Hello World!

Welcome to my personal blog. My apology for the mess - this site has been down for quite sometime as I tried to revive it piece by piece. Any feedback is welcome. Cheers!

06 July 2009 ~ 0 Comments

PHP ZipArchive corrupted

If you experienced a corrupted zip file produced by ZipArchive on WampServer you probably have come to the right place. Apparently there has been a discussion on this long time ago but looks like Wampserver still uses the old php_zip.dll. Well, nothing much to write about as it’s quite straightforward. You might want to try [...]

03 July 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Matt Mullenweg speaks about Improving Web Performance

Interesting and quite a coincidence I must say, to see another thought about web performance by Matt Mullenweg as recently I posted several posts about web performance: Web Performance Best Practices and One-Cent Tips to Increase Site Performance. For anyone who doesn’t know who is Matt Mullenweg, read more about him from Wikipedia. In short, [...]

30 June 2009 ~ 2 Comments

Typogriph the Minimal WordPress theme

Obvious enough, I just changed my theme from Fusion to a cleaner and lightweight theme called Typogriph as I had been looking around for a simple yet nice theme that suits my need. And finally came down to Typogriph as my best choice. There may be other popular theme called Thesis which most notable bloggers [...]

22 June 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Image Manipulation in PHP

Sometimes there is a need to do simple image manipulation for certain web projects. Take for example a popular site called Flickr. Flickr is an image hosting site that allows online community to store pictures for others to view. And for some cases some uploaders may have big image files and hence a site like [...]

15 June 2009 ~ 1 Comment

Web Performance Best Practices

Following-up my previous post on how to increase site performance. I received an email from my lead about a Firefox add-on named “Page Speed” that helps analyze a site performance. In brief, Page Speed is an open-source Firefox/Firebug Add-on. Webmasters and web developers can use Page Speed to evaluate the performance of their web pages [...]