About me and privacy of this website
Privacy info
Note we don’t collect any personal information on this website. That is unless you become another author of this blog website. In that case, this website will have your email address. Btw, guest author is always welcome. I understand blogging itself is slowly taken over by vlog (or video blogging) on platforms such as TikTok, YouTube etc., as well as the newer microblogging platforms such as Twitter (X) and Instagram. But on the other hand, writing and sharing knowledge is such a common human endeavor and I believe it will survive the video (iPhone, smartphone) revolution.
About me
My name is Minjie Xu 徐敏杰 and I am a software engineering professional with 20+ years of experiences primarily in the development. I also performed consulting and production support in my career.
I started my career doing CAD (Computer Aided Design) software development. In recent years I was mostly into enterprise systems development, as well as technical support (e.g., revenue accounting management, sales management, business process improvement), and mobile apps (iPhone/iPad/iOS). Technology-wise I evolved from C/C++, C#/VB .Net, to J2EE, web service, Objective C, Cocoa Touch; from backend to frontend. I’m also well-versed both in traditional waterfall and more recent agile approach, in terms of software development methodology.
I have undergraduate degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology and my graduate (master’s) dgree at Missouri University of Science and Technology.
I consider myself a fast learner, a problem solver and a team player.
My other interests includes personal finance, investing, education and exercise (fitness). Back in year 2008 I passed the level one test of CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst).
Contact me
The best way is email me at minjie DOT xu AT gmail DOT com (no spam please). I am also on BlueSky social, FB (Instagram), LinkedIn (it listed all the places I worked in the STL area), and YouTube.
I started using LinkedIn and Twitter from year 2008 and I consider myself an old user for both the platforms. That’s when the time the social media in the US started to take off. I recall President Obama has a better website than Hilary Clinton in terms of SEO (search engine optimization, or google friendly) in 2008, and in 2012 it was all Facebook.
Recently (as of 04-20-2023) I am also experimenting writing on substack. I also post on medium (@stlplace) sometimes.
Ted and TedX talks:
I have a YouTube playlist for this
Good Readings:
Time is the only real currency we have
Songs I listened when I was in 20s (mostly mandarin and cantonese pop)
Sandy Lam 林憶蓮
林憶蓮、李宗盛 – 當愛已成往事
傷痕 Scar 林憶蓮 傷痕專輯: Love, Sandy (1995)
愛上一個不回家的人
CHEN Hui Xian
Tao Wu Jie
Qian Qian Que Ge
Piao Xue
Hong Cha Guan
Sha Nv
Chen Shu Hua
Meng Xing Shi Feng
Gun Gun Hong Chen
QI Qin: Wang Shi Shui Feng
ZHAO Chuan: Ai Yao Zhen Mu Shuo Chu Kou
WANG Fei: Tian Kong (Sky)
Whitney Houston. I was a big fan of her in college. I remember spent about 10 Yuan (remember at the time the monthly allowance was like 100 Yuan) to buy her album “Hero” when I was in college.
This is a song “When you believe“, sung by her and Maria Carey.
安葬于西敏寺的英国国教主教的墓志铭：
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我年少时，意气风发，踌躇满志，当时曾梦想要改变世界，但当我年事渐长，阅历增多，我发觉自己无力改变世界，于是我缩小了范围，决定改变我的国家。但这个目标还是太大了。接著我步入了中年，无奈之余，我将试图改变的对象锁定在最亲密的家人身上。但天不从人愿，他们个个还是维持原样。当我垂垂老矣，我终于顿悟了一些事：我应该先改变自己，用以身作则的方式影响家人。若我能先当家人的榜样，也许下一步就能改善我的国家，再后来我甚至可能改造整个世界，谁知道呢?
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野路子(http://wulujia.com)
不论走多远，都不应忘记出发时的目标
