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What I’m Up To

Jeff — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 19:57:21 +0000

Summer

Website Maintenance @ Brite-view.com / Zinnet
Intern @ FreshBrain.org
Lots of robotics stuff

My Senior Classes

AP Physics B
AP Calculus BC
AP Government
Economics
English 4
Choir 1

Catch ya’ll later.

Hi Again!

Jeff — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 04:28:26 +0000

Welcome to the new website! Yup that’s right. This is the new design I’ve been working on. My main idea behind the design was a simple and super fast theme that is fluid, accessible, could easily extended.

This is the part one of my relaunch. In the coming days, I’ll be revamping my about page, creating a complete portfolio, an extended archives page and perhaps a downloads and tools section. What’s also coming is a bilingual support for Chinese.

Also a little story about my upgrading process. As usual, I deleted all the old WordPress files but I accidentally deleted the wp-content folder which contained all the pictures, themes, and plugins. This sucked. But hopefully I can get a backup from Shane. In the meanwhile, all the screenshots and thumbnails will not be accessible. Sorry about that.

New Domain

Jeff — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 23:16:51 +0000

Yay I’ve finally acquired jeffchan.net just a few minutes ago. It’ll redirect to jeffchan.org for now until I figure what to do with it. If you see this post and it doesn’t redirect, you need to flush your DNS cache.

I’ve been looking at this domain ever since it first expired in June. Most of you don’t know, when a domain expires, it goes through a very lengthy process before it actually becomes available. This domain was actually first released to what are called “back orderers” September 6th. A site parking site picked it up right away and dropped it a few days later. Then, another parking site picked it up right away and dropped it as well. What’s going on here is that they are testing to see if this domain gets any traffic. So during this period, I avoided directly going to “jeffchan.net”. You want to avoid giving them any traffic.

I didn’t really want to go with the .org back when I first created the site. But at that time, someone had this domain without any use. So I’m still thinking about whether to move everything to the new .net.

So now here it is in my hand, muhahah .

Note: As for the new blog design, it’s coming September 25th when Wordpress 2.3 is coming out, stay tuned!

It’s Complete!

Jeff — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 06:30:21 +0000

The new blog design I’ve been talking about is now complete! I’ve tested everything on here and it works fine. You’ll see it live once Wordpress 2.3 rolls out probably end of September. Like I said last time, I’m abandoning the category system and using the tagging system and Wordpress 2.3 has an awesome tagging system. I’m also aiming for a Chinese version of my site as well as some AJAX features . Stay tuned!

Homework Sucks

Jeff — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 21:28:16 +0000

Within the first week of school, I’ve been flooded with homework, especially AP homework. Stupid teacher had me up at four doing homework… None of my classes are interesting at all.

However, school stuff aside, I actually had fun playing poker last night. I also got a chance to play the Wii. It’s awesome.

And just a little update on the new version of my blog I’m working on. I have the design coded and everything. Right now I’m waiting for the release of Wordpress 2.3 (sometime in Sepetember), so I can take advantage of the new tagging system. It’ll be fun!

Tumblelog

Jeff — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 02:22:13 +0000

I’ve been thinking about getting a tumblelog because I don’t have much time writing long blog posts but sometimes I really want to share some things. The only downside about getting one is that I don’t have full control over the my domain, because I’ll have to point the domain to the hosting server. The other thing about it is that there is no comment system, so I’m still thinking about whether or not to switch.

So what have I been up to…

Final exams this week. School is out Thursday.
Working on a big project for a client, building everything upon MyBB through the plugin system.
I have a research paper due Wednesday, tomorrow, and I haven’t even started.
Preparing for the Internal robotics Botball tournament.
Upgraded this blog to new version of WordPress.
Finished reading Fast Food Nation. I’m now reading At the Center of the Storm, My Years at the CIA by George Tenet. I love autobiography and nonfiction books like this one.
Lots of summer assignment for next year’s AP World History class.

Catch up later.

Wordpress 2.1

Jeff — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 22:17:13 +0000

I’ve taken the time to upgrade this site to Wordpress 2.1. Everything went smoothly except I had to update some old plugins and edit some files. The best feature I like from this new release is the separate comments section which allows better comment control. The other thing I really like is the included Akismet plugin which filters spam. I’ve been using this plugin for a long time and it’s been catching over 2000 spam comments for me. The autosave feature is really awesome. I’ve lost several drafts because browser crash or what not.

Back On A Schedule

Jeff — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 16:00:52 +0000

Some of you may have noticed that my blogging rate has been decreasing over the past 3 or 4 months. I’m trying to get back on blogging with at least 3 to 4 posts per week. I want to expand my topics from tech and my life to perhaps my views on various topics. My goal also includes increasing the length of my posts. To do this, I might have to probably pre-write a few posts and store them (:P). So I’ll probably schedule posts and let Wordpress post them automatically.

You also may have noticed I tweaked the width of the content and sidebar so that the sidebar is slightly narrower and the content column is wider. This should be handy when I start increasing the length of my posts. I’m also starting to organize my categories.

Keep checking back!

Pages Updated

Jeff — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 04:22:38 +0000

I’ve updated my about me page and my development page. Please check it out, specially the about me page. I’ve added a few more sections on that page.

If you want to know more about me, leave a comment here and I’ll consider adding the information.

It’s Been A Year…

Jeff — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 18:31:34 +0000

It’s been a year since my first post. I totally forgot to post on Sept. 28 due to my heavy load of schoolwork. But anyways, just though I should make this post. Thanks to all those who are reading my blog. Sorry about the lack of updates.

On the other hand, I’ve released version 1.1 of my plugin. Check it out here.

Ver 1.1 – New Features, Bug Fix, Security Improvement 09/30/06
*Improved security.
*Fixed collapse button Internet Exploder bug.
*Ability to set the gallery globally or limit it only to one forum.
*Ability to enable or disable to collapsable button.