Developing A Thai Text Sanitizer For Web Development

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

This blog post details the nature of problems when working with Thai text.

Anyone that has ever worked with the Thai language in web development surely encountered problems entering Thai text into webpages – HTML, XHTML and even XML. The main problem is that the Thai language does often not use spaces between characters / words and without spaces, web browsers and other document viewers may have no idea how to wrap text. Furthermore, Thai language is written in an LTR manner – meaning “Left To Right” alike many languages such as English and is not RTL as many non Thai speakers may think. For more information on script directions you should read the detailed article by the W3C.

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Installing InfoGlue On Ubuntu Linux

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

InfoGlue is a content management system written in Java for the Java platform. Although most of the documentation is written towards Windows users, because of its Java base it should be most at home on a truely open system such as Linux. How can you install and setup InfoGlue on Ubuntu Linux (or maybe some other distro)?

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Using Drupal Video Tutorial

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

A video tutorial from lullabot.com explains how to use Drupal.

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Photo Of A Young Tilapia Cichlid

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

For a fish most often seen on the dining table, Tilapia actually look quite good in an aquarium! It the daytime they have irridescent spots of bluish color on the body and at night this one is a pearly silver color.

Pseudoplatystoma Tigrinum / Tiger Shovelnose Catfish Photos

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

I bought two Tiger Shovelnose Catfish the other day from Xian Leng. Unfortunatly they have “ich” or white spot parasites and probably will not survive! Otherwise – great fish! Here are some pics…

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Ubuntu Linux: Write To Windows NTFS Format Drive

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

In  order to get Windows NTFS filesystems to be writable in Ubuntu you will need to download and install some extra tools.  The following is the process for Ubuntu Dapper Drake but *could be different for other versions of Ubuntu.  First enable some extra repositories in /etc/apt/sources.list

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Aquarium Fish Videos

Friday, April 11th, 2008

Found some old videos today. Boring warning… they are boring! Nothing you can’t see down at your local fish shop.
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Can Everyone Access Their Online Banking Easily?

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

After coming accross a story at the BBC website my thoughts on the topic of web accessibility of online banking were rekindled. Since my last checks, online banking facilities don’t seem to have improved one bit and it may be a good time for another review. As a physically fully able bodied person (mentally who knows!) I have difficulty using Malaysian online banking systems. They are just so poorly designed that you need a manual or a bunch of guesswork just to navigate them clearly and be sure of what you are doing.

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Building The Web Deisgn Malaysia Group

Friday, April 4th, 2008

I’m currently building the Web Design Malaysia Group live over at http://www.hygen.net/malaysia/ and have invited some people in the IT line to join up.

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