Reading Time: < 1 minute I need to create a .NET web service consumable by iOS device. Did some research and found out WCF Restful service is the way to go. I used the following examples (tutorials) to construct my web service. 0) Basic Resource Service (link here). This is basically a self hosting web service run in a main

Reading Time: 4 minutes (Update 02-27-2019) It’s 5 and half years since last update. And two more jobs for me :] Noticed from recent job search in STL, code exercise and code testing (at the spot, pair programming, TDD) is becoming common now in STL, which is unthink of 5.5 years back. I did add a few blog posts

Reading Time: < 1 minute Last week (Friday), when at friends’ house, and the hostess offered snack, she asked “这是什么呀？(what is this)”? Today, after we put her to crib, when my wife and I both read iPhone on bed (her crib is next to our bed), she said “在看什么呀？(what are you reading)?”…Later, she also said “what are you doing?”

Reading Time: < 1 minute drop down box Clear a list for selectionOneMenu every time, got burned by this in a “page number” drop down for Richfaces data scroller. And some other places. Use validator keep in mind it will overwrite the required = “true”, if the user does not select a valid value from drop down, it will give

Reading Time: < 1 minute Saw it at dealsea. This is a good deal, if one does not plan to travel Southwest using the points soon. They offer wide variety of giftcards (not limited to Amazon). I got some Wal-mart gift cards instead, per my wife’s suggestion 🙂 (image credit: onlinegiftcardsblog.com)

Reading Time: 2 minutes The following was written more than a year ago… ====== Got opportunity to work on those two technologies recently due to job change. Had some gotchas as I transform from C++, CAD programming to this new program paradigm. Data problem vs. coding error In CAD world, sometimes there is problem with the data (CAD file)

Reading Time: < 1 minute Stanford commencement speech (2005) Macintosh 1984 commercial Steve Jobs and Bill Gates in 1983 Apple event My other post on Steve Jobs. Walt Mossberg on Steve Jobs.

Reading Time: < 1 minute (Update 10-01-2011) We went to Youyou’s school this morning for “Parents work day”, basically they have some small playground improvement projects (painting, making a new climber), and in the lunch time, we have a BBQ and potluck. The ethnic diversity of the students/parents background surprised me a bit, reminded of Rolla (a lot of Indian

Reading Time: < 1 minute Dirty flag on a HTML form is much trickier than I thought, that is, it is tricker when I started to programming for dirty flag. Saw this javascript snippet. It works great except in my case, I was generating dynamic drop down (selection menu), and in a lot of cases it behaves as opposite to

Reading Time: 2 minutes I felt it’s easier to make money from those offers from writing iPhone, iPad and iOS apps. At least this is true for me so far. Another plus side people may not pay attention is the “no tax” benefit of the bonus miles/points. Also keep in mind if one needs to apply for home loan