Lessons from a promoter at IT Show 2011

There are always so many things to look at in a once a quarter consumer electronics show such as the IT Show 2011. Today’s trip was yet another different kind of experience for me. Apart from the latest gadgets, I looked at how promoters attempted to sell their product.

Most promoters performed live demonstration for the use of their products to the audience. There were some who walked through the features of their products themselves and there were those who engaged the audience to try out their products. Although, quite a number managed to attract a group of bystanders to look at their product, not many achieve a high volume of sales.

Only one of them managed to led me and my brother to buy his product. As much as I was amazed by his product, I was even more amazed at his approach in selling his product.

Essential css properties for using a background image on a html submit button

There are times when you feel that the default look of a submit button is just not enough for your webpage. One way to change the default look of your submit button is to use a background image. In this post, I document my attempt in using a background image for my submit button in the search this blog section of my blog.

What does fortune means for me

The word “fortune” was prominent in my recent conversations. The people I met in this new stage of life do not ponder over the many assignment deadlines and exams. Instead, these people stress the limited hours of life and speak ideas of how to maximize living. Naturally, the biggest motivation in life will be to attain as much fortune as we can.

Getting started with MediaWiki as a knowledge sharing platform

MediaWiki provides users with a flexible platform to share knowledge, out of the box. Like many others, I had configured a knowledge sharing platform for my colleagues to share their thoughts within our company. In this post, I will share what I had gathered in the process of doing so.

Debugging PHP on Apache HTTP Server on Windows Server 2008

In my recent attempt to install Apache HTTP Server, MySQL database server and PHP on Windows Server 2008, I spent quite some time figuring out why my Apache HTTP Server couldn’t start. In this post, I will share how I had managed to fix my error.

Goodbye 2010

The year 2010 had been a significant year for me.

Christmas mood is in the air

The past week had been festive.

Handy vbscript functions for dealing with zip files and folders.

When it comes to task automation in the windows environment, vbscript is a very good scripting language to use. This post documents some useful functions that I had included in my scripts to deal with zip files and creating folders.

How to handle null database fields with Java

Content is king and large software cannot get away from serving content. In this post, I shall document how to use Java to access relational databases, with the MySQL database as an example.