Batista R. Harahap

Easy DNS Names for Virtual Hosts in Mac OS X

Tista — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 21:31:07 +0000

I got tired of manually inserting lines into my /etc/hosts file and decided to look for other solutions. The DD-WRT router has a DNSMAsq feature in which I list domains that are supposed to be internal domains to be resolved to its local IP. I still have to insert lines but now it’s more organized [...]

OAUTHnesia for Windows 8 Metro Apps C#

Tista — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 10:42:57 +0000

The last few days at Bandung was spent hacking a “proof of concept” application for Windows 8 Metro without using Urbanesia’s OAUTHnesia library. Now the library is done but still needs a few tweaks. All updates of the codes will be live in its Github Gist. Without further ado, here’s the gist:

Microsoft Windows 8 Bootcamp Bandung

Tista — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 04:33:38 +0000

Urbanesia was invited to Microsoft Window 8′s Bootcamp in Bandung last weekend. Me, Arieditya and Aditya went there to see and experience ourselves the technical depth provided by the Windows 8 team. To cut things short, the experience was reinvigorating! After a bunch of process of liking, hating, yeah right-ing, hating, liking and now loving, [...]

Android Ice Cream Sandwich on Galaxy Tab 7

Tista — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:17:38 +0000

After a long break, I thought I wanna write about Android. This time it’s Ice Cream Sandwich on a Galaxy Tab P1000. As always, for smartphone hacks, everyone should first go to XDA-Developers.com and have a look if one of your gadgets has sub-forums. There’s a specific thread for Galaxy Tab 7 First generation and [...]

Simple Naive Bayes Classifier for PHP

Tista — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 19:00:03 +0000

Recently Hacker News is flooded with numerous articles discussing or at least mentioning Naive Bayes Classifier algorithm. It’s a basic algorithm to classify a set of words into a certain category (set) based on prior learning of words and its probabilities. It sounds simple enough but without actual technical guide book, it’s quite trivial since [...]

Augmented Reality Browser in 10 minutes with Wikitude API

Tista — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 13:08:17 +0000

This blog post is a simple tutorial to demonstrate how easy it is to set up a full fledge Augmented Reality browser with Wikitude API. It will only take 10 minutes of your time in its most simplest form, ready to be customized with your own needs. It should be easy enough to let you [...]

Code Hinting & Autocompletion for CodeIgniter in PHPStorm

Tista — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:29:12 +0000

Finally, moving back and forth between models, views and controllers is just too distracting and time consuming. I had to find another way to navigate my way between codes. I tweeted asking about alternative IDEs in Mac OS X to achieve this. Turns out there is a way! I got a tip from @LuisFAlonso (THANK [...]

Jajan for Android Open Sourced at Github

Tista — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:13:41 +0000

Jajan for Android is now Open Sourced at Github a few hours ago. I personally hope that by looking at the source code provided, more and more developers will sync to the tune of how easy it is to create an Android application. I wrote most of the codes 7 August 2011 in under 4 [...]

Hacking CodeIgniter for Persistent Timestamped Cache with Memcache

Tista — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:36:31 +0000

I’ve got myself a long title for a blog post this time. This post is exactly what the title says. Been twisting my head figuring out how to bypass CodeIgniter’s internal to hack CodeIgniter’s ability to do a persistent timestamped cache of generated HTML contents using Memcached. I couldn’t find any other way to speed [...]

HandlerSocket Client Library for CodeIgniter

Tista — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:07:32 +0000

These past weeks, I’ve been amazed by the amazing performance offered by HandlerSocket right out of the box. You’d amaze yourself after reading a blog post by Yoshinori Matsunobu about the topic, he managed to get 750 thousands queries per second! Well I wanted to try it on my own and see how it goes. [...]