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Online Bra size calculator

Ed Spencer has worked for a lingerie boutique in the UK where he “was forced” to program some JavaScript functions for a website that does the calculation for bra size. And he shares out these functions on his blog. So, I’ve borrowed these JavaScript functions and included here and make a very simple bra size calculator here on TechChee.com.

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Google Gears Geolocation can now tell precisely your laptop’s location using WiFi

Google Gears – the browser’s plugin which allows a web app to work offline and store data offline, has just been released with the new Geolocation API, allows location-enabled web sites to securely locate where a laptop user is, using WiFi.

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AskAlexia ajax search engine is up and I’m back to blogging

Over the past few days and hours, I was busy on putting up the AskAlexia search engine, which was an ajax-based search engine that I developed a few years ago before I started blogging on TechChee.com

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Web 3.0, the next version of the web, how will it work?

Web 2.0 has been hot over the past few years, which is considered as the second generation of web which its content is more towards to user-contributed contents instead of like the first generation, which users have no contribution to the information. Okay, but since we already have web 2.0, whether it was just a marketing jargon, or it’s really the great technology that has changed the web today, giving users more participating options, we’ll need to move forward. Yes, the next version we’ll be looking into over the World Wide Web is the Web 3.0.

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Noca, a new online payment system which doesn’t charge you transaction fees

For some friends who are interested in venturing into online selling would wanna consider this, a new online payment system, Noca, which is claimed to have eliminated the few percents transaction fees that imposed by credit card companies.

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WebKit has JavaScript API for client-side database storage

WebKit has got some cool asynchronous API that follows one of the specs of the HTML 5 i.e. allows you to write JavaScript code to store data, using SQL statements that you’ve been familiar with, so data can be stored on the client’s computer. This should work more or less similar to one of the features that the Google Gears offer – the Local Database API. This would be useful for those applications that wanna store more information on the client sides, a much better way and easier to manipulate by using SQL statements instead of nasty cookies. More info and code after the jump!

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Spyware steals domain names

I think quite a number of you also had this bad experience. A domain name that you’ve been eyeing for quite some time, but was stolen a few days after you’d done a WHOIS lookup for its availability. This happened to us, a colleague of mine wanted to register a domain name for a customer. At first she did a check on any of the WHOIS such as the registerfly, cheap-domainnames.com yesterday. What she got was the domain name was available for registration. But she didn’t register the domain name immediately as we needed to get back to the customer to tell them the availability, so we could then get the confirmation and proceed for registration. Unfortunately, when we got the green light and tried to register today, we failed to register it as it’s claimed to have been taken. And I quickly did several WHOIS checks, but couple of them giving me the result only about the domain name has been registered but failed to provide its registrant. Lastly, I managed to get the result from NETWORKSOLUTIONS, which showed that it was just registered yesterday, which I think was a couple of hours after her checking.

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My very first app based on Google Gears’ Local Database API

I’ve been deeply fascinated with the great API, Google Gears, introduced by Google recently. I’ve taken the very first step, that was quickly to make use of the Local Database API to build my very first Google Gears app. This is mainly due to my background is more on database apps and Java, that’s why I chose the local DB API to start with. It’s really amazing that what Google has done, which allows JavaScript applications to make use of relational database engine to store data and SQL statements to manipulate data locally.

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Google Gears allows JavaScript web applications to work both offline and online!

It’s pretty interesting at least to take note here that what Google is going to introduce to us. Google’s newly announced Google Gears, which is an open source browser plugin that enables developers to create offline web applications using JavaScript API. Meaning that the web application developed by you using Google Gears will be able to work offline as well as online across browsers.

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Say goodbye to Java, it’s time for JavaFX now!

An email in my inbox from TheServerSide tells me that the Java language is dying, but the Java platform is still alive and strong. This simply tells me that the Java’s kind of syntax such as strong typing, inheritance, endless lines of coding and those hassle dealing with Object Oriented stuff are simply out of date, which failed to meet the productivity of today’s fast growing need. As a platform, Java is still robust, no doubt there are tons of frameworks and platform were built using Java. But due to the complexity of its syntax and those millions lines of coding to make up a pretty small app but with rich content, it will not remain as a choice for developer. So, the answer by Sun Microsystem to the Java language is JavaFX, its new baby. JavaFX is the scripting variant of Java, which is said to have much simpler syntax that allows much more rapid productivity for developing content and media rich applications to meet today’s requirement! Of course, JavaFX will not lose those advantages that have been well established by Java, such as Write Once, Run Anywhere.

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