I received a very good news today from my supervisor which he allowed me to develop my Final Year Project using Drupal as my base system.

I shall now officially name my program e-PMS... Yeah I know it doesn't sound right but that's the best I can think for now. If you have any better idea to name it, please do tell me!

What is e-PMS all about?

The e-Patient Management System is basically managing patient details in hospitals and clinics. It is common to develop the application using VB.NET, C++ or Java. However, e-PMS will be developed using PHP and MySQL, and thus, it is a web-based system. Furthermore, Drupal CMS will be the base system for me to develop the web-application.

Not sure how far this project can go, other than just for my Final Year Project (FYP) in UCTI. Hopefully it will be all good and I will be able to publish an open source web-application for clinics :) Hospital may be way too big, but who knows, it may work well too (Which I doubt).

I realize that there are too many tutorials on getting your Relaying Postfix SMTP via smtp.gmail.com to work. Most of them are long and complicated, but I found a tutorial from this particular website which provides the shortest, simplest, and the clearest tutorial on how to get it work in less than 5 minutes. I would like to post it here for my future use again, so that I don't need to spend hours finding the right tutorial to get it done :)Read more...

The lyric.jonloh.net - Version 2 is now officially up and running. Looking forward to add more functionality which will help alot for songleaders in choosing songs and printing them out easily.

And I am also officially starting my last year of college tomorrow. No more holiday =(

My little side project under construction:

lyric.jonloh.net - Version 2

Currently in the process for transferring the songs and chords from the current lyric.jonloh.net to the revamped site.

The main features you will see in that site:

• Auto transpose key - This will definitely save a lot of your time in getting the correct key for the songs that you want to sing.
• Music video and tutorials - Several songs have their own YouTube videos, so that songleaders are able to listen to the song and musicians are also able to learn the tutorials that are available for the song.

This main purpose to establish this project is to save my time from doing song transpose for songleaders. Check it out ;)

And yes, I'm aware that I can end up like pwarchive.com; Copyright issue. If that happens, I would need to make it really private or obtain the copyright license.

If you are using a Content Management System, especially Drupal on Apache, PHP and MySQL in your Windows web server, you may realize that the page loading speed isn't as fast when you put it up on a Linux web server, even though your desktop has probably an i7.

Kah Thong found out that the loading page speed has to do with the database engine; In Windows, the engine storage type is default to INNODB while Linux's default storage engine type is MyISAM. You will find that the loading page will be much faster when you alter the tables from INNODB to MyISAM. Technically I do not know why, but I believe there are tons of explanations online.

So yeah, this is so much useful when it comes to coding a Drupal theme. Try it out :)

Weeeheee, new handsome theme for my blog.

Finally, my birthday blog post is in progress...

For those who are having the mentioned error in Drupal and running your Apache/PHP/MySQL in Windows Server, even though you can open up http://localhost:8983/solr/admin, this error can be rectified easily. The main reason this problem occurred is due to SVN checkout command-line.

To solve this problem, you do not actually need to use the command:

svn checkout -r6 http://solr-php-client.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ SolrPhpClientRead more...

Woohooo! I manage to kinda develop 3 simple custom modules for Drupal, even though I did reference the coding from other modules. Still, at least I took one tiny little step into Drupal's module development XD

If you don't understand what I mean, it's similar to a car, where I develop my own car locking system based on the car's original car locking system, and implementing it into the car to meet my requirements.

I'm really excited!

I wonder if you guys remember that I am planning to start an online store. The progress of it now is that I am done most the major parts. The only thing left is the legal agreement and stuff, which means I need to meet a lawyer to settle some paper work I think. If any of you went through this before, kindly brief me on how the procedure works :)

Plus, I just open up an account in Sky Net. They will be my main delivery service to deliver the products I'm selling.

Last few days, my dad decided to drop by Tumpang.com to get 3 copies of Kaspersky. For those who do not know what is Tumpang.com, the site is basically tumpang-ing your things on their site to sell your stuff. So that's why it is called tumpang!

Anyway back to the story. So my dad purchased 3 copies of Kaspersky 2009 Internet Security for RM20 per copy from a guy in Tumpang.com. It took a few days to reach my house, and when it arrived... It was shocking.Read more...