http://katesgasis.com serving the best spaghetti code in town since 2005 Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:29:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site, subject to copyright and fair use. Megan Trinity. She was born last July 10, 2010. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/kates/~3/iE8Ja-Ke3zY/ http://katesgasis.com/2010/07/24/megan/ i wish i have something to write about 2009. it could’ve been a great year for some. it wasn’t for me. i have lost a lot this year. money, hair, weight… some i cannot quantify. all i have are a few unfinished projects and some unimplemented ideas. i feel like i lost my passion for [...] http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/kates/~3/hdKtrqPjvbA/ http://katesgasis.com/2009/12/27/2009-looking-back/ At work, we recently decided to use YUI (Yahoo UI) to generate our user interface. YUI is great. It got almost all the widgets we need. Tabs, tree, carousel... As a result, we have consistent look all throughout. We dump the javascript framework that came with Ruby on Rails and use YUI instead. Now, here's [...] http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/kates/~3/P-AEFlt5EdU/ http://katesgasis.com/2009/08/13/ruby-like-syntax-for-javascript-array-functions/ In the process of committing updated code for WP 2.8 to wordpress subversion repository. Due to changes in rendering multiple widgets, version 6.0 of Sideblog breaks backward compatibility. Additional work can be done to make it so but in the meantime to address the needs of those who have already upgraded their wordpress to 2.8, [...] http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/kates/~3/ZVl-YXiBClA/ http://katesgasis.com/2009/06/21/updated-sideblog-for-wp-2-8/ Trying to scratch an itch one weekend, I tried to write my own URL shortener service. After all, bit.ly got $2M funding for offering such service so I went ahead and see how hard it is to create one. If you've been doing web development for sometime, this activity is trivial. The only hurdle I [...] http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/kates/~3/bcyrX5HJFnk/ http://katesgasis.com/2009/04/12/url-shortener-using-base-62/ I lost my DSLR last christmas vacation in the Philippines so I have to make do with my film cameras. These photo was taken on a lazy sunday afternoon at Red Dot Design Museum. They're having their once a month art market where they sell art-sy stuff. After developing these and the other rolls of [...] http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/kates/~3/S9AmZ3__25w/ http://katesgasis.com/2009/02/22/photos-from-the-red-dot-museum/ A silhouette of a lovely bride taken during wedding of my college best buddy in Manila. I was supposed to shoot digital until the letter of invitation arrived. I'm going to play a minor part in the wedding ceremony which would prevent me from lugging a big-ish camera around. Not owning a digital point-and-shoot, I [...] http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/kates/~3/FrxsCg1vPlU/ http://katesgasis.com/2009/01/28/bride-at-the-door/ I haven't tried lomography and probably won't any time soon. This photo was not taken with a lomo camera. I took it using my D40. This was an uninteresting photo straight out of the camera. I was playing with the effects in iPhoto when I notice it looked a lot like the lomo photos I [...] http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/kates/~3/Ek2QlcV0rxU/ http://katesgasis.com/2008/08/24/lomo-effect/ The gang went to Singapore Henderson Waves to take night shots of the bridge. Problem with the place is that it's always full of people you can't shoot without having another photographer in your frame. With my frustration of getting a decent wide shot, I went closer instead. The bridge's support frame made a good [...] http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/kates/~3/bqpfC1xcTuY/ http://katesgasis.com/2008/08/22/some-abstract-architectural-shots/ The view of the faces artwork from the inside of Singapore Esplanade. I was taking a rest inside the Esplanade from the searing Singapore heat during the National Day Parade 2008 celebration. I like this better than the one I took outside. Gear: Olympus Trip 35, Tri-X 400, HC-110 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/kates/~3/bm_DLIfW3_E/ http://katesgasis.com/2008/08/21/faces-at-esplanade/