Minn Myat Soe :: His Notes

There are a lot of places you can look for tips for web designers. This might be the summary, and it describes how you can simply use CSS to create stylish look-and-feels. I am really in love with lightbox effect.

If you are looking for Open Source alternatives for your commercial packages, this might be it. You will never know what you do with those Open Source software.

There’s a show room for Ajax and DHTML scripts, that we can be used in our works. If you like nifty corners, you will also be impressed by spiffy corners.

This is how we can integrate Gmail into our daily lives. And IMified just makes our instant messengers more applicable and useful.

I also found Backpack from IMified banner, which has many features that Gmail has been missing.

Backpack is a simple web-based service that allows you to make pages with to-do lists, notes, files, and images. Backpack also features a Calendar and Reminders that can be sent via email or to your cell phone at predefined times.

Myanmar is always popular for its extreme censorship in internet surfing, along with China Iran, Libya, North Korea, Vietnam. We, people in Myanmar, are not to surf political, and pornography sites. So the ISPs employed a firewall to filter out those sites. It’s still acceptable because we can still browse thoudsands of other websites. But now again, they blocked this site and dubbed it the pornography site.

It’s the same old my ISP again, BaganNET. I am not even sure about that the cache administrator can read English properly or just too dumb to classify the websites accordingly. I am wondering when those funny people will stop acting like children.

I never thought that the darkness could irritate me so much, and the electricity has been the greatest discovery. Yangon, the largest city of Myanmar, has been suffering electricity shortage for years, and I believe this time is the worst. In the area I’m living in, we have 24 hours without electricity every other day, and on the other day we can only have electricity about 6 hours or sometimes less.

What do you do when you are in the dark for several hours? Can’t read books, can’t watch TV, can’t browse the Internet, can’t keep foods in refrigerator, can’t turn on the fan. After all, I become to hate all the devices and inventions that require me to have electricity to use them.

Well, my laptop’s batteries are full now. I hope it’s enough for a 1.5 hour movie, and I don’t have to pass another night in full darkness.

I, actually “we” my wife and me, just came back from my holiday trip to Chaung Tha Beach. The beach was quiet last two days, and went live just before we left. The wind was still and there’s no virtually no tidal waves at all, and there was no point for us to getting into the sea enjoying the waves. We did enjoy the sands, beach, and sea foods there.

When I got back to Yangon, turned on the computer, and there was a great news waiting. The father of Java technology, James Gosling, has spoken Sun’s open sourcing of J2SE and J2ME. There’s an interview with him. Java will be released under GPLv2. Yes, according to GPL, when we write java programs (I actually meant when we are using Sun’s components and libraries), our code should be released in GPL because we’re using GPL’ed libraries (in this case Sun’s JDK). But luckily, Sun’s releasing JDK with Classpath exception. GNU Classpath is the free implementation of standard class libraries for Java.

Excerpt:

Q:
What is the Classpath exception?
A:
The Classpath exception was developed by the Free Software Foundation’s GNU/Classpath Project (see http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/license.html). It allows you to link an application available under any license to a library that is part of software licensed under GPL v2, without that application being subject to the GPL’s requirement to be itself offered to the public under the GPL.

The whole FAQs about the process and terms can be found here. And then there are three new java open-source communities. Of these three, OpenJDK and GlassFish has catched my eye.

Oh! Wait! Netbeans 5.5 is out there, and there’s even an article for Netbeans and OpenJDK.

Currently, I’m busy learning how to bake the cake and how to ignite the code. These two are very similar and still have support for PHP4, unlike Symfony. I guess my future projects will be based on them.