Jony’s blog

Sony: The unfortunate undoing — A retrospective

Leaving Sony after 8 years of service was a bittersweet departure. My story is probably similar to many who left Sony before me. I wanted to be part of a brand that produced products that changed many lives — the walkmans, the TVs, the…

Updates for “less-watch-compiler” — A utility that watches and auto-compiles LESS CSS files

I wrote a small nodejs utility 2 years ago. It basically watches a folder of LESS files and auto-compiles them into CSS files when changes are made. Since I posted this…

A simple and easy-to-use Smarty Template Engine boilerplate

One of the frameworks I have used in the past is Smarty. It is a rather old PHP front end template framework but quite simple to use. It makes separating front end and back end logics very easy. I’ve posted a boilerplate code…

Regarding today’s USA v.s. Belgium World Cup game…

[Site Launch] The new face of Sony — a responsive website

After years of hard work, I’m happy that our project has *finally* launched. Sony is the first electronics giant to launch a global multi-lingual fully responsive website. This launch covers all of Europe, Turkey and Russia/CIS…

OSX file permissions problems after Migration or TimeMachine restore

After I migrated to a new machine running (10.8.5), I had run into various application problems because of file permissions:

• Outlook identities were messed up. Even if I removed the…

My thoughts on web design and development “obsessions”

I wanted to write down my thoughts on the web today. The web industry is full of trends. Sometimes these trends get way too popular and people blindly follow them without the right reasons. Here is my list of them as of today:

Recent projects 2012–2013

Here are 3 recent projects. The first 2 are purely front-end development work. They have no CMS backend and run on PHP and the Smarty template framework for easier content and template management.

A message from the floor…

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