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The title looks even more weird today.

But I did have a reason to put it in this manner~~~

I felt now I really do not have so many things to write in the water post.

As most of them may not be interesting and not related to CS3216, I will not publish them.

But as I have promised that I will write a blog everyday, I will save all of them and publish them at the end of this semester. 

For the weekly blog about CS3216, I will still publish it ~~~

This will be the Last Water post to be published before the end of this semester~~~

You are more than welcome to read my water post after this semester~~~

Water {n,{n},{{n}}}

===================About CS3216====================
More coding needs to be done in the next two or three days.

If it is too much, maybe we need to give up some features...

Facebook seminar deadline is near... We need to have a meeting and start to prepare for it.

==================Other things===================
One module is quite good now, everything can be done well.

One module is quite confusing, get an idea what they are talking about but it is just too conceptual.

Another one, I could fully understand but just can not do the tutorial, is it really a math module?


For another module, which got a very handsome German lecturer, I skipped all the lectures in the last week. Is it a waster?

Water {n,{n}}

Anyway I forgot to write blog for yesterday... Just too busy...

Just got too many things to do~~~ One day one blog, can I really make it?

P.S. I like today's title. If possible, I hope it will be a transitive set~~~

P.S.Fire drill is quite nice today~~~ Fire looks nice during night~~~ It is even more interesting to put them off.

Water n

Watering~~~

===========================About CS3216==========================

Suddenly realize a big bug in my code but can not figure out a way to solve it.

It seems that JS global variable is not so global... I could not change its values inside the FB calls.

Hope I could find a way to fix it... Hope I am wrong and such a bug is caused by my carelessness.

Finally I found out why it happens. Sometimes the bug could be so cute.
Sometimes it will display correct result and sometimes it could not.
Ajax is asynchronous, it is the advantage of Ajax but it is also the reason why such a bug occurs....
The problem is how to fix it... Or just use php instead...


===========================About Others==========================
It may not take too long to solve a math tutorial...

But it will definitely take a long time to figure out how to solve a bug in CS...

Water #

Don't remember how many water post I have written...

=======================CS3216==========================
 appStore / iTunes the most successful app

Although Prof Ben mentioned that appStore is not an app in the email, I still want to say a bit more about it.
In my perspective, they are indeed the most successful apps. Admittedly Angry Bird (just take it as example) is quite successful and makes a lot of value. However comparing to appStore  and iTunes, the value it made is really small. I believe that most of people think appStore or itunes is not "app" because they are the product of Apple Company and it is kind of system default ... People may argue the success of appStore and itunes highly depend on the success of ipod and iphone. Hence it was not fair to compare them with other apps. However, it is clear that the success of Angry bird also depends on the widely usage of i-products. If all of their success depend on the same i-product, we should be able to compare them.

In addition, the most successful app should and must have a very sharp idea. Just think about Windows System. They never try to come up with a software store... It is very challenging to come up with your own software store because it may kill the company's profit under the high pressure from open source softwares. Apple is brave enough to open its own app store and have a creative idea to sell music online without violating copyright. I have to say that such a great idea and great courage make these 2 apps so successful today.

Although these two applications may not be apps, they indeed changed the world. And they are one of the most successful products in the world.


========================Other things========================

After mid submission, finally we could have a sunday free to finish all the tutorials.

Water

Continue Watering~~~

=================CS3216=======================
Today is another coding day~~~ I did not hate it~~~ in fact sometimes it is pretty interesting.
Using 2 hours to discover a very very stupid bug... js is not always so great... it can not tell me some very simple syntax error...

xiangyun, so so so great, fast learner and good ui designer...
Now i think that it is possible for us to finish the assignment...


Today's lunch and dinner are very special and unexpected...
Thanks mingzhe and shaohuan...

================Other things===================
1. try to make someone sleep before 2am at least once in next 2 weeks...
2. have a free sunday to do my tutorials...
3. convince myself about the 3 door problem...

P.S. it is really lucky today that i suddenly remember to write the blog at 11:50~~~

watering 6

Continue watering......

==========================CS3216========================


Too busy today, got almost whole day lecture and whole night event.

Really sorry that did not do anything about 3216 today.

Anyway I will catch up later tonight....

=========================RVR Dance Party========================

Tonight I was so happy to be one of the organizers of RVR dance Party.
During the party time, I did dance with my friends. It seems my first time to join such party. Everyone enjoyed the party.

While dancing, I suddenly realize that my life should not be all about coding and maths. Although they are interesting, I should try out the other world. Try to know and experience all the different things and cultures. Now I regretted that I did not join the exchange program. I really should go out and experience different cultures. If I get such a chance in future, I think I would like to go to Germany or French.

It is already 10:30pm. I need to go back and clean the event venue.

Then I will be back and start coding ... A busy day~~~

Water 5

Watering~~~

==========================About CS3216============================
It seems that Prof Ben will really read every post.
If such a busy person could read every post, why can't I write a post every day to record my life of CS3216? In fact, everyone should try that as the best feedback to Prof Ben, isn't it~~~

Anyway, I almost coded for over 8 hours today same as my teammates...
Sad Story....
In the past 2 days, I tried to learn and use PHP. Luckily it could work. However it always has the auth error. I did hate that... Then the solution is to post signed_request every time when I change to a new php file.

As long as it works, I don't care about whether it is nice code or not at this moment.
But today, after discussion, we realize that js could provide really nice html design and animations.
Hence the whole php should integrate into js. During the integration, many errors occurred. Errors from facebook, errors from php and errors from js. Everywhere there could be an error.... Lucky we did not integrate with database now...

Finally, we gave up php and rewrite the code in js...
It seems that js is really better than php....
It also means that I need to spend another 2 days to learn js and the fql which does not look good.


==========================Other things===========================
printer fixed... I did not use my printer for about half year because of paper jam.  today i have to call the service. How stupid i am ... really a "machine" idiot... (not according to the machine definition in three idiots)

three door problem is still confused me... hope that someone could finally give me a convincible explanation.

P.S. just realize that I can not code too much a day. It is better to code for 2 hours and do something else. otherwise, I will really get phd (permanent head damage... no offense to really PhD. )

Water 4

Still Watering~~~

========================About CS3216======================

Today one of the team member has almost settled the database schema and relative php function call. Although not sure whether these functions will perform well or not, still happy for the progress.

On my side, I used JQuery today without no knowledge about it...
Copy some code from other places and make adjustment in my php files.
Although it may not be efficient, it functions well.
Not sure whether I have time to learn JQuery or not, but I will try to use it anyway.
Now the front end almost 30% done~~~ Cheers~~~ Try to connect with database as soon as possible~~~

========================Other things=======================
Today I got my first lecture in uTown....
It indeed looked nice and had a really natural environment. We are very happy to see a mouse, Real Mouse, moving around the lecture theater. And the lecturer from German also looked very happy and took a video. Many of my classmates took photos of the cute mouse during the break~~~ What's more the cure little mouse slept on one of the students' shoe during the lecture time... It means that even a mouse does not like lecture :-P

Three door problem... Got confused again...
Sometimes probability is really evil...

Water 3

Today is a really very very busy day.


===================About CS3216======================

We spent the whole afternoon to further discuss about the ideas and try to come up the UI design frame as well as the data schema~~~

Maybe most of my teammates have less experience in web programming (same as me). It is happy to discuss with them and come up with the application. Freshness, sometimes is the best thing you could have. I learned many things from them and understood the logic more clearly.

It is really happy to see that our team is fast enough to start our project~~~ I really look forward to checking our final application~~~

===================About other things=====================

RA is really a heavy "job". We had meeting from 730 to 1130.....
But it is fun to work with other people and talk about the residential life. I am also happy to help organize the welcome fest for the new residents~~~



P.S. If I did not challenge myself to write a blog everyday, I will stay with other RAs and continue chatting with each other~~~

... new semester...

Today I suddenly realized that new semester is really really coming.

After checking IVLE, I wanted to cry already, there are several assignments due in next 2 weeks.  ......... Really got too many things to do now.... Bye my dear summer vacations~~~

=========================side note====================
From AAA to AA+

Several days ago, S&P downgraded US government rating from AAA to AA+. The stock markets followed the bad news moving down. Later, after US government made some announcement and promised to take actions in future, all the stock indexes went up.

Is this the beginning of the new financial crisis? What will happen in the next 12 months?
2012 may not be the real last day of human beings. But it is possible to be the nightmare of the financial world.....