Willy’s Corner

For those who are working in a non-profit organization or websites, it is possible to easily accept donation online from your site.  One I found useful and easy is the PayPal donation system.  In order to get this tool, you have to be a registered PayPal user.  This implies that you need a credit card to be a verified PayPal member.

Next, you must upgrade your PayPal account from Personal to Premier or Business to accept donation.  I have tried Premier account.

Building a donation button is relatively simple.  Search Google for “paypal donation”, then the topmost result could guide you to the relevant page.  Essentialy, you just have to choose the property of the button, including text and appearance.  Besides, you could set some advanced settings, including which page would appear after a person send a donation.  After that, you could just copy and paste the provided script to your web page.

Have fun!

Tanggal 15 Agustus 1994, hampir tujuh belas tahun yang lalu, sebuah nota kesepakatan ditandatangani oleh pimpinan perusahaan InterAccess dan AuraVisor.  Keduanya sepakat menggabungkan perusahaannya menjadi satu, yang diberi nama Quantain CompLabs Corp.  Masing-masing pendiri menjabat sebagai Presiden Direktur I dan II.

Tidak ada yang aneh, sepertinya, karena mendirikan perusahaan itu hal yang biasa.  Yang unik, surat itu saya tandatangani bersama Ridwan ketika kami masih di SMA.

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Rekan-rekan yang sempat merasakan manisnya menggunakan komputer di tahun 1990-an dan sebelumnya tentu akan memandang sebuah sound card (kartu suara) dari sudut pandang berbeda dari kebanyakan orang yang mulai menggunakan komputer saat ini. Komputer jaman dulu umumnya tidak punya sound card; hanya mengeluarkan bunyi-bunyian melalui suatu speaker kecil di dalam komputer (disebut “PC Speaker“) berdiameter kurang dari 6 cm. Untuk main game Digger atau Double Dragon, itu dirasa sudah cukup.

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Somehow it is difficult to gather an idea to have an exciting look for our website. Instead of using a content management system like WordPress, Drupal, or Joomla, perhaps we wish to have a home-made website engine. In this case, a CSS template would be pretty much helpful; as we can put our concentration in developing the content management application rather than dressing up the site.

There are some websites provide free XHTML/CSS templates. I found that free-css[dot]com, freecsstemplates[dot]org are good places to start. They provides a lot of free templates options. In addition, styleshout[dot]com also provides a bunch of free templates instead of some exciting premium templates. However, if you have already have a WordPress website, I found some good WordPress templates at blogohblog[dot]com.

HTML (HyperText Markup Language) adalah bahasa yang digunakan untuk membuat halaman web. File-file HTML pada umumnya memiliki ekstensi (akhiran) .htm atau .html dan diproses di sisi client (client-side). Artinya, kode-kode (tepatnya disebut tag-tag) HTML yang ada di dalam file itu diterjemahkan menjadi tampilan halaman web oleh perangkat lunak penjelajah web (web-browser). Beberapa web-browser yang populer saat artikel ini ditulis adalah Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, dan Opera. EYSNJ2B2BC8Y

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Presented in the Plant Breeding and Plant Genetics Seminar - UW Madison, Spring 2010.

ABSTRACT. Melon (Cucumis melo L.) is a species that has the greatest genetic diversity within Cucurbitaceae family, thus giving an opportunity for plant breeders to develop improved varieties. Among more than five botanical varieties, C. melo var cantalupensis and C. melo var inodorus are widely known in the US as cantaloupe and winter melon, respectively. Melon is a cross pollinated species, in which most of pollination events are performed by bees. Therefore, F1 hybrids are the most common varieties could be found in the market today. My presentation will cover some principles of hybrid melon breeding for better fruit quality, including the use of pedigree method in the development of inbred lines. Some important breeding features like inbreeding depression and heterosis will also be discussed. Besides, it will be of interest to understand the response of a melon cultivar to pollination method by bumble bees and honey bees. In brief, breeding objectives, important qualitative and quantitative characteristics, gene flow, and field cultivation technique will also be presented.

Download: Melon Pollination and Breeding (PPT Handout) (539)

If you a website builder, you are likely to be familiar with Joomla.  It is a content management system (CMS) that enable us to build a database driven website with in a few hours.  Undoubtedly, it is one of the most famous CMS available right now.  However, web programmers might have an important question: how to integrate our own php program into the Joomla page?  If we can do it, not only we get benefits using the Joomla engine for article posting, menu organizing, theme changing, etc, but also we can have our own PHP and MySQL application in that website!

Searching a little bit, I found a Joomla extension for this purpose called “PHP by FWD”.  Interestingly, this extension has a high rate: about 4.5 of 5 stars.  I downloaded that extension and simply follow the instruction provided beyond the “Documentation” button given.  It was really worth trying.  The extension enable us to run our php files simply by uploading the php files into the ‘extensions/com_php/files’ directory.  Another good thing is that we can assign a menu item for any own PHP files!  Not only supporting PHP, but it also supports HTML tags, obviously.  Connecting to the MySQL database could be done as usual, using a small connect.inc.php file or so.

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In many blogs we see that there are small icons to link an entry (post) to a social-networking website such as Facebook, Twitter, etc.  I was wondering how to make that button available for my blog.  As I am using WordPress, I was trying to find out a kind of plugin that enable me to provide such icons.  I found one interesting Plugin at the WordPress directory, called Sociable.  Please Google the ’sociable plugin wordpress’ if you are interested to find it.  Simply download the plugin zip file, extract, and upload the sociable folder into the wp-content/plugins directory in your web server.  Enter the WordPress control panel, click Plugins, and enable that plugin.  The Sociable option should be added in the Tools menu then.  Select that options, and you have a plenty of social-networking links to choose.  One good thing that it also has some options to link to the RSS and PDF-maker provider.  See the icons below this post as example.  Now you can make your visitors link your post almost everywhere; it means that your blog will be more renowned!

I am proud to bring this application to you - WBAds. This is simply a web-based text ads management system, developed for those who want to provide a (hopefully) free website for people to post their text ads. This software was developed using PHP & MySQL. I like it because it is very light. I believe it is also suitable for a PHP & MySQL training purpose, as it provides basic web interaction and database operation like input, insert, output, edit, update, and delete. It shows how to implement a multi-language interface. In addition, it also implements a basic “link” between the application and the e-mail system to enable password retrieving and membership confirmation.

Download: WBAds 1.0 (299)

For those who are interested in grabbing photos, a new photo album site - www.sleekphotos.com - might be fun for you. It was created yesterday and has been loaded by some good photos. I decided to use phpAlbum engine, because it’s quite simple to use. With that engine, there is no database (DBMS) needed to run. I guess it only use a couple of text files to store configurations. We only simply uploaded the picture files, and then click ‘generated’ button to update the information. And - boom - you will get your your photo album refreshed.

I became interested to do some photographic things and arrange them in a form of website. My reason is to preserve good pictures I’ve taken in a good arrangement. Besides, I am willing to to share the photos with you. Perhaps you are interested see what things I’m seeing right now in Madison - then you will get it.  Grab any pictures you love.  I am trying to keep the picture in the ‘acceptable’ size, mostly on 1024×768 resolution.  The size of each file is around 300 kb.  Please feel free to give me any comments for improvement.