Remote Working

I’ve been working from home for the last couple of days. This is I can get away from the daily grind of meetings and phone calls so I can concentrate on getting some work done. The plan was to use my work laptop and connects to my company’s network via VPN over my wireless network. However, thing was never that simple when technology is concerned. Even though the Wi-Fi card works perfectly well before the laptop is upgraded from Win2k to WinXP, now it refuses to work. Not that it does not see the router, it does, but XP somehow does not see the connection at all. So, I was forced to work from my PowerBook instead! What a hard life 😀

It turned out that I can be pretty productive on my Mac too. I get company emails via the Outlook Web Access on the web browser, chat to my colleagues via MSN Messenger, and I can get access to the client’s test site over the internet. The only thing I miss is the VPN connection so I can use Entourage for email rather than web mail.

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Yellow Pages: Hairdresser Needed

I haven’t had a hair cut for over 3 weeks and now my hair have reached the length where it is positively annoying me. My wife even commented that I look like I come from the ‘mainland’ (it’s a Hong Kong-Chinese inside joke, by the way).

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What do you think?

Here goes another poll 🙂

Poll Closed

Update: I’ve made a minor adjustment to the link colour following Robert’s suggestion. I like the new link colour 🙂

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You and me both, Dave!

Dave Hyatt, the developer who worked on browsers such as Mozilla, Firebird, Camino, and Safari, tries to describe the difficulties an online application project has to deal with.

This is very similar to what my project is going through right now. The client’s QA group is performing browsers/OSes compatibility testings and the sort of things our web application has to cope with are phenomenal! In fact, the actual permutations work out to something in the thousands, and the client QA is running around 10,000 test scripts. Each combination presents some slightly different behavior, especially regarding JavaScripts. The most trouble we are having is with Netscape 4.7x and WinME, though not necessarily in that combination.

It does not help that we are using ASP.NET to produce DHTML to implement a page design that is cool but not necessarily backward compatible with older browsers (i.e. NS4.7x).

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DIY Halime

I was sad to find out that one of the best OS X newsreader, Halime, is no longer being developed by its creator, Imdat Solak.

Unfortunately, due to a lot of reasons, I am giving up developing a PUBLIC version of Halime from now on. Please feel free to download the source code above, which represents the latest version of Halime.

Fortunately, the source is now available to the public under GPL and I have re-compiled it in Panther using Xcode 1.0.1. I will be testing it to see whether it is faster under GCC 3.3 and do some performance benchmarking next week between the last public release and my own compilation. This is because the internet connection in the hotel I am staying this week blocks the NNTP port so I can’t access the USENET.

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