Sudden surge of registration between 4-12-2009 to 15-12-2008

No, it’s not because of the economy suddenly turns into super-hyper-active-accelerated-prosper mode. It’s due to the technical glitch at the government department’s web server.

Popularity: 6% [?]

mylensdb is fitted with sample photos now!

This is probably one of the most important upgrade to date for mylensdb.com. And more essentially, it’s driving towards what it claims in its tag line, The Lens Database.

Here in mylensdb, we now get to see some sample photos taken using the specific lens that we are viewing at. For instance, we are looking at Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM in the screen shot below.

Here’s the dry part. Read on if you are interested on how photos are gathered and shown on the website.

Read more

Popularity: 5% [?]

JPJStat – Malaysian Vehicle Registrations Tracker

Since it’s gone public on January 2009, we have come a long way to what we are today. Let’s do a bit of time tunneling on how it comes by, what we have done and have not so far.

We are tracking all 30 vehicle plate prefix in Malaysia as shown below.

By States/Territory

On December 2008, I got the idea of tracking plate numbers around the states in Malaysia. Everyday, we keep seeing new cars on the road with newer, newer and newer plate numbers but do not exactly feeling how fast the numbers actually jump every day. We see and forget.

Why track?

On how fast or slow a state’s plate number increases everyday would provides some implication on how good the territory/state is doing. Comparing it with another state’s number would give us an idea on how both states fare with each other in term of economy, population and many more than you can think of.

During economy slowdown, we can expect slowdown in the number of vehicle registered as many would tighten their belts saving for more important stuff and delay the plan of getting a new ride. Of course, when the economy booms, we can expect a increase in vehicle registrations.

How we do it?

It’s simple. We harvest vehicle number plates at specified time frame everyday from the Transportation department’s website, JPJ. That’s why we call it, simply, JPJStat.

Why we do it?

The official of course, has all the possible data they want and can do all sorts of analysis and statistics. But our idea here is to try to make these information readily available right at your fingertip!

What’s still lacking?

As discussed many times in the previous posts, we are still far from being perfect.

Ideally, you can get what you want with our data collected and not by only getting what we can provide. Right now there’s only two charts that you can see for each state.

Secondly, we have not fixed the algorithm to be used against number plates from the Sabah state. We are regretted for not fixing it after almost one year since the project’s inception.

Closing words

We will seriously look into fixing the algorithm first before developing the ‘dynamic’ graphing/statistics solution. That’s our promise for now.

A word of caution

While we try our best to keep our statistics/data accurate, we do not bear any responsibilities for any unwanted outcome as a result of the usage of our provided information.

Popularity: 13% [?]

The new mylensdb.com

After weeks of intensive works, the new mylensdb.com is finally up. There are still some works to be done to ensure smooth transition both files and databases though. But we are pretty much up there already. With the new platform, we are aiming to strive further becoming Malaysia’s one-stop most popular camera lens site!

Popularity: 4% [?]

Missing data for 4 Nov 2009

Regret to inform that during our total makeover migration, we have forgotten to do migrate some critical files over to the new location. The effect is not too catastrophic though but we lost one day’s data. We have fixed this issue!

Hope you won’t be surprised to see zero registration for 4 Nov 2009 then. Cheers~

Popularity: 5% [?]