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  • 20 Feb

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    Sencha Touch: mobile app framework

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    http://www.sencha.com/products/touch/

    The First HTML5 Mobile Web App Frame­work.
    Sen­cha Touch allows you to develop mobile web apps that look and feel native on iPhone and Android touch devices.

  • 15 Feb

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    Visual dashboards

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    col­lec­tion of links and reads on visual dashboards

    Links:

    1. http://mygengo.com/talk/blog/why-your-startup-needs-a-visual-dashboard/
    2. http://www.dashboardtosuccess.com/
    3. http://dashboard.kpilibrary.com/
    4. http://www.atlassian.com/wallboards/

    Exam­ples of dashboards:

    1. http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2550-smiley-an-app-in-24-hours
    2. http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2774-smiley-goes-public-now-everyone-can-see-how-our-customers-feel-about-our-customer-support
    3. http://www.panic.com/blog/2010/03/the-panic-status-board/
    4. http://blogs.atlassian.com/developer/2010/06/wallboards_the_best_new_way_to_track_your_teams_progress.html
  • 10 Feb

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    Facebook fan pages 101: Set Default View for Wall

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    Do you have a Face­book fan page for your small busi­ness? or your product?

    one of the most bizarre things that i see fan pages do (yes, even fan pages for major brands) is to set the “Default View for Wall” (see 2 in screen­shot) to “Only Post by Page”. i think that com­pletely defeats the pur­pose of face­book fan pages.

    By set­ting “Only Post by Page”, all inter­ac­tion by your fans, includ­ing valu­able feed­back.… gets cen­sored. As a fan, i’m not gonna post some­thing that doesn’t get dis­played or doesn’t get read!

    Expla­na­tion: Typ­i­cally, there are 4 options for Wall Post. using Makan­Deals as an example:

    1. Makan­Deals + Oth­ers — All Posts
    2. Just Makan­Deals — Post by Admins only
    3. Just Oth­ers — Post by Fans
    4. Spam — Post marked as Spam (man­u­ally or auto­mat­i­cally by facebook)

    Option 2: Makes your face­book fan page, a 1-way com­mu­ni­ca­tion channel.

    So if you are admin for any fan pages, do an analy­sis of what you want to do with your face­book fan page.

     

    Steps to fea­ture “All Posts” on your Face­book Fan Page

    1. Make sure, you are the admin for your fan page
    2. Click on Set­tings (see 1 in screenshot)
    3. Make sure “Default View for Wall” is set to “All Posts”
    4. Get ready to clean up some spam!

    MakanDeals.com fan page

  • 19 Jan

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    Our “thin office”… in print!

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    Just received word from our office designer that our office design has been fea­tured in the cur­rent issue of “Cubes” (in sin­ga­pore) and here’s another magazine.

    Google {“Thin office” Sin­ga­pore}… our office is nick­named “thin office”, i’m sure that is a future sign of things to hap­pen… i might be get­ting thinner?

    Look out for our in-house part-time mod­els: Tzin & Teck (not thin)

    for more details: go to sklim.com and check out the project details and blog entries

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    Links

    Update: the inter­est­ing part is read­ing user com­ments.. –bt

    Update: 2: added photo of arti­cle in Cubes Magazine.

  • 17 Jan

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    SocialAuth — java library for auth on gmail, yahoo, fb

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    Java Library for reg­is­tra­tion and authen­ti­ca­tion through Google, Yahoo, Face­book, Twit­ter and other Open ID providers

    http://code.google.com/p/socialauth/

     

     

  • 27 Dec

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    New office pets and plants

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    say hi to our new office pets & plants!

  • 27 Dec

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    MakanDeals.com — Singapore’s Preferred Restaurants

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    MakanDeals.com - Singapore's Preferred Restaurants

    MakanDeals.com marks Kidotech’s first foray into the con­sumer mar­ket, after work­ing on enter­prise web/ mobile projects for the past 6 years.

    MakanDeals.com is an online-only mar­ket­place plat­form, where users are able to get dis­counted din­ing deals with our restau­rant part­ners. We work out long term agree­ments with restau­rants and bring these deals to the users.

     

    MakanDeals.com choose our Restau­rant Part­ners carefully.

    • Good food/ atmosphere/ crowd ( Each part­ner restau­rant is clearly defined and described by Makan­Deals; We want to be your reli­able guide to din­ing in Singapore.)
    • Reli­able & trusted ( We want part­ners who are com­mit­ted to our users and deals; the last thing we want is for the con­sumer to turn up and run into prob­lems using their vouchers)
    • Long-term rela­tion­ship (Busi­ness is a rela­tion­ship, we want to prove our busi­ness model and pro­vide a valu­able ser­vice to both the restau­rants & users. And we expect to build on this rela­tion­ship over time.)

    So if you see a restau­rant that you like on MakanDeals.com, you know that we have per­son­ally tried each one of them and can whole­heart­edly rec­om­mend them.

    Some of our partners:

    so do check out MakanDeals.com & see what deals we have on offer!

    MakanDeals.com

     

     

  • 23 Dec

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    Archive post: Homebrew ESXi + Openfiler iSCSI

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    finally got our home (office) brewed stor­age (open­filer iscsi) into the dat­a­cen­tre, to max­imise the dell r805 server.
    Decent specs: HP DL380G3
    • 2 x 3.2ghz xeon
    • 12 gb ram (yes, i know, overkill)
    • 6 x scsi 73gb (1 x ESXi instal­la­tion, 5 x raid 5)
    Dell R805 server, nice specs for ESXi server, but the local stor­age is limited.
    • 2 x sas (put them in raid 1, and it’s 136gb max)
    with open­filer hooked into it ( 2 x cat6 cross cable), the addi­tional 256gb makes it much more flex­i­ble. (8 cpu cores, 8gb ram (upgrad­able to 32gb))

    obser­va­tions:

    we had a guest win2k3 std server (run­ning mssql 2k), it was report­ing high cpu usage, peri­od­i­cally.
    once the shared stor­age went in, the cpu % has been more nor­mal.
    it is likely due to low hard­disk (for esxi swap) and over­all mem­ory used. (more mem­ory needed = more swaps = more cpu usage)

     

  • 23 Dec

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    Archive post: Cheap and quiet solution for a test/local network ESXi Server

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    was read­ing the article:  “Cheap and quiet solu­tion for a home-based ESX Server” [url]

    gonna give my props to HP work­sta­tion xw4000; we have got­ten 3 units.

    • 4GB ram
    • intel core 2 duo (6300 @ 1.8ghz)
    • 4 x sata drives
    • 1 x Broad­com NetX­treme BCM5755 Giga­bit (onboard)
    • dual head nvidia quadro
    • Win XP Pro

    ESXi 3.5 U2/ Open­filer v2.3 installs out of the box.  for a low cheap price of < S$600.

    and it runs so quiet.…

    We have ESXi run­ning on one of the machines, another one is run­ning XP Pro (with VM Work­sta­tion, run­ning a vir­tu­alised copy of Domain con­troller (win2k server). 3rd machine is a standby machine for a client’s project (part of support/ maintenance)

    and com­ing soon, an exter­nal esxi + open­filer machine, to look up to the ESXi server as shared storage.

  • 23 Dec

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    Archive Post: Virtualisation for SMEs

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    We have been push­ing vir­tu­al­i­sa­tion within kidotech, for test­ing as well as pro­duc­tion servers.

    Our first pro­duc­tion server was the dell R805, a nicely spec-ed server with dual amd quad­core proces­sors and space for plenty of ram, main draw­back is the lack of local stor­age (2 x SAS dri­ves) (we maxed those out, at 2 x 147GB (raid 1), and have been run­ning 5 VMs on it.

    1 x MSSQL2000 (win2k3 server)

    4 x Cen­tOS 5.2 (apache/ tom­cat 6)

     

    performance-wise, no complains; administration is also a breeze, the abil­ity to clone and deploy (a stan­dard image), con­sole access via VI Client.

    we have now reached the local stor­age limit, now look­ing for options as shared stor­age (NAS, SAN)

    got a pair of HP xw4000 work­sta­tions (ESXi works out of the box) in the office to exper­i­ment with shared storage.

    look­ing at openfiler/ freenas and a sim­ple imple­men­ta­tion of directly con­nect­ing the stor­age via a eth­er­net cross-cable.

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