Ian Lai

Resource Roundup March 2012

Ian Lai — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 09:32:04 +0000

Free/Share: Free Web Resources (HTML/CSS/JS/PHP) and Inspiration – March 2012 (Part 2) Hello all! I am back with another edition of my “monthly” web development roundup. If you are new here, be sure to check out part 1 of my roundup (the February edition) here. As usual, if you have any suggestions feel free to … Read more →

Kiva Free Trial: Make A Free $25 Loan!

Ian Lai — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 19:42:23 +0000

Enough with KONY 2012! If you would like to make a REAL impact in the world, somehow, but you currently do not have the resources to do so, I suggest you check out Kiva.org. For a limited “time” (or rather uses) only, Kiva is giving away “free trials” for new users. Click Here To Join What … Read more →

Resource Roundup February 2012

Ian Lai — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 20:17:55 +0000

Free/Share: Free Web Resources (HTML/CSS/JS/PHP) and Inspiration – February 2012 (Part 1) Every once in a while I stumble across an amazing tutorial, web resource or even a collection of inspirational web designs. Most of the time this would occur on Twitter and I would eventually lose the link to it after the “re-tweet” gets … Read more →

New Startups and Free Invites!

Ian Lai — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:07:11 +0000

Free/Giveaway: Pinterest and Connect.me Beta Invites (Limited) I am a huge fan of startups… web startups that is. Indeed, I am attempting to find my own “place” on the internet by looking for startup ideas, which hitherto had been rather unsuccessful – everything is taken! Anyways, I recently gained early access to Pinterest (a “Tumblr-like” service – … Read more →

WordPress Boilerplate: Custom Database (Part 1)

Ian Lai — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:06:26 +0000

Tutorial/Resource: WordPress Developers Boilerplate Part 1 (For Plugins/Themes) – Connect To An External Or A Custom Database On WordPress Introduction Inspired by HTML5 Boilerplate, I aim to provide some useful boilerplates for WordPress developers working on plugins and/or themes. When I was working on a WordPress-based project, I found it difficult to “move around” with … Read more →

Google Chrome Minimum Font-Size Issue

Ian Lai — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:01:05 +0000

Tutorial/How-To: Fix Google Chrome Minimum Font-Size (CSS) For Special UI Locale (e.g. Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai) / Font-Size Not Getting Any Smaller Than 12px Background Feel free to skip to the “tutorial” bit if you want a quick solution to your problem rather than a long statement about my encounter with this problem. Recently, … Read more →

Remove Facebook Real-time Ticker

Ian Lai — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 18:27:44 +0000

How-To: Remove Facebook’s New Real-Time Ticker (Right Sidebar) Here’s a quick and extremely simple Google Chrome extension I made to hide the annoying Facebook real-time ticker on the right sidebar. It shouldn’t require any specific permissions to run it. To be perfectly honest, you don’t really need this extension if you already have the Adblock … Read more →

Delicate dun goof’d.

Ian Lai — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 09:07:03 +0000

Tutorial: Fix for ‘WordPress 3.1.1 Visual Editor Not Showing Up’ (NattyWP’s Delicate Theme) / Debugging for Problems Why, hello there! Just yesterday I was trying to create a new ‘rant-like’ blog post, however, my WordPress simply refused to display the What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get (WYSIWYG) / Visual / Rich-text / Whatever you want to call it, editor. Therefore, … Read more →

Friday. Good to be back!

Ian Lai — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 14:56:19 +0000

Why, hello there! It has been ages since I last made a blog post! Well, as you can see, I have imported all my previous blog posts – after much debate – to my personal website which I have finally setup WordPress on I will no longer update my previous homepage (maybe, maybe not). In … Read more →

Aerosol? Oh please.

Ian Lai — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 18:49:51 +0000

Hello All! EDIT (15/03/11): Apparently the message sent out by WrzHost was by an ‘ex-employee’ and WrzHost did not close down. Please take that into account when reading this blog post. Thanks. Merry Christmas (belated) and Happy New Year to all of you! If you still follow my blog once in a while, thank you! … Read more →