Working is tiring

As titled.

Google Calendar: be afraid Microsoft, be very afraid

http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/3917/106/

JobsDB New Job Notification

I did it 6 months ago.
http://www9.brinkster.com/hongjun/jobsdb/

If it fails to work one day, this just means JobsDB has change their page structure. Good luck to those graduating this semester.

PS Carrefour Sale

Bought a book on ASP.NET Web Security at $5
Bought total 4 CD wallet at $1 each

Computer Warehouse Clearance Sale

Event At Suntec Singapore
http://www.suntecsingapore.com/calendar/popup_event.pl?event_id=1593

Welcome to Academic Live Search

Ideal especially for researching purposes. At least this time Microsoft got it before Google.
Thumbs Up!
http://academic.live.com/

How I Work: Bill Gates

http://money.cnn.com/2006/03/30/news/newsmakers/gates_howiwork_fortune/index.htm

Court Records Reveal Adware Firm's Hardball Tactics

Post here basically for future reading.
No time for now!
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=184430318&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_All
(Reserved for weekend reading)

EZ-link services goes online for better customer service

Lame... Waste Money!
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/technologynews/view/202595/1/.html

Welcome ryancys

Welcome ryancys, my Experts-Exchange mate, back working in Singapore. Guess we can meet up for lunch one of these days.

SgDotNet Talk

Ya.. I actually attended a talk on "Web Parts" and "UML" last Thursday. The talk on "Web Parts" was by Maung Maung (MVP for Security). Sharepoint was introduced. I am IMPRESSED with the power of Sharepoint with SmartPart. I guess http://www.live.com is most probably created that way.
It was held Microsoft. That was my 2nd time there.

Interview: Microsoft's Database Guru

I still feel MsSQL is easier to use.
As for enterprise, I think SQL Server 2005 has addressed this issue. Even SQL 2005 reporting services is competing Crystal Reports.
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=184429838&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_All

Google's Eric Schmidt Told a Lie In 2002

From http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,81685,00.asp

PC World: So you don't want to be the next Yahoo?

Schmidt: What we do is search. Yahoo is a portal with a myriad of specialized services. What Google does is sufficiently limited. It's not really targeted at what Yahoo or AOL is trying to do. Our business strategy is not to compete, because we want them as customers.

Update

RCL is a different working environment as compared to WPH. RCL is more corporate and the environment is a LOT LOT LOT quieter. You don't normally see people joked and cracking lame jokes. On average, people there are in their late 30s. Thought chinese make up the majority, there are quite a number of Burmese.

The nature of work is also different. It is mainly on web programming at WPH while it is mainly on component-based programming at RCL.

Long Time No Blog

It has been quite some time since I last blog.

Blogspot Comment Feature Used Instead

Due to sabotage by an anonymous, I have switched to blogspot's comment feature instead of the haloscan's. With blogspot, I can perform moderation.

Internet Explorer PNG Transparency Hack

This is an interesting find.
http://solweb.no/?postid=39

This is a bug in Internet Explorer 6.0 and below. Internet Explorer 7.0 has confirmed this PNG transparency bug is addressed.
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/04/26/412263.aspx

All along, I thought it may not be possible for this particular image. PNG supports 256 levels of transparency where GIF only supports one. Turning a PNG with an alpha channel that doesnt reach %100 transparency into a gif would look just like the PNG without the alpha channel. And turning a PNG with an alpha channel that does reach %100 transparency into a gif would result in a halo around the image. Not only that but PNG supports thousands of colors where gif only supports 256. My recommendation to fellow EE experts thus is always "Convert to GIF".

Still, GIF and JPG are still the 2 picture formats being supported by all browsers. If you don't see the transparency (without applying the hack), this means the browser you are using doesn't support PNG files with alpha channels. IE for windows doesn't, IE for Mac does, iCab for Mac does, Netscape 6 does, Mozilla does, and Firefox does.

Dictionary Suggest

My 2nd AJAX mini application - Dictionary Suggest
Try it out and you should know what the mini app does.
I will improve on the functionality whenever I got the time.
http://dev.wph.com.sg/users/hj/dictionary/

New Phase of Life

3 months in Web Professional House is short but then memorable. I have decided not to extend my contract and move on to another company, RCL Feeder. Colleagues at WPH are all nice people. They are a group of young people and some even younger than me! We blast music at work, talk loudly, listen to gossip, etc.. On my last day of work, they gave me a Waterman black ballpoint pen, and a nice tie. I am so touched.

I know RCL will not be that vibrant. Nevertheless, it is going to be another experience for me.

TARGETED to A Unrespected Barbarian

That barbarian has made insulting posts to my shoutbox twice giving reasons that I have used hongjun for my blogspot. Because of this, IT is unable to use hongjun for ITS blog name.

Just too bad!