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About this blog in 2010

Ace — Thu, 27 May 2010 21:30:26 +0000

Welcome, once more, to my online scratchpad. It’s been forever since I’ve updated this site with new content, and admittedly, I’ve always had trouble blogging consistently. However – as ever – I’m going to try again. With my starting career as a web developer in mind, I’d like to lay down and share my findings with a wide range of technologies, including Web MVC Frameworks, JavaScript frameworks like jQuery, Web Design and more recent additions to my resume: Mobile Web Development and Mobile Application Development for Apple iPhone and perhaps in the near future, Google Android.

As you can imagine, these are quite an amount of technologies to master, and fast-moving ones at that. So, ultimately, this blog should serve as a sharing platform to fellow web developers and a personal documentation archive for myself. Feel free to contribute in the comments, or via Twitter (via@aceontech).

I’ll be posting more code samples here and will use GitHub and Gist to share sample code and code snippets. I have created a GitHub open source repository, available here:

Website:http://github.com/aceontech/iphonedev
Read-only git repo:git://github.com/aceontech/iphonedev.git

Thanks to ndesign studio for the intermediary use of their WordPress theme. I’m currently working on a more specialized blogging platform, which will include a new design, thus I’ll be replacing WordPress with my own system soon.

Site update

Ace — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:03:45 +0000

I’ve finally put out the minor layout adjustments I’ve been working on during the past few weeks. When I first released the WordPress theme some time ago, I left some unsightly holes in the UI. The theme has been rewritten from the ground up to patch up these inconsistencies and improve usability. This is the first iteration of the new layout and I’ll be continually tweaking it over time to achieve what I ultimately envisioned for this website.

If you have any comments and/or suggestions, feel free (as always) to drop me a line using the comment form below. I’ll be getting to the About-page ASAP.

– Ace

Overdue site update

Ace — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:09:57 +0000

Howdy!

I finally put up the long overdue site update. As you can see (you may want to get out of your shell, if you’re a RSS follower), I’ve changed the way the site looks, again. I’m aware of the fact that some links have disappeared or have become broken. These issues will be resolved over the course of the following days.

Ace on Tech has been dormant for the past month or so, but this will change again, as I’ll be making more time to maintain the site more.

Thanks for passing by,

–Ace

Breaking News Section Fixed

Ace — Sun, 25 May 2008 07:34:46 +0000

Since I introduced the new design, the Breaking News section on the homepage seemed to be failing. It would display the entry titles somewhat correctly, but the underlying URLs would be messed up. The problem here, I think, is the WordPress Plugin I’m using, which grabs RSS feeds and parses them from time to time.

I looked into the plugin’s code, but couldn’t find where things went amok, so I threw it out completely [for now]. Instead, I solved it with a bit of Javascript.

Links in the Breaking News section should be fully functional again now.

Scheduled Downtime

Ace — Mon, 05 May 2008 04:44:01 +0000

I expect the site to be down for several hours later today, as I push through some updates. After that, I’ll also be back daily/regularly with new posts and content.

Hope to see you back soon,

Ace

Updated: Audiobook Recommendations

Ace — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:43:46 +0000

I’ve finally gotten to updating the ‘Audiobook Recommendations’ section and added several books I’ve read by now, along with shiny new ratings. Check out my ‘Audiobook Recommendations‘ page for the following reviews and ratings:

‘Duma Key’ by Stephen King
First Impression [rating:3.5]
Narration [rating:4]
‘A home at the end of the world’ by Michael Cunningham
[rating:5]
‘Angela’s Ashes’ by Frank McCourt
[rating:3]
‘The Green Mile’ by Stephen King
[rating:5]
‘Carrie’ by Stephen King
[rating:4]
‘The Road’ by Cormac McCarthy
[rating:4.5]
‘The Exorcist’ by William Peter Blatty
[rating:4]
‘I am Legend’ by Richard Matheson
[rating:5]

Ace on Tech Updates

Ace — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 23:05:05 +0000

In the course of the past few days I’ve been putting through a quite a few updates/tweaks to the website, the most important one being WordPress 2.3.2 (upgrade — it had only been a month, though). Functional changes up to date:

OpenID support has been enabled for comments. Contributions made by users with an OpenID will automatically be accepted, whereas normal comments will need to through moderation as usual. There’s still a bug which is preventing myOpenID from identifying, I’ll try to get this patched.
Lightbox provides a sleek overlay pop-up for displaying zoomed-in imagery.
Full XHTML RSS Feeds have been activated for easier reading. In the past, articles would get clipped off in plain text, forcing you to click through to the article.
Code syntax highlighting.
Social networking links at the bottom every post.
My ‘Ace on Tech’ WordPress theme is now fully widgetized.

del.icio.us Tags: wordpress,plugins,widgets,lightbox,openid

Merry XMAS and a Happy New Year

Ace — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 10:48:09 +0000

Ho Ho Ho!

–Ace

Links for 2007-12-18

Ace — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 22:59:59 +0000

More iPhone clones: http://tinyurl.com/ypl83j #
Santa’s village is lacking snow. Global warming? http://tinyurl.com/25myxf #
OpenOffice.org Online Beta: http://tinyurl.com/29lz6l #
Pretty ugly Android prototype phone: http://tinyurl.com/2xbcum #
Updating WordPress to latest version (long overdue!) #

Blog upgraded to WordPress 2.3.1

Ace — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 22:20:53 +0000

Finally got to updating this thing! I’m known to put stuff off I don’t like — into eternity. The announcement for this bug-fix release dated back 53 days, so it was high time to make some.. time for this maintenance. All went well and it wasn’t even a pain.

P.S.: The weird mumbo jumbo happening on the site a few a go was just me mucking around with some settings and plug-ins. These inconsistencies should be flattened out by now, though.

Happy holidays!
Ace