Reading Time: 2 minutes (Update 08-Dec-2020) Things I learned today (or tomorrow am 🙂 One team can have at most two distribution certs In Xcode sign in as agent without the (mail.com or gmail.com after @) because it appears my apple id is just the id without all the @ + dot com stuff. That alone cost me probably

Reading Time: < 1 minute I heard this story from NPR a while back, I meant to share it with my daughter’s teacher, did not do it as the New Town incident happened on that day. This is again discussed this morning at Hope Montessori morning presentation. I gave it some thought on this topic from time to time. I think

Reading Time: < 1 minute A lot of good points. We congrats/celebrate with kids (did something, e.g., potty training), we don’t “reward” them (Sarah). The “grit” (persistence) is very important, recent research found American kids are more tend to give up (Susie). Also, toddlers (community) do not have watch, the teachers give toddlers plenty of time to make mistakes and

Reading Time: < 1 minute Did not get much sleep last night, as I had to go to airport to pick up my in-laws at 2 am. This morning, after drop off my daughter and I was trying to change lane to get to Panera Bread, the car behind me was not happy, and honked. I honked in revenge. Not

Reading Time: 2 minutes (Update 01-23-13) This morning I talked to my daughter school director about this.  He is older and wiser (like my uncle). We talked various topics from teaching kids to the new town incident, and yesterday’s incident. His thought was some people will do anything for fame (name recognition). I agree. The best way is probably

Reading Time: < 1 minute I (actually we both my wife and myself) learned quite a bit from our daughters’ teachers. A few months ago Serenity does not like to leave when we picked her up in the late afternoon. I recall one evening we were the last car to leave the parking lot 🙁 One evening, she said she

Reading Time: < 1 minute I need to create a SOAP client in C#, and in order to test it I need a SOAP web service. Since my hosting company uses MySQL/PHP technology stack, I am using this PHP Soap web service example. For the C# soap client, I am following this example on stackoverflow. But there is one problem

Reading Time: < 1 minute I need to do some development work on Windows, using Visual Studio. I like to have a simple source code control system, in recent years I have used CVS, Subversion and git (on Mac). I did a google search on Subversion and found some instructions regarding setting up Subversion. Setting up Subversion on Windows and

Reading Time: < 1 minute From a Massachusetts mother to her 13 old son. NPR Talk of the Nation has a discussion on this today. Very much applicable to myself (though not a teenager). So in summary, no TV, limited iPhone, happy parenting 🙂

Reading Time: < 1 minute Hair cut Mommy just cut Yoyo’s hair. Mommy: wo yao kan kan wo de cheng guo. In english: I would like to see my fruits (results). Yoyo: cheng guo ke yi chi ma? (Can I eat the results 🙂 Reading Also, these days she just likes to be teacher, “reading” books to us. Sometimes she