Monday, November 20, 2006

Vacation due to hand injury

Left hand Dislocated

Kuan is injured, left hand elbow disallocated. Cause? my famous sport game - basketball at last friday morning. Typing with one hand is tire and tedius, need to look at the keyboard and check the screen frequently to check if type smething wrong. so... will restart bloging once doc allow me to take off my hand from hanging.

Feel free to call me :P since i prefer talking now. Chat seem like a tire thing now ( you can try it out with just right hand typing, for one hour...). The most bad news is coding... Don't know can archieve wat i planned for Computer Graphic or not.

hehe. i believe its time to let me learn that importance of two hand. The 1st thing bother most is bath.... :(

ok... Be back when my one month MC over... tired....

Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Web Language

Web programming

It's been some time since I blog about programming language (which is one of the main factor I want to start a blog). I used to refuse to learn web language people. At first I thought that web language is high level, easy and boring. Boring is because I don't like web design. Beside of my Design Idiot Brain(my user interface, color matching and effect is extremely weak), I thought that web don't require much creative thinking, algorithm thinking and problem solving. Web is just a plain page which emphasize design, layout, font and information. (Thats my point of view before). The only web site I ever did is for TAR College's assignment. A web page that sell handphone using a little bit javascript, css and whole bunch of HTML (really feeling idiot that time since Frontpage/dreamweaver is around but I was typing HTML tags with notepad).

But, the world is changing and the internet world is changing faster! Web is no longer the same old wed as I knew 5 years ago, it changed, a lot. We can do a lot of stuff with web page nowaday (oh god, am I typing an english exam essay?!). Straight to the damn point. Gmail, Google calender, basecamp, campfire chat, yahoo mail (new UI), gchat, all these are the web that prove web page is very potential field to improve and develop, at least they are "not-that-easy" to code and need some creativity.

WEB 2.0

To define this...please refer to wikipedia :P

From my point of view, web 2.0 is new web service which very different from the traditional one. What impress me is the way web 2.0 application is made. Programming Web2.0 application is more interesting, challenging and flexible (really just my own opinion). Many new thing can perform with the language or style as long the programer has enough creativity. Famous language in Web 2.0 are AJAX( javascript + XML), Ruby on Rails (Ruby + Rails) and others.

I don't like web programming, but I knew this is an essential thing to learn to live in the future IT world. Nothing ever success pull me into web field, HTML, php, javascript, flash (just interest use it to make game). Need a reason for me to jump in, and now the reason is here - New programming mission from Hatchlings Games. I need to learn this new language - Ruby on Rails and rapid develop something within some time. I fall in love with this language honestly. It's different, It's high level, It's easy and It's flexible. Awesome way to connect database, invisible of complex linking/protocol just focus on main thing (design, mechanic).

Friends who like web language should check these two awesome language/style out. I heard that web 2.o programmer earn a lot. They are quite rewarding by the way even we code it for free time.

End...

Weird post? Ya... need to recheck what's wrong with me, not much mood for bloging recently

Today Feeling ## How to answer my final exam leh... hmmmm (specific for someone)

Saturday, November 04, 2006

New Way to Blog : Title : ACM Manila

New way to blog

I tried to write a blog right after I came back from Manila, 6 days ago. I wrote some paragraph, insert some picture and tried to blog my Manila trip as what I did for Taman Negara Trip but at the end, I pause and cancel that post. I think there are 2 reasons I cannot blog it, I mean I failed to blog. One is because I don't have the mood and feeling. I don't feel like writing a long, casual, detail post. Second is because I up to something in my life which I addicted to -- Game Coding. I am coding for Hatchlings Games and I really enjoy coding more than bloging :P.

Giving up bloging is not an option for me, I can't stop this, this is fun and I had my friends who frequently viewing my blog (Thanks for the support). So i figure out a way, a solution which will make me easier to blog and, update oftenly, I blog shortly. New blogger has the option of Labeling the post, it is a good idea so that I can blog shortly, and label them. Even post not according to time line is fine :)

So...here I go...

ACM Manila

Actually we brought a bad news back from Manila. Both MMU team did bad at the ACM Manila. MMU Cannibals able to solve only one question and my team, MMU SJK was able to solve NO question in 5 hours time. Ya, what a shame result we got all the way from the Manila. Anyway, we earn the experience and lesson which taught us that we are still kampung programmer. Lol. Don't worry, I'm not upset or depressed, It's over and I got my energy boost to do better in everything :) Lets talk about the competition itself.

There were 82 team from 9 different country joined the ACM competition (actually half of the teams are Philipines team). The venue for the competition is very small, packed. each team need to sit face to face to other team (Lame... the team in front of us is the 1st runner up of Philipines team, they solved 4 questions). We saw a lot of Chinese from HK (HK got the champion, they solved total 8 out of 10 questions *Salute* and their team is 2 boys and 1 GIRL!), China, Taiwan, Singapore, Indonesia. Japanese (grap the 1st runner and 2nd runner up for the competition, both solved 7 questions) and Korean. Surpising (and also depressing) is, there are a lot of girls participants. Many mix group but there was a team from China, all 3 are girls (they solved 3 questions :( ).

This year Manila's question is hard. Very unexpected we cannot solve even ONE. I felt so sorry and sad to the people who ever wished me, and putting some little hope on me, totally failed. Other team can solve very good. I think we lack of experience, preparing and HEART. Well, I guess I learnt this hard lesson pretty much. If there any chances, I want to be in this competition again and I want to archieve better. SJK!!!


I think I just stop here for the night. Hope this type of short blog can last too :P

Today Feeling : - : - : Holidays is leaving me