The Behaviors of Professionalism
This web site provide a list of professional behaviors. However, it require registration, which is free. ^^"
Thursday, May 26, 2005
Are You a Professional?
Are You a Professional?
I've just finished my probation review(Yeah! That's cool!). But then I come out with a question, "am I a professional?". This page could give me some hints.
I've just finished my probation review(Yeah! That's cool!). But then I come out with a question, "am I a professional?". This page could give me some hints.
Intro to ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005
Intro to ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005
This introduction can probably answer the most FAQ on VS2005 - "What's new?"
This introduction can probably answer the most FAQ on VS2005 - "What's new?"
Wednesday, May 25, 2005
Racing-Live.com - F1, WRC, Rally, MotoGP, Live
Racing-Live.com - F1, WRC, Rally, MotoGP, Live
Well, well, well...
We've got some Scout Trooper team helping us in F1 car maintenance, cool~
Well, well, well...
We've got some Scout Trooper team helping us in F1 car maintenance, cool~
Tuesday, May 24, 2005
A Gamers' Manifesto
A Gamers' Manifesto
This is a good passage and I really agree with the arthor's opinion on game industrial. The current game market is really filled with guns, meaningless high resolution animation and graphics, new version of old games without any really enhanced feature, and the flopping DDD breasts... Hope that we can have some really good games in the coming years.
This is a good passage and I really agree with the arthor's opinion on game industrial. The current game market is really filled with guns, meaningless high resolution animation and graphics, new version of old games without any really enhanced feature, and the flopping DDD breasts... Hope that we can have some really good games in the coming years.
FeedReader, RSSOwl and RSS Bandit
I was doing some research one rss this afternoon. And then, I found my current rss viewer, FeedReader, is not that functioning when handling RSS from Xanga and Gamer. This is bad that I have been using it for months (and I actually have the tolerent, horrible...).
After that, I started finding rss viewers in sourceforge and reach another 2 rss viewers, RSSOwl and RSS Bandit.
RSSOwl is good as it allow users to reach the rss in a url bar and display it as a subscribed feed. RSSOwl is good aslo because it can handle Xanga RSS.
RSS Bandit is also good and can act as a complement to RSSOwl. It is able to handle Gamer RSS, which RSSOwl is not. Another feature from RSS Bandit is that it allow user to display all unread item in a list.
Try them out! They are just cool~
After that, I started finding rss viewers in sourceforge and reach another 2 rss viewers, RSSOwl and RSS Bandit.
RSSOwl is good as it allow users to reach the rss in a url bar and display it as a subscribed feed. RSSOwl is good aslo because it can handle Xanga RSS.
RSS Bandit is also good and can act as a complement to RSSOwl. It is able to handle Gamer RSS, which RSSOwl is not. Another feature from RSS Bandit is that it allow user to display all unread item in a list.
Try them out! They are just cool~
Tapestry - Your Favourite Comics by RSS
Tapestry - Your Favourite Comics by RSS
This is amazing! I got RSS on Dilbert and Alien Loves Predator~!
This is amazing! I got RSS on Dilbert and Alien Loves Predator~!
Feed Validator for Atom and RSS
Feed Validator for Atom and RSS
If you're a maintaining a copy of rss, try this out to check if your rss is valid.
If you're a maintaining a copy of rss, try this out to check if your rss is valid.
Monday, May 23, 2005
robinho.org - The next soccer superstar
robinho.org - The next soccer superstar
A web site of one of the favourite soccer wonder kid - Robinho. Check out in the multimedia section, you will find him very amazing.
A web site of one of the favourite soccer wonder kid - Robinho. Check out in the multimedia section, you will find him very amazing.
Friday, May 20, 2005
My most hardcore project after college
I've spent the past week on a hardcore project. The project is raised by the incompatibility of Microsoft Enterprise Library with Oracle 10g. I have to modify the Data Access Application Block with Oracle Data Provider(ODP).NET. The project is difficult than all of the projects I did after my college(it's just because those I did before are too easy), but I really enjoy that.
Thursday, May 19, 2005
Blog Refactory
Well... sometimes, I do think my blog needs to be refactored, and hence, I did it this morning.
Chicago crime database | chicagocrime.org
Chicago crime database | chicagocrime.org
This is really a good thing by means of management (as taught in college, we need some measurement for quality management). Will we have a HongKong Crime Database from the HK Police Department?
This is really a good thing by means of management (as taught in college, we need some measurement for quality management). Will we have a HongKong Crime Database from the HK Police Department?
Blogthings - Your Linguistic Profile
Blogthings - Your Linguistic Profile
Your Linguistic Profile: |
| 50% General American English |
| 35% Yankee |
| 10% Dixie |
| 5% Upper Midwestern |
| 0% Midwestern |
Wednesday, May 18, 2005
The Code Project - Performance considerations for strings in C# - C# Programming
The Code Project - Performance considerations for strings in C# - C# Programming
The area of the content is clearly stated in the page title - Performance considerations for strings in C#. Enjoy^^
The area of the content is clearly stated in the page title - Performance considerations for strings in C#. Enjoy^^
The Code Project - AJAX WAS Here - Part 3 : Auto Complete TextBox - ASP.NET
The Code Project - AJAX WAS Here - Part 3 : Auto Complete TextBox - ASP.NET
This guy is really cool on AJAX. Here is the AJAX ep3 posted in Code Project.
This guy is really cool on AJAX. Here is the AJAX ep3 posted in Code Project.
Wednesday, May 11, 2005
Web Test Tools
Web Test Tools
This page is particular useful for web test. It contains a huge list of web testing tools, covering areas like load test, link checking and security test. If you have ever found there're still dead links in you web site product in live environment (after UAT), try those tools. They worth trying for relieving your blood pressure. XD
This page is particular useful for web test. It contains a huge list of web testing tools, covering areas like load test, link checking and security test. If you have ever found there're still dead links in you web site product in live environment (after UAT), try those tools. They worth trying for relieving your blood pressure. XD
Monday, May 09, 2005
Software Engineers are like Soccer Players?
If you ask me to give a job which is the most similar to Software Engineers, I would say Soccer Players.
Short Life
Playing sports as a job is normally short life(although there are exceptions). Typical retirement age of soccer players is around 3x years old. Stamina of people normally start decreasing when they reach 30 years old. For a soccer player, it is difficult for them to play throughout competitive matches with they decreasing physical ability.
Programming is also an engery-consuming task. A simple class often occupies a programmer 1 - 2 days for producing a release. Within this period, programmers are going to work intensively with the classes. Developing a class will make developers exhausted like after taking several successive exams. Older people (>40 years old) often fail to endure such stressful tasks.
Creativity
Have you even seen how C.Ronaldo and Ronaldino play their soccer games? They combine their creativity into their dribbling skills, and these really make them success.
Similarly, programming require developers to create some sort of solution design in terms of data structures, algorithms and system architecture. Creative programmer often think out of the box to provide some new features and improved solutions to old questions.
Speed
With the fabilous dribling skills, soccer players still need to run quickly so that they can really pass through they opponent.
Information Technology is probably one of the fastest changing industrial in the world. In term of speed, developers need to be able to develop in a high speed and catch up with the current technology rapidly and repeatedly. Especially with the new trend of dynamic software process, software engineers have to provide releases in short iterations. We often need to provide a release with few changes within several working days.
Power
Sports are usually linked with the term "Power", as sports are really some sort of physical competition. The term "Powerful" will link me to some strong soccer players like Vieri, Cantona, Rooney, Stam, Batistuta... They are strong and powerful and hence they are able to do that work (shot, dribble, pass and tackle) against their opponents' pressure. This is really important in the modern soccer games since the games is getting more physically competitive. To be successful, you have to work as usual even if under opponents' challenges.
The term "Powerful" also applies to developers. Powerful developers can solve their problems as usual, no matter the level of difficulty of the problems. They may work slower with more difficult problems, but they will not feel very bad when they meet some difficult problems.
Efficiency
The whole modern world talks about "Efficiency", including soccer world and IT world. It is obvious that we prefer a worker to do more successful work rather than fooling around.
Soccer player can be efficient in various way, with various role in the team. While we are watching soccer games, there are often some statistics on particular players showing their efficiency. The goal-to-shot rate is obviously the most important parameter to a striker, while percentage of complete pass and successful tackle are that of a midfielder and defender respectively.
Developers can also be efficient. This can be archieved by practising high quality software development. Known from our experience, the development bottleneck is in Testing and Maintenance. To improve the efficiency of a software process can be easy archieved by cutting the resources for Testing and Maintenance by means of providing better quality releases. High quality system require less resources for Testing and Maintenance. It therefore actually make the whole software process more efficient by cutting a large fraction of resources in Testing and Maintenance (which is reasonable).
Vision
Some top soccer players in the world are not very strong and can't run very fast (e.g. Zidane and Beckham). However, their vision in the matches make them an indispensable member in the teams. Their vision allow them to clearly understand the complete situation of the match, and hence make some good tactical decision. This make them become the master players and commanders within their team. As a result, vision is the key to be a top soccer player.
When the term "Vision" is applied to development, it means the prediction in various areas like system requirement, technology and system limitation. This particular important in designing systems and components. Vision is a essential criteria for software engineer unless you want to be only a code generator.
Blue-Collar
Some weeks ago, I heard that Chelsea's midfielder Makelele said that professional soccer player are blue-collar workers. Well, that's true, and I totally accept that. As a soccer player, you most likely will not do management things. Even if you are the skipper, all the management tasks you have to do are within your small team, instead of the whole soccer club.
Software engineers are also blue-collar workers(At least at the entrance level). Sofwrare engineers typically starts that career in development jobs. At this stage, they would not have to do much management, except management themselves and their product quality.
Teamwork
Soccer requires quality teamwork, as it's a 11-vs-11 sports game. There's no way for you to play it without any teamwork with other players. A team with quality teamwork is obviously better than one without.
At the same time, software engineering is also a demostration of importance of teamwork. Even though there're lots of heroic programmers in the developers world, teamwork is recognised as invaluable assert for a software engineering team. The performance on good co-operation often out weight the communication overhead (which can be reduce time by time). If you ask me to choose between developing alone and developing as a team, I'll definately give you the answer, "Team!"
I don't whether you enjoy these paragraph or not, but I really enjoy the time when I was thinking for ideas and writing this whole passage. Hope you enjoy. Happy blogging.
Short Life
Playing sports as a job is normally short life(although there are exceptions). Typical retirement age of soccer players is around 3x years old. Stamina of people normally start decreasing when they reach 30 years old. For a soccer player, it is difficult for them to play throughout competitive matches with they decreasing physical ability.
Programming is also an engery-consuming task. A simple class often occupies a programmer 1 - 2 days for producing a release. Within this period, programmers are going to work intensively with the classes. Developing a class will make developers exhausted like after taking several successive exams. Older people (>40 years old) often fail to endure such stressful tasks.
Creativity
Have you even seen how C.Ronaldo and Ronaldino play their soccer games? They combine their creativity into their dribbling skills, and these really make them success.
Similarly, programming require developers to create some sort of solution design in terms of data structures, algorithms and system architecture. Creative programmer often think out of the box to provide some new features and improved solutions to old questions.
Speed
With the fabilous dribling skills, soccer players still need to run quickly so that they can really pass through they opponent.
Information Technology is probably one of the fastest changing industrial in the world. In term of speed, developers need to be able to develop in a high speed and catch up with the current technology rapidly and repeatedly. Especially with the new trend of dynamic software process, software engineers have to provide releases in short iterations. We often need to provide a release with few changes within several working days.
Power
Sports are usually linked with the term "Power", as sports are really some sort of physical competition. The term "Powerful" will link me to some strong soccer players like Vieri, Cantona, Rooney, Stam, Batistuta... They are strong and powerful and hence they are able to do that work (shot, dribble, pass and tackle) against their opponents' pressure. This is really important in the modern soccer games since the games is getting more physically competitive. To be successful, you have to work as usual even if under opponents' challenges.
The term "Powerful" also applies to developers. Powerful developers can solve their problems as usual, no matter the level of difficulty of the problems. They may work slower with more difficult problems, but they will not feel very bad when they meet some difficult problems.
Efficiency
The whole modern world talks about "Efficiency", including soccer world and IT world. It is obvious that we prefer a worker to do more successful work rather than fooling around.
Soccer player can be efficient in various way, with various role in the team. While we are watching soccer games, there are often some statistics on particular players showing their efficiency. The goal-to-shot rate is obviously the most important parameter to a striker, while percentage of complete pass and successful tackle are that of a midfielder and defender respectively.
Developers can also be efficient. This can be archieved by practising high quality software development. Known from our experience, the development bottleneck is in Testing and Maintenance. To improve the efficiency of a software process can be easy archieved by cutting the resources for Testing and Maintenance by means of providing better quality releases. High quality system require less resources for Testing and Maintenance. It therefore actually make the whole software process more efficient by cutting a large fraction of resources in Testing and Maintenance (which is reasonable).
Vision
Some top soccer players in the world are not very strong and can't run very fast (e.g. Zidane and Beckham). However, their vision in the matches make them an indispensable member in the teams. Their vision allow them to clearly understand the complete situation of the match, and hence make some good tactical decision. This make them become the master players and commanders within their team. As a result, vision is the key to be a top soccer player.
When the term "Vision" is applied to development, it means the prediction in various areas like system requirement, technology and system limitation. This particular important in designing systems and components. Vision is a essential criteria for software engineer unless you want to be only a code generator.
Blue-Collar
Some weeks ago, I heard that Chelsea's midfielder Makelele said that professional soccer player are blue-collar workers. Well, that's true, and I totally accept that. As a soccer player, you most likely will not do management things. Even if you are the skipper, all the management tasks you have to do are within your small team, instead of the whole soccer club.
Software engineers are also blue-collar workers(At least at the entrance level). Sofwrare engineers typically starts that career in development jobs. At this stage, they would not have to do much management, except management themselves and their product quality.
Teamwork
Soccer requires quality teamwork, as it's a 11-vs-11 sports game. There's no way for you to play it without any teamwork with other players. A team with quality teamwork is obviously better than one without.
"Many hands make light work."
At the same time, software engineering is also a demostration of importance of teamwork. Even though there're lots of heroic programmers in the developers world, teamwork is recognised as invaluable assert for a software engineering team. The performance on good co-operation often out weight the communication overhead (which can be reduce time by time). If you ask me to choose between developing alone and developing as a team, I'll definately give you the answer, "Team!"
I don't whether you enjoy these paragraph or not, but I really enjoy the time when I was thinking for ideas and writing this whole passage. Hope you enjoy. Happy blogging.
candygrlgrl's Xanga Site
candygrlgrl's Xanga Site
Well, I've found a webLog from a fans of my favourite female singer, Candy Lo's Xanga(Blog) Site. That's cool to see everyone's blogging. Suddenly, I thought of "do I need to set up a xanga (I've got an account)?". Well... in I think I still stick to Google's Blogger at the moment.
Well, I've found a webLog from a fans of my favourite female singer, Candy Lo's Xanga(Blog) Site. That's cool to see everyone's blogging. Suddenly, I thought of "do I need to set up a xanga (I've got an account)?". Well... in I think I still stick to Google's Blogger at the moment.
Blogger Help : On the Go with Blogger Mobile
Blogger Help : On the Go with Blogger Mobile
Currently, "I'm Blogging It" on the web. Later on, it may be in mobile.
Currently, "I'm Blogging It" on the web. Later on, it may be in mobile.
Friday, May 06, 2005
Antivirus programs, protection guide, virus info and removals, antivirus tests, free support!
Antivirus programs, protection guide, virus info and removals, antivirus tests, free support!
Here comes the Anti-virus software ranking 2005. Enjoy!
Here comes the Anti-virus software ranking 2005. Enjoy!
3D Load Packer - Multi Container Loading Optimizer
3D Load Packer - Multi Container Loading Optimizer
While I was thinking about some efficient stock usage problem, I found this tool - 3D Load Packer - Multi Container Loading Optimizer. The tool make use of their own algorithm - Astrokettle Algorithms. The photo at the bottom of the 3D Load Packer - Multi Container Loading Optimizer also interests me much!
By the way, there's another gain for me. I found that the problem I think is a 3D Bin-Loading Problem, instead of the 3D-Knapsack Problem I initially thought.
While I was thinking about some efficient stock usage problem, I found this tool - 3D Load Packer - Multi Container Loading Optimizer. The tool make use of their own algorithm - Astrokettle Algorithms. The photo at the bottom of the 3D Load Packer - Multi Container Loading Optimizer also interests me much!
By the way, there's another gain for me. I found that the problem I think is a 3D Bin-Loading Problem, instead of the 3D-Knapsack Problem I initially thought.
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