Ellen Ning Zhao's musing between sense and sensibility
Posted in humour, photography on Mar 3rd, 2008
The other day I stared at Henri Cartier-Bresson’s Siphnos (the left picture) in a book for a very long time. Dirk felt strange and asked what was so good about this picture. I read the introduction in the book “…the form, tone, proportion, lines, structure and balance (are all perfect)…” to him. He immediately showed [...]
Posted in gallery, imaging, life, photography, the Netherlands, travel on Jun 3rd, 2007
On May 18th Dirk and I visited the tulip park in Keukenhof. The weather was not bad but the sky was washed out most of the time. It took us 2.5 hours to reach the park. Most tulips were already languished. We saw fields of leaves of tulips. But it was still a highly interesting [...]
Posted in hardware, photography on Jan 10th, 2007
Here are two features I hope for the Nikon D400: 1. HDR sensor. In November 2006 I saw HDR CMOS sensors were exhibited in the Vision Messe 2006, Stuttgart. Currently the targeted clients are not consumers but I hope the consumer market will adopt this kind of sensors in the near future. HDR images have [...]
Posted in photography on Dec 30th, 2006
Delivers Superb Images If You dont Mind Babysitting the Exposure Compensation All the Time I’ve owned a Nikon D80 for over two months and made 1200+ shots with the D80 so far. My experience with the image performance of the D80 reveals that: Pros of this camera (most important in my opinions): 1. Nearly instant [...]
Posted in photography on Dec 24th, 2006
Shortly before I went to South Italy I got a Nikon D80. In Italy I tried it out with different settings and I guess after 1000+ shots, I know the typical graphical behaviour of Nikon D80 under various settings. The “automatic” setting on the main setting wheel would usually keep the aperture at f 5.6 [...]
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Ellen Ning Zhao's musing between sense and sensibility
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What makes something a service is the way it’s constructed and the way it interacts and is used within a system. - SOA Patterns, p218
....just for the heck of it. SOA has a lot of advantages, but it’s not the solution for every problem. - from the book "SOA Patterns"
If it’s a good fit for your project, don’t feel the need to call it SOA or to overload it with SOA-related technologies....- to be continued
There are many successful deployments of three-tiered solutions.....- to be continued.
It’s important to note that the three-tiered architecture mentioned earlier is a viable architecture. - to be continued.
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