http://www.khmerang.com Here now.If you are a colonel, your wife is a general. - Khmer proverb. Sat, 16 Feb 2008 05:55:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 Whoa, time flies. After finding out how to reset my password for this abandoned blog, I have some news for programmers here in Phnom Penh. We have been meeting with a small group of people to discuss patterns and practices, going through GoF patterns with the help of this study guide. ... http://www.khmerang.com/index.php?p=162 Got a mail that said THOM THOM ONLY band in town playing Original Khmer Rock Material Live at the Zeppelin Café [Nº49 street 86] For a special New Year’s Eve Concert Sunday, December 31st 2006, 9:00 p.m. FREE ADMISSION So there shall be a new year's party! http://www.khmerang.com/index.php?p=161 Opera for Nintendo DS and Wii... NetFront in Playstation 3... Assuming IE won't directly port to XBox 360... I guess web developers now have excuses to buy HDTVs and game consoles! http://www.khmerang.com/index.php?p=160 Web Standards Quiz 2.0 is online. Like the nature of anything 2.0, it's still in beta and might have some serious issues... so be gentle. I had big plans to include plenty of new questions, but heck, plans are just plans, right? http://www.khmerang.com/index.php?p=159 Phew, how fast the days go by... a post a month seems to be my current blogging schedule. You might (or should) be aware that South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun has been in Cambodia for few days now. Monday night I happened to be on a motodop at Mao Tse Tung ... http://www.khmerang.com/index.php?p=158 Another nice new offering by Google is their Custom Search (alongside with other search personalization tools). You can now make a set of sites that contain quality information and limit your search only within those sites (or give those sites more value). I'm loving it, and testing the whole thing with ... http://www.khmerang.com/index.php?p=157 Just a quick note - I'm still breathing. Two Cambodia-related news items for you: Betty Ford will be playing Talking to a Stranger Saturday Sept 30 and FCC rooftop Saturday Oct 7. That's Phnom Penh. Cambodia Yellow Pages is finally available in Khmer, at www.yellowpages-cambodia.com/km/. That's for all Cambodia. http://www.khmerang.com/index.php?p=156 I was fascinated to know what happens when you translate a paragraph of text between languages using Google Translate. First from English to French, from French to German and from German back to English again. How much information gets "lost in translation"? So I went an did another useless web application ... http://www.khmerang.com/index.php?p=155 One of my most frequented blogs is the one by Matt Cutts, a Google employee (in case you didn't know) giving invaluable advice on how Google works and how you should build your site(s) to be indexed and up in Google SERPs. For a pleasent change he's been posting videos ... http://www.khmerang.com/index.php?p=153 Looks like Stylegala problems continue... There is a good reason to use the "autorenew" feature at registrars :) Update: Luckily they didn't lose the domain... a healthy warning anyway... http://www.khmerang.com/index.php?p=151