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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Annoucement – two more categories for TechChee , web development and opensource tips

I was a trainer giving quite a number of training on those open source and web app development based on open source technolgy before I started devoting my time into blogging. I got a group of students, who are currently working on quite a number of web app development projects and they’ve requested many times that they’d like me to have another blog that include tips and tutorial on web app development, which shall include the topics such as PHP, Java, MySQL, Apache and Linux etc.

Other than TechChee, I did start another development blog earlier on, which is supposed to be under a sub-domain of TechChee, i.e dev.TechChee.com. Due to my overly busy schedule, this blog didn’t get frequently updated. In order to fulfill this overdue request, I’ve decided not to continue on the development blog, but to include two more categories on TechChee here, they are “Web Development” and also “Opensource Tips”. In such a case, it’ll be less taxing and very much easier for the maintainance for me, who is handling this blog single-handedly both for the posts and design. This decision shouldn’t be too much affecting the current theme of TechChee, which still makes it topics center around “technology” and “gadgets”. The main topics of TechChee still remain the same, i.e shop online and gadgets. The posts for these two new categories will only be in the ratio of one out of five of those gadgetry posts as usual. Which means, if I post about 5-6 posts about gadgetry a day, then, perhaps, I’ll write one post either in the category of web development or opensource tips. So, TechChee’s readers, hope you won’t get too surprised if you’re seeing posts about more technical stuff such as programming and web development in the coming blog posts. The topics that will be covered under the two new categories, “web development” and “opensource”, will be as follows:

1. Linux or General opensource stuff

2. PHP

3. Java

4. AJAX/DHTML/JavaScript

5. Apache

6. MySQL

7. Oracle or more to be decided later.

There will be no sub-categories for the time being to differentiate further which of the above for any posts that fall under the two new categories. I’ll only tag them to differentiate it.