Wednesday, June 29, 2005

Google Earth - Home

Google Earth

The integration of satellite imagery, maps and search. This looks really cool, especially for integration with GPS in the paid version.

Tuesday, June 28, 2005

ISV Community Center: Microsoft Smart Client Application Promotion

ISV Community Center: Microsoft Smart Client Application Promotion

This is a good chance for some independent software vendors on smart client applications, for them to promote their product as well as smart client technology.

Monday, June 27, 2005

Longhorn Developer Center Home: RSS Support in Longhorn

Longhorn Developer Center Home: RSS Support in Longhorn

For normal users, be noticed that RSS is going to get into your daily life.
For developers, get ready for fully utilize RSS.
For business people, make your steps on the road of RSS integration with your business and do not let yourself behind.

Saturday, June 25, 2005

MSDN TV: A Brief Overview of Visual Studio 2005 on 64-Bit

MSDN TV: A Brief Overview of Visual Studio 2005 on 64-Bit

When I was still in my placement job 2 years ago, I heard 64-Bit from a IT eassy competition for high school students. 64-Bit is now a really hot topic, especially when you're talk with some system engineers. The above page is a brief overview of Visual Studio 2005 on 64-Bit. That is the IT fundamental - "Software Application, OS and Hardware".

AFI's 100 YEARS...100 MOVIE QUOTES

AFI's 100 YEARS...100 MOVIE QUOTES

If you like watching movies, u'll be interested in this.

Friday, June 24, 2005

The Onion 2056

The Onion 2056

This is a cool site! Enjoy.

WSJ.com - Marketers Scan Blogs For Brand Insights

WSJ.com - Marketers Scan Blogs For Brand Insights

The power of blogs is still begin neglected in the business world (at least this is real in Hong Kong). However, there're already some smart ones utilitising the power of blogs in their market research. When will this happen in Hong Kong companies? Or will this happen in Hong Kong? I just have no idea on it...

Browser makers warned against ad-blocking: ZDNet Australia: News: Software

Browser makers warned against ad-blocking: ZDNet Australia: News: Software

An interesting view on ad-blocking.

This Blog Is Full Of Crap: The Carnival of the Vanities #144

This Blog Is Full Of Crap: The Carnival of the Vanities #144

I was attracted by the name of this blog actually.

50 Coolest Websites 2005 - TIME.com

50 Coolest Websites 2005 - TIME.com

Being a member of an e-commerce company, I'm sad that my company web site isn't in the list and look forward to see my company's rapid and quality improvement.

Friday, June 17, 2005

EFF: Legal Guide for Bloggers

EFF: Legal Guide for Bloggers

This is one of the most interesting passages I read in the past year on blogging. Remember to respect others' intellectual property.

Who Will Google Buy Next? || kuro5hin.org

Who Will Google Buy Next? || kuro5hin.org

Interesting passage with a list of Google sub-company.

Apple to Use Intel Microprocessors Beginning in 2006

Apple to Use Intel Microprocessors Beginning in 2006

Will the Macintosh® still work fast with multimedia tasks? Let's see.

Advice for Begining Your Ph.D Career

Advice for Begining Your Ph.D Career

I hope to count this advice in my life.

Online Marketing Blog: RSS for increased search engine rankings - Daily Search Marketing News

Online Marketing Blog: RSS for increased search engine rankings - Daily Search Marketing News

I've been being noticed the impact from new technologies (blog, wiki...) on the society and business world. And now, this post told me how RSS increases the search engine rankings of my sites. By the way, this blog looks cool and worth subcribing.

Thursday, June 16, 2005

Heinze: I Feel At Home

Heinze: I Feel At Home

As you may know, I'm a fans of ManUtd. This year, they failed to win any trophy, it's sad. But I'm still happy that I find really good new players in ManUtd, Rooney, Ruud, C. Ronaldo, Rio, and finally Heinze. I really admire Heinze veyr much, before he played in the first match for ManUtd (I watch his play in Copa America and Olympics). He's not only a good player in terms of technique and performance, but also mental.
"I’m the sort of person who likes to make continuous progress"

"Tiredness is not a big issue"

After reading the interview in ManUtd Official Site, I've found the above reasons why I like Heinze much. I hope ManUtd will improve far much from this season, to avoid losing good players like Henize. If I were a soccer player, I'd also leave the club if I've already given my best but the club is under archieving.

Wednesday, June 15, 2005

Visual Studio: Microsoft Developer Tools Roadmap

Visual Studio: Microsoft Developer Tools Roadmap

Are you waiting for VS 2005? Take a look on some screen shot and know how M$ re-invade and integrate those 3rd-party plug-in into VS 2005.

Visual SourceSafe

Visual SourceSafe

This is again on VSS (obviously, I'm currently working with VSS). This is a blog on VSS, and I found that there are a list of helpful topic on VSS application, even though they're a bit old.

Example VSS Framework for Source Code Management

Example VSS Framework for Source Code Management - Part 1
Example VSS Framework for Source Code Management - Part 2

Source code is one of the most valuable property of a IT development team. Managing your source code is an important task and worth doing some studies on the topic. The 2 links listed above are web pages introducing Source Code Management with Visual Source Safe (VSS). If you're currently working with VSS, do take some time to read though them and don't let your team keep playing with chaotic source code flow. Enjoy.

Tuesday, June 14, 2005

The Code Project - Refactoring to Adaptive Object Modeling: Entity Relationships And Accountability - Design and Strategy

The Code Project - Refactoring to Adaptive Object Modeling: Entity Relationships And Accountability - Design and Strategy

After a year of post-college working life, I realise that requirement is one of the most unstable elements in software development. This is particularly obvious in business IT development. But today, we've got the Adaptive Object Model to tackle those ad-hoc creation and modification of program workflow.

City of Heroes

City of Heroes

Wow, this game looks good!

Friday, June 10, 2005

(WHAT A) WONDERFUL WORLD

(WHAT A) WONDERFUL WORLD
(Cooke/Alpert/Adler)

Don't know much about history
Don't know much biology
Don't know much about science books
Don't know much about the french I took
But I do know that I love you
And I know that if you loved me too
What a wonderful world this would be

Don't know much about geography
Don't know much trigonometry
Don't know much about algebra
Don't know what a slide rule is for
But I know that one and one is two
And if this one could be with you
What a wonderful world this would be

Now I don't claim to be an A student
But I'm tryin' to be
Oh maybe by being an A student, baby
I can win your love for me

Don't know much about history
Don't know much biology
Don't know much about science books
Don't know much about the french I took
But I do know that I love you
And I know that if you loved me too
What a wonderful world this would be

------ lead guitar ------

But I do know that I love you
And I know that if you loved me too
What a wonderful world this would be"

Wednesday, June 08, 2005

News! Your Storage Increases by End of August

While I was checking my 99% full Hotmail account, I found this annoucement.

By end of August, wel increase the storage capacity of your MSN® Hotmail® account at no cost to you. It part of our on-going commitment to improve our customers?experience. Here is some more information about the free upgrade:
  • Storage capacity will increase from 2MB to 250MB

  • Attachment size increase from 1MB to 10MB

  • Keep more of your e-mail for longer

  • You can share larger files like photos, music and video clips

  • Upgrade happens automatically---you don need to do a thing
  • Saturday, June 04, 2005

    TheServerSide.NET - Testing ASP.NET Applications with NUnitASP and NUnit

    TheServerSide.NET - Testing ASP.NET Applications with NUnitASP and NUnit

    This article is not new but really worth reading, especially for those ASP.NET developers who want to produce better quality artifects by doing more unit testing.