Tuesday, April 12, 2005

A cool web based slide show system

S5: A Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System

I've previously experienced a web based slide show and video conference system in my placement job. However, the system is not very completed even though it's good looking. The slide show in flash format is difficult for user to prepare, and of course a flash editor cost some money. The video conference part......

Here is another web-based slide show system, - S5. It only require simple XHTML, CSS and JavaScript. All these are free, easy for preparation and lightweight for server load. Although S5 doesn't provide video broadcasting function, I still think it worths our study and further development into a more enhanced system.

Friday, April 01, 2005

D Programming Language

D Programming Language

A few days ago, I referenced a blog post from Dr. Chun's Blog on dotNET languages. He give me another amazing post on programming language today. This time, it's for another new language - D.

Reading the comparison between D and C, C++, c# and Java, you will find that D has the combination of practical functionality in C and C++, as well as programming flexibity in C# and Java. Let see if D will be as successful as those 4 languages.

City University of Hong Kong Undergraduate Student Project (2003-2004)

City University of Hong Kong Undergraduate Student Project (2003-2004)

After reading a news in newspaper that Nazir Usman (one of the mentor teamate few years ago) had win a prize for his FYP, I start searching for some other news with his name. Finally, I reach the CityU Library for our FYP report (I almost forgot this web site). If you are CityU Student, you may go there to download and read their report.

Honestly, some of the FYP were well done with full feature which is written in the report, but some weren't. As I know, some of these FYP claimed to have some features that not yet implemented. As some of my fellow reported, "It doesn't matter if the feature has be implemented yet, just write it down into your report". Some cases are even worse. I noticed that some "FYP" were not implemented with any feature. However, these guys can still pass the FYP and some even got a high grade. They just made a demostration on a fake product, do a bit smooth presentation and wrote an impressive report.

It sometimes gives me a feeling that Presentation Skills outweighted Analytical and Practical Skills in the world nowadays. Is the world on the right track? Some people said that the success of humanity came from their communication skills. However, without some real workable stuff, what are we communicating for? Should we keep a better balance between this area for evaluation? I just have no idea. I don't have an "A" for my FYP and my report haven't been published. Am I jealous? Well, may be... I do appreciate most of the projects in the list, however, I do think some of them doesn't worth it.

After sharing with Rick, he point out an interesting issue - "Working outside school for 1 year is much better than playing inside school for 3 years". It's true. I played too much, and now have to learn back some of the important skills, like communication. I'm learning, and will be learning. I don't know when will be the most shining moment in my life. Years ago, I want to do some big and memorable things, e.g. big and success software or systems. How about now? I still dream of producing a system the make everyone remember me. But can I do it? When will I do it? Will I do it with my friends? When I change my target? Well, I've got too many questions that I failed to answer...

Anyway, Congratulations to Usman. Nice to hear about your success.