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Quickly Switch Window Manager With Compiz Fusion Icon

Arief Bayu Purwanto — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 10:08:11 +0000

Having compiz (ubuntu's rich desktop experience) activated does increase my desktop experiences as well as the usability. However, having it activated complicate stuff all the time, when it come to gaming. I'm gamer and I admit it. This is why I envy windows user for having so much games. However, with the increasingly popular ubuntu [...]

PHPExcel: Advanced Read-Write Excel Made Simple

Arief Bayu Purwanto — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 04:27:33 +0000

There are many excel reader / writer library all over the net. However, most of it only support partial features. Today, we'll learn a php excel library that support almost all aspect of excel. Well, except VBS, I guess. Step 1 Preparation This step will tell you what we need to be able to use [...]

PHPMiniAdmin:Mini Tool That Get The Job Done

Arief Bayu Purwanto — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 02:09:45 +0000

For most of the time, when doing freelance, I have to work with mysql. Given the various server panel available out there, it's quite difficult to find how to access mysql data. This has been my case until recently, when I found PHPMiniAdmin (PMA). It was a single php file that will help you easily [...]

Fixing WordPress’s Maintenance Mode Caused By Broken Update

Arief Bayu Purwanto — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:13:07 +0000

WordPress upgrade tools is way AWESOME! It help us upgrade core system, plugins, and themes easily. However, as with many other human products, failed is one of it's features. When wordpress doing upgrade, it put system into maintenance mode. After upgrading processes finished, it bring back to live mode and ready to serve traffic. However, [...]

Search Stackoverflow Right From Your Google Chrome

Arief Bayu Purwanto — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:20:59 +0000

I just recently realized that you can search any content on stackoverflow, right from your chrome's OmniBar. How you do that? We'll you can follow this simple steps: Type sta on OmbiBar. You should something like this image. When you hit 'TAB' OmbiBar will change it's mode to 'Search Stack Overflow'. Just type in your [...]

[CR]Post2PingFM Update

Arief Bayu Purwanto — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:53:36 +0000

Hi there, now that my plugin is back in business, I need few people to be beta tester for my newest release. If you would like to take the challenge, you can contact me at ariefbayu@gmail.com and send me mail with '[cr-post2pingfm]Beta Tester Help' subject in it. Another news would be, I've created a dedicated [...]

CR-Post2PingFM 0.10 Released

Arief Bayu Purwanto — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 23:59:29 +0000

Hi there, sorry for the last broken release. Turns out it was my mistake. I accidentally added 'debug' parameter to user.post. I realize this after downloading python API and test it with my new API_KEY. Yes, the old one is suspended and then deleted by ping.fm. But, I got the new one about 2 weeks [...]

Playing With Google’s Virtual Keyboard API

Arief Bayu Purwanto — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 08:07:47 +0000

Several days ago I realize that google have been implementing it's virtual keyboard in google.co.id. I know that google already rolling it on several non English languages. I got curious as to wether we will be able to leverage this feature to our own site or not. I know that there are several open source [...]

WordPress 3.0 “Thelonious” Released!

Arief Bayu Purwanto — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:35:41 +0000

Wohoo, finally! Been playing with the RC for weeks. Now that It's official, I'll start migrating this blog with new themes. I want something simple, with one column, maybe. Less ads, more content. Look below for official video tour and see this link for complete features and change in this release.

Introducing: New, Powered By Tumblr Blog: ariefbayu.tumblr.com

Arief Bayu Purwanto — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:08:14 +0000

I've been thinking for a while to create a new blog. Sideblog to be exact. I've got 3 solution for this: Create new category and change my theme to display category on sidebar. Create new wordpress installation and feed contents to my sidebar Or use external blogging service and feed contents to my sidebar For [...]