No work today as it is the first day of Chinese New Year.
27 January 2009
No work today as it is the second day of Chinese New Year.
28 January 2009
When I arrived, Ryan informed me that I'm working with You Hock on the 'Whiteboard' application and that I'm using the MacBook Pro instead of the iMac in the other room. So I brought myself over to the other room and started customizing the MacBook Pro. Here's how the MacBook Pro looks like:
Not long after, Kevin came in and brief us on what we are to do - an individual article and to listen to a few podcasts from iTunes. I took some reference from Ryan and You Hock and started working on the article.
Kevin then help me printed my article and all four of us read out our articles to Kevin and Cheng Teng. They gave us comments and decided how we should write an article for the IHPC's newsletter. We decided to use Leonard's article format and add in our individual experiences. Leonard and I would work on the article together. However, Leonard also had to work on the 3D application with Ryan. So we decided that Leonard would work with Ryan, and if I had any questions about the article, I would go ask him.
At the end of the day, I managed to finish editing Leonard's article by re-phrasing his sentences. I'll add the individual experiences tomorrow when I get back.
29 January 2009
When we got to the lab, we had a discussion with Kevin, Cheng Teng and Ming Hong about our project plans. We first discussed about the progress of the article. I told them that I'm done with editing Leonard's article, and what's left was just to add our individual experiences. We then discussed about what podcasts we had listened to and we found how useful the podcasts were. Finally, we then discussed about our applications. The decision was to have You Hock and I work on the 'Whiteboard' application with Ming Hong, while the rest work on the 3D application with Cheng Teng. As soon as You Hock and I finish the application, we'll join the rest to work on the 3D application.
After the discussion, I continued to work on the article. At lunchtime, we went to buy plants to add some color to the lab. Here's how our lab's plants look like:
So after decorating the lab with the new plants, I continued working on the article. I managed to finish around 4pm and emailed kevin. Then, I joined Ming Hong and You Hock to work on the 'Whiteboard' application's matching function.
30 January 2009
We continued working on the matching algorithm and managed to do it for the single user. So we tested an realized that the image for the white marker is not displaying when selected. When debugged, I found out that one line of code was missing. By noon, we manage to fix it.
I didn't join the rest for lunch today as I need to fix my LG monitor. After lunch, when the rest came back from lunch, we tried to get the 'Whiteboard' application to go multi-user. Did some testing and it wasn't working as well as we expected. So we spent the day working on the matching algorithm for multi-user.
While working on the matching algorithm, we found out about Quartz Composer persistent memory.
Reflection for the week:
Though it has been a short week at IHPC, I still managed to learn something new - podcast. I found how how useful it is to keep me updated about the latest global news. Besides being updated on the latest global issues, I'm also able to learn new things by listening/watching the podcasts. Few of the things that I've learnt from listening/watching the podcasts are new words and functions on the Mac.
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