The Network under the Bright-Bright Sky

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.

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.

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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