BeOS has been dead for almost 4 years or more. Yellowtab took up the mandate and carried on it’s legacy. Now, Zeta 1.0 is out. Check it out at http://yellowtab.com
Other news on reliving BeOS, probably my most favourite OSes in my life, OpenBeOS or now named Haiku-OS is the opensourced implementation of the recreation of BeOS. This is how wonderful BeOS is. Perfect and powerful in it’s own being.
For those OS hackers, please consider helping out Haiku-OS. Long Live BeOS.
To re-iterate my growing love for CSS, here again are some links (some which I’ve posted before) to get good resources.
Why tables for layout is stupid: problems defined, solutions offered
http://www.hotdesign.com/seybold/index.html
css Zen Garden: The Beauty in CSS Design
http://www.csszengarden.com/
css-discuss Wiki
http://css-discuss.incutio.com/
The css-discuss Wiki is a companion to the CssDiscussList mailing list.
meyerweb.com
http://www.meyerweb.com/
A List Apart: Alternative Style: Working With Alternate Style Sheets
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/alternate/
A List Apart: CSS Design: Taming Lists
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/taminglists/
WebDeveloper.com: Advanced HTML, CSS, and DHTML
http://www.webdeveloper.com/advhtml/
glish.com : CSS layout techniques
http://www.glish.com/css/
CSS, Accesibility and Standards Links
http://www.dezwozhere.com/links.html
The W3C CSS Validation Service
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
SitePoint
http://www.sitepoint.com/
Quite a number of articles & forum discussions regarding design, layout, css, etc.
CssCreator
http://www.csscreator.com/
Good forums for CSS discussions
Cracking Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) Part 1
Cracking Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) Part 2
Good read. Don’t tell anyone I told you about this. Hee! Anyway it’s quite a difficult thing to understand unless you’ve done lots of packet h*cking before.
Disclaimer:
I’m not responsible for whatever damage might come from you learning from those links.
I won’t talk much about this. It’s just for my reference. Wonderful list. Fantastic for *ahem*. Enough said. Those of you who knows what to do with it, use it. Any other links to other similar sites would be much appreciated.
http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/offers/2ndshot/
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AXS records visits to your web page and processes those records into meaningful graphs and database listings. The scripts tell you where visitors are coming from, charts their flow through your site, and tells you which links they follow when leaving. In addition, the scripts record visitors’ server name, IP address, type of web browser, and time of visit.
It is based on Perl.
This is something I want to set up on the SgDotNet website.
ASP.NET and Struts: Web Application Architectures
Summary:
Learn about the similarities and differences between ASP.NET on the .NET Framework and Struts on Java 2 Enterprise Edition; and the features that each provides to solve common developer problems. Learn about the advantages and disadvantages of each, and the utility that they bring to next-generation Web development.
My Take:
Struts was the revolution in J2EE. Struts seperated design from logic using the MVC model. Struts was the next best thing for J2EE other than JBoss. Struts is the Controller.
But then came about ASP.NET. 
Professional C#, 2nd Edition: Graphics with GDI+
The sample book chapter shows you how to interact directly with users in C#, displaying information on the screen and accepting user input. You’ll draw lines and simple shapes, images from bitmap and other image files, and text.
By Scott Allen, Ollie Cornes, Steve Danielson, Jay Glynn, Zach Greenvoss, Burton Harvey, Jerod Moemeka, Christian Nagel, Simon Robinson, Morgan Skinner, and Karli Watson
Just looking back at my old love of game development, I’m here to recommend some good game and graphic engines that’s free and opensourced, which are all very good stuff. Naturally, that works with C#, but not confined to Managed DirectX. Did I mention they are also cross-platform?
Axiom3D – Game Engine that’s based on OGRE, a C++ graphics engine. It uses Managed DirectX and Managed OpenGL.
Personally I’ved worked with Axiom3D before to create some demoscenes and mini-games. It’s a wonderful piece of work. But the interface changed quite alot since the last time I played with it. It has a lot of new stuff, like new physics and UI engine.
RealmForge GDK – Game Development Kit that’s also opensource.
I haven’t used this before, but I heard from recommendations it’s quite extensive and complete, eventhough it’s just v0.6 and not a full v1.0 yet. If I’m not wrong, it includes a scripting engine too. Not too sure.
Purple# – Game Engine that’s coded in C#. It’s a shader driven 3d engine for .NET.
Neither have I used this before. I’m not too sure how good it is, but it’s another engine coded for the .NET platform. Not much to comment on this, but I heard it’s good.
That’s that. As you can see, I don’t have much experience with game development on the .NET framework, but I feel there is potential for it. It’s definitely much faster than working in Java.
For more information, do check out this fantastic website.
I frequent there last time, until I realise game development just didn’t make money here in Singapore. Anyway it’s still my passion to create a wonderful game where people can enjoy.
Cheerios.
I think this might be my first non-technical post. I’m desperate to find scholarships or someone to sponsor me to go University, if I get into the University I want.
For those who already know, I’ve applied for University of Toronto and University of Waterloo, to the Computer Science program. Apparently, one of my family member is having an operation today, and that operation costs quite a far bit of money. Therefore, as you should already guess, my funds for university is much diminished.
I’ve looked at quite a few scholarships, and most of them require 3 A level distinctions, or S-Papers, which is quite apparent that I don’t have those. I’m currently holding a Diploma in Computer Engineering from Ngee Ann Polytechnic, and it’s only a B average (or so my counselor at the Canadian Education Centre says). Furthermore, for those who doesn’t know, I’m very active in SgDotNet and currently am an MVP – Visual Developer C#.
So, now the big thing. Where do I find scholarships? I’ve checked up BrightSparks but like I said, most of them require quite exceptional results.
Oh well. Anyway, enough of lamenting. Here’s something I’d like to share with you guys who’s playing around with Community Server 1.0. The conversion tool from Asp.net forums 2.0.1 to CS 1.0 is released by external sources. Here’s the link.
http://www.communityserver.org/forums/475923/ShowPost.aspx
There’s a fix for the Anonymous users here.
http://www.communityserver.org/forums/476239/ShowPost.aspx
Links for converting from nGallery to CS 1.0.
http://www.communityserver.org/forums/2/476157/ShowPost.aspx
Community Server has also released their “documentation” which is a wiki. Check it out here.
http://docs.communityserver.org
Oh yes, did I mention SgDotNet is going to do migration? Yes that’s right. That’s why I posted all these links here. And you think it’s for you. Haha! This blog is for me to remember things, not for you! Just joking. *wink*
Other cool stuff is this very cool Content Management System (CMS) that is actually quite good. It’s XHTML and CSS compliant. It’s called WordPress. And it’s totally done in PHP. Very good stuff. I’m wondering if CS 1.0 and DNN 3.0 is XHTML and CSS compliant. Even if it’s XHTML 1.0 Transitional, that’s pretty good already, in my opinion. Check WordPress out. They have a demo site setup here. http://www.opensourcecms.com/
Is that enough information? Or is it not enough?
Interesting news. It seems that MVPs are going on revolt because Microsoft is stopping development on VB6.
http://rblevin.blogspot.com/2005/03/microsoft-mvps-revolt.html
That’s all folks for today.
