Author Archives: Jackson Leung

I just ordered a box from Dell so that I can install Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP on it. I think it’ll be a good investment because I think Linux is a very important OS to learn and get under your belt. Another reason why I want this box is because my current set up …

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Just when I thought was onto something, the project got shelved for another one of more importance. The importance isn’t based on how technical it is though, just in terms of priority to the company.

Yay… My new project is to play, I mean work, with the Google API 🙂

Today, I am to write a simple script to allow the data in one database to be migrated to another database. It doesn’t sound that bad. I’m sure other projects will soon follow.

So we encountered some security issues today, although there is little you can do against a person who is ultra determined to hack into your system, there are many things you can do to deter him. You can employ an account based restriction, ip address based restriction, browser based restriction, and many more other ways. I think the …

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My boss wants me to replace the existing logic in our relativity system with his new logic. Looks like AJAX will have to wait once again.

So close, yet so far away. After hours of skimming through books at Borders, I’ve managed to find and purchase, in my opinion, a pretty decent AJAX book. Now I know what AJAX is. AJAX stands for Asynchronous Javascript and XML. Basically, it is Javascript that pulls info from a server and updates the content …

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AWESOME! I just updated my boss on the project and he’s going to think about it for a while, and in the meantime I got reassigned to learn and code a new AJAX component for our client server interface. I’m very excited.

The magic word for today is pollution, database pollution to be exact. Due to the technologies that I’m working with, the data returned can’t be fully relied upon. So basically I’ll have to determine if it’s even possible to rely on this unreliable data. It’s going to be interesting… very interesting indeed.

I started work at my new company on July 2, 2007. Since then I’ve been put in charge of and finished programming a business intelligence application. There was some guidance on what technologies to implement, but besides pointing me to where to look, they didn’t need to do much else. I’m very excited about how …

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