Author Archives: Ian Lai
About Ian Lai
http://www.fyianlai.com/
I·an [ee-uhn, ee-ahn, ahy-uhn] a name given to a teenager with an unusual fascination over websites; history and politics; business and economics; and life.he is an embodiment of creativity, idealism and a bucket full of 'much more.'

Free/Share: Free Web Resources (HTML/CSS/PHP) and Inspiration – February 2011 (Part 1) Every once in a while I stumble across an amazing tutorial, web resource or even a collection of inspirational web designs. Most of the time this would occur on Twitter and I would eventually lose the link to it after the “re-tweet” gets … Read more →
cache, canvas, captcha, css, Facebook, framework, HTML5, InDesign, inspiration, javascript, jQuery, PHP, Twitter, typography

Free/Giveaway: Pinterest and Connect.me Beta Invites (Limited) I am a huge fan of startups… web startups that is. Indeed, I am attempting to find my own “place” on the internet by looking for startup ideas, which hitherto had been rather unsuccessful – everything is taken! Anyways, I recently gained early access to Pinterest (a “Tumblr-like” service – … Read more →

Tutorial/Resource: WordPress Developers Boilerplate Part 1 (For Plugins/Themes) – Connect To An External Or A Custom Database On WordPress Introduction Inspired by HTML5 Boilerplate, I aim to provide some useful boilerplates for WordPress developers working on plugins and/or themes. When I was working on a WordPress-based project, I found it difficult to “move around” with … Read more →
API, boilerplate, class, codex, database, external, function, OOP, PHP, plugin, remote, theme, wordpress

Tutorial/How-To: Fix Google Chrome Minimum Font-Size (CSS) For Special UI Locale (e.g. Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai) / Font-Size Not Getting Any Smaller Than 12px Background Feel free to skip to the “tutorial” bit if you want a quick solution to your problem rather than a long statement about my encounter with this problem. Recently, … Read more →
browsershot, css, css reset, firefox, font-size, google chrome, language, locale, minimum font size, normalize.css, stylesheet, webkit, wordpress

How-To: Remove Facebook’s New Real-Time Ticker (Right Sidebar) Here’s a quick and extremely simple Google Chrome extension I made to hide the annoying Facebook real-time ticker on the right sidebar. It shouldn’t require any specific permissions to run it. To be perfectly honest, you don’t really need this extension if you already have the Adblock … Read more →
extension, Facebook, google chrome, real-time

Tutorial: Fix for ‘WordPress 3.1.1 Visual Editor Not Showing Up’ (NattyWP’s Delicate Theme) / Debugging for Problems Why, hello there! Just yesterday I was trying to create a new ‘rant-like’ blog post, however, my WordPress simply refused to display the What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get (WYSIWYG) / Visual / Rich-text / Whatever you want to call it, editor. Therefore, … Read more →
3.1.1, debugging, error, jQuery, nattywp, seo, wordpress, wysiwyg

Why, hello there! It has been ages since I last made a blog post! Well, as you can see, I have imported all my previous blog posts – after much debate – to my personal website which I have finally setup WordPress on I will no longer update my previous homepage (maybe, maybe not). In … Read more →
Hello All! EDIT (15/03/11): Apparently the message sent out by WrzHost was by an ‘ex-employee’ and WrzHost did not close down. Please take that into account when reading this blog post. Thanks. Merry Christmas (belated) and Happy New Year to all of you! If you still follow my blog once in a while, thank you! … Read more →
aerosol hosting, apache, assistanz, cheap reseller, cpanel, dedicated servers, digitalpoint, fivebean, free hosting, infinitetech, litespeed, rackvm, shared hosting, softaculous, virtual private server, web hosting, web server, webhostingtalk, whm, whmcs, worldstream, wrzhost
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bluemile, cognitive, computer, Facebook, hypptv, internet, klmun, model united nations, mun, perspective, psychology, Random, research, school, tmnet, Twitter, unifi
HELLO ALL! A few hours ago, I cleaned the dust off my ‘old’ Genius Graphics tablet and began playing around with it. I must admit, since I purchased it from a famous IT mall in my country, Low Yat Plaza, I rarely played with it since, and it was as if the tablet’s existence was … Read more →
art, awesome face, custom shirt, genius, graphics tablet, lowyat, Photoshop, polo, tshirtstudio