It’s not saying I will upgrade my current set soon. Just a wish list for those I really like to have if there is enough of pocket money.
- iPhone 3G S. Yes, even the outside doesn’t change anything, what’s inside the brickle plastic shell attracts me: Cortex A8 CPU, 256MB RAM, and Power VR SGX GPU, 54% faster than his brother iPhone 3G.
- Kindle DX. I have a bunch of books on the reading list. Most of them I cannot find in local book store. Kindle DX is a killer gadget for reading PDF files.
- Palm Pre. With the release of its Web OS source code and with the good memory with Treo 600/750, there is enough of reason to believe this revolution hit from Palm.
- New model of Macbook/Pro. The keyboard of my old MBP is annoying, prone to dust and with the protector, it just feels weird.
The job and life itself holds all the pressures that are inevitable, the small cubic things are some relieves I could take and afford.
I made the decision to face myself. Started from 27. Be real and be strong.
I was playing around Ant to try out automation (command-line) build. It is declaimed by Adobe that this feature will be enhanced somehow in upcoming Flash Builder 4. Although I have not had a chance to tickle it there are a couple of classes I found started from “automation” in the 4.0.0 sdk. A signal of that?
Anyway, I followed this series of great tutorial, not too long enough I stucked at the part 2 when I need to compile the project with Flex mxmlc compiler. Some errors poped up and another googling game came right after. Sadly, all of them didn’t work like expected.
The root cause was stupidly simple. Ant doesn’t like back slashes for folder path (”\”). Because I installed FB in the default Application folder, the folder path goes like:
/Applications/Adobe\ Flash\ Builder\ Beta/sdks/4.0.0
To enable Ant work as you wish, remove all the back slashes and here we go!
Today when I was trying to port a Flex 3 library project to new released Flex 4 beta, I got such compiler error went as:
Invalid Embed directive in stylesheet – can’t resolve source ‘Embed(”../../images/ECUEGraphics/Alerts/3D/Alertcritical3D.gif”)’
I located the line of the code in a locale file which helped point to an embedded file, the relative file path seemed to be damnly right and the file itself laid there. I try to use another path finding way to start with “image/…”. As it worked for me pretty well and it’s my preference over this relative path. Still, no dice.
Then I googled around and eventually this tip lighted the bulb. The author had exactly the same problem only his code was in a CSS file while mine is in locale file. So I changed the code from:
BASE_ALERT_3D_CRITICAL_IMAGE =Embed("../../images/ECUEGraphics/Alerts/3D/Alertcritical3D.gif"
to
BASE_ALERT_3D_CRITICAL_IMAGE ="images/ECUEGraphics/Alerts/3D/Alertcritical3D.gif"
then everything worked like a charm. I didn’t know why as same metadata worked perfectly in my CSS file. Anyway, a piece of note here.
I got at least 3 facebook confirmation messages this morning. That is an indicator that people get used to handle their social requests as their first job in the morning prior to the job they are set. Even I am now writing a blog post as the first thing I do in the Wednesday.
We are more caring about people not the job or work in essence.
ZZ 背景：pony是公司的首席体验官、首席产品经理。这次在产品峰会上pony将自己平时经验的积累与大家交流，体验较细。这次分享研发管理部，设计中心整理了些材料。主要的案例是qqmail和qq影音的内容。以此为demo来讲解。
pony的讲解主要分为三大部分：产品设计、产品运营、交互设计。
在开场首先提到，互联网同类产品竞争激烈，只有抓住用户的心才能持续走下去。产品要赢得用户的心，要从一些小的点来赢得用户。
第一部分：产品设计
这个部分，感受最深的是两个词：核心能力、口碑。这部分还着重提到了pony对产品经理素质、开发人员心态的期望。
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Those were what I denoted on the first page of GRE vocabulary around 5 years ago:
Principles
- You have to have a number of the fortune you want to make. Don’t say “I want to be very rich”. Have a number.
- Knowing crystal clear what you have to pay in order to make all these happen. There is no reap without sowing.
- Have a deadline to achieve them. Without time table, your boat will never harbor.
- A detailed plan. Practical and detailed.
- Write them down. Your memory is not as reliable as your writing.
- Remind yourself twice a day. In the morning and before the end of the day.
Then I made
- Earn 1 million RMB before 26
- 12 hours per day, over 75 hours per week
- Before 2008 Beijing Olympic
- Computer graphic or even AI as my job. In the worst case, I will still work in the realm of electric power.
Now the truth told everything. I don’t shame on myself or felt naive at that point in time. Just for now, I prefer to shut up the mouth and kick the ass to hit the road.
Now it’s labor holiday. It means you can “abandon” the labor work temporary to take a breath before moving forward. Although my work is sitting in the office, facing the monitor for the day long, it is actually not that “power saving”. Nowadays every hi-tech company is buzzing with the excitement of the coming cloud computing era. There is one big selling point that every related keynote speech about its vantages will not miss, that is cloud computing is one way to reduce carbon emission.
You have to admit that people are more caring about to some extent revive this planet before it starts revenging us massively. Some initiatives came from guilty, some from eagerness of redemption, yet most of the others naturally came from motivations of profits. Those all make great senses to meet the target: building a greener planet. Even ironically the interpretation of it sounds just like “bring our earth back to the origin”.
Now there are some really good green designs got my attention. And even you can sell it and start a fairly good business.
Seed card
‘invisible streetlight’ by jongoh lee from south korea
I know it was almost an hour (now 2hrs, because of the network lag) late to hash out my new year’s resolution. Still in thinking of having a more fruitful 2009, I would like to put my words here. The purpose is clearly aiming on self-motivation and tracking. Here we go:
2009 New Year Resolution:
> Look into my future and set out the masterplan
> Build logical mindset
> Keep concerntration
> Keep a low profile and be humble
> Stay away from wrath
> Master 10000+ new words
> Recite “Top 100 Speeches of the 20th Century”
> On writing well
> Better and stronger figure
> Advance programming skill
> Deep understanding on cloud computing
> Practice sketching
> Play acoustic guitar
> Read Bible
> Get driving license
> 2 trips abroad
> 30k+ RMB pocket money
> A more serious relationship
> Stop scratching my head
> Listen to classical music
> Aesthetics knowledge
Truth be told, I have done this kind of outlook together with conclusive report for myself year in and year out. To austerely following them was that I had never accomplished successfully before and it is exactly the “change” I want to witness by myself in 2009.
