The Third Sun Tech Talk in the University of Lethbridge will be held on Jan 28.
From 12:00 - 12:30 pm
In C620 UHall
Topic : Introduction of OpenSolaris
Refeshment will be available.
Monday Jan 14, 2008
Wednesday Dec 05, 2007
Update: Sun Dangles Prize Money over Open-Source Efforts
IDG News, Chris Kanaracus; December 04, 2007
http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/12/04/Sun-dangles-prize-money-over-open-source_1.html
Sun unveils details of its new award program meant to spur growth in the open-source community. Writing on his blog, Sun open-source officer Simon Phipps explains, "We'll be providing a substantial prize purse and working with the communities involved to develop the approach that works best.” The program involves the OpenSolaris, GlassFish, OpenJDK, OpenSPARC, NetBeans and OpenOffice.org communities, and “is a great opportunity for members of these open-source communities to take their passion and creativity and push the innovation boundaries,” according to Phipps.
OpenOffice.org 2.3 Impresses
eWeek, Tiffany Maleshefski; November 28, 2007
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2224467,00.asp
eWeek reviews the latest version of OpenOffice.org, version 2.3. The upgrade, which runs on seven operating platforms, including Solaris and Windows, offers improved upgrade paths for Microsoft Office users, new security features, and updates to the suite’s word processing, spreadsheet, presentation and database applications.
Sunday Dec 02, 2007
The second Sun Tech Talk in University of Lethbridge was held on Nov 24. Sorry about the late report. It's near the end of semester. :)[Read More]
Tuesday Nov 20, 2007
The first presentation of Sun Tech Talk in University of Lethbridge was done successfully in the afternoon on Nov 20, 2007. There were 31 audiences taking part in the talk, with topic of Netbeans6.0 and Visual Mobile Application. See the content in detail and some pictures.
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Monday Nov 19, 2007
Hi Yunpu, Good luck!
Report will be uploaded after the presentation!
Saturday Nov 17, 2007
Weekend!! It means I have 3 days left for preparing. I am sort of person who like to meet deadline, which means that I 'll use it if there is one minute left. What I were doing for presentation is modifying slide. My slide is based on Visual Mobile Application on Netbeans provided by EduCommon. I add some information of Lethbridge Sun Tech User Group, SAI course etc. I deleted some points of netbeans new features, because it is too far away from my topic of mobility. I changed a Graph, xs it is not very exact, as I thought. BTW, till today, I have never understand why netbeans called netbeans. It's interesting !! If I can, I'll upload it to my blog.
Practicing presentation in this weekend. That's it. The number of RSVP promotes to 28. Count number.
Now, I am waiting for Ilya's calling. He is currently making presentation in Russia. For collabaration, I have to stay up. Come on, buddy! I wanna sleep, haha. Anyway, Good luck to you and All CA.
Thursday Nov 15, 2007
I work out two things today. First one is about Projector and Audio Facility. Actually in the last week, I have tried projector myself. There is a small problem in audio facility. I went to IT department to ask these guys for: 1 When can I get the key for projector in AH117(my presentation room) 2 Can I try them in advance. Finally I got a very positive answer. They will send a proctor to confirm projector and audio facility oprating well in that day. It's good! At least I have some guys helping me, while I can pay attention to my presentation. Sorry, I almost forget to mention that professor. At the very first, I went to the wrong office, where he worked. After I show him my goal, he bring me to IT help desk himself. Thanks him very much!!
Secondly, I booked food catering service. On the budget, I ordered:
15 Cookies -------->$22.35
15 Maffins---------->$16.50
40 Canned Pops---->$50.00
plus GST ----------->$ 5.33
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TOTAL ------------>$94.18
BTW, this order is for 30 people. Currently I got about 25 RSVP, I think there are more students showing up in my presentation in that day. I hope it is not a big deal with money.
I got them done before 3:00 pm today. After that time, I was continuing to perfect my second presentation's project. Although Netbeans 6.0 is good, I have to aknowledge that it is still a demo, and there are somethings I can not understand, such as the color in text editor. The context Awareness Demo System is to let mobile accessing and PC accessing get the information automatically. I use PortalDataServlet to illustrate a context aware service, and use MobDataServlet and WebDataServlet to operate the request from mobile or pc. The data is coming from JavaDB. The raw data is uniformed. We do some data transform in MobDataServlet and WebDataServlet, then response the characteristic information to mobile user and PC user. I just wanna use this Demo to illustrate a accessing-context-aware system.
Done. Oh, Ilya, the network in my lab can not support me use port of 2252, which is Collabaration port in netbeans. If you saw this post, be patient, I will be back home soon.
Wednesday Nov 14, 2007
Why ROLLER can not help us save the words we typed, even if session is shut down? I write so much words, currently, I have to type them again!!!!!
I made the decision today. I'll help Ilya(a CA in Russia) to COLLABRATION in his Demo session. Because of EARTH, I have to stay up to 2:00 am in this weekend. It's hard but it's interesting. If I can help him be perfect, I'll be happy. hehe BTW, COLLABARAION plug-in is great thing. You can let your teammates write the same code, debug the same code together, no matter where they are. How a cool thing!!!
My presentation is near. I'll finalize booking reservation service tomorrow. I've already discussed it with Manager in Sodexo, so it is going to book it, pay the fee, and get the receipt. $100!! PIZZA,POPS,MAFFIN???? Wanda, I hope I can let my budget be runned out. hahah
I finished Demo for the second presentation. It is a context awareness demo system. I'll describe it later.
OH, I should email Haley to check where my packege is currently? I hope the souvinors can arrive at me on time
Tuesday Nov 13, 2007
It was a long weekend! I took a party in Nov 11,2007, xs It is four 1 in total, we called that day as single day. Met some great guys and made an advertisement by the way.
The number of people who registered this event promotes a lot today. I don't why. Whatever, It is a good news for me. I am not afraid of audience, I am afraid short of audience. To my surprise, there are more and more engineers from City of Lethbridge plan to come to my presentation. HAHA, it is really community event!!
Demo practices should already be perfect. In the next days, I'll finish my slide. Based on the template from EduCommon, the slide will finished quickly I hope.
Wednesday Nov 07, 2007
The posters have been put up!! 18 pages cost $28.8, ($1.5/page). Good! If you did not print your poster, you can not feel its beauty and excitement. Thanks Jannifer, it looks really good. This item is under the budget.... :) I leaved 3 pages, which will be put up on the door of presentation's classroom.
Somebody needs my advice. I think something I have done should be a little hint to my colleagues latter, so paste them here.[Read More]Today, I try the demo of Http Connection on Mobile application. I used
Glassfish as the application server, actually I just used part of it,
web container. It's cool of glassfish. Comparing with WebSphere
(because I have several years' experience on it), Glassfish seems to
provide users same functions with WebSphere, of course from the
perspective of web server AS I know. If you don't wanna pay for a
expensive enterprise application server, maybe you can choose
Glassfish.
The http Demo is plan to be demonstrated in the second presentation, 4 days after the first one.
BTW, I got into the classroom where I will make the presentation stealthily, and try the projector and audio device. The projector is ok, although the screen solution has little difference between my laptop and projector. I can not find the controller of audio device, but I have time to check with Information Technology. It's good.
Fine. Sleep.
Monday Nov 05, 2007
Finished Demo Today. I think I'll try to let it done again,
meanwhile, the presentation should be paid attention. I got a guide for
presentation, which shoul be useful for me.
How to Lose an Audience in 10 Easy Ways
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[Read More]Saturday Nov 03, 2007
Nov 3, 2007
It's Saturday today, so I have time to go deeplythrough Demos. Although the demo is easy for me, coz "Hello World!"
seems boring to every programmer. Don't you disgust it? I made the
feeling that all programming languages' studying is started from "Hello
World!". [Read More]
Friday Nov 02, 2007
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Nov 2, 2007 I
got the poster (pdf version) from Jennifer today, the preparation for
the first presentation has been driven into 3 days. On Nov 1 when I got
the answer for my report of my presentation plan for the next month,
from Wanda, something jumped from my head. Yes, I wanna write down the
whole process of my presentation, from preparation to operation to
reporting. It is meaning for me, and also supposed to share the
experiences with other ambassador. From now on, there will be 2 whole
weeks, 14 days to made the preparation. It's not long but it's enough.
Oh, My first presentation will be held on Nov. 20th, 2007 4:00 pm, it
is about Netbeans & Java ME. As I talked with Angela before, the first presentation was decided on the day when Angela travels to our university. I booked a classroom with the capacity of 40 people firstly. On Nov 1,2007, I met with Chair on Information System and talked with him about the event and Lethbridge Sun Tech User Group, and then asked him to help me distribute the news to his students. He is so nice to agree with me. That's it! I got another group of students who are interested in Sun Tech. I had talked with our Chair and Faculties in Department of Computer Science, they give me pretty much support. Currently the members in LSTUG are mainly the students in our department. I have to let most students know this event. Today, I got the poster. Then I found the printing center in my university. I checked the price with them. The normal poster with color is $1.5 /p, and the B/W poster with letter size is $0.1/p. The 40"*60" poster will cost too much money, I decide to give up this idea. I also throw the idea that publishing advertisement on newspaper, because it is far beyond my budget. I check with Wanda, the budget is not the "dreaming". :) I send the email to 3 group, because I hope my advertisement strategy has some layers. It's the first layer, and we have some time. It's no rush. I
went through Technology Demo for a little while, it is what I always
did, so I am not afraid of it. Tomorrow I will pay attention to modify
SLIDE and practice Demo. Advertisement, it should be waiting till next
monday. Tomorrow I also have to hand in the TimeSheet and Standard Month Report. I just got notice the email. Ok, let this series story to be named as Road to Netbeans :)
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