Author Archives: Eric

Two of the biggest online tech companies have been rumoured to open offline retail stores. Google – http://www.hindustantimes.com/technology/Events/Coming-soon-Google-s-retail-store/SP-Article1-809479.aspx Amazon - http://blogs.ajc.com/business-beat/2012/02/07/report-amazon-to-open-retail-store/?cxntfid=blogs_business_beat Is this the new trend in retail? While many offline retailers are struggling to get online, those who have primarily … Continue reading →

Looks like Pinterest is one of the hot social sites right now. I think their main arsenal was their visual approach to presenting the content. It’s that infamous, infinite scrolling, tiled look, which works very well for the images. So … Continue reading →

“Neglected” would be an understatement in this case. Though I launched Freally in mid-2010, it was left to itself without much improvement over the years. Well, I finally went off my butt and did something about it and I am … Continue reading →

If you have a table with a varchar or text column, which may or may not contain text-based integer values, it’s sometimes hard to do natural sorting on MySQL or Postgres. By that what I mean is, if you have … Continue reading →

I was using one of the APIs to process their XML file using SimplePie, but it happens so that their XML document was invalid since one of the fields contained the ampersand character. How did I resolve it? SimplePie accepts … Continue reading →

Woo hoo! Happenic has been voted as the mashup of the day at programmableweb.com! NNIICCEE.  

SimplePie is a popular RSS parser and it was always easy to integrate it with other PHP frameworks. However, I was not able to find the latest SP (1.2.1) integrated with the latest CI (2.1.0). So I decided to upload … Continue reading →

Today I am launching Happenic v0.1. This is the second iteration of this project, yet I spent last 4 weeks refining the primitive first iteration. The interface now boasts full-screen calendar and event listing with easy-to-use search features and best … Continue reading →

Calendar web app was something I was working on for about 4 weeks now. This is actually the second version I am trying to release. After the intitial one, I re alised how “slow” it was due to some serious novice Javascript … Continue reading →