Zit Seng's Superwall

Ever since I signed up for broadband data on my mobile phone, I’ve been trying to make it easy for me to access information on the go. One of the things I’ve done is to write a simple widget to fetch little bits of information from different sources and mash it up into a tight little display area. For example, I have displays to show information from work, webcam feed from home, etc. One page that will probably find general interest to other people as well is the display of traffic information, weather forecast and CNA front page news. I’ve since cleaned it up and moved this to a public server so that it can be shared with everyone.

If you’ve got a mobile broadband plan on your phone, point your phone’s web browser to http://zitseng.com/widget. The page is plain and simple, so that it loads fast and minimizes unnecessary clutter and distraction on your phone. It is rendered in XHTML Mobile profile to maximize compatibility with most phone browsers (web browsers required though, not WAP-only browsers), and it will also display on all modern PC (Windows, Mac, Linux, etc) browsers as well.

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I’ve been evaluating a couple of software lately. I’m looking for a nice platform to do tons of documentation. I talk about “nice”, because things need to be beautiful for people to want to use. But at the same time, they have to work. Actually, having to work is even more important. It is such a dilemma sometimes when you have to choose between what’s beautiful and what works.

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Yes it keeps us busy even during the festive season. A number of critical security issues were identified with Wordpress 2.3.1 (may apply to older versions too) that necessitated an urgent security release. Wordpress 2.3.2 is now available. One of the problem is a SQL Injection Vulnerability that exposes internal information about your Wordpress installation. These are common problems that plague web applications. I did a brief presentation on Secure Web Programming a few moons ago. It was primarily intended to be a high-level overview to familiarize programmers with web application security issues. You can download it if you’re interested.