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DB Designer 4

2006-07-29T19:13:00.000+08:00

It has been a long time for me to look for a free (better if open source), user friendly and powerful ERD editor. Most of the foundings are trial version, limited version, non-open source, or not so user friendly.

But this week, it seems God wants to give me a gift - DB Designer 4, which is an open source, user friend and powerful DB designing tool. It support connections to various data sources, e.g. MySQL, MSSQL, Oracle and ODBC, execution of queries, reverse engineering on db design, forward engineering by applying the change in db design or generating SQL script. You're also allowed to export the diagram in to PNG or BMP, which would be useful for documentation while some other tool doesn't export any graphics...

DB Designer 4

StarUML

2006-07-29T19:06:00.000+08:00

Half year ago, I found this tool very useful for system design and documentation. Six months later, I still think so. StarUML is a free CASE tool for OO Methodology, supporting UML, MDA, and both forward and backward engineering. The tool is planned to support round-trip engineering, which I'm interested in very much. I hope the tool can be continued with its development and we can see the power of round-trip engineering at the days.

StarUML

My recent thought

2006-07-06T01:19:00.000+08:00

Recently, I thought of a system framework to allow us to develop software in the same way as how chemical factory works. It will be nice if I can implement the framework, and then show you the interesting idea. Hope it won't be too late for you.

Germany 2006 - The Goals

2006-06-11T10:53:00.000+08:00

Germany 2006 - The Goals

Nothing in IT. It's just another one of my favourite - World Cup.

ASP .Net Web Page Optimization Checklist - The Code Project - ASP.NET

2006-04-18T21:54:00.000+08:00

ASP .Net Web Page Optimization Checklist - The Code Project - ASP.NET

Do keep your application clean and efficient. Try this out. It works!

Ajax Patterns

2006-02-21T16:35:00.000+08:00

Ajax Patterns

Have you started AJAX development? If so, how many of the patterns have you applied? You can find out a list of patterns of AJAX development, covering aspects like Performance and Usability. This page is useful to not only AJAX developers, but also for developers with no AJAX developemnt experience (for preparation).

Ten Essential Tools: Visual Studio Add-Ins Every Developer Should Download Now -- MSDN Magazine, December 2005

2006-02-01T10:30:00.000+08:00

Ten Essential Tools: Visual Studio Add-Ins Every Developer Should Download Now -- MSDN Magazine, December 2005

I have just figure out a new article in MSDN magazine on add-ins for Visual Studio. Those add-ins cover areas like testing, documentation, Visual Studio usability, Web Services development and cache monitoring. I am not sure if these are useful, since I haven't read through it in detail yet. But the 10 Must-Have tools introduced by the author last year are quite helpful. Enjoy.

A web service as a framework for simplifying development and deployment of business functions - The Code Project - SOAP and XML

2006-01-04T11:23:00.000+08:00

A web service as a framework for simplifying development and deployment of business functions - The Code Project - SOAP and XML

This is one of the best preparation material for starting Web Service development for systems in medium to large scale.

Ting-hao Yang's ASP.NET blog : Cross page navigation techniques in ASP.NET 1.x and 2.0

2005-12-19T16:27:00.000+08:00

Ting-hao Yang's ASP.NET blog : Cross page navigation techniques in ASP.NET 1.x and 2.0

If you found the loading speed of your pages is slow, you would probably need to do some performance tuning on those pages. You may most likely think that the database query is slow, the page computation is too complicated, or the page size is too large. However, it may also be the case for long client-server round trip time (propagation delay). Here is a blog post from Yang on the details of page navigation scenerio. It may give you ideas on how to fine tune the loading time of your pages.

Visual Studio 2005 Web Application Project Tutorials in C#

2005-12-19T16:16:00.000+08:00

Visual Studio 2005 Web Application Project Tutorials in C#

I don't know when will I need to work on some migration project from dotNet 1.1 to dotNet 2.0. But I do think this will happen some days later, and this tutorial will be helpful.

To lead, or to be led?

2005-12-15T15:30:00.000+08:00

It's just a very simple question. To lead, or to be led? I think most of the people thought of times that they're in the leading position. However, how many people reach there? How to get there? I don't have a concret idea. But standing behind someone and tracking their path obviously doesn't work.

Be more active, or even proactive.

Ken's Goodies Blog

2005-12-09T16:41:00.000+08:00

I'm not sure how many of you recognise that I've established a new blog, named Ken's Goodies Blog, for new product alert (or may be there's nobody reading this blog). It seems that the new blog is not very popular, perphaps it's because I've not put much effort in promoting it. I think I need to promote the blog in more public channels. Let's see what will the situation be in the early January.

The Dilbert Principle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

2005-12-02T16:59:00.000+08:00

I found out his Wiki article today, when I was finding information on Bottleneck Bill. All I can say is that this principle is really something.

Cell phones outnumber PCs in China | Tech News on ZDNet

2005-12-02T11:43:00.000+08:00

Cell phones outnumber PCs in China | Tech News on ZDNet: "Cell phones outnumber PCs in China"

This remind me of my Final Year Project in CityU, entitled "Online Game in Mobile Phone". When will this idea really come true?

Vodafone is leaving, but who's next?

2005-11-29T10:24:00.000+08:00

As reported, the loge of some high-tech companies may be on Mancehster United shirts next year. What will that be? Google? IBM? Or Yahoo? I think I'll then buy a new MU shirt the coming summer.

George Best 1946 - 2005

2005-11-26T00:17:00.000+08:00

Keane, Vodafone... And then MU lengend George Best has also left MU, and the world.

Google Video of the Day

2005-11-25T15:51:00.000+08:00

What a collection of the Google Video entries. This blog is like the "Google Map Tour" blog few months ago, but much more interesting for the rich of media.

Geek to Live: Find free music on the web - Lifehacker

2005-11-24T16:50:00.000+08:00

Live like a geek, and find the media you need like a geek.

After Keano, Vodafone is leaving MU

2005-11-24T09:08:00.000+08:00

Manchester United Official Web Site - Club & News - News - 1:08:24 AM

The remarkable Vodafone logo will not be on the shirts starting from next season. I'm lucky that I've bought a training shirt for this season.

Create a simple file transfer Web service with .NET - Techguides - ZDNet Asia

2005-11-22T09:07:00.000+08:00

This situation is really interesting. "Creating a file transfer Web Service" is the topic of a girl's final year project last year. She also won in the Imagine Cup by Microsoft with that project. My friends lost in that competition and argue that the topic is too simple and not useful. Well, yes, it's simple to implement. But perhaps they're on the wrong track. In that competition, as shown in the name, creativity seems to mean everything.

Opera goes mobile with AJAX - ZDNet UK News

2005-11-21T19:51:00.000+08:00

It's nice to see AJAX everywhere, especially for mobile platform. I really hope to see my mobile phone running responsive web application for ordering some products from my company.

Roy Keane Leaves Old Trafford

2005-11-19T02:17:00.000+08:00

Manchester United Official Web Site - Club & News - News - Football News - 6:15:07 PM

It's sad to heard that MU skipper Roy Keane is leaving the club immediately. We'll miss you in Red, Keane.

Implementing Ajax.NET-based Lookup Server Control - The Code Project - ASP.NET

2005-11-16T09:23:00.000+08:00

Recently, I'm working on some AJAX stuff, since I've found AJAX.NET.

AJAX.NET is great except that it can only apply on pages but user controls. Fortunately, there're guys trying to make things done. This Code Project article shows you how to make the user control more integrated with AJAX.

Implementing Ajax.NET-based Lookup Server Control

Business Opportunities Weblog | How Much Is My Blog Worth

2005-11-04T21:51:00.000+08:00

This applet is really interesting. It evaluate the relative value of your blog comparing to AOL-Weblogs Inc deal.

Vincent Cheung: Alarm clocks are bad. How to wake up and feel better.

2005-11-04T16:43:00.000+08:00

Well, this is something I've been doing for several years. Since I like the radio programs in the morning, I normally schedule the radio to turn on every morning, before I actually wake up. I don't know whether this method work, but I think this method really remind me of what the time is, since there will be time and weather report every 30 minutes.

My blog got spammed

2005-11-01T15:00:00.000+08:00

Kind of funny. My posts will get spammed with bot reply whenever they're published. Really funny.

Dictionary.com/idempotent

2005-11-01T14:49:00.000+08:00

All of a sudden, I thought of the term "idempotent". This was a term I heard in university life, but I have forgotten the meaning of this term. Then I look it up in dictionary.com and got its meaning. Well, quite mathematical and computer scientific.

Keano is going to leave MU?

2005-09-30T13:26:00.000+08:00

It's a bit sad to hear that Roy Keane may leave Manchester United after this season. But just as what Roy said, "Players come and go - that's football." I'm looking forward to see Alan Smith playing as a midfielder in MU and Roy sitting on the bench as a coach in the coming seasons.

PSP Crack - The Place To Get All Your PSP Hacking Needs

2005-09-29T10:04:00.000+08:00

Go Hacking!!!

Nokia pushing mobile development at Eclipse - Builder UK

2005-09-23T09:28:00.000+08:00

Nokia pushing mobile development at Eclipse - Builder UK

I can still remember the time when I was working on my FYP. I had to search for tools for J2ME development. Finally, I got some tools from Sun, Borland and Eclipse. But since the Sun J2ME WTK isn't developer friendly, and Eclipse didn't support J2ME 2.0 at that moment, I picked Borland JBuilder.

Now, Nokia said to support mobile development at Eclipse. How would the situation be? It links me to the tales of HTML. HTML doesn't require any expensive development tool at all, and it finally became a basic unit in the web. For mobile development, even though it's as easy as writing HTML, a good and free development tool will definitely helps in the spread of technology.

Will there be some mobile applications that we use daily in the coming two or three year? Will there be publications on the problem of mobile game addict? Well, may be.

Why CEOs should blog?

2005-09-22T14:31:00.000+08:00

Global PR Blog Week 2.0 � Blog Archive � Adding Your Voice to the Conversation. Why CEOs Should Blog

Well, this is not the first time I heard concept like this. But just to remind us the importance of the Blogging, I'm blogging it.

43 Folders | Writing sensible email messages

2005-09-22T14:26:00.000+08:00

Make things systematic, please do write meaningful, sensible emails.

Google Blog Search reach my blogs deeply

2005-09-14T17:17:00.000+08:00

The search result is impressing. My blog entries get dominated in the result list even though I didn't quote my search pattern. The link above is on a quoted search pattern, which I assume to contain really mostly my blog entries. And I'm gonna try some other search patterns in a couple of hours.

TechCrunch � Top Ten Things You Can Do To Get Blogged

2005-09-14T13:49:00.000+08:00

This may be a list to help u make you get blogged.

The Code Project - Implementing Ajax.NET-based Lookup Server Control - ASP.NET

2005-09-08T10:26:00.000+08:00

Well, AJAX again. There is a library on AJAX for .NET developers, named Ajax.NET. And this article in code project describe how to work with that library.

Cross Domain Cookie Provider

2005-09-08T09:12:00.000+08:00

I've been working on some sort of authentication and authorization module recently. I use .Net encrypted cookie, copied from a MSDN article, but I found the authentication cookie can't go across different applications. Then I try to create the cookie on my own. This time, it works, but it still doesn't work across doamin. Therefore, I googled "cross domain cookie" and reached this article. I've been hearing stuff about single sign-on, things like server and token. This design pattern seems to be similar to what I heard before.

MarkItUp - BlogML

2005-09-06T19:33:00.000+08:00

MarkItUp - BlogML

Yeah! Mark your blog in BlogML.

Google Bendi

2005-09-06T14:35:00.000+08:00

This would be cool if you're going to stay in the Mainland China for some time.

YesAsia.com: Customer Support

2005-08-23T12:08:00.000+08:00

This is my second product in the current company. It looks good, but it can be great.

Main Page - Soccerpedia The Free Soccer Encyclopedia

2005-08-22T13:53:00.000+08:00

A Wiki on global soccer information. This is another great stuff I've found after the FootballDatabase.

TheServerSide.NET - The Fallacy of the Data Layer

2005-08-16T15:11:00.000+08:00

TheServerSide.NET - The Fallacy of the Data Layer

This is not a very new article, but worth reading. This would be particularly useful if you're working on data access classes everyday.

The Code Project - ORM, Code Generation and a bit about MDA - .NET

2005-08-16T15:09:00.000+08:00

The Code Project - ORM, Code Generation and a bit about MDA - .NET

The article is not a very informative one on either ORM, code generation or MDA, but it contains a list of tools and reference links on articles about the above 3 topics. I'll comment this page as a good summary of these 3 technologies.

Computation consumption for exceptions handling in.NET - .NET

2005-08-16T15:00:00.000+08:00

The Code Project - Performance implications of exceptions in.NET - .NET

Exception handling is a common task in practical programming. To employ the exception handling feature of a language, you have better have a clear view on their effect on the system performance, which is also an important issue in the real world.

Yahoo! Search - Audio Search

2005-08-12T11:22:00.000+08:00

Yahoo! Search - Audio Search

I love this product from Yahoo!. It can even reach TVB.com.

To evaluate a blog

2005-08-12T09:16:00.000+08:00

Napsterization

An open source algorithm to measure the value of a blog.

Design Patterns: Dependency Injection -- MSDN Magazine, September 2005

2005-08-11T15:20:00.000+08:00

Design Patterns: Dependency Injection -- MSDN Magazine, September 2005

Sounds good.

: 101 Samples for Visual Studio 2005

2005-08-04T11:56:00.000+08:00

: 101 Samples for Visual Studio 2005

To make a better preparation on VS2005 and .NET Framework 2.0.

The Improved Sorting Algorithm Demo

2005-08-01T16:56:00.000+08:00

The Improved Sorting Algorithm Demo

This is really a good resource for those people studying Sorting Algorithms.

YesAsia.com-logogle

2005-07-28T15:46:00.000+08:00

YesAsia.com-logogle

When YesAsia.com looks like Google.

MSDN Solution Architecture Center: Metadata-Driven User Interfaces

2005-07-28T11:57:00.000+08:00

MSDN Solution Architecture Center: Metadata-Driven User Interfaces

This will be a good way to separate program code and UI design.

ASP.NET Home: Common ASP.NET 2.0 Conversion Issues and Solutions

2005-07-28T11:48:00.000+08:00

ASP.NET Home: Common ASP.NET 2.0 Conversion Issues and Solutions

Converting ASP.NET 1.1 web applications to ASP.NET 2.0.

Windows Vista

2005-07-28T11:44:00.000+08:00

Windows Vista

Get ready for development for Vista.

unmaintainable code : Java Glossary

2005-07-25T15:06:00.000+08:00

unmaintainable code : Java Glossary: "unmaintainable code "

This is interesting. I've heard that programmers need to make their code unreadable or unmaintainable, in order to keep themselves in the companies. But then, in CityU, I was taught to write code in term of qaulity (including maintainability). So, to make my job easy to lose, or easy to do?

blinkx video search

2005-07-20T09:36:00.000+08:00

blinkx video search

This media search is really cool as it combines voice recognition, searching in 30 media channals and RSS into a rich media search base.

TheServerSide.NET - Tales From TheServerSide

2005-07-19T11:20:00.000+08:00

TheServerSide.NET - Tales From TheServerSide

"You might be a .NET geek if..."

TheServerSide.NET - Top 5 Web Service Mistakes

2005-07-19T10:23:00.000+08:00

TheServerSide.NET - Top 5 Web Service Mistakes

I'll treat this article as an important readings for web service developers.

ASP.NET Home: Life Without Refresh

2005-07-16T09:29:00.000+08:00

ASP.NET Home: Life Without Refresh

"Microsoft like reinventing technologies." This is heard from one of my fellow in CityU. I don't care if the stuff is a pure invention or reinvention. All I'm interested in is whether it works. I think I'll look for the possibility of this JavaScript RPC (reinventing AJAX?).

Enterprise Library

2005-07-08T20:31:00.000+08:00

Enterprise Library

Note that the new version (06/2005) of Enterprise Library is released. I've not try it yet, I'll try it in the near future for sure.

Google Maps Transparencies

2005-07-08T09:10:00.000+08:00

Google Maps Transparencies

This page is really good. It integrate the map view and satelite image view of google maps with adjustable transparency level of the map view.

tokyo-genki.com - Tokyo Blog

2005-07-07T14:53:00.000+08:00

tokyo-genki.com - Tokyo Blog

It's going to be a world of cross over stuff.

Longhorn Developer Center Home: Programming Indigo: The Programming Model

2005-07-07T09:24:00.000+08:00

Longhorn Developer Center Home: Programming Indigo: The Programming Model

Longhorn Developer Center Home: Programming Indigo: The Contracts

Here are 2 pages, excerpted from David Pallmann's upcoming book - Programming Indigo, on service-oriented programming.

Google Maps API

2005-07-05T09:06:00.000+08:00

Google Maps API

Few days ago, Google released their Maps API for external use (required registration). I've just taken a quick look on the Google Maps API web site. It's great that the API can be accessed in JavaScript. But since I like developing windows application, it'll be even better if it can be accessed in .NET or Java.

Visual Studio: Competitive Reports and Evidence: Comparing .NET to J2EE

2005-06-30T13:32:00.000+08:00

Visual Studio: Competitive Reports and Evidence: Comparing .NET to J2EE

Here provides a list of result of comparison between .NET and J2EE. It claims that .NET 2.0 out let J2EE far behind by means of performance. Let's see.

Microsoft Skills Assessment

2005-06-30T13:23:00.000+08:00

Microsoft Skills Assessment

The assessment website provides some tests on your skills on Microsoft products, including Visual Studio.

Web Services Home: What's New in Web Services Enhancements (WSE) 3.0

2005-06-30T13:18:00.000+08:00

Web Services Home: What's New in Web Services Enhancements (WSE) 3.0

A brief description on new feature in WSE 3.0.

Google Earth - Home

2005-06-29T09:27:00.000+08:00

Google Earth

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

ISV Community Center: Microsoft Smart Client Application Promotion

2005-06-28T15:12:00.000+08:00

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.

Longhorn Developer Center Home: RSS Support in Longhorn

2005-06-27T09:04:00.000+08:00

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.

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

2005-06-25T10:46:00.000+08:00

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

2005-06-25T00:56:00.000+08:00

AFI's 100 YEARS...100 MOVIE QUOTES

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

The Onion 2056

2005-06-24T16:01:00.000+08:00

The Onion 2056

This is a cool site! Enjoy.

WSJ.com - Marketers Scan Blogs For Brand Insights

2005-06-24T15:55:00.000+08:00

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

2005-06-24T15:50:00.000+08:00

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

2005-06-24T15:47:00.000+08:00

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

2005-06-24T15:38:00.000+08:00

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.

NLog - Introduction

2005-06-22T15:07:00.000+08:00

NLog - Introduction

Other than Log4Net, we have another logger module for .NET developers.

The Code Project - rEmail Part 3 - MIME Introduction - Internet & Network

2005-06-22T15:01:00.000+08:00

The Code Project - rEmail Part 3 - MIME Introduction - Internet & Network

This one do the same thing on me like the last article I've blogged.

The Code Project - a Library for downloading Mails from a POP3 Server - C# Programming

2005-06-22T14:59:00.000+08:00

The Code Project - a Library for downloading Mails from a POP3 Server - C# Programming

This article remind me of the time when David (my ex-teamate) was making a email retrieving library.

The Code Project - AJAX DropDownList - ASP.NET

2005-06-22T14:50:00.000+08:00

The Code Project - AJAX DropDownList - ASP.NET

Once again, AJAX. This time, it's on a drop down menu web control. I've found that, in the past few weeks, there're new postings on AJAX applications in Code Project. That's a good sign.

EFF: Legal Guide for Bloggers

2005-06-17T14:59:00.000+08:00

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

2005-06-17T14:52:00.000+08:00

Who Will Google Buy Next? || kuro5hin.org

Interesting passage with a list of Google sub-company.

Apple to Use Intel Microprocessors Beginning in 2006

2005-06-17T13:32:00.000+08:00

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

2005-06-17T10:29:00.000+08:00

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

2005-06-17T09:59:00.000+08:00

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.

Heinze: I Feel At Home

2005-06-16T10:16:00.000+08:00

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.

Visual Studio: Microsoft Developer Tools Roadmap

2005-06-15T15:49:00.000+08:00

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

2005-06-15T15:43:00.000+08:00

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

2005-06-15T15:41:00.000+08:00

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.

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

2005-06-14T16:47:00.000+08:00

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

2005-06-14T09:11:00.000+08:00

City of Heroes

Wow, this game looks good!

(WHAT A) WONDERFUL WORLD

2005-06-10T23:25:00.000+08:00

(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"

News! Your Storage Increases by End of August

2005-06-08T08:35:00.000+08:00

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

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

2005-06-04T11:59:00.000+08:00

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.

The Behaviors of Professionalism

2005-05-26T20:42:00.000+08:00

The Behaviors of Professionalism

This web site provide a list of professional behaviors. However, it require registration, which is free. ^^"

The Competition Master - Career - Professionalism

2005-05-26T20:36:00.000+08:00

The Competition Master - Career - Professionalism

Tell you "What is Professionalism".

Are You a Professional?

2005-05-26T20:29:00.000+08:00

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.

Intro to ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005

2005-05-26T11:37:00.000+08:00

Intro to ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005

This introduction can probably answer the most FAQ on VS2005 - "What's new?"

Racing-Live.com - F1, WRC, Rally, MotoGP, Live

2005-05-25T10:03:00.000+08:00

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~

A Gamers' Manifesto

2005-05-24T17:51:00.000+08:00

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.

FeedReader, RSSOwl and RSS Bandit

2005-05-24T17:22:00.000+08:00

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~