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As we near the mid-term break this semester, the NUS “Facebook course”, CS3216 has already gone through two rounds of application development.Drawing inspiration from Randy Pausch of CMU’s course, Building Virtual Worlds, NUS’ Software Development on Evolving Platforms encourages students to get to know each other by getting them to work with different …
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } MissCentralLibrary, originally uploaded by ruiwen. School facilities certainly seem to have been upgraded some.
Internal corporate videos are apparently all the rage these days. Here’s showing you two of the latest and greatest. Who rocks more? MDA or Microsoft?Media Development Authority, SingaporeMicrosoft via Gizmodo
The second BarCamp Singapore will be held tomorrow! Will you be attending?BarCamp Singapore II: Maps and Mobile will be held at the NUS Extension at Park Mall, near Dhoby Ghaut (beside the Fish & Co. Glass House?), from 630pm onwards.Check out more details over at their wiki page.Remember to also check out the presentations in ...
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Not Interactive, originally uploaded by ruiwen.
I love webcomics.I love xkcd.I love the romance.I love the geekery.I love the whole world.And all its EEEs.Boom De Yada Boom De YadaBoom De Yada Boom De YadaI love the hackers.I love escalators.I love programmers.I love velociraptors.I love the whole worldAnd all its kooky bloggers!Boom De Yada Boom De YadaBoom De Yada Boom De YadaI ...
I’m glad we’re hearing news that Microsoft is walking away from Yahoo! for now. No comments, strategy-, or prospects-wise for the two companies, I just don’t like the idea of Microsoft own …
Aaand it looks like the day has finally come for Spotify to launch its music service!From the information seen so far, it looks like they’ve managed to sign deals with seven music record companies, including Universal Music Group, EMI Music, Warner Music Group, Sony BMG, Merlin, The Orchard and Bonnier Amigo.Spotify launches today, 7 Oct ...
I sat for a paper not too long back, on the subject of Business Law (BSP1004A, Legal Environment of Business, for you NUS folk). Pretty much of the syllabus revolved around the various statutes surrounding stuff like Company Law, Contract Law and the Sales of Goods Act (wonderfully descriptive names, don’t you think?).Anyways, it hit ...
Here’s a question: How do you dispose of/recycle unwanted tech items? I’m looking at an every growing pile of items that I no longer need/want/use. Old mobile phone chargers, old mobile phones, old printers, dead harddisks and the like. I don’t really want to just toss them in the trash since I figure they’re using ...
It’s just so true!Unfortunately..<rant>I so identify with the second situation now. Ever tried wading through hundreds of lines of uncommented code?I’ve got this project, see? I need to build on it to add features, see? I need some documentation to understand how it works, see?Comments in the code would help, which unfortunately, I don’t see. ...
Guess what I found in my inbox today?For a moment, that kind of made my day. I mean, I’ve been waiting almost a year for this mail to arrive. No kidding. I applied for the beta after reading GigaOm’s post about Xcerion’s Internet OS, XIOS (now apparently renamed icloud). That was on 1 April last ...
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } The Daily WTF - Souvenirs for stickers exchange, originally uploaded by ruiwen. Sent in a few souvenirs hoping to get TDWTF stickers in exchange. Looks like they made it over safe and sound!Saw them …
Hubbub 07, the latest conference from the great people at nuStart is set to begin in about an hour an a half. Here goes another round second-degree live blogging for a conference halfway around the world =)Check back often as we try to keep up with Hubbub =)Backchannels are standard of course, over on Jaiku ...
“Guilty”, says the jury.Hans Reiser, creator of the open source Reiserfs filesystem used on Linux systems, was arrested on 10 October 2006, charged with murdering his Russian wife, Nina Reiser. After a trial spanning six months, the jury in the Reiser murder trial has apparently found him guilty of murder in the first degree. This ...
One of the assignments in one of the courses I’m currently taking required us to write a paper comparing two online communities. I decided to take a look at microblogging communities, Twitter and Jaiku, instead of the run-of-the-mill interest forums or social networking sites like Facebook or MySpace. Besides, I’m on Jaiku too, so I ...
“You have a good knowledge of Unix and a girlfriend. Not many people can say that” - Neal Stephenson’s ‘Cryptonomicon’ (as seen on a certain forummer’s signature)
It’s been a little quiet here lately, so thought I’d put up some macro shots that I recently took.Writing is CheapUp CloseTextLensThey’re not all in original colour though. I touched up some like Up Close and Writing is Cheap in GIMP. Just a little blurring here, and a colour tweak there.. nothing much.
“GTA IV: The Sims, for guys.” - I was inspired by this quote from Ramkumar
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