and you can actually keep an eye on WIPUP for incoming updates on my projects that I won’t write about in thinkMoult. Just down the road from my faculty building is a site called CarriageWorks – it was an abandoned [...]
Just a quick history lesson. In the introductory post we highlighted several tell-tale symptoms that KDE.org had a very big usability and design problem. In part 1 of the war, we discussed a back-to-basics question what are we trying to communicate, what are we trying to achieve, and outlined goals for our various target audiences. [...]
Hey folks, I haven’t posted anything since the SLUG meeting for (what should be) obvious reasons. University has started and it takes a little time for me to adjust back into a schedule after almost a year without one. I’m still working out the kinks to juggle university, freelancing, family time, thoughtscore, wipup, sports, music, [...]
Being completely new to Australia and since Malaysia doesn’t have any sort of open-source community whatsoever I searched around for a linux/blender/open-source group when arriving. I found SLUG, or the Sydney Linux User Group. They hold monthly meetings, and though I was unavailable to join their January meeting, I did manage to join the February [...]
I recently became the proud new owner of an Android phone, or more specifically the Samsung Galaxy S i9000. Upon purchase it was promptly rooted and had a custom rom flashed onto it. Also recently KDE 4.6 was released and after a night of compiling I was sitting at a sparkling new desktop and customising [...]
As some might be aware, I’ve recently moved from my nest in Malaysia to the charming country of Australia to begin university. I’m officially a university student now. Well, classes haven’t started yet and won’t for the next 2 weeks, and I haven’t even been to orientation yet, but according to the university’s crappy intranet system [...]
A while back I talked about getting a Debian-based VPS from JohnCompanies. I had initially chosen them despite cheaper and more popular alternatives such as Linode due to my having used rsync.net – of which is a child of JohnCompanies. JohnCompanies’ emphasis and excuse for their high(er) prices are their stellar customer support system which [...]
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