July 2007
14 posts
CITCON 2007
After watching Accepted again (since Jackie hasn’t seen it) after CITCON. It suddenly dawned on me, the way they came up with the curriculum for South Harmon Institute of Technology (SHIT) is exactly the spirit of open space used in CITCON.
Rails screencast ideas
Tag your del.icio.us bookmarks with rtcast and/or tumblecast and Myles might cover it on tumblecast.com.
Great application for diagrams
OmniGraffle is a great application that come with OS X (at least on PPC Macs).
Dvorak Simplified Keyboard →
Interesting but I probably won’t try Dvorak.
Confirmed PDF spam phase
SecurityFocus is reporting the same trend that I noted. Let’s hope it will be a short-lived phase as reported.
Sydney harbour bridge
I had the pleasure of walking across Sydney harbour bridge, but it wasn’t by choice, I was forced to walk in order to get to work because the train broke down at the last station before the bridge. Coincidentally today was the coldest day in the history of Sydney since 1950. You can always count on CityRail failing when it is raining, I guess it can’t deal with cold temperature as well...
“DRY says that every piece of system knowledge should have one authoritative,...”
– Orthogonality and the DRY Principle
IDEA is better for learning
For the last 2 weeks, I went back to use Eclipse and noted down what I missed most in Eclipse from IntelliJ IDEA. I was going to keep using it a bit longer but today when I had to figure out how stuff works at work I just couldn’t do it in Eclipse as fast as I could with IDEA so I’ve decided to activate IDEA again.
So overall, using Eclipse to code is fine but using it to learn or...
Rails Cookbook
I am proud to have been a technical reviewer and contributor to the Rails Cookbook by Rob Orsini. It was a valuable experience for me and I learned a lot while reviewing the book and sharing ideas with fellow contributors.
Coworking space
This coworking space is a brilliant idea. The sydney rails coworking space for freelancers are already in motion. Even if I am not freelancing if work permits (pending on how flexible the employer is) I wouldn’t mind go work in coworking space every now and then.
One liner for using Eclipse & IntelliJ
IntelliJ: operations are fast and keystrokes are smooth
Eclipse: twisting & jerking my fingers to hit those key combination to do the simplest things
Sandisk cruzer micro 4gb
I was so impressed with my Sandisk cruzer micro 512MB because it withstood the test of my daughter’s drooling & sucking I decided to get another Sandisk when I upgrade.
So I had my eye on the micro 4gb stick for a while, I considered the titanium version, which is stronger (titanium shell) and faster (tho no official stats from Sandisk) but given my old micro was plenty tough I decided...
June 2007
10 posts
Build light
I like lava lamp, they look nice as build lights but they are more of a hassle to setup (especially in OZ since all the plugs and sockets you get from the US is different) or they are against workplace health & safety policies.
But more importantly I always thought all we need for build light is just a spare PC and monitor. Check out build-o-matic and team-piazza (thanks to Nat). Pity...
Writing my own game for Wii
Now this is much more exciting than iPhone release! Nintendo is opening Wii to developers! That’s very cool, maybe I’ll be able to recreate some simple classic arcade games that I like.