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Guitar
Fly away – Corrinne May Guitar Chords
11.09.08 | Permalink | 2 CommentsThis is a sad sad song. Well it happened to be my best friend’s favourite. Reminds her of her Mom. Anyway this is for you MF! F major, capo 1 F Am “When will you be home?” she asks F Am as we watch the planes take off F Am Dm We both know we [...]
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Software
Setting up a basic project infrastructure with Redmine, Hudson, VSFTP
Here I would like to share with you the steps to set up the basic project infrastructure. For a project, there’re a few tools which are absolutely necessary to function File Server Project Wiki Continuous Integration Server Bug/Issue Tracking Source Control With these features in mind, I have identified the software necessary to provide all [...]
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Guitar
Plucking patterns for 让夜轻轻落下
This is a very old song. Its from the ‘Xinyao’ era in ’80s Singapore where its a mini Renaissance of local Chinese music. I love songs from that era. Here is one of them. You can catch the original song here. The plucking patterns are improvised by me. For those new to guitar music notation: [...]
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Guitar
Guitar Chords for The Birthday Song – Corrinne May
10.06.08 | Permalink | 5 CommentsThe Birthday Song – Corrinne May Here’s another set of self written chords. I wrote this cos someone wanted to play this song for her best friend. And I thought that’s a worthy cause. So here goes… G Don’t worry about that extra line Em That’s creeping up upon your face G It’s [...]
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Software
Comparing payment gateways for an e-commerce store in Singapore
09.18.08 | Permalink | 3 CommentsComparing the various payment gateway options in Singapore
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Rails
Persistent Cookie Authentication Gem Documentation
07.07.08 | Permalink | 4 CommentsWhat are persistent cookies? What are persistent cookies used for? A persistent cookie is no different from other cookies. What is different is that it is used to identify users. With identification, it enables a website to remember you on subsequent visits, speeding up or enhancing your experience of services or functions offered. For example, [...]
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Rails
Persistent Cookie Authentication Generator
07.06.08 | Permalink | 4 CommentsThis is a Rails gem that I wrote, or rather extracted from the codebase from hushyhushy.com. OK, what is PersistentCookie Authentication Generator? This gem is a code generator. This generator creates an authentication system with persistent cookie management. Feature include a model which uses SHA1 encryption and salted hashes for passwords a controller with signup, [...]
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Rails
InvalidAuthenticityToken and Session Expiry
This is something that I’ve discovered as I was building hushyhushy. After I upgraded to Rails 2, I began using authenticity tokens. So far so good. But in the course of testing the app, I would encounter the infamous ‘InvalidAuthenticityToken Error’. That’s weird! It usually happened in the middle of testing the app, and after [...]
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Rails
Postman Rails Plugin
This plugin is calculates the shipping rate for a given location and weight. It is useful for cases where the postal service in your country doesn’t provide APIs for calculating shipping rates. This is actually extracted code from my website hushyhushy.com. I needed some sort of a calculator for shipping rates. But there isn’t any. [...]
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Guitar
Guitar Chords for Shelter – Corrinne May
05.10.08 | Permalink | 2 CommentsShelter by Corrinne May And here’s the chord file in text format: shelter.txt Well, if there’re any obscure songs that you couldn’t find chords for it on the web, do let me know. I’ll try to write for that if I like the song too… G D What’s wrong, whats getting you down C Bm [...]
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