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Microsoft's Search Strategy

This is the experiment. Randomly-selected participants are asked to score the quality of results from various search engines (the below details may contain some speculation). One group (A) are presented with results from different search engines but not...

Published Sat, Apr 11 2009 1:00 PM by blackinkbottle

Filed under: TechnologyBusiness, Temp

我喜欢这样的天气

"我喜欢这样的天气，不是烈日盛夏，就是严冬酷寒，不是倾盆大雨，就是风雪交加。" 激烈对峙,强烈对比是他电影的一大特色.镜头的色彩,光影,场景构图, 人物构图无不为电影的气氛服务。"我在拍摄中习惯由手绘分镜开始.这个使脑海中的影像具体起来，手绘分镜应不断地做出修改，因为电影是有生命的". 这个生命,我想,就是要把"人性的每一面都投射出来,最难以用逻辑解释的部分".

Published Wed, Apr 01 2009 12:05 AM by blackinkbottle

Filed under: Films

Once upon a time in America, once again

I guess a poem about passage of time is better appreciated with more passage of time (230 minutes runtime)... I watched it numerical times and I found it short each time I watched it again :) Friendship, love, gain, loss, trust, betrayal. Even the musical...

Published Sat, Mar 28 2009 3:03 PM by blackinkbottle

Filed under: Films

Refactoring of Thinking

I have been quiet, rather, I have immersed myself in a lot of reading recently (most of them belong to very random subjects). There is one related to software, “ Pragmatic Thinking & Learning – Refactor Your Wetware ” by Andy Hunt...

Published Mon, Nov 24 2008 12:46 AM by blackinkbottle

Filed under: ReRead

Reflexivity suggests

Reflexivity suggests feedback loop between "cognitive function" (analogy: sensor) and "manipulative function" (analogy: control). However, in social science or in financial market, the "cognitive function" is flawed due to...

Published Sun, Nov 02 2008 1:20 AM by blackinkbottle

Filed under: ReRead

When the ideology falls

When the ideology falls, it crashes. "I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organizations, specifically banks and others, were such as that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms...

Published Sat, Oct 25 2008 6:16 PM by blackinkbottle

Filed under: ReRead

Google's utility computing

Utility computing, even now still at their first few steps (of thousand miles, such as Amazon's ), looks to be one destructive force of the future. Google has made available their utility computing infrastructure too: Google App Engine http://code...

Published Wed, May 28 2008 11:02 PM by blackinkbottle

Filed under: SoftwareDesigns, TechnologyBusiness

Kopi Syntax

"Kopi is the next generation multi-purpose service-oriented universal programming langage for rapidly developing software in shortest possible time at cost of fractions of otherwise man-light-year efforts." Oh...?! Well, in fact Kopi is just...

Published Thu, May 08 2008 10:24 AM by blackinkbottle

Thoughts on Recruitment and Interviewing of Technical Role

Recruitment is an extremely important (if not decisive) factor to the success of a project. This is very true for software project too and some even go to the extend to say that the success or otherwise of a project is determined on the first day the...

Published Sat, Mar 29 2008 1:57 PM by blackinkbottle

Filed under: SoftwareTeam, ReRead

Specifications of Microsoft Office Binary File Format

If you are ever curious (it would be a whole different story if you are serious :D) about the specifications of file formats for one of most profitable software product, you could take a look at the documents recently released by Microsoft describing...

Published Wed, Feb 20 2008 11:38 PM by blackinkbottle

Get "My Location" on mobile phone without GPS, from Google Maps

This feature is really nice! I downloaded the latest Google Maps from my non-GPS Symbian phone, fired it and immediately "My Location" was located on the map, with acceptable and in fact praisable accuracy. The way how it works (in theory) is...

Published Thu, Nov 29 2007 8:32 PM by blackinkbottle

Filed under: TechnologyBusiness, Tools

Another mind map on Integration Topology (Message Broker, Message Bus etc)

The earlier post of mind map focused on WCF. The below is more on integration topology, with more contents covering Java related technologies. Integration Topologies Message Broker (Hub-and-Spoke) Technology Stacks Client Library Implementation Communication...

Published Wed, Oct 03 2007 10:23 AM by blackinkbottle

Filed under: SoftwareDesigns

A mind map for Windows Communication Foundation

I spent some time in space walking various communication technologies for comparisons. They aren't really new, not so "on the center of the cutting edge" (I know you have seen this phrase!) The below is generated from FreeMind . By the way...

Published Wed, Oct 03 2007 9:50 AM by blackinkbottle

Filed under: SoftwareDesigns

Readings and Questions on Software Architecture and Software Architect

Should software architecture be owned and how to measure the output? What are responsiblities and liabilities of software architect? I really like some articles from Skyscrapr because it provides in my opinion a good amount of quality, proper and down...

Published Tue, Aug 21 2007 11:53 PM by blackinkbottle

Filed under: SoftwareDesigns, ReRead

Value of C++, Or Do I Live in Denial?

I chatted with a friend yesterday (who worked mostly on C#/PHP and even Ruby/Rail for web applications) about the value of C++ language, well, you can probably imagine the content of the discussion and there would be some debate. I recalled another discussion...

Published Sun, Jul 22 2007 9:10 PM by blackinkbottle

Filed under: SoftwareDesigns, SoftwareProgramming, ReRead

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Microsoft's Search Strategy

我喜欢这样的天气

Once upon a time in America, once again

Refactoring of Thinking

Reflexivity suggests

When the ideology falls

Google's utility computing

Kopi Syntax

Thoughts on Recruitment and Interviewing of Technical Role

Specifications of Microsoft Office Binary File Format

Get "My Location" on mobile phone without GPS, from Google Maps

Another mind map on Integration Topology (Message Broker, Message Bus etc)

A mind map for Windows Communication Foundation

Readings and Questions on Software Architecture and Software Architect

Value of C++, Or Do I Live in Denial?