The Network under the Bright-Bright Sky

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.

To facilitate 2 language 3 dialects on Wordpress, of course it will need some help from “some” plugin. But even after extensive Googlging, I failed to find one that can solve the problem of the overlapping properties of Chinese and Cantonese.The solution? Do it myself!

Latest member in the Project collection — xLanguage

A WordPress plugin that allows you to blog in multi-language, and users to select which to read. If your want to localize and present your blog in different languages (totally with title, rss, categories working, not just the post) and allows visitors to pick the language they want, this plugin is for you.

Finally it comes to time to setup my own Blog/CMS, and I picked WordPress, and moving my http://sam0737.blogspot.com/ to here. The problem is, for my old blog on Blogspot by Blogger, how should I move the posts and comments? What if people visit the my Blogspot? How could I preserve the permalinks? Could I also transfer the PageRank that I built up in Google?

WordPress v2.x has an blog importing tool. It would only solve the first problem, however.

The walk-through here will also work in case you are moving from Blogger that used your own domain name but not from Blogspot.

Luckily, with the flexibility provided by WordPress framework, there are solutions for all the questions! (more…)

忙碌了兩整個月……

稍為在十月國慶買了玩具A。十一月初終於「畢業」，一來一回吃喝玩樂，還有在畢業典禮其間買了價錢是玩具A三倍的玩具B，另外十一月股市連翻大瀉。回港的時候也沒有好好把握好轉運資金回港的機會，再幫人墊支了新的筆記本……香港的資金儲備實在到了警戒新低。

有機會一定要好好北水南調。

來去匆匆，緊接畢業的行程就是直飛西雅圖，話說因為Bug太多，全Team上下都到此一遊幫忙修Bug。

突然覺得我們自己一個Product Team感情真的不錯，最少個個都係為大局著想，為跑過終點而奮勇。皆因近來要經常面對某個partner team，Email慣性不賜覆，Bug ticket也輕鬆”resolve as won’t fixed”，真係有點樹大有枯枝的感覺。

難得有四台筆記本加一張桌子，當然把掘機會築起四方城。呵，應該是操星際才對。一個N年前的遊戲，用現再的機器只需要一秒就可以打開，真是無言的快……遊戲依然好玩，期待星際二的降臨。

實驗証明，99.99% (誤差範圍為25%)在國內長大的同學都沒有用過烘麵包機、粟米片和乾衣機，而言，同一組的實驗對象都一致認同這些是好東西。

買了這麼多的玩具，還未有時間玩過透徹。總比我的室友好吧？買了一個Zune，到現在Zune II都推出了，他的Zune還是擱在家裏。