Handling synchronus signals sent by HTTP requests
Saturday, June 21, 2008

Actionscript does give Flex user more control in the design of the application. I am having fun this week. While I was enjoying coding in actionscript generating HTTP requests dynamically within a control, some issues came up when I press for the display of data too often, or when there are too much data. This is because the thread of displaying the GUI is faster than that of populating the dataProvider. The problem is fixed by having an actionscript class that extends IResponder, which arranges the order of the way the application responds to signals. Moreover, I have been studying the data fetched by the sensors and the way that may provide me more information about the software development progress.

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More solutions for "security error accessing url" ?
Friday, June 13, 2008

Can this be solved without having the crossdomain.xml under the domain of the server? My application <pretty.swf> is recognizing the data <data.xml> to be remote. Although they are from the same domain, <pretty2.swf> does not work without loading the policy file.

From the security updates stated in Flash version 7 <source>, it states that:

...we added a new permission mechanism which allows broader cross-domain cooperation. You can perform data loading (loadVariables, XML, XMLSocket, runtime shared libraries, Flash Remoting) from outside a movie's own domain as long as the server providing the data provides a policy file—a small XML file that grants cross-domain loading permissions...

Since Flash 8 just has security modification for local sandbox(since my application telling me that the type of the sandbox of my application is remote), I was mainly looking at the newly released(Apr 2008, Flash 9) security updates, and found my problem does not quite suit in one of these catergories.

    "Since my application and data are from the same domain, why pretty2.swf does not work without the crossdomain.xml?

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Possible approaches and structure
Sunday, June 8, 2008

Build, UnitTest, Commit, CodeIssue, Coupling, Coverage, DevEvent and FileMetric.. These are the different sensordata types that the HackyStat sensors collect. After examining the sensordatatypespecification and dailyprojectdataspecification in detail, I came up with 2 main approaches(drafts), i.e., to visualize the data by users or by project, both providing 2 different layouts, in terms of time(daily) or in terms of sensordata types(only avaliable ones). While I was planning out my project, the more I think of it, the more I find it challenging to structure the whole project from scratch. After next week, I shall have a detailed layout of the structure of my coding.

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Works
Sunday, May 18, 2008

Projects

  • Geospatial, participate in a GIS by Ingres, under UCOSP.
  • Human Weather Network, a hack submitted to Yahoo! HackU at University of Waterloo/Toronto 2009, and won on voting.
  • Geokudo, a GIS that lets users to make sense their geographic data at their hands.
  • HackyStat data visualization, a tool that lets software project manager to understand the project progress better over time.
  • Family tree viewer, a course project from "Introduction to Software Engineering" to which design patterns were applied, written in Javascript and CSS.


    Computer science related courses
  • CSC 494/5h Independent Capstone Project
  • CSC 443h Advance Database
  • CSC 411h Machine Learning and Data Mining
  • CSC 363h Computational Complexity and Computability
  • CSC 369h Operating Systems
  • CSC 373h Algorithm Design & Analysis
  • CSC 324h Principles of Programming Languages
  • CSC 336h Numerical Methods
  • CSC 343h Introduction to Databases
  • CSC 310h Information Theory
  • CSC 309h Web Programming
  • CSC 301h Introduction to Software Engineering
  • CSC 207h Software Design
  • CSC 209h Software Tools and Systems Programming
  • CSC 236h Introduction to the Theory of Computation
  • CSC 258h Computer Organization
  • CSC 263h Data Structures and Analysis
  • CSC 290h Communication Skills for Computer Scientists
  • CSC 108h Introduction to Computer Programming
  • CSC 148h Introduction to Computer Science

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    CV
    Sunday, January 6, 2008




    EDUCATION
    2006-2010: Honours bachelor of science, computer science information system specialist and mathematics minor, University of Toronto
    2005-2006: Pre-university Program, University of Macau
    2003-2005: High School, Sacred Heart Canossian College

    WORKING EXPERIENCE
    2009 Sept-May: UCOSP student of Ingres Geospatial, Toronto, Ontario
    2009 Summer: Co-founder and head developer of W3T Productions, Toronto, Ontario
    2008 Summer: GSOC student working with HackyStat, Google Summer of Code 2008, Toronto, Ontario
    2005-2006: Administration and acccounting department clerk, JM Construction Company Limited, Macau, China

    TECHNICAL SKILLS
    Main Languages: Java, Javascript and C
    Java: Experience in first/second/third year courses, including data structuring and software design
    Javascript: Experience in third year software design courses and also in personal projects
    C: Experience in second/third year courses, including TCP/IP socket programming, multi-threading, synchronization, signal and interrupt handling, file I/O, kernel-space programming, shell programming

    Minor languages: Python, ActionScript 3, PHP and shell script
    Platforms: Windows, Linux(Debian, Ubuntu) and OS/161
    IDE: Eclipse, Netbeans, Flex Builder

    VOLUNTEERING ACTIVITIES
    2009-2010: University of Toronto Computer Science Student Union Treasurer
    2008: Volunteer of Agile Conference 2008
    2008: Volunteer of 3rd Conference of Association for Software Testing(CAST)
    2007-2008: University of Toronto Department of Computer Science Ambassador
    2007-2008: University of Toronto Chinese Students and Scholars Association
    (UTCSSA), IT assistant
    2007: University of Toronto OutReach 2007 team leader
    2005: Volunteer of The Fourth East Asian Games 2005 held in Macau
    2004-2005: Sacred Heart Canossian College (Macau)Hardware group team leader

    AWARDS
    2006-Present Special scholarship from Macau SAR Government

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