晴朗星空下的網絡|The Network under the Bright-Bright Sky

差不多八個月沒有更新啦。現在xLanguage 2.0終於可以把純外語文章隱藏，在Category List下、在Feed裏、即使Search也不會出現，而不是再顯示”This post is not available under…”。當然你還是可以選用以前的處理手法，而且你更可以針對每一個語言來獨立設定其特性。

Last update was almost 8 months ago. Now, xLanguage 2.0 could hide those post written in foreign language that reader cannot read. It’s effective under category list, in the RSS feed, when being searched…”This post is not available under…” is no longer shown! Of course, it’s your choice to activate this behavior, and you could also limit this behavior only to certain language.

話說之前也一直有計劃將這個實現，但一直抽不出時間來，反正要求的用戶也不多……在上年十二月時，有一位仁兄很認真的說很想要這個功能（雖然金額不多），但也無閑應接。正要找Huizhe看看他有否興趣把這件Case接下去的時候，那位仁兄也投進了qTranslate的懷抱。不過Huizhe還是用了數個週末的餘暇把這個東西做了出來，再為Wordpress 2.7粉飾一翻介面和Readme後，終於可以完成原本的Milestone 2計劃啦，哈哈。

There was actually a plan long ago to get this implemented, however life is hard and I just couldn’t find any free time to invest into this, afterall there wasn’t a strong user request. Until last Decemeber, when a user seriously asking for this feature (though with not much money) still I was exhausted and couldn’t take it. I was looking for help from my friend – Huizhe, but the user is converted to qTranslate when we were trying to send him an offer. Anyway, Huizhe spent a few good hours in the weekend to get this feature out of door, after bringing the UI and Readme file up to the par of Wordpress 2.7, the originally planned Milestone 2 is now finally completed! Enjoy!

Okay, publishing the work is always the hardest, especially for the first time for a particular project. Now I have Trac and Subversion setup (and BTW, I upgraded Wordpress to 2.5), publishing UsbAvrUsb, hColorLED and UsbHid.

With these software, with a Atmel USB AVR series controller (like AT90USB162) prototype board and some LEDs, you can then control these LEDs to be at any color on the computer, through the shinny USB interface.

Recently I have been involved in some LED side-project, and the whole story by itself should also be blogged…may be in another day.

發佈永遠都是最麻煩的一個動作，尤其是每個Project的第一次。如今我終於弄好Trac和Subversion（題外話：也把Wordpress升到2.5），一口氣發佈UsbAvrUsb、ColorLED和UsbHid。

有了這三個東西，加上一個Atmel USB AVR系（如AT90USB162）的單片機和LED，就可以利用電腦，通過很好玩的USB來控制該組LED的顏色。

事源因為我近來捲入了一個LED小Project，故事本身也是一疋布的長……擇日再寫吧。

一年多前為我的Windows Mobile找計算機軟件，在某處下載了一個Reverse Polish Notation後序式輸入的，當時還未知道有這種計算機的存在，但是一用就愛上了。（某程度也是因為它的介面比內置的要好一萬倍）

換了新電話以來，一直都找不到先前所下載的軟件，甚至乎連一個免費的RPN型的也找不到，又是Ctrl-N的時候。

雖然精度和功能都比Windows Desktop的小算盤要差，但比Windows Mobile上的好得多啦。還是先Release一下：http://hellosam.net/project/hrpncalc

A year ago I was looking for a calculator software replacement for my Windows Mobile, and finally ended up at some random Reverse Polish Notation (RPN) style calculator software. I didn’t know the existence of RPN before that, not even at the time of downloading, but I love it once get used to it. (At some points it’s because of the UI. The builtin one is just unacceptable)

After upgrade my Phone, I’ve lost the software and never found it on the Net. Not even a free RPN’s software. It’s about time to Ctrl-N!

Although the precision and functionality is less than optimal, comparing to Desktop’s calc.exe, but it’s far more superior than Mobile’s IMHO. It’s about time to release it (Release often, right?): http://hellosam.net/project/hrpncalc, a free RPN calculator written in .NET.

As I have mentioned in the eariler post, I was working to fix some critical bugs and at the same time putting some more features into the xLanguage plugin, a Wordpress plugin which enables multilanguage blog.

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Wow. The xLanguage plugin have got quite amount of feedbacks. Many thanks to everyone.

Here is the tentative list of things that will go into the next updates

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