Dao Hoang Son

According to Official Google Blog ( this entry ) Wave has not seen the user adoption we would have liked. We don’t plan to continue developing Wave as a standalone product, but we will maintain the site at least through the end of the year and extend the technology for use in other Google projects. Well, it's not a big deal when a product is put in the dead pool, especially nowadays. But there is one thing which is interesting here: Google is really fast in terms of their search engine response time and in terms of the corporation's actions. Google Wave, when it was announced in May 2009 it was believed to be the "email killer" and even the "Facebook killer". The Google Team were very excited about Google Wave (and clearly, Google Wave has a lot of innovative technologies). But then the buzz decreased day by day because users don't find it useful. Then... Boom! Google decided to stop developing the product and move on to the next big thing. Well, with...

Wow, I have followed this website for a few days but I was too busy to write about it. It's really awesome, check it out if you are interested in forums software: http://xenForo.com . This totally new software is written by 2 former developers of vBulletin (which is currently considered the best one in the market). One of them is the former lead developer Kier Darby, the other one is Mike Sullivan. They are both very talented as you can see when you visit the site with a live version of their new software. Even it's still in early development, it's very impressive! But then, which gets more attention from me is the discussion about vBulletin and xenForo. Many people are also eager about the new software (just like me). We both see a lot of potential on the new one. Especially when the current vBulletin's owner (Internet Brands, this is the new owner, IB acquired Jelsoft back in 2007) screwed a lot of things up. The latest version of vBulletin (4.0.3) contains a long l...

For "hacking" definition, please read this . You may know the profile-tagging feature when you post from the publisher in Facebook. There is one thing that is inconvenient: if you tagged some profiles in a Wall Photo and then you want to edit the caption, all the tagged profiles will be untagged and come back to normal text. Fortunately, you can now manually tag profiles in photo caption by using the syntax @[Facebook UserID:Facebook Name] Very simple, if you want to tag profile called "A Friend Of Mine" and his/her UserID is 123456, just go edit your photo caption and type in @[123456:A Friend Of Mine], save the caption and you are done! The tagged profile will receive notification as usual. I'm not sure if there is any limitation so... try it and tell me if you run into one. Happy Facebooking!

For those who don't understand the title: "fifteen love" means "15-0" in tennis score. When a player scores 1 ball, he/she will get fifteen points (second ball = another fifteen but from third ball, each ball equals to ten). Simply speaking, Viettel has just won 1 ball against Facebook . I'm wondering if they (Viettel people) will win this game or not... They definitely can! Anyway, Viettel has blocked all Facebook servers. All requests will fail. A simple SYN will fail. All means everything! And obviously, Viettel Internet users won't be able to access Facebook in a direct manner. This sucks! REALLY SUCKS! I did ping some Facebook servers and they all went timed out. *sigh* 69.63.189.11 [facebook.com] 69.63.181.11 [facebook.com] 69.63.181.12 [facebook.com] 69.63.189.16 [facebook.com] 69.63.181.31 [m.facebook.com] 69.63.180.18 [touch.facebook.com] The whole situation is being controlled by a fifteen kid who loves to piss everybody off, I gue...

I have just had to deal with a 2D QR Code, which is interesting and I want to share it with you The online decoder can be found here:  http://zxing.org/w/decode.jspx Have fun QR Coding :>

It's really inconvenient to develop plugins for vBulletin these days since the 2 systems (vBulletin 3 and vBulletin 4) use different template engines (or so called). After a lot of frustrations, I finally made a converter which will "read" your old .xml product file and make it vBulletin 4 compatible. Please note that it doesn't magically make the plugins work in vBulletin 4 (which involves a lot of things), it just makes sure the template will be parsed correctly in vBulletin 4's system just like how it's supposed to be done in vBulletin 3's. Changes are made under several aspects Variable accessing Array accessing will be updated to the new way. No more $array[key], it should be {vb:raw array.key} StyleVar accessing (via vb:stylevar) Phrasing (support both simple phrases and compound ones) IF/ELSE condition in template The new .xml file will be saved in the same directory with the suffix _vb4. Okie, here is the code (in PHP, obviously) You ma...

After a long time being busy at a lot of personal things, finally I managed to release a maintenance version of YAFB to make it work with vBulletin 3. Also, as vBulletin 4.0.3 now has a built-in Facebook integration, many users want to migrate their Facebook users from YAFB to that integration. Hmm, it's obviously not a good move for YAFB but I decided to build the migration tool and it's available right away in this 3.3.1 release. The super-thread for YAFB is still located here , happy facebooking!