2024 is the inflation year and is the year I turned 40. Everything went up this year. GST went from 8% to 9% in Singapore. In 2023, GST was increased from 7% to 8%. In hindsight, it might be better to increase from 7% to 9% straightaway rather than break it up into 2 years. The increase in GST twice worsens the inflation.
Gadget
Probably the most interesting gadget I bought in 2024 got to be the Ray-Ban Meta Wayfarer.
After creating a Slack Bot Using AWS API Gateway and AWS Lambda, I decided to port the tutorial over so that it will work for Telegram Bot too.
There are some differences between the two tutorials:
Internally over here in Tech in Asia, we use Slack for communications.
Even between Li Xiang and I, we use Slack for communications.
Microsoft //Build/ Singapore 2015 took place in Singapore last Thursday (28th May 2015) at Resorts World Sentosa.
For the unaware, Microsoft Build is Microsoft’s developer conference, similar to Google’s I/O and Apple’s WWDC.
In Tech in Asia, we are using HAProxy as our load balancer and the request is passed on to either of the two web servers running on nginx to process the request. Because the request always comes from the load balancer, under the access logs, the IP will always be the load balancer IP.
Our HAProxy uses the setting option forwardfor which will forward the original client’s IP under the “X-Forwarded-For” header.
Mark Jaquith‘s presentation on Confident Commits, Delightful Deploys brought up something which I didn’t thought of, “CDN proxies everything including dynamic php pages”.
In his example, he pointed out cdn.wpengine.com and wpengine.com, cdn.page.ly and page.ly, cdn.zippykid.com and zippykid.com are all serving the same content with their CDN counterpart.
BlackBerry JamHack 2012 (Singapore) will start from tomorrow Friday, 12th October 2012 all the way till Sunday, 14th October 2012. To register for the BlackBerry JamHack 2012, click here.
What is BlackBerry JamHack 2012?
Google+ API is finally released. This initial API release is focused on public data only (it lets you read information that people have shared publicly on Google+).
Google+ API methods are RESTful HTTP requests which return JSON responses and it uses OAuth 2 for secure trusted access to user data.
mig33 is about to unveil a new Developer program for developers and brands that want to build social games and apps for her 50 million registered users and thriving virtual economy.
About mig33 Developer Program
Just want to share some rsync code snippets that I used to backup my data to either Dropbox or Jungle Disk on my Mac.
I have problems finding/Googling the proper flags to use for rsync for Dropbox and Jungle Disk when I first got started with rsync on the Internet, hopefully this blog post will be useful for someone.
