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nice article on how UK's emphasis on financial wizardry might hurt them in the road to recover.http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/feb/08/james-dyson-engineering-britain-railwaysAre we on the same track?
As my last post suggests the earnings are actually going down very rapidly. Therefore had been busy coming up with other apps, when I've decided to take a breather and check out reviews for my current application here is what I saw and it really gives me the motivation to try and come out with other 'innovative' (shameless me) way of doing mobile software.I am really really …
I've decided to get myself on long term contract, which I found one nice one. Lots of opportunities to learn stuffs. Mainly handling procurements, budgeting and dealing with customers. Which I think would help me in my ventures later on. Areas which I'm definitely very weak in.Secondly have been downgraded to C2L2 (Yes no more dreaded IPPT), on hindsight no more yearly $200 …
gosh, time really does fly. It's already my last post of the year 2006. Sad to say that 2006 hasn't been really a great year personally. Things in the professional realm hasn't really taken off for me. Hopefully the next year will bring along much more fun and challenges to my career.so here are the list of stuffs that hopefully i can accomplish next year.get off …
Being jobless feels bad to some people but hey shit happens in life. Looking on the bright side I get to have my little retirement now. (In a land where the leaders come out and tell you t …
Since the previous post was on how the iphone's finger scrolling indirectly solves my lefty problem, here is another short one on some of the simple solutions that I like.If you frequent joelonsoftware's forums it has a very brilliant way of discouraging spammers. Instead of having moderators to ban spammers or deleting spam postings from the forum, here's how they do it. The …
In my app I needed to resize the UILabel size dynamically in runtime as the text would not be determined during compilation time. Luckily this can be done by using the sizeWithFont method of NSString class.Call sizeWithFont of the text.Get back a CGSize struct and you can now init your UILabel with the struct.UIFont *font = [UIFont systemFontOfSize:14];CGSize textSize = [ …
Time flies when you are doing something you enjoy but it's really torturous when you are not. Here I am on a sunday night thinking about the week ahead and frankly it really makes me sick to think about all the 'administrative' work. Hope I can find enough motivation tomorrow morning to drag myself out of the bed to go to work.All I can say is that I'm already counting down …
screen shot of the simulation It has been a while since my last post, guess I was too caught up in my work that is frankly speaking 'killing' me. Feels bad when everyday you would go to work and engage in activities that kills off the 'part' of you that is what you believe in and stand for.Had gone through my archives today (sign of old age), came across an old project that I …
哈罗,胖嘟嘟而又可爱的自己,这是三十年后的你写给你的信。你可还是过着无忧无虑的生活吧?每天也都是在追着蜻蜓为乐,在墙壁上涂鸦捣蛋过着吧?现在三十多岁的你得语重心长的跟你说一些重要得事,可得注意啊。首先得告诉你一件事实,现在的你以经变成了你最不喜欢的一事无成中年汉,别怨我也别问我为何,但是只要你照着我说的,可能还有一线生机. 第一别跟你老哥强玩具了, 否则你的脸也会被他抓花了 …
remember to set the update check to 'never' if not concurrency exception will be thrown...this got me for awhile...
woh this blog is to journal the progress of me learning digital illustration using photoshop elements ( yes i don't have mooolah for the real deal). I've stopped drawing for 15 years, and …
With the announcement of the apple iphone, I like the rest of the world will be so looking forward to it. No this is not another blog post about the different features of the iphone but what the multi-touch function of the iphone would solve my problem.That problem is that with conventional pda/smart phones if I wanted to scroll down/up the page or document that I'm viewing …
Ok for those of you who might have special needs to manually fire off validation in asp.net 2.0. you can do it, making use of the client api . Basically what you'll need to do is1. Create …
Haven't been able to blog lately, due to the fact that it's about time that i did my fair share of protecting the nation again(darn where's my no.4 uniform now). Looking forward to meeting up with the guys again, and most importantly network amongst ourselves. I do know a few who've made it and started their business from scratch. Would hope to be able to chat with them and …
first pic i've decided to do a cross hatch piece. brush used was from the default brush, varying opacity 85%. Turns out ok I think, the broder lines should have been done with higher opacity.
Well finally fixed an annoying 'bug' arising from IE6's caching feature. For my app I was not able to refresh the page content with my HttpRequest object in IE6. Everything worked in Firefox, luckily after borrowing an AJAX book from my friend I manage to solve the problem.Solution: Append a dummy time stamp to send to the server. When IE6 interpret the request it will …
Hi all, This would be a blog about my iphone application development blog. Have been developing my app for the app store for the past two months and making headway. It was a great learning experience and I must say developing for the iphone is like no other device, the possibilities is huge and the best part is that boring business apps are even given a new lease of life. …
when using visual studio developer 2008 to create linq to sql dbml remember to synchronize the properties with the columns of your tables. I've added another column to one of my tables and manually added a corresponding property to the dbml class. However I've forgotten to set the nullable to 'true' as the column allows null.
tried out cel shading....don't seem nice the gradient isn't smooth enough....well needs more pratice.



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