The photo I noticed in "Christmas Comes to Elkhart Lake"

The topic I would like to talk is about one photo in this article, "Christmas Comes to Elkhart Lake". And the photo is in the bottom-left side in page 34, and the title of the photo is "Nesting dolls made in Russia for sale".

Interestingly, I also have a nesting doll, too. You can see my nesting doll by clicking the hyper- link. My brother's Russian customer gave me the nesting doll as a gift, and I think he would like to show his appreciation for accompanying him to visit National Palace Museum(故宮). I received the gift, and feeling extremely flattered because only I got the gift!! ha~ha~

I think the nesting doll is a very special stuff which could be one of the characteristic of Russia. As you open the first doll, you find the second doll which is smaller than the first one, and you continue opening the third one and curious about how many dolls in it until you open the last one. The drawing of each doll is different, and I'm not sure if the doll is handmade. If so, each doll is unique and priceless!! :)

After reading the article "Too many vacationers tied to office e-mail"

In this article,the author tell us that as technology improves we have to bear more pressure from our workload. It is very interesting point of view. We develop a lot of technology to help us accomplish tasks more easily, but some of them make us more nervous on our vacations. This article mention that it is hard to never check the emails when you are on vacation because you don't want to miss any message. It is the same as cellar phones. If don't get some phone from your boss, you should turn off the cellar phone to get rid of those interruptions on vacation.(To be continued....)

When I read the article, "Collaborative Culture for Software Developers", I noticed the word "pet project".One of the task of our team is to encourage staff in TL willing to develop their own pet project.

However, it is difficult to accomplished resulting from different factors such as policy, human nature,..etc. To be honest, I think I don't have enough enthusiasm to do so.

Even if someone who have great motivation, energy, enthusiasm to develop his or her pet project, what does their boss might think? "Oh! he has time to develop the pet project, did I give he too less work? Maybe I should increase his loading" or "Oh! he often told me that he is exhausted to do the work. Maybe it's because he pay too much attention on his pet project ! "

To me, pet project means difficulty, dilemma. Maybe this is because I'm not the one who can develop pet project. ha~

I want to share what I got after reading the article "The Difference Maker"

Hello! everyone,in this week I want to share what I got after reading the article "The Difference Maker". We often read some books or articles about encouraging people to correct their attitude because they say "Attitude is everything".But this book John C. Maxwell wrote tells us that attitude cannot replace competence, experience and so on.

It make me think that we must realize what we are. We all have different weakness and strength.We cannot do everything in a positive attitude without thinking about our attributes. We can do something better if it matches our strength.

ha~It is hard for me to write some words in English because I have no chance to do so.But I think if we can continually practice English together, I will write in English more smoothly.

What I got afer reading the atricle "Collaborative Culture for Software Developers"

Hi all, the article I read this week is "Collaborative Culture for Software Developers." The reason I chose this article, of course, is I am quite interested in any topic related to software industry. At first, I thought this article might read like traditional textbook, such as the MIS book we used to read in university. I even expected some key words inside such as collaboration system, SCM, or CRM. But, contrary to my expectation, this article introduces an emerging type of gathering that lures lots of techies to work together on interesting stuff.

This kind of gathering is really attarctive, isn't it? With lots of food, smart guys, creative ideas, and energies, it will make you believe you can drive any idea to become a reality. I said we should have some gatherings like this as well. Lyon could be the smart guy, monster could bring us energy anytime, as for me, I can take care of food. Sounds good, right?

OK, seriously, we all know there is still a long long way we have to go through as a study group. Let just set SuperHappyDevHouse as a ultimate object of our study group. Some day we may found another FaceBook or Google. I hope so.

Let's go, NCU study group!

Let's play Facebook!!

In Facebook, my ID is Lyonchen. You can see my profile if you registered. At the same time, you can see there are many funny tools in my profile page. You can show what you bookmark in del.iciu.os, and own a visual bookshelf to show what books you are reading and what movies you saw before.There are many tools I haven't use it. You can explore how fun it is. Remember to join me in your friends list!

Our conclusion about this study group

This Sunday, we discussed about the way this study group would go, and made the conclusion as following. First, we read Advanced magazine together and share what we learned about these articles by Skype every Wednesday or weekend (?). Second, We also pick up an interesting article by ourselves to share with everyone in the gathering irregularly.Is there any comment about these results?

OWASP Top Ten Project

Hi guys

this is my topic on sunday. enjoy it !!

The OWASP Top Ten provides a powerful awareness document for web application security.
The OWASP Top Ten represents a broad consensus about what the most critical web application security flaws are. Project members include a variety of security experts from around the world who have shared their expertise to produce this list.
Adopting the OWASP Top Ten is perhaps the most effective first step towards changing the software development culture within your organization into one that produces secure code.

http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_Top_Ten_Project

article selected by monster--Leader of the Nations

This article is selected from the Advanced magazine,July 2007, and the abstract is as following:

LEADER OF THE NATIONS
The U.N.'s new secretary-general hopes to usher in a new era

South Korean former Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon found out how hard his new job was going to be as soon as he officially assumed the position of the United Nations (U.N.) secretary-general in early January. He had to deal with the crisis in Somalia, where several countries were making a poorly orchestrated attempt to eliminate the African counterpart of the Afghan Taliban, and he had to help a legal government assert its power.
But when EU Foreign Minister Xavier Solana suggested sending U.N. peacekeepers to Somalia, it transpired that the U.N. nominally controls up to 100,000 peacekeeping troops in 19 hotspots. There is no end to those who would like to invite the blue helmets to their own lands.
In his first days in office, Ban Ki-moon realized that the main result of his predecessor Kofi Annan's 10-year rule was a sharp increase in the demand for the U.N. This is good news. The bad news is that the U.N. is too weak to parry this challenge...

Select article this week from Hugh

"Then There Was One: China"

This article is selected from the PC Magazine, Vol. 26, No. 20.

Please read the following preface for a brief idea:

"Can you imagine an auto industry where all the cars come from a single nation? Just imagine all the Fords, Chryslers, Toyotas, and Mercedeses coming from a factory in China. That is essentially what has happened to the computer business."

Thanks,
Hugh

Agenda for this week. (10/21)

Hi all,

As you have known already, we are going to have our 1st study gathering this Sunday. Based on our agreement, the gathering will take place on this Sunday morning (10/21) at 8AM, in somewhere around Zhongshan Junior High School station. We will meet up in front of the exit of MRT station at 9:30AM and pick a proper place. I hope all you are looking forward to this gathering as I am.

Before this gathering, there is one thing we have to finish by this Friday, namely, to choose your target article you would like to share/discuss with the team. You can choose any topic/field of your interest as long as you think it is worth reading. Of course, it MUST be an English article. After choosing the article to be shared, please post the title on this blog for the team to keep it mind in advance. It would be appreciated if you could upload a digital copy as well. In that case, we can preview the article and maybe do some research by ourselves. The last reminder, please copy papers of your article and bring each team member a paper copy in the gathering.

OK, that's all. Please feel free to raise any issue if you have any concern or question regarding our gathering.

See you on Sunday.

Thanks,
Hugh

Hackonomics

有趣的議題，可以聽聽看
This is my topic this weekend. You can listen the content before we discuss that.

Hackonomics

September 07, 2007

A group of Russian computer hackers, called the Dream Coders Team, are selling a user-friendly hacking kit. It's called M-Pack and comes complete with one year of customer service. Are the days of the underground, anti-establishment, renegade hacker over? Technology reporter Robert Lemos says that the hobby is increasingly becoming a commercial enterprise.

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