About Me
Saturday, August 9, 2008
I believe I'm changing the world.
Borne in China, raised in Macau, doing my computer science undergraduate degree in Toronto, from the start of my life I have been surrounded by people who are culture complex. I see, experience and understand the culture differences that different nation has.
In another words, the world is also changing me.
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Wrapping up
For the last week of GSoC, I have been doing testing and Improving on user friendliness of my application. For this coming week, I will keep on testing my application out and do a screencast which talks about it.
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This is challenging
Saturday, July 26, 2008
After adding more functionalities to my program, I was trying to run it to see how the new functionalites may affect the "asynchronusized" result handlers. There I discoverred a bug in my program which cause Firefox 2 freezes when it handles multiple threads of those parallelly. It is obviously a concurrency problem and how lucky that I can encounter that at this time of the summer!!
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Erm...2 more days to go for parsing XML!!!
Monday, July 14, 2008
Last week, the project finally looks closer and closer to what I have designed for my final project. It is organized into packages and actionscript classes according to functionalities while avoiding my code to get spaghetti. I am implementing and debugging the backend logic part for the classes that handle the parsing of the xml. After Wednesday, I should be moving onto user interface part to catch up with another demo next Wednesday!
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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.
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- You use sockets or XMLSockets, regardless of the domain to which you are connecting
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or
You provide access to content on remote domains as a web service provider
- You have SWFs that are exported for Flash Player 7 (SWF7) or earlier that communicate with the hosting HTML by any means
- You use "javascript:" through network APIs to communicate outside a SWF "
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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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