Ah, yet another hot day here in Singapore. Sitting here in front of my computer when I can be outside in the sun.. arghh guilt :) Tomorrow I will get a new laptop so that I can sit outside instead. Cool thing with Singapore is that WiFi we be free from 2007 with more and more hotspots coming up every week.
Have been thinking a bit about the balance between knowing the specifics of something (like an API) and the generic (like how to build an API.) Knowing an algorithm, mechanism, approach or process that produces something specific must intrinsically be better than knowing the specifics only, right? I mean specific knowledge is hard to obtain because it requires exposure of one or another kind.
So in order to solve a problem for example, our ability to do that within an acceptable amount of time and with quality must be a function of our experience and a combination of generic and specific knowledge. How can we measure knowledge or the level of? What constitutes great knowledge as opposed to lack their of? One could argue that keeping lots of facts in ones mind constitutes a great level of knowledge.
But what about the ability to extract facts from a huge mass of data and derive some kind of knowledge from that? We typically filter away huge amounts of information every second but some we keep, why do we keep some and filter away some? And why don't I sometimes remember something I know I should remember? Its like my mind selectively "forgets", and other times I remember things that carry much less value.
So please brother Brain, can you please remember to turn off the aircon in the living room next time I leave for a 2 weeks holiday to Sweden.
Sunday, 7 January 2007
Wednesday, 3 January 2007
Using the New Blogger !beta :)
So now its 2007, I have visited all my relevant relatives and friends, I ate the fat (but very nice) Swedish Christmas food and (probably even added a few ponds to cover my layer of strong and hunky six pack) and are on my way back to Singapore. I have been waiting here at Heathrow since 11 am and the flight takes of 22 pm tonight... AARGHHHHH :) Its was a really great and relaxed holiday but now I feel refreshed and energized for the tasks ahead.
This new Blogger works like a charm, I am really happy with it. Expect at least a few postings a week, he he.
This year will be very exiting as we are getting closer and closer to the release date of the product we are developing. I have organized the various tasks evenly among the team members and hopefully with some hard work we will be done with the 1st version by end Q1. There are very few outstanding requirements left to resolve so that should allow us to get the major outstanding issues out of the way by end January.
The major one right now that I will try to have done by next week is to programmatically configure Hibernate with mapping information so that I can generate proper HQL based on the map structures I pass in. This will be powerful and tremendously flexible. I finalized the work on the PDA before I left on holiday 1 week ahead of plan so that is sweet. I will have to add some more tests on the Java side but that should be pretty easy. I cant wait until I get all done end Next week to see how much faster the synchronization will be.
Furthermore I will have to add code to dynamically generate the schema (DDL code) based on the Book metadata passed in to the LibraryService when associating a Book to a User but I will defer that until later. Right now I have hand coded the tables and that should enough for now.
I have also come up with an upgrade plan for the metadata and code on the PDA. I will write more about that later but its pretty sweet I think. Its based on the path of least resistance (one of my favorite design approaches.)
This new Blogger works like a charm, I am really happy with it. Expect at least a few postings a week, he he.
This year will be very exiting as we are getting closer and closer to the release date of the product we are developing. I have organized the various tasks evenly among the team members and hopefully with some hard work we will be done with the 1st version by end Q1. There are very few outstanding requirements left to resolve so that should allow us to get the major outstanding issues out of the way by end January.
The major one right now that I will try to have done by next week is to programmatically configure Hibernate with mapping information so that I can generate proper HQL based on the map structures I pass in. This will be powerful and tremendously flexible. I finalized the work on the PDA before I left on holiday 1 week ahead of plan so that is sweet. I will have to add some more tests on the Java side but that should be pretty easy. I cant wait until I get all done end Next week to see how much faster the synchronization will be.
Furthermore I will have to add code to dynamically generate the schema (DDL code) based on the Book metadata passed in to the LibraryService when associating a Book to a User but I will defer that until later. Right now I have hand coded the tables and that should enough for now.
I have also come up with an upgrade plan for the metadata and code on the PDA. I will write more about that later but its pretty sweet I think. Its based on the path of least resistance (one of my favorite design approaches.)
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