OLPC is a charity project initiated by MIT Media Lab. "It's not a laptop project. It's an education project."

In Dec 20, 2008, I conducted a Jfx workshop to explore Jfx together with other students.

 

 

 We went through a simple tutorial prepared by another campus ambassador - Silveira Neto along with a Jfx cheatsheet prepared by me ^^" The tutorial is not complex but the concept of programming with Jfx, like Stage, Scene, Timeline, KeyFrame, Event Handler, etc., are all there. And, they can be explained with a simple example. What a goody =]

On the other hand, we briefly went through (which means we don't code on this) another tutorial prepared by the Java Tutorial Team. In this tutorial, it mimicks building 3D object by using ellipse sprites with gradient fillings. Although it's not practical, it's quite interesting ^^

At last, which's the most interactive part. I brought them a OLPC XO Laptop ~~

 

I'm more than happy to help OLPC Asia Chapter promoting the OLPC project in HK (English OLPC Asia site is here), and of course in the campus of CityU. In the photo, it's a copy of the XO Laptop which shares among volunteers including me. My audiences are very interested in this charity project and of course the laptop =] From their eyes and their words, I know that I'm not making them falling asleep as in lectures. They gave me strong spiritual support that further push me to share as much as I know in this OLPC project =D 

 

 

Dec. 04, JFX 1.0 was released.

In this month, we are going to explore it by having practice with writing a RPG-like app.

This app is written by another CA - Silveira Neto from Brazil.

If we still have time ... we will go through another jfx app as follow...

On the other hand, I might have a chance to share with you some info about OLPC (if I got one on hand=]).  It's really cool!

Please register at http://misc-app.appspot.com/event-registration/event?id=974e3fa6-e6ea-4153-b2e7-84ae8f9e30ee for me to have better preparation of materials.

I really like SAI, its training content and its rationale as CSR. In this learning portal, we can take business grade training for free! It is my pleasure to speard the words of SAI to my fellow schoolmates =]

On Nov. 1st ... it's the day for the October Meeting of OSUM . Yeah~~ It's October Meeting held on November. Quite busy on my school works .... man.

I saw eagerness from the audiences' eyes. The eagerness for the chance of taking professional web-based training!

SAI ?? This is the door for SAI.

This is the entrance of the Free Web-based Training provided by SMI! However, not everyone knows how to make use of it.

Thus, I planned to hold a briefing on how to use the resources =]  Here's the agenda.

  - Introducing SAI
  - Introducing the Platform for SAI Training Course
  - Demo on How to Take a SAI Training Course
  - SAI Student Registration Session

It's going to be held on Nov. 1st 14:00 - 15:00 in my institute - CityU.

Register here! 

Food? Yes, here you are.

 

Hunger? Yes, we are.

 

What we are doing? The Celebration of Software Freedom Day!! 

 

... We got guests from school.

 

... And we got guest from Creative Common [http://hk.creativecommons.org/].

 

Plus, we got speaker from Adobe Fx/Air User Group [http://fxair.org/].

By the way, where are we? We're in the tiny spot on the map.

We got a group of 30, staying at a cafe, sharing about open source. We went through the slide on FOSS. We went through the slide on SFD itself. After that, we distribute the OpenSolaris LiveCD and someone raised a question ... "Are we going to have a demo on installing OpenSolaris?" Yes, sure!!

Ben shared with us the Creative Commons community and Vicker shared with us a technology update on Flex SDK.

At last, I hosted OpenSolaris Install Fest to demonstrate how to install OpenSolaris on top of VirtualBox.

This is the first event that I face guests from different  background instead of just students =]

20 September - This is the Software Freedom Day.

 

21 September - This is the International Day of Peace.

 

Here is 10.18 at the morning in Hong Kong. There are still around 4 hours to go for the Celebration of Software Freedom Day in HK!

Cheers ~ and Peace~ 

Yesterday, it's the Sun Certification Day. It's held at Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center.

 

There were several hundreds audience and the event was a great success!

A Project Blackbox model was displayed ... but don't touch it ... it's quite fragile....

 

Karen Law, Victor Chiu, and Ivan Ma were the speakers in charge to spread Java, OpenSolaris, and MySQL in the event respectively.

 

 Bunches of live demo were shown and bunches of small gift were given out~ especially the Java Duke Army!!

The Sun Certificate Vouchers were nearly all sold. Audience were joyful that they can see the brilliant features of OpenSolaris which were also shown in my demo booth =]

Visit http://groups.to/javacampusgrouphk/ for more photos of HK campus user group and http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=13258001483 for more about the event!

 

 

As a campus ambassador ... there are chances to have preview of something and even pre-take something =]

 I got a new member to my Duke collection ^^

 

The right Duke is the one going to be distributed in the Sun Certification Day 2008 ~

"If you aim high, you can achieve high. If you aim low, you never achieve high." - someone told me few years ago.

But, there is a saying - "The more the wish you make, the more you're disappointing". What is the meaning behind this sentence? Does it really asking me not to make a wish? Is it contradicting to the first sentence mentioned?

Indeed, they are not contradicting to each other. Hope or wish is totally different from the target we aimed for.

wish - noun. something wished or desired (see entry on Dictionary.com)
hope - noun. a person or thing in which expectations are centered (see entry on Dictionary.com)
target - noun. a goal to be reached (see entry on Dictionary.com)

 

In the first talk given out on April, I planned to talk about JVM. It's in the period of project deadline and revision period. I made a rough expectation of audience as 3x. But, at last, there was only 1x attended. Quite a disappointment... /_\

This time, in the second talk; it's already in the summer break and holidays. Thus, I made a survey to ask for a time frame that hope to have someone come back to the campus. What I talked this time is RIA and I hoped to have 1x to come.

What's the result?

This time, an unexpected number, 2x appeared.

I think again and again that what makes the difference? Because of the exam? the project? the topic? or the speaker? Why does people come back in the morning of a public holiday? What's attracting them to come.

Perhaps, the answer is the content.

RIA is really a hot topic. It's actually a war. A war among Microsoft, Adobe, Sun Microsystems, etc. I do agree that Adobe Flex is really great and some leap forward among others. But, does this mean the one chasing at the back won't turnover? Sometimes, comparison is good; but sometimes it's not a good idea. Although, HK-ers especially like comparison ... They like to know ... which one is good for them and which one they should use at the time being. Thus, the topic and the content of the talk attracted them to come in the morning.

To wrap up, there are totally 5x audience in the talks on this topic held in 3 of the universities in HK comparing to 3x in the last one.

In upcoming 20th June... It's the day for another event. The Sun's Certification Day in HK. How many audience are students? Will it be crowded?

Sometimes, I still make wishes because I believe I need to have something to hope for while I targeted for something. "Hope for tomorrow". I hope the students know this is a great chance to know more about Sun Microsystems, it's technology and it's certification.

Best wishes =]

Here are photos we toke in CityU and HKUST... 

 

 

 

 

In this talk, we introduced the Sun Microsystems Inc. and its
open source program to the audience. The focus of this talk was the Java
platform. We explained the JVM - the scene behind executing Java.

Here is the slide we prepared =]

I prepared the Hello World section to explain compilation, execution, and garbage collection. And also the Java SE6 section to explain biased locking =]