On November 4th 2008, millions of Americans will go to over 200,000 distinct voting locations and using different systems and machinery to vote.  Some voters will have a terrific experiences, and others will experience the same problems we have been hearing about for years - long lines, broken machines,

Yeah, it's funny. I got an email yesterday (Sunday) afternoon saying that someone is in great need of some iPhone help and the deadline was mid-night!! When I got home I looked into the project and found out that it is the Twitter Votereport application. 'Interesting', I thought, and what

One of my team member told me that she saw another team using our J-RAT method. I said "Great! How they like it." "All developers hated it," she said. "They didn't like being watched and couldn't actually code when sitting with everybody." Well, that is a classic misuse of J-RAT.

My computer life began when my mom got me an Apple IIe in the 80s. I had great fun with that machine. Coding in Basic, upgrading memory (got the great 128K memory card) and even upgrading the CPU and built-in ROM. I left Apple when I sold the IIe and

Are you trying to save an image of your active UIView into a file or the photo library? If so, here: UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(pictureView.bounds.size); [pictureView.layer renderInContext:UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext()]; UIImage *viewImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext(); UIGraphicsEndImageContext(); UIImageWriteToSavedPhotosAlbum(viewImage, nil, nil, nil); pictureView is the UIView that you want to save. Sze Wong Zerion

Are you trying to save files that sits on your desktop to the phone's file structure through xcode? If you are talking about ActiveSync kind of file transfer, then the answer is no. The iPhone (if you didn't know yet) is a very close environment. Now, that depends on why

Now that the Beijing Olympics is completed, I'd like to write up my thoughts. As I travel, many people have asked about my view on China hosting the game and I had never given a straight answer. Here is my straight answer. In short, I'm proud of being a Chinese.

Finally got on a Cayman airway "evacuation flight" after an hour an a half of waiting in the 'hot' line. We got to the airport around 6:15am and the line is already very long. The airport was out of power for some reason so it was really hot.

We are in Grand Cayman right now and we have decided to leave early tomorrow morning to avoid Gustav. The hotel suggests everybody to leave the island by tomorrow afternoon so we are acting accordingly. Let's see if we have made a good choice or not. We were out all

My story on Verizon (see below) is actually a story about ownership. I am going to use this in my staff training going forward. This is a classic story about lack of ownership. Throughout the story, nobody from Verizon did anything wrong (some were nicer than others but they all

This is a story about how I want to get Verizon FIOS and discovered that I am not good enough for it. It’s a rather long story, the short version is that after over a month, 2 days off, talked to over  30 technicians, over 10 hours on the

Lately I've been in the cloud a lot. From Google's app engine, sales-force.com, Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (E2C), to Microsoft's Live Mesh, we hear about the cloud a lot.  More and more people are signing up for on-demand applications (We, as a small business, also use on-demand applications) and

It turns out that the best networking venue for me are the SBA classes that I'm talking. Most people there have the same goal of selling to the government and all want to talk. I am going to hang out in SBA more going forward.

In one day I have two people independently telling me not to bid on the RFP that I'm looking at. Alright alright. But I'm still not giving up, I will just try to write it up as if I'm bidding as I know it takes 20 RFPs to win one.

The new Facebook iPhone Connect API makes facebook integration very easy.  Here is what I did to get the libaray compiled: After downloading the Facebook iPhone Connection SDK, 1.Copy all .m and .h files under src to my project's classes folder 2. Copy the FBConnect folder into my project's

People say if you have no insider help. Submitting a proposal is a waste of time. Well, I am still going to try it. Because I know I won’t win until I submit the 100th proposal. Got to start some where.

I have been promoting this idea to our clients a lot. I have always know that there are cheap Excel conversion programs out there but they don't do the job of creating buiness components. Well, recently I came across a company that have created the exact same concept 6 years

So I finally understand what I'm doing. I am a full-time hoop jumping professional. Huh? You may say. Yes, my job is to jump hoops. When you start, they say, "Go register yourself in the system so that buyers will be able to find you". As if the'buyers' will actually

This topic has been in my mind for a while now. I think I want to start a series and write down thoughts from different angles on how to deal with this issue. First thought that came to mind. DON'T DO ANYTHING DRASTIC. That's it. Just slow down and think

I was telling one of my friends how our company is basically all online. Our accounting is hosted, payroll is hosted, email is hosted, documents are hosted, so even if all of our laptops all burnt down on the same day, our business goes on as usual (Mostly). So his

Sure, I sure think it's good for me. For us, every since we left the IBM camp almost 5 years ago, we were either doing Oracle/BEA, or Open-source. So Oracle and BEA becoming one company is just going to make things easier for us, actually making it more 'IBM'

So the question is, can we apply J-RAT to GUI Centric Testing? By now we all agree that having all different functional area in the same room during testing increases productivity big time when testing process centric code. Can the same be done for GUI Centric testing? The problem is

Found this in my email and fee like I should repost to my blog -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I've been an Architect for many years and code review is always something that is difficult to do right. I have tried from formal code review meetings to reviewing CVS check-ins daily, to my latest

During system test, it's usually very hard to gauge progress. Most teams are still using the percent complete (how much have you tested) to report progress. While that's easy, that usually does not tell you correctly where you are. Today I am starting to use the 4 stage system to