What exactly is Agile Programming Methodology anyway? During interview for developers, we usually asked our candidates their preferred development methodology and whether they have heard of agile programming, although we are not structurally practising any of these unstructural programming methodology anyway (just that they are buzzwords these days and nothing more). Seriously, in a small [...]
Scott Yang's Playground
Faith, Technology and Randomness in Life, According to Scott
Nov 28 2007
Nov 27 2007
Three Skypephone Mini Review
After the previous incident with my Nokia 1100, it has not been working well. It still works — it can take calls, it can make calls, it can send SMS — what else do I need from a mobile phone? Except it does not ring at incoming calls. So I decided it is time for [...]
One Nintendo DS Per Child
DreamHost Blog: A Strike on One Laptop Per Child — why Nicholas Negroponte’s OLPC is flawed and how replacing the custom laptop with Nintendo DS might actually work. Exactly what I have thought. Providing starving kids with consumer electronics is not going to help them more equipped for the “real world”, and as a kid [...]
Nov 24 2007
Kevin Rudd the new Prime Minister of Australia
Watching the live stream from Kevin Rudd’s victory party in Brisbane right now. Looks like the election is now finally over — no more election campaign ads everywhere! Oh, Australia also has a new Mandarin-speaking, me-too echoing Prime Minister. Yeah. A new era. I went to vote this morning (in Kingsford-Smith). It was an easy [...]