Happy new year to all of you!
Thank you to whomever commented on my posts and sorry for my absence. I’ve been very very busy playing Modern Warfare2!

I need to reorganize this blog, seriously.

For a recent project, I was making series of AJAX based blog widgets (blogparts).  There wasn’t much of a problem except client server didn’t provide JSON-based API.  Instead of messing with their web-server, I’ve decided to use their RSS feed and Google’s Feed API.

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Seems my former co-workers are planning on having a live programming session on XNA. There will be multiple talk sessions by couple renowned game programmers like Kenta Cho a.k.a. ABA games, and they will be preforming a live programming battle! Sounds exciting eh?

So any of you interested in game development or want to learn some tips on programming, you might wanna check it out. It will be held on September 12, 19:00-2300 at Superdelux.

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and thanx to abduzeedo for a great photoshop tutorial!

Google street view of Taiwan is now available. Too bad still limited to Taipei city. I believe I found my ex-roommate’s ice shop. I can tell him by his silhouette .

Would like to see Keelung google. Keep up the work!

Thanks to Dean Edwards for releasing such a neat program. I’ve added a little option to convert script into bookmarklet. Basically, its just wrapping the compressed script with Bookmarklet script header

Well there was a single problem I’ve faced in IE6. Not sure why but version specific jQuery v1.3.2 on Google may not be compatible with IE6.

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<!-- <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js"></script> -->
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3/jquery.min.js">
<script type="text/javascript">
    (function($){
        //code here
    })(jQuery);
</script>

For some reason it says “jQuery not defined”. Using 1.3.1 on Google solved the problem.

You can check out the packer here.

[EDIT]
There seems to be a problem with http://­ajax.googleapis.com/­ajax/­libs/­jquery/­1.3.2/­jquery.min.js with IE. Instead, consider using http://­ajax.googleapis.com/­ajax/­libs/­jquery/­1.3/­jquery.min.js.

ER-6I was broken recently so I decided to try out audio-technica’s inner-earphones, ATH-CKS70. My first impression was “not bad for its price”. Its got a sub-chamber to emphasize bass quality and surely got powerful bass for its size.

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A small plugin I made to show helper text for form text inputs. I’m sure there are tons of these going around the web already. Just learning from the basics.

I believe I made this as easy as possible. Well this requires jQuery color plugin but implementation is pretty straight forward.

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$("input[name=single]").prompt("some prompt text");

Or you can just point whole text inputs and specify prompt text and its color.

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$("input[type=text]").prompt({ 
                        text:"some placeholder text", 
                        color:"#FF0000"});

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It seems Google Charts API supported QR Code generation for quite a while, which I didn’t know up until yesterday…oh boy.  Anyway, since its so easy to generate QR Code with Google API, tested a quick sample.

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In my previous post, I’ve mentioned a way to load image using ajax but I’ve gotta admit it was pure hack ‘n slash method which wasn’t elegant at all. There’s an excellent jQuery plugin made by Ariel Flesler to handle image preloading nice and easy.

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Seems like headshot(aka hs) effects were removed in Japanese version. I personally don’t mind the gore but maybe they should have left in the sound effect otherwise its really hard to tell whether it was a hs or not.

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