Ellen Ning Zhao’s musing between sense and sensibility
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 6th, 2009
Dirk has programmed a game “Nine Men’s Morris” during his September vacation. He exerted every effort on the AI algorithm, GTK UI programming and the Debian/Windows package building ( If anyone sponsors him a Mac box, he will also release an installer for Mac. ). We have compared his program to many existing [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 27th, 2009
Operating systems: Debian Linux at home and Windows XP at work.
Web browsers: Ice Weasel / Firefox
Blogging tool: WordPress
Media player: MPlayer
Generic code / text editor: Eclipse Really good-looking, text-heavy documents such as thesis or technical documentation are just too difficult to be handled with Word or OpenOffice Writer. I use TexLive packages or docbook engines [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 31st, 2009
Impressed by some work of mine, a friend asked me to build a website for her business. Last weekend, I traveled to her headquarter and we discussed about the concept. She and her husband have an already well established business, they’ve got impressive estates and a load of well trained staff. As energetic and ambitious [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 24th, 2008
need a hug now….
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 15th, 2008
Posted in humour, programming, software engineering on Jul 1st, 2008
Today I arrived at this page when I was checking out information about the MySql Falcon engine:
http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/Falcon
Below is the part I found amusing:
Falcon is NOT
…
Jim (Starkey) ’s been at this for a long time, there have been some changes since he wrote his first database at DEC:
Uni-processors to multi-core
CPU performance from 1.7 to 42000 MPS
Address [...]
Posted in programming, software engineering on Jun 29th, 2008
Download the pdf keymap: eclipse-ganymede-keymap.pdf
In office I work with IDEA and Microsoft Visual Studio C++ on Windows. At home I use Eclipse on Debian Lenny/Sid (Desktops managed by Compiz-fusion B-) ). These programs have very different key bindings, I want cheatsheets for quick look-ups. IDEA ships with a pdf keymap. There are keymaps for Visual [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, programming, software engineering on Jun 4th, 2008
Most of the time, I work with various APIs. The quality of the API documentation significantly influence my efficiency. My favourite is the cookbook-ish API doc always with some quintessential examples showing how to use the API calls to accomplish a certain task. A cookbook-ish User-Howto plus API reference listing the UMLs of the API [...]
Posted in computer science, drools, software engineering on May 25th, 2008
The puzzle
The participation rules
First of all, many thanks to the participants, all the people who are interested and I apologize for the delay of result delivery. A lot of things has happened in my life during last several months. My daily job has very little to do with Java or Rete-based rule engines now, and [...]
Posted in computer science, education, software engineering on Feb 24th, 2008
My graduate thesis EatSmart: A Personal Nutrition Management System Leveraging Artificial Intelligence Methodology can be downloaded here. Keyword: combinatorial optimization, dynamic string-matching, fuzzy string-matching, knowledge based systems, Rete-based rule engine, Java Enterprise Edition. Copyright Ning Zhao. Any constructive critics and/or comments are most welcome. Please write to ellen_zhao@web.de. Thanks!
Days ago I passed the theoretical exam [...]
Purposive without Foresight
Ellen Ning Zhao’s musing between sense and sensibility
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