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Pluit Carousel – Prototype Carousel
I was looking a Prototype based carousel, so I googled and found a couple. I was not very happy with I found, so I decided to write my own version.
Carousel is definitely one the most widely used Javascript widgets, you probably need to use it to show your photos, product/feature highlights, top stories, page [...]
Signing Amazon Request with amazon-ecs-0.5.6
If you are using Amazon Web Services or Product Advertising API, Amazon probably had been bugging you to sign your requests by August 15.
If you have not, by now all your requests should have failed. Some of you who are using amazon-ecs have contacted me last week, if there’s a patch to solve this issue; [...]
Extending Singapore National Library Board Search
Some weeks ago, I heard about Redis from Chu Yeow’s tweet. Redis is a key-value database, similar with memcached, but with the persistence feature. And one of the first things that popped up into my mind was, this is going to be handy to extend Singapore National Library Board (NLB) catalog search on BookJetty.
So I [...]
XCode Shortcuts I Can’t Live Without
I have finally jumped into the bandwagon of Objective-C development with XCode, out of curiousity to develop an iPhone application. And the first thing that I usually did when playing with a new IDE or editor is to learn the shorcuts.
And thanks to Colin Wheeler for the cheat-sheet:
http://cocoasamurai.blogspot.com/2008/02/complete-xcode-keyboard-shortcut-list.html
The cheat-sheet is comprehensive, and out of those, [...]
Spooktacular Hachette Book Group Giveaway Offer
Hacheette Book Group is back with its free books giveaway on BookJetty. Halloween is around the corner, so it’s getting spooky this time with these collection of books.
And all are yours for free if you are a BookJetty member (sign up as one if you are not) and put at least one book on your [...]
Preventing MSN Messenger Spam on Adium
I like Adium, but recently there were just too many spams from my MSN account, I tried finding the privacy settings under Preferences, only to find out later that it was not there.
The secret is it’s under Adium menu (on top left screen) > Privacy Settings (Alt + Cmd + P). Choose your MSN [...]
BookJetty Google Book Search Integration
Yesterday Google Book Search officially launched a set of free tools to allow anyone to embed books from the Google Book Search Index. And it also introduces Book Search API for greater integration to its search index and readers’ ratings, reviews and book collections.
BookJetty is glad to be able to integrate with Google Book Search, [...]
BookJetty Books Giveway
I’m glad to announce BookJetty first books giveway, thanks to Hachette Book Group USA, 10 best selling books offered for free to host Back to School Book Bonanza! For 5 lucky BookJetty users.
To be entitled, you just need to write one book review in the month of September, and winners will be picked up [...]
SEO Friendlier URL With Permalink_Fu
permalink_fu has been great to create a Search Engine Optimized (SEO) friendly URL, but I was a bit irritated when the-permalink-is-getting-too-long-with-too-many-unecessary-keywords.
From some of the SEO tips I read, it is advisable not too put too many keywords in the URL. Unecessary stop words such as ‘the, a, in, on, and the list goes on’ can [...]
BookJetty in Digital Life
BookJetty finally makes it to Digital Life, I’m humbled to read BookJetty mentioned as one of the high flying-tech from Singapore, considering it was started from a bare simple application started out of curiosity.
Hopefully with this article BookJetty will be able to reach out to more book lovers and library users in Singapore. Special thanks [...]