Google TV Ads boost Flash…AIR?

Google TV Ads

1. Does it mean we need flash player everywhere, every site?

2. Imagine we have an AIR application which is auto-start, and will “remember” all the Flash ads we have seen, and provide a management page that let us review, reflash and study history and trend, share with friends and what ever. By the way the AIR app doesn’t need a desktop interface but in fact it just collect and store the data and sent those data to the online management page. Think of the concept of Google Reader and Youtube. Now Google Ads. What if Google really provide such AIR service?

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type it, feel it

Code is poetry

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User Experience & Direct Marketing

• The best measure of success for your business is current sales and profit. Short-term optimization leads to long-term problems. Give tools to your employees so they can provide a quality customer experience. And then trust them to do a good job. That will give you the customer trust you need for long-term success.
• With the right sales and marketing effort, you can always get more customers. Customers are the scarce resource and now that they are all connected, you cannot focus on only the one-to-one relationship with a single customer. You need to address the social network around each customer.
• Company value is created by offering differentiated products and services. Products and services are important, of course, but they mean nothing without customers. When you measure the value of your company based on your customers (instead of your inventory or revenue or costs), the customer experience becomes a key factor. A bad experience by a single customer: the value of your company goes down just a little bit. Good experience: value rises a little. The touch points all add up. We can track these small changes better now with technology. And because customers are so well connected to each other, a small pebble dropped in the customer experience pond can ripple out to a large wave.

(From http://instone.org/rulestobreaklawstofollow)

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Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR)

“This is a huge step for the team, to be able to run a widely-used framework, such as Django, on a dynamic language running on the .NET Framework”
–http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/03/django-and-ironpython
“We’re initially building four languages on top of the DLR – Python, JavaScript (EcmaScript 3.0), Visual Basic and Ruby”
–http://blogs.msdn.com/hugunin/archive/2007/04/30/a-dynamic-language-runtime-dlr.aspx
Man, this is big.

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原來中一新生是這樣被錄取的

1. Google “SOR571P2D1S – SOA DP APPLICANT“, 或download
http://cdr.websams.edb.gov.hk/Files/Doc/SOAS_CHI.doc, 或dlownload
預備[自行分配學位正取及備取生名單]須知, 以獲取錄取學生操作說明文件.

此文件分為中文及英文版, 整體排版觀感奇差, 沒有header 及 footer….
文件中所說明的軟件就是傳說中的 WebSams 網上版校管系統:
http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AD%B8%E6%A0%A1%E8%A1%8C%E6%94%BF%E5%8F%8A%E7%AE%A1%E7%90%86%E7%B3%BB%E7%B5%B1,
( 校管系統；School Administrative and Management Systems，SAMS )

2. 校管系統討論區: http://www.hkedcity.net/teachernet/sharing/forum/index.phtml?forum_id=52
看! 老師們是這樣統計學生成績表的! 他們在討論怎樣寫那些SQL語句…

這真的是政府部門發放出來的文件麼?
這就是決定學生未來, 用以處理錄取操作, 老師們使用的系統麼?
以這樣的IT及電子文件處理水平能啟發出怎麼樣的學生?

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GWT+AIR, will it happen?

AIR brings all kind of web-tech together onto a universal runtime that runs in most of the platform nowadays. Consider we have Flash, Html, Css, Local-file I/O, Local-graphic accel., offline-online-interoperatibility and we have Eclipse as the IDE.

However AIR’s Html part is consideredly weak, it’s just a webkit browser and that’s all. It doesn’t promise to control the web content and functionality and solve the Ajax problems that we experienced, e.g. history, keyboard, browser compatibility, security, etc. In this point, why not let us introduce the ready & matured solution – GWT – to handle this part?

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Change

• “Ruby on Rails is a fantastic MVC-ready framework which is much easier for developer than using PHP.”
• “AIR and Flex approach more Java than Javascript, the main reason is that JS is single-thread only, which is not good for desktop apps.”
• “Leopard has a ready-to-use environment for developer – the Xcode toolset, including Debugger and Organizer.”

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Adobe 皇朝 – Flex, AIR and Creative Suite

Adobe 近年來的發展很快，各種新技術的開發己形成一種勢力，己經到了一個很容易令人察覺的階段。我想在此整理一下新的價值觀。首先 ECMAScript(我習慣叫Javascript) 將會是一種橫跨 Adobe 所有產品的語言，也同時是 AJAX 類的 Web apps 的唯一語言。「怎樣保護 Source Code」這問題，將會是我第一個要尋找的答案；我相信已經有 solution。

手機將會是新的戰場。

Adobe at Mobile World Congress 2008
http://www.adobe.com/mobile/news_reviews/events/mwc/?promoid=BRIUB

Adobe has checked in a new virtual machine called “tamarin-tracing” into the Mozilla Tamarin project
http://www.onflex.org/ted/2007/12/meet-qvm-new-tamarin-vm-contributed-to.php

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Mobile Computing

1. Google Android (Yahoo Go! liked) vs Windows Mobile 7 vs OSX (iPhone)
2. Reliable phone
3. Fast Internet connection
4. Keyboard?
5. Trust-worthy?
6. Privacy security
7. Monthly fee, unlimited plan
8. Web services, apps, connect with desktop? Is sync enough?
9. Long term usage or fast changing fashion?

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Firefox:”about:config”; Black Hat; SQL Injection

1. Firefox preferences list: in the address bar, type “about:config“.
e.g. Use less memory: add boolean: config.trim_on_minimize.  Set this true.

2. Black Hat:   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hat

3. SQL Injection:   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL_injection

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