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Earthquake News on Google Map

Click on the blue bubble on the map to view the detail of the earthquake situation. The source of this earthquake news is from "http://earthquake.usgs.gov".

Note: This is my first time trying out this RSS and Google map. If you find any bug in this application, kindly drop me an email @ jamesyeo1988@gmail.com or you can report it via shoutout box which is on the left had side of this website. Thanks!

News from CNA, BBC and CNN RSS Feeds

"This is the RSS application which extract news feeds from CNA (Channel News Asia), BBC and CNN. If you want to view the news, simply click on the title of the news to view it. These RSS is base on each news website itself, so the RSS will update itself each time the news website update their news."

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What's RSS?

RSS (most commonly expanded as Really Simple Syndication) is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format. An RSS document (which is called a "feed", "web feed", or "channel") includes full or summarized text, plus metadata such as publishing dates and authorship. Web feeds benefit publishers by letting them syndicate content automatically. They benefit readers who want to subscribe to timely updates from favored websites or to aggregate feeds from many sites into one place. RSS feeds can be read using software called an "RSS reader", "feed reader", or "aggregator", which can be web-based, desktop-based, or mobile-device-based. A standardized XML file format allows the information to be published once and viewed by many different programs. The user subscribes to a feed by entering into the reader the feed's URI or by clicking a feed icon in a web browser that initiates the subscription process. The RSS reader checks the user's subscribed feeds regularly for new work, downloads any updates that it finds, and provides a user interface to monitor and read the feeds. RSS allows users to avoid manually inspecting all of the websites they are interested in, and instead subscribe to websites such that all new content is pushed onto their browsers when it becomes available.

RSS formats are specified using XML, a generic specification for the creation of data formats. Although RSS formats have evolved from as early as March 1999, it was between 2005 and 2006 when RSS gained widespread use, and the icon was decided upon by several major Web browsers.

Source from: Wikipedia

Projects

Over the years in my life ever since I stepped into the IT (Information Technology) world, my life simply revolves around computer. So the projects that I have done are all related to IT. Some of it are school projects while some of it are done during my leisure time.

Feel free to look around :)

Element Destiny

Element Destiny is a project that I have done during my leisure time during my second year in my studies in Nanyang polytechnic. The reason that I created this flash is because I wanted to try and see how I can use my flash skills to create a simple animation. I was hard at first as I have to learn some of the animation movement and design through internet and the end product did not seems as good as those professionals, but I am quite happy with it as I am able to come out with a simple animation and character design without much guidance.

PlanetKY Mashup Application (VENews)

Every programmer wish is to come out with a useful application which can benefits others, well in this Mashup application for Imagine Cup competition, my team, PlanetKY, consist of Wen Bin and me, have come out with the idea of plotting the news onto the virtual earth, so that people can glance through the related environmental news through the map without having much effort to find out the location of the incident.

This application had won us a second place(tied) in Mashup category in Imagine cup 2009(Click here for more information). It was definitely a surprise to us where our application (VENews) can be recognize by other people. Our application has been taken own due to the closure of Popfly website. So you can view how our application works in the video above.

E-commerce Website (Games)

This is the first PHP (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) plus database, website that I have ever created. For now I still unable to show you the actual website yet since I have yet to find a place to upload it. Meanwhile the above can serve as a design of my first e-commerce website.

This website called "ReCreation", is a name that pops up in my mind when I start working on this project. Then I slowly went into colors, basically I do not have much designing experience and not a pro in design, so I have to choose a safe color to go with. So, in the end, I choose Black and white as the main color for this website.

After that, I have to choose what kind of things should I sell for this e-commerce website. After all the thinking and suggestion from my friends, I decided to go for games, an e-commerce website that sells games. The reason why I choose this is because I like games, playing games is just part of my life. So choosing something which I had interest in bring me much more comfort when doing this project, rather then choosing something which I don't like or have no interest in.

Website Design (1)

This is one of the website that I have created, which suppose to be a portfolio website but due to some technical issue, I decided to take it down. This current AmpDreams website will serve as my portfolio website.

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