Monthly Archive for October, 2008

This is a gallery of some really good japanese anime drawings and sketches done online. I really think they are fun and cute. They are part of a site called hatena.com

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Best Icon Designers in the World

I am starting a gallery trying to find the best icon designers in the world. Please help submit someone you think is good!!!

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Fun Toys for Work

Here's a list of fun toys for work that you can use to relax at work. Also h

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Fun Toys for Work

Here's a list of fun toys for work that you can use to relax at work. Also help get conversations going while someone's around you.

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Some ideas of what you need to plan for a successful wedding. The cost of weddings have gone up so much recently. It is kind of ridiculous when you think how much money you spend in one day.

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Old Comics in Newspapers

Here's a visual gallery of classic old comics in newspapers. When I was growing up, I liked Peanuts and Garfield a lot. I would go to the library and borrow them because I could not afford buying them. I spent a lot of time in the library when I was growing up.

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List of the newest hotels and casinos coming to Las Vegas in the near future. Vegas is always changing its buildings every few years like a lady changing her wardrobe. But I have a feeling all that spending might not last forever.

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This is a visual gallery of the best casinos and hotels in Las Vegas. I personally like the Bellagio the most.

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How to set up WooThemes Gazette Archives Page1. Write new page2. In Page template section, select archives3. Go to Gazette Options and write "archives" in the Archives Page input field

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The Chris Brown song Forever song just sticks to my head. It's got such good flow and beat… Really great to listen to while dancing or just relaxing.

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INSERT IGNORE INTO new_tbl SELECT * FROM orig_tbl;
I got it from here

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Remove Duplicate Entries in mySQL

This is such a great solution by Justin Cook on remove duplicate mySQL entries. Simple and easy.

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Here's a visual list of things you need for a chinese hot pot at home. It's great for winter time when the weather is cold outside and you have a bunch of friends. Well.. you cant really have a hot pot without at least a few friends. Otherwise it would be quite boring. And you'll [...]

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Here's a visual gallery of beautiful actresses from classic film era.

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Online Drawing Editors

These are a list of online drawing tools you can use to draw sketches, etc. They are all flash based drawing programs and available online.

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Kinds of Steaks on Parts of a Cow

Now you can learn all about the different parts of a cow and the names of each steak. There's also a map of all the steaks on a cow. I think my personal favorite is the rib eye because I like some fat with the meat. Plus it's more tender. I dont particular like the [...]

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This is a visual gallery list of the most beautiful places to explore in the  US.

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Greatest Athlete of All time

This is a gallery of the greatest athletes of all time. I think Steve Young and a few others need to go there…

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I really like both of them. They are simple and worth checking out if you just need to use Wordpress as a small CMS or image posting site. I re-did Prologue to allow uploading of images along with the post. Which was not an easy thing… since I was trying to use it with Swfupload.

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Beijing Sidecar

John Cerilli has a nice article about the Beijing sidecar at www.vintagemotorcyclesonline.com and some photos.

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Took me forever to do this… Having multiple AJAX file uploads on a single page and passing filenames back from PHP array to javascript array.
I first upload the file to PHP file and return it as an array like:
    $data = array('filename'=>$filename,'id'=>$id);    echo json_encode($data);
Then I parse it in Javascript like so using Prototype:
function completeCallback(response) {    [...]

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When I do a javascript submit of a form, it always goes to the action page. But what if I want to do some AJAX and not go to next page. One cool thing is you can use Javascript to click a button.
function savePageChanges() {  var savButton = document.getElementsByName
("submitButton");  if (savButton.length!=0 &&  !savButton[0].disabled) {  [...]

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MySQL ranking by score

This is a great solution to get rankings based on score.
given this table:
select * from users order by score desc; <br />+——-+——-+<br />| user | score |<br />+——-+——-+<br />| Monty | 190 |<br />| Arjen | 89 |<br />| Joe | 36 |<br />| [...]

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I was going around the Electric Rain Swift 3D section and quite impressed by some of the features.

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Flashloaded.com have a lot of cool effects. There's even a spiral one like the Flash time machine on etsy.com.

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I wonder if we are at the bottom or just at the beginning stage of drowning.

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This is a great interview with Liz Ann Sonders about what is a recession, are we in a recession, etc. She thinks we are in a deep recession.
The articles notes that:
Contrary to popular belief, "consecutive quarters of negative GDP" is not what defines a recession. In fact, the National Bureau of Economic Research uses five [...]

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Cheap coldfusion hosting

This host is less than $6 a month for coldfusion.

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This is a great method of creating a random list of names using ColdFusion and arrays.

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It's such a complicated process. I wish they would make it more simple. They should at least include something in the welcome email on mysql section. Anyways, I think this is the solution.

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They say it's a really good ice cream maker. I guess I would love to make my own ice cream as well. Sounds like an interesting gadget but I wonder how often I would use it.

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I simply do not understand why Pokemon for Nintendo DS is so popular. I played it for several days and it has got to be the MOST repetitive gameplay for a game I have ever seen. All you do is walk around and encounter battles every few seconds. And the battles have tons of stupid [...]

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Walmart Electric Bikes

WalMart is selling electric bikes pretty cheap. They are definitely the lowest prices I have seen anywhere else in the US. Plus you don't have to pay for shipping, which is a huge bonus. They have several models that are from $300-$500. I only wish they would get a beach cruiser model soon. These are [...]

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Aurora Borealis Wallpaper

This is the wallpaper that I used as header graphic at the top of the site. I wanted something that showed the spectrum of things that can be posted on Whoila. Hopefully the site will grow and people from all over the world will help contribute to keep the site growing.
Ideas to Keep Site Growing- [...]

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List of Remedies for Hiccups

Here is a list of remedies for hiccups . I once had them for 3 days straight and it was scary… I finally went to the doctor and she gave me chlorpromazine which took care of the problem. Tried every remedy and some worked better than others.

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I thought this was an interesting article by Jeremy Shoemaker of shoemoney.com about losing everything you have and hitting bottom. And then rising up and making it bit. Definitely reminds me of articles by Mark Cuban the style of writing.

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Good list of WordPress Plugins

This is a good list of Wordpress Plugins called 14 days of plugins.

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Prevent bubbling in Prototype

This thread has idea on preventing bubbling in prototype.

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$$('div.by_department').each(function(item){
item.observe('mouseover', function(event){
show_department();
}).observe('mouseout', function(event) {
hide_department();
});
});

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Prototype MouseOver and MouseOut

From this site

Event.observe( 'myid', 'mouseover', function() { Element.addClassName('myid', 'newcss'); });

Event.observe( 'myid', 'mouseout', function() { Element.removeClassName('myid', 'newcss'); });

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