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I'm a 25 year old web monkey living in Malaysia. I write about web design, IT, programming, Linux, Open Source, Wildlife, Politics and much more.
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3 Newbie Mistakes - Web Design / Development Myths
Here is a quick look at three different myths that can land budding newbie web designers / developers in hot water later down the line. If these myths are busted earlier on newbies can graduate on to producing excellent results faster without suffe...
Spin2u Dimiliki Oleh HYGEN
Spin2u menyediakan produk terbaik dan plan perniagaan hebat buat anda mencapai kejayaaan. Sertai kami untuk membebaskan diri anda dari beban kewangan. Selain daripada web dagang Spin2u beliau juga merupakan pangasas minyak angin 7G dan pembesih wanit...
Install CURL To Work With PHP On Windows Server 2003 (IIS6)
cURL is a command line tool for transferring files with URL syntax, supporting FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, TELNET, DICT, LDAP, LDAPS and FILE. curl supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, pr...
Google Wave Puts Pressure On Microsoft By Dropping Support For IE
Finally more and more tech companies and developers are dropping support for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer web browser. Latest to stab the knife in is Google’s Wave. According to Google: Google Wave runs in most browsers, with the not...
Free Live Premiership Football Scores Widget For Your Web Site Or Blog
Want to show free live premiership football scores on your web site or blog? Simply copy and paste the HTML code below! <iframe src="http://hygen.net/blog/footie.php" width="380" height="370" frameborder="0" st...
KDE: Use KLinkStatus (KDEWebDev) To Spider A Site To Check For Broken Links
KLinkStatus is a handy web spider program is part of the KDEWebDev suite of applications. KDELinkStatus can recursively follow and check links (both internal and external) in a web site. Once the spidering is completed you can then export the resul...
Web Browser Layout Engines Explained
When developing websites an increasing area of complexity and challenges is cross browser compatibilty. Different web browsers (and other programs that display web content such as email clients) use different layout engines. Yes it is a minefield!...
Override Drupal Menu CSS .leaf .expanded .collapsed Bullets
Time and time again when you design themes for Drupal you will need to override the CSS for much of what comes with core. One such target is the Drupal menu. The menu uses images to create a bullet like effect which most people would not want in ...
Use PHP, SimpleXMLElement And preg_replace To Get And Display Your Latest Twitter Updates
Tried those Twitter widgets that use JavaScript? Can be slow right? How about using PHP instead and saving the client browser a heart attack? Here is the PHP code for a quick Twitter mash up. The code grabs your Twitter updates and then formats ...
Cusomizing Wordpress wp_list_categories(), wp_get_archives() And wp_list_pages() Function Output
Wordpress has standard functions that are part of it’s core for outputting data such as lists of blog categories or pages. For developers creating themes the default output of some of these function can be undesirable. Instead of editing the ...
New Free Online Bahasa Malaysia / English Translator Tool
Translate between English and Bahasa Malaysia online using this tool… http://hygen.net/work/bm2en/ Contact me if you would like the source code or database as it’s open source :) The translator currently has about 700 entries of comm...
Sneak Preview: The New Aquarium Fish Database™ Website!
This is a work in progress / sneak preview of the beta version of the new Aquarium Fish Database™. The new version has tons of new interactive features and will be the best and most advanced interactive encyclopedia of aquarium fish™ yet! V...
PHP Gravatar And Wordpress Gravatar Tutorial
Job Vacancy - PERL Developer In West Yorkshire, UK
Job Vacancy Details: My client based in West Yorkshire, UK is seeking an experienced PERL developer to join their successful financial company. They are looking for people who want to join a fun and exciting company and be involved in some high profi...
HTML Entities Chart / Cheat Sheet
For the HTML entities you use everyday it’s easy enough to remember the codes, however the ones you seldom use will probably need a quick lookup! Check out these tables of HTML entities… Maths HTML Entities Character Entity Number En...
Jobs Available In Kuala Lumpur April 2009
Kerja Kosong / Jawatan Kosong Di Kuala Lumpur April 2009. Job Position 1: IT assistant: Data entry Manage web content and component development (Images, audio, flash files, databases, etc Job Position 2: Graphic Designer: Produce artwork Manip...
How To Enable Mod_Rewrite (Mod Rewrite) On A Linux Server
If mod rewrite is not working you may have to go under the bonnet of your server and try sparking a few cables with Apache web server. First check if mod rewrite is already present an ready to go - apache2ctl -M If it’s not in the resulting li...
OSCommerce Password Encryption
To integrate OSCommerce to an existing web application you will need to know how to add passwords to the OSCommerce customers database. You can use the function below to encrypt the passwords in a compatible manner… function tep_encrypt_pass...
Web Design On Linux
The perfect system for web designers is based on Linux. Every program you need and use is free or charge and 99% of them are open source. You can have an advanced and fully functional system up and ready to start building websites in less than tw...
PHP5 Weird Behaviour Of strpos () Function
When using the strpos() function in PHP5 and possibly other versions you should expect some strange behaviour. For some reason the function can’t return true but can only return “not false”! This might confuse you for a while. Che...
A RESTful Web Service For Obtaining Latitude And Longitude Data
For anyone working with Google maps or similar at some point of time you will ask the question - “hang on a moment, where can I actually get the latitude and longitude in order to work with Google maps?”. Well there are of course three w...
KIM KDE Image Menu - A Service Menu For Konqueror For Manipulating Images
A while back I wrote a blog post about the building of a service menu for KDE / Konqueror that enables the resizing of images using a simple right click & context menu. This is pretty cool - until you discover the hard work some developers have ...
Free FTP Client Tutorial For Windows & Linux
There is a fast and free FTP client program available out of the box on both Linux and Windows machines. Surprisingy the program appears to be identical - ie: it’s a free open source program that Microsoft has included on their systems as far...
Web Design Tutorial / Workshop: Google.com Makeover For Compliance With Web Standards
I have done many site re-designs with the aim of complying to web standards. However because they are commercial projects the details are not for public consumtion. Rather, for a quick demo and a kind of before and after look at how proper complian...
Three Of The Biggest Errors / Mistakes You Could Make When Planning A Web Design Project
It happens time and time again and will continue to go occur possibly for ever - “anoying web design mistakes”. What is an anoying web design mistake / error? I will list some here for the benefit of the general public, potential client...
Nuffnang Ad Units Not Working
I’m having quite a bit of bother with Nuffnang adverts and I’m probably not alone in this. First up if you are wondering why you are not making much money from the ads then one possible reason is that Nuffnang keeps serving them as popu...
Wordpress Bug In “Subscribe To Comments” Plugin
There is a bug in the Wordpress plugin “Subscribe To Comments” whereby if you uncheck the option… Do a CSS “clear” on the subscription checkbox/message (uncheck this if the checkbox/message appears in a strange location ...
Customize Drupal Menus - Remove The Most Annoying Code
Want to customize the menu in Drupal? Wondering what are all those classes in the menu for - when you are not even using a core theme? The most annoying code in the whole CMS is in Drupals menu system and ouputs something like this: <ul class...
Preprocess / Customize Nuffnang Adverts For Your Blog
Nuffnang just like many other web advertising companies uses a few layers of JavaScript to send out advertisements to the web browser. Also just like these other companies, one can “preprocess” the JavaScript before it is added to your ...
The Deed Poll Service Scam
Here is a satellite image of one of the addresses used by “The Deed Poll Service”. “The Deed Poll Service” uses the following domain names as part of its scams… deedpollservice.com deed-poll.org.uk “The Deed Pol...
