Friday, December 31, 2004

P2P Bidirectional NAT traversal client - Hamachi

You will soon realize this technology is one of the great use of P2P.
The computer would be assigned with Virtual IPs and could establish secure connections with other Hamachi clients in private network you "created".

Kind of "Network Enabled" community.
It just integrate into your network components as one of the virtual network interface driver, and routing table.

Hamachi : Stay Connected

Tuesday, December 28, 2004

The Big Picture: VIX Worries? Not quite . . .

Stock market volatility VIX reached its lowest level, fear or not fear?!

What's VIX - CBOE Volatility Index?

Check it in BigPicture.
The Big Picture: VIX Worries? Not quite . . .

Sunday, December 19, 2004

Cassini-Huygens: Mission to land on Saturn's giant moon - Titan

14th Jan be the first encounter to an unknown mysterious world.

ESA - Cassini-Huygens - Second space Christmas for ESA: Huygens to begin its final journey to Titan

The Solar Sail - Cosmos 1 (THE FIRST SOLAR SAIL SPACECRAFT)

The Solar Sail: "sailing to the stars"

A new Christmas toy to play with - Eclipse 3.1 M4 (December 17, 2004)

More JDK 1.5 support. And more fix. A must to update if you've started using Eclipse 3.1 .....u know there's no way to return once you are on with it..

Eclipse 3.1 M4 News

Tuesday, December 14, 2004

EJB 3.0 Preview (SYS-CON)

Sample of proposed EJB3 EJBQL.

SELECT new GeographicalReport(c.state, sum(o.grandTotal)) From Customer c
join Order.customer Customer
GROUP BY c.state

Nice and simple. to use.

EJB 3.0 Preview (SYS-CON)

Sunday, December 12, 2004

Van Gogh Museum: virtual tour

what...virtual tour...waa...could Spend a day with the 3D Web Exhibition Tour. Worth spending time with details story of each paintings. So nice website. Highly Recommended. You would be promoted to install a program before login. Engage!

Van Gogh Museum: virtual tour

Google Suggest Beta

To use it, just type sth in the search box and wait. A list of suggested words with hit counts would appear.
Isn't it nice?!
Google

Tuesday, December 07, 2004

Program of program of program .......*

Future programming language should be flexible enough to allow itself to evolve and generate new language in regard to specific domains or functionailty. Language itself should be agile enough to allow change and extension such that programmers can work with "High Level" Human way of thinking solutions or modelling. A solution is composed of a number of high level expressions that are defined using a number of high level solutions. They are specific solution to particular areas and are pluggable and customizable and with external interfacing so that it's easy to integrate with one another.
The lower level solutions are composed of a number of generic components. Ideally, these components are not required to change and should be re-used and as basis of high level solutions.
Ideally, Human should not "write" program, human should "express ideas" in human language and picking the right solutions to build it. "Declare and Express" should replace "writting program".

In short, as CEO of JetBrains suggests, a program is any precisely defined model of a solution to some problem in some domain, expressed using domain concepts.

Think of the way we feed ourselves. Thousands years before, human find the flesh and water and fire and cook them, we then make equipments and devices for cook, ....gradually, we build kitchens and water supply and gas supply for cooking.....gradually there comes restaurant and different type of food and cook and chefs who specialized in cooking, Nowadays, when we want food, we could simply find a favourite restaurant, open the menu and "Express" what you want to eat. You will goto Delifrance for having bread, Starbucks for having good coffee. That's the high level solutions available, you could on the other hand make your own coffee at home with lower level solutions by purchasing good coffee bean. Never would you goto make your own coffee bean in farmland and make your own device, these are all more generic solutions.

Unforturnately, we are always building from so low generic solutions although not the lowest.
Let's back on the right track and pathing the ways to the right solutions for the future.

: )

Saturday, December 04, 2004

My New Space - MSN Spaces

Who will rule the market?!

MSN Spaces - Kinwo's Home Space

MS Blog - MSN Spaces

Do u you like it?
One more choice, have a try, compare and see which is doing it better.

Here is my Space.
MSN Spaces - Kinwo's Home Space

Sunday, November 28, 2004

ONJava.com: Agile User Interface Development

"If you're not doing Agile, you're in the past." .........
ONJava.com: Agile User Interface Development: "pervasive"

Friday, November 26, 2004

Future Computing

Future program is not writtern by human caused human always make
mistakes and is prone for error. Human should "make" Intelligent System
that would know how to write programs. That is one single Powerful
System which combines greate ppl 's minds and thinkings.

In future, there would be no error coz the System would detect and fixed
any defects before any errors would be exposed.

Saturday, November 20, 2004

Higher Floor, Wider Horizon, Reach further

Finally, I am here in the vicinity of Star and Universe.

Saturday, November 06, 2004

Eclipse Developer's Journal

There's a new Eclipse Magazine out. Check it out..!
Download Free 1s Issue

Eclipse Developer's Journal

Book Review: User Stories Applied

Better understanding of User Stories and how to gather...them
Book Review: User Stories Applied

Saturday, October 23, 2004

Moving home soon

Looking forward..
Immerseing in fiction Da Vinci Code.
counting down...to 2006...

Sunday, October 17, 2004

Thursday, September 30, 2004

Heading to 2046

Can't miss it...
Any fiction of 2046?!

2046 official site

Wednesday, September 29, 2004

Looking for...


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!?

MidAutumn


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Originally uploaded by kinwo.

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival. Have a nice long holidays. Enjoy.

Monday, September 27, 2004

The Shadow - shade of the light


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Originally uploaded by kinwo.

This is cool, isn't it?

Saturday, September 18, 2004

Things of the Past


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Originally uploaded by kinwo.

Holiday mood, can you feel it?

Have a good day

There is sth happpening. I would like to jog it down, therefore I am
writting. Yeah, the same old good days. And feel good to discover sth
new to play with. Thank you.

Friday, September 17, 2004

Monday, September 13, 2004

Do you remember

The Beloved. The Legend. His songs.

Sunday, September 12, 2004

To reform...

To reform, it requires your courage.
Take hold of your future, future is in your hands.....
......for the fact there's no trails for going back.
.......for the fact that we see the lights at the end of the tunnel...
Don't look back no matter how, you could be sure things will be getting better in those days..

The days to joy, the days to celebrate, the days wihout fears, the days without worries...and the days you day-dreaming...

Exercise your rights. The days are NOT the same without you taking actions.


Tuesday, September 07, 2004

From one dream to another dream

From one personality to another personality, from one place to another
place, from one age to another age, from one job to another job, from
one assignment to another assignment, and finally.....

from one life to another life.
and probably another dimension.
and another dream.

If I can choose, I like dreaming and never wake up.
Or am I dreaming !?

Saturday, September 04, 2004

Gravity + Magnetism ->> Gravitomagnetism ?!

Read the word "Gravitomagnetism" before? From schools? OK...Forget the physics formula. Sometime it's funny to learn from simple English illustration of science. No maths! Have fun only.

The fact is Gravitomagnetism is not PROVED yet. Don't mixed up with your old memory.
It's from Einstein General Relativity.

He told us ...When a planet spins it pulls space and time around with it, an action known as "frame dragging." The fabric of spacetime twists like a vortex. All gravitational forces correspond to a bending of spacetime; the "twist" is gravitomagnetism......

Easy to understand? oops...probably...not....

NASA is doing an experiment in Search of Gravitomagnetism with its NASA's Gravity Probe B spacecraft which was left on April. More is coming.

You know ppl spending much (both time and money) to prove the theory. We should be glad Internet provide a medium as access to these info without spending much. (...which not exist 20 years ago....) we are living in the right time. (..and probably the worst time....who knows....ar....it's so HOT!...the Earth is not the same...)

Details about the Curved Spacetime

1421

The year China discovered the World. This is a book some saying
providing not concrete evidence. Not to mention this......It covers a
lot history at that period of time, which I feel interested to. It's my
currently reading book everyday on travel to work....ha..3 hrs at
least...If I am not spending it on reading, I lose 3 hrs...every day. I
can't afford to waste too much time....ha..

Busy doing Hibernate O/R coding

Next is Netbeans 4.0.....J2SE 5.0.....profiler....and more refactoring.
A list of software to be evaluated and more reading on unit/integration
tests and ...having fun.

Wednesday, September 01, 2004

Tuesday, August 31, 2004

Make everyday different

Is it too much difference...? doing sth new, studying sth new, read sth
new, see sth new, catch more new errors/exceptions in program, meet new
ppl, and i am changing gradually also.....never ending, so learn to stop
and rest, think what should be keep going and what should be stopped.
and what is the right time. Hang on..it's .time to stop thinking too much. ~

Sunday, August 29, 2004

First moonwalk photographs of Apollo 11 in unprecedented quality

Never have I seen the Moon in such HIGH quality...
Part of them are recent works by Johnson Space Center - newly digitally scanned  directly from the original film roll !! Shouldn't miss....the Outer Space.

'Travel' to Project Apollo Archive  and click Page 2 of the Apollo 11 section for latest works.

X Y Z ? 創造者滅者﹖

Who am I ? cool ... 創造者滅者﹖

Saturday, August 28, 2004

Melbourne City


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I see/catch more inside this blurred photo than the focused. Try slightly seeing thing not in focus...and u may discover sth new but adjacent to u for long. Is that cool?!

The Matrix - To make it real/or virtual ?!

Let's Back to “The Matrix”
Tiny brain implants bring us The Matrix more real/virtual.

waa...
it happened...

What Blogs for? It's the content that matter...not the technology

From Wall Street Journal ...Blogs help you cope with data overload - If you manage them....

Apple adding newsreader function to Safari Web Browser.
You know there's more fun to do with Mac OS X, watch for konfabulator - kind of widgets on the desktop. Apple take this seriously and invent another variant - Dashboard which will be generally available in next version Max OS X - Tiger.

Ok, that would be next wave. I am sure Windows have sth similar and probably make official product build into Longhorn. The question is would it be as successful as in Max OS X.

Google Gmail Invitation

I have 5 Google Gmail invitation quota. Drop me a email if you want
more. Happy googling...


DOOM 3

Ha, have chance playing with DOOM 3 today. It 's really cool but even my
powerful office computer could not have it run in high fps. No matter
what, it's a game worth buying. May be it's time to upgrade my
computer, getting a better GPU. Cheers.....

Thursday, August 26, 2004

拉闊音樂會 - 古巨基

ha....bought a new CD - 古巨基拉闊音樂會
Excellent. Impressed!
Will buy again next time holding Live concert.
coool.....new discovery.

Add value to Creative SBLive

If you look for better sound/music quality (but not 3D), you will definitely be amazed by this 3rd party sblive driver. It just give a new life to sblive.

Hints: Pls read the doc for what changes it does to enhance the overall quality. You have do some tweaking and/or even change the audio filter for best quality.

KX Project

Do you enjoy in your work?

I enjoy my work very much, do u ?!


: )

Wednesday, August 25, 2004

MS VisualStudio

Hey...just notice Microsoft released some very good tools.....
Visual Studio 2005 Express Beta

Coool...I can use it with Java as well.


Pop Goes the Gmail (PGtGM)

To get / send Gmail thru your email client, grep Pop Goes the Gmail (PGtGM)

I am trying as well.

Tuesday, August 24, 2004

sTRategY and operatiONal Effectiveness

....There's a fundamental distinction between strategy and operational effectiveness. Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it's about deliberately choosing to be different. Operational effectiveness is about things that you really shouldn't have to make choices on; it's about what's good for everybody and about what every business should be doing....

Michael Porter's Big Ideas

What's your stragtegy?
Being Different

Do you believe...

He said: There's nothing we can't foresee...... if every pience of
information in all dimensions ....at the moment are accessable (given we
know how to "decode" the data).

Hold on. We still need the rules to make the data become useful. But,
who make the rules ?!
It exists before everything exist.

Monday, August 23, 2004

Jan Pakinski joins !

I'm very happy to tell you guys I have joined Kinwo's blog. I will
post some articles from now on.

Thank you very much !

i-Robot

The film i-Robot introduces Laws of Robotics. If you have watched the film and would like to know more who make the Law. Here it is: Three Laws of Robotics
Isaac Asimov - the science fiction author wrote it.......a long time ago. I am so lucky to have read most of his famous books in Secondary School. Once you started reading his books, you can't stop until you finish them. Cool.

Sunday, August 22, 2004

National Gallery of Victoria - The Impressionists

I visited this while I was in Melbourne. Wonderful experience. I won't forget the day I spend in NGV with the Impressionalists paintings.

No TIME ->> only speed that matter

George R.R Martin - a scientific fiction author suggest time machine is
actually slower than speed of light in one of his fiction book. I get
his idea finally after watching the String Theory but....I may be wrong.
Anyway, it's interesting to think. Cool. :-)
Somone suggests there's no TIME at all, only the speed and velocity that
matter. Relativity. Umm....anway, it's tea time now.

The next era of computing

The 8 elements of autonomic computing will have you realize what the future system should equip with. In one sentence -  "it needs to know itself".  What do you think? When we really have this system running, could "it" still be called "it" ?! Are we moving forward to create system with self-awareness - a new creature? yeah...we are closer and closer to it.....

The moment in Philip Island


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When I took this photo, I have strong intention to keep that moment's feeling / memory. I feel so impressive with the dawn, the moment the sun feel tired to shine, the moment I see sth in distant but not so sure what it is as it's still too far away that I can't capture....and unknown future . Anyway. Keep going.

Saturday, August 21, 2004

: > Assignment Time

Before going for work,  I just want to introduce flickr - wonderful web photo album especially with Blog support. Cooool.....

Advance of RSS to become big

You know, when you start to see some technology become immensely adopted in big corporates like yahoo, BBC.....and many others. No doubt that you should know more than they know if you are techie.

RSS which has been introduced since 1999, and I given presentation in my job at 2000, is finally widely accepted.

BBC News RSS introduction

Great Ocean Road


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Originally uploaded by kinwo.

The beach shore after the rainfall, see the sky shining in light blue, impressive sky and the beach shore no matter how unspecial it is, but things become different with different angles. Amazing!?

i==i is NOT always true !?

There's sth you think it's always true ........may not be the truth...when u start to know more how things work.

Java Puzzle

The days in Melbourne


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I like this picture the most. Watch the shadow of the tree. :>

Offshore jobs

Globalisation....internationalisation.....how would jobs ecosystem be affected globally, offshore jobs is not affecting only the job, it has more to do with national competivity.....impressed with this

....exporting software application work raises a legitimate issue about technology leadership. "If you don't have the entry-level programmers, how do you get people to become system architects--the high-level skills that we think are going to stay on shore?" he asked.

Read Study supports controversial offshore numbers

Respect your rights

You know, to make a project a succes (meeting industry instanards, not just accepted by client in UI point of view), every parties play an important role, and we got to respect each others, with their professional knowledge. Here's list of programmer rights.

Programmer rights
  • The programmer has the right to estimate work and have those estimates respected by the rest of the team.
  • The programmer has the right to honestly report progress.
  • The programmer has the right to produce high-quality work at all times.
  • The programmer has the right to know what is most important to work on next.
  • The programmer has the right to ask business-oriented questions whenever they arise.
Worth reading ...Extreme Programming (Bill of Rights) for details.

Friday, August 20, 2004

Elegant Universe - String Theory

If you haven't heard of String Thoery, better get some ideas as it's
really amazing. It may override what you perceive physics before.
Anyway, this is the URL : Elegant Universe . What's more is you can watch it online HERE. Could it be the one single law that goverened everthing? I know it takes time to understand...but you could be sure you will love to watch it. Keep your brain rolling !