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A City of Our Own Part IV: Batu Pahat

There are no other places that Guo Lin loves as much as his beloved hometown Batu Pahat, which can be translated as "chiselled rock" in English. The town is just the perfect ratio of blend between serenity and modernisation that he would not be able to find in another place. Here he proudly shares about the town where he was born and grew up in. Keep Reading

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Koh Lipe Trip

Syazwan was mesmerized by the fantastic view of the beach at Koh Lipe, Thailand - the scene with light blue crystal clear waters and shining white sandy beach. After much swimming, snorkeling and gallivanting about the island with Shaiful together in their hibiscus pants, Syazwan could not wait to share the story of his first ever overseas trip. Keep Reading

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Sticky Post Slider in WordPress without a Plugin

A slider gives draws the attention to the blog posts selected by the owner and allows the visitors to quickly glance through some of the best posts. It is a smart and welcomed way to promote the blog with its own posts. Many blog owners seek help from various plugins to achieve the slider for featured posts. But Guo Lin prefers to code it directly in the theme he works on, while using the existing 'Sticky Post' feature in WordPress to achieve the same effect. Keep Reading

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Holiday Trip to Cambodia

Shaiful's recent backpacking trip to Cambodia was proven to be a memorable one, including all the horn-happy drivers cruising along the streets. It is a country with fascinating history with thousands of years of civilization, majestic temples and interesting people. Hear how Shaiful tells a tale of his adventures. Keep Reading

Projects

Managing Web Projects and People

As a project manager and a virtual one at that, Anita came across articles that shed a new light on her daily job scope and the different personalities of people she's involved with. As experience alone is not enough to grow, she still have plenty to learn and in the process. Here she shares articles that she hopes to be useful to the readers. Keep Reading

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A City of Our Own Part III: Kajang

Mujib wants to share the story about his beloved hometown, but not about the present days of it but more interestingly, about the old days of Kajang based on the first-hand account of his old man. That's right, the man was also born in Kajang in the late 60's, during the time when the town was quiet and unperturbed by development. Keep Reading

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Easy Way to Generate Complex Excel Spreadsheet Programmatically

In one of his projects, one of the requirements was the system must be able to produce an official form document in Excel spreadsheet with precise formatting that will look consistent when printed. Like the smooth strumming of his guitar, Shaiful shares a quick workaround on how to generate complicated Excel documents from your application. Keep Reading

User Experience

My Maybank2u Experience

Despite being the most visited Malaysian website, Guo Lin thinks that Maybank2u is being an itch to him - it does not take lead in adopting web technologies and employing smarter user experience design. Guo Lin shares his take and suggestions on how to improve this. Keep Reading

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Disable HTML Auto-Formatting in WordPress

The "HTML mode" in the WordPress editor doesn't really provide you with total control of the HTML being generated on the frontend. Some of the auto-formatting it does are for instance wrapping your inline elements with <p> and line breaks are also interpreted as <p>. If you're someone who likes full control over the HTML of your content in WordPress, this simple solution might interest you. Shaiful shows you how. Keep Reading

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Just Silence, That’s It

Giving someone an uninterrupted four hours time is the best gift you can give anyone at work. It's better than a computer, it's better than a new monitor, it's better than new software, or what people typically use. Giving them four hours of quiet time at the office is going to be incredibly valuable. Keep Reading