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A Tribute...

June 5, 2007 12:25 PM | posted to website | permalink | comments (1)

A tribute... to me!

Thanks Rayts!

Site Update

November 19, 2006 11:49 PM | posted to website | permalink | comments (0)

I turned on the commenting back on... (and as expected the spammers are back). I'm still too lazy to rework the web application for this site however I made some cosmetic changes. I made the layout wider so I can post 800px maximum width image.

Commenting Off

November 10, 2006 12:28 PM | posted to website | permalink | comments (0)

Sorry I had to turn off commenting for a while because I was having serious problems with comment spam lately.

I've analyzed and observed the attacks for sometime now and the vulnerability points to "Session HiJacking"; actually, I'm kinda curious exactly how they were doing it. Well I guess on a positive note, this already forced me to research and pay more attention to computer security... and probably start to update the code for this site... more than two years old now.

Two Years of Blogging

February 16, 2006 2:12 AM | posted to website | permalink | comments (2)

I've been blogging for two years!

From my lame first post:

...why create a web log? I've been wanting to improve my writing, so what a better way than to write anything you want, when you have the urge. I will also include in the gallery creative works(photography, painting, drawings) I have been doing outside software development. Hopefully, I will find the discipline to post and update this often.

I guess I already gave up on that writing thing :-) I was thinking of something nice to write, but I'll just post these 4 drawings on my moleskine I did just now.

Hopefully I could still continue to blog for a long time.

Reason to Update...

October 23, 2005 2:30 AM | posted to website | permalink | comments (1)

I almost reached my allowed bandwidth limit for this month (2 Gig) so I turned much of the stuff on this site off for now. At the same time continue the development of the blogging engine for this site and redesign. But it is really tempting to just use pre-made ones... 5 minutes to install WordPress. Damn! Making me really think twice. More on this later...

Anyways, I move all the image files to Flickr then will just link images from there like this:

About.Com

October 2, 2005 1:56 AM | posted to website | permalink | comments (0)

I saw this site was linked by About.Com yesterday. I only have a handful of links so it is always nice to discover new links like this.

Anyways, this was not a good week for me creatively (like what Penelope posts from time to time) drawing/painting seems just so difficult. Maybe I need to double my dose of Redbull or coffee :-)

Featured in Moleskinerie...

September 30, 2005 8:15 AM | posted to website | permalink | comments (4)

I just saw my works at Moleskinerie today. Thanks for the feature :-)

Messages not being sent...

September 20, 2005 8:06 AM | posted to website | permalink | comments (2)

I just found out yesterday that my (previously) ever reliable contact page is not sending any emails. It says "Your message has been successfully submitted." but there's no message being sent to me. I do not know how long it has been now that this is not working... Last night I checked my source code and made sure I have not made any changes to it... I think my web host has some explaining to do.

To those who sent messages thru my contact page and I have not responded... I am very sorry.

Building a Gallery

August 15, 2005 7:35 AM | posted to website | permalink | comments (1)

I'm slowly putting up works in the gallery (or portfolio). Most of the works already appeared in this blog except they are only 'selected' few and image files have larger dimensions. I'm still contemplating on whether to make it an external site or incorporaate the gallery in this blog; but the main goal of the site would still be to efficiently browse images without digging through the archives. Still a lot more design and development time needed.

RSS... Finally

April 26, 2005 2:00 AM | posted to website | permalink | comments (1)

Finally I have RSS feed. I implemented it just now using ROME api. I'm back to coding mode again and updating the server side code for this site.

Pinoy Blogger of the Week

April 18, 2005 9:06 AM | posted to website | permalink | comments (0)

Thank you for the feature :-)

Update: Of course I save what was written in the feature, they do not have permalink. It was so nice to be gone and forgotten, at least for me :-)

It is easy for any first-timer at Objects and Pixels to think that it is an artist's blog. It has a photo blog the contents of which can take your breath away. Then, there are the drawing/painting archive and the collection black and white drawings. One gets so awed that the logical next step is to get acquainted with the man behind the blog. One clicks the link to the about page and learns that the blogger is not a professional artist. In fact, the blog is "a place to explore Java, XHTML, CSS, and software development..." The blog actually runs on a custom made content management software that Diong, the Indy Pinoy behind Objects and Pixels, himself created.

Objects and Pixels. Simply amazing. - Pinoy Blog Feature

Finally I'm Back

January 21, 2005 1:30 PM | posted to website | permalink | comments (2)

After more than a week of development... finally I'm back. I'm so tired right now to write and I'm just so glad I brought up this site again. I also moved to another web hosting service, this time with my own private JVM. This just means I could start and stop the server anytime I want to, in which I will have a better development and deployment environment. As I stated on my previous post, I merge back my two blog sites into one. I also added "comments" functionality (finally), which I thought was just trivial to implement" well it is not. Oh another note to myself "make sure you check the version of the db of your server". I certainly learn from lots of the development mistakes stuff that I've done that probably cost me lots of time. I am certainly not done with the upgrade, I haven't touched the presentation part and I am still developing the gallery or image management piece of this site.

Be back in a week!

January 10, 2005 1:51 AM | posted to website | permalink | comments (0)

I am adding new features to the server side code... should be done in a week.

IA Redesign

January 4, 2005 10:56 PM | posted to website | permalink | comments (0)

As I wrote here and here, separating my sites(this and diong) I think is not a good idea after all. Each of this blog site personally seems incomplete. I am currently re analyzing the whole information architecture of my sites and probably will merge back my two blogs again.

Development wise and in terms of writing Java code is not really a lot of work. Most of my db tables and object model would still be the same; much of it really is reorganization of content. O yeah, I have put off for too long the "comments feature" so I'll implement that on my next build.

Be Back in 2005

December 26, 2004 11:35 AM | posted to website | permalink | comments (0)

Updating my sites... be back in 2005!

This Site needs some Work...

December 7, 2004 11:06 PM | posted to website | permalink | comments (0)

I am really not satisfied with the usability of my site right now and I really think there is a need to rework much of the stuff in here.

It is pretty obvious I am not able to update this site often and it is not achieving its intended goal. It is really difficult for me to write code right now... I just need to get back at it and work hard again.

Gallery is Back!

November 4, 2004 11:43 PM | posted to website | permalink | comments (0)

Finally, the gallery is back.

Updated 12/23/2004 - Dead link beacause of site update.

New Gallery and Links

November 2, 2004 10:50 PM | posted to website | permalink | comments (0)

I put a new gallery and link pages to this site.

Updated 01/13/2005 - Dead link because of site update.

Aside from putting photos within the blog, I created the gallery page where I can group series of photographs and show them in a higher resolution, including drawings and paintings that I will be uploading to this site.

The links pages includes recommended links that interest me, whether websites, news items, books and other web resources found in the web.

Dynamic Vs Static?

October 29, 2004 2:00 AM | posted to website | permalink | comments (0)

So far this is one of the best and reliable answer I could find.

Servlet Best Practices, Part 2 by Jason Hunter and Robert Eckstein -- In part two of three in this series of book excerpts on servlet best practices from Java Enterprise Best Practices, learn about caching with servlets.

Interestingly I got lots of helpful insights when I found this same question posted some time ago at whitespace, one of the site I really admire.

Thank you... Server

October 12, 2004 5:20 PM | posted to website | permalink | comments (0)

It seems my server problem is fixed. I got a response from my web host support and they told me I was moved into lesser user group. I appreciate them for doing that.

Hurry Make a Post Entry...

October 8, 2004 2:59 PM | posted to website | permalink | comments (0)

Hurry make a post entry while my site is not down. This is getting ridiculous, this site is always down I have to wait before I can post anything.

Web Hosting Issues

October 5, 2004 9:10 PM | posted to website | permalink | comments (0)

I am still having web hosting issues. Out of memory error on certain pages, when everything else seems to be working fine.

Included in PixelBureau

September 27, 2004 12:07 PM | posted to website | permalink | comments (0)

I just saw this site included in PixelBureau.

Totally Personal

September 20, 2004 12:24 PM | posted to website | permalink | comments (0)

I made the change. This site is now free of ( well not really) any software development posts.

All software related posts can now be found here.

This site probably will evolve into a photolog site and other things more creative.

First Entry...

September 20, 2004 10:52 AM | posted to website | permalink | comments (0)

My first entry in this site. Well not really because I moved some post from my personal site here.

I will try to eliminate or limit my personal site of any software development postings; I'll just post them here. Techinically though, I am not maintaining two separate web logs since both are stored in the same persistent layer. I am just separating the different views of the log entries where it is more appropriate for its purpose.

I want to focus this site solely for Java, CSS, and all other web related technology.

Looking for Focus

September 16, 2004 9:53 AM | posted to website | permalink | comments (0)

I considered my personal site (ObjectsAndPixels.Com/Diong) to be the same as ObjectsAndPixels.Com but I still think it is best to separate the two. One for a more professional looking site and /diong, will be kinda like my sketch pad, the more creative site, where, as I am doing here, post anything, out of the business side of things

I am researching right now of what content to put for ObjectsAndPixels.Com. Below are some ideas.

• Current projects/project logs
• Java related news/info/links
• CSS, webstandards related news/info/links
• Written articles... hmmm that is if I could write polished papers that would be useful to others.

As I set the distinction between the two sites, the visual design appearance of the pages should also convey this distinction. Still too much work...

Progress...

September 13, 2004 8:42 AM | posted to website | permalink | comments (0)

I finally made progress updating this site. Not finished yet, but almost all pages should be valid xhtml strict and valid css.

There's still too much to do. I need to bring back up my gallery of drawings and photography. Write up the text for About page.

Lots of broken links...

September 9, 2004 9:04 AM | posted to website | permalink | comments (0)

There are still lots of broken links...

New Web Log Tool Functional

September 9, 2004 8:55 AM | posted to website | permalink | comments (0)

It is working!

It is not yet perfect... but it is functional. I still need to put the permalink functionality and fix the url link in the web logs.

I am having some issues though with deploying my code to my ISP host.

I am the USER...

August 13, 2004 1:06 AM | posted to website | permalink | comments (0)

On my previous posts I pointed out my difficulty developing the new version for my site mostly based on the technology that I use. Since this is my own site, I haven't really analyzed any user requirements...

Well I AM THE USER... my point is I just performed one of the most costly mistake in software development: "perform design and coding before gathering the requirements".

Ok... close all reference books, stop design, stop coding... and ask for user needs.

This website thing is hard...

August 12, 2004 2:45 AM | posted to website | permalink | comments (0)

I've been working hard the last couple of weeks updating this site. The thing is... what currently on here seems to be very complicated to implement on the new version.

But I am making progress. My new site is Struts based and uses JSTL and custom taglibs as view helpers. All these are new to me so it takes so much time and effort to get it done.

I've read somewhere using Struts for a blog site is an overkill...maybe, but I've learned so much already. At least, I understand now the idea behind why use Struts at all in making web applications

Development in progress...

August 10, 2004 9:15 AM | posted to website | permalink | comments (0)

Still continuing to update the whole ObjectsAndPixels site. It takes a while because not only I am changing the presentation views but also the serverside code.

Version 2 Coming Soon...

June 28, 2004 4:50 AM | posted to website | permalink | comments (0)

There will be some changes to this site this week.

Campus Figures Site to XHTML

April 12, 2004 3:20 PM | posted to website | permalink | comments (0)

I redesigned the Campus Figures site last weekend and more importantly, made sure the markup is valid XHTML and CSS. At least now, the presentation layer is clean. The web logs page of the site does not validate though, because when users copy and paste to post an entry, some weird characters are included in the text that the validator would not accept. I guess that is alright as long as no markup error. Much work still needs to be done on the server side components. As I mentioned here before, I am trying to utilize Struts on all my websites; hopefully that would allow more efficient, manageable and scalable web applications. I really need to update this site next because the markup underneath is just embarassing. :-)

Comments added...

February 24, 2004 2:07 AM | posted to website | permalink | comments (0)

I just added a comment link to each of the set of pictures in the gallery. It is just a simple form that emails back to me... not really the usual comment link common to most sites.

Seems to be complete...

February 19, 2004 8:56 AM | posted to website | permalink | comments (0)

I just added the archives last night. Except for minor adjustments and updates, I think I will stop working on this site for a while. My other design concept is with white background and use of black and red. Tried so hard to make it work, but I cannot put the pieces together. I guess I really like the use of monochromatic color and type as design elements. Experimented a bit though with details: the use of curves or type graphics in the corner of the context boxes. Life is so much easier with CSS...

Still updating...

February 16, 2004 1:25 PM | posted to website | permalink | comments (0)

I still have lots of things to do with this site. I have been working on this for two weeks now, but I am happy that everything seems to be falling into place. I wrote the blogger utility myself; I figured since it will take me time to learn and install an available web log utitily, I'll just develop my own and practice my Java skills a bit. It is not as complicated as other free utilities but it will allows me to login as an admin, archive my posts including permalink, post log entries, set posts as private or public. I still need to research how that RSS thing works.