One way to give an answer to this question is to check the number of web pages that have been indexed by Google. Here shows you how and what I get.
Take the Hong Kong Polytechnic University as an example, I first go to google.com.hk and input “info:polyu.edu.hk“. Then I follow the link saying “find web pages from the site polyu.edu.hk”. Finally, I get the result saying “about 502,000 from polyu.edu.hk”.
Here comes the result: (more…)
In my previous post, I expected that Nokia 770 should be available for sale in Hong Kong around the end of year 2005. I also predicted that its price should be around HK$3000. However, as of today, I cannot find it available in main consumer electronics stores in Hong Kong. In eXpansys Hong Kong it is now in pre-order status with price not announced.
After reading some user reviews collected in this weblog specific to news, reviews, links and opinions about Nokia 770, it seems that it still has some drawbacks and limitations. Should I think twice before I purchase one in Hong Kong? I am looking for a very handy (and economical) device that I can enter the Web instantly and conveniently via my home wireless router. It is time I look for some alternatives. Any suggestions?
Zoho Writer, Writely, and Writeboard are three online web-based writing software. I quote in the following how they are promoted to potential users. Try them out yourself. To me, I want to know if they are really useful to me. I also want to figure out how they make profit (or how they get something valuable in return) out of providing such a great service to the general public.
These are ten inspirational quotes in 1-10 words. They were selected by William S. Frank from thousands of inspirational quotes.
Go to this page, the world’s best quotes in one to ten words, to read the comments made by Frank. I particularly like the comments on the quotes number 5 and 10.
This weblog post (dated November 13, 2005) from uiGarden reprints the seven basic principles of universal design to guide a wide range of design disciplines. They were collaborately compiled by advocates of universal design, which include architects, product designers, engineers, and environmental design researchers.
UNIVERSAL DESIGN: The design of products and environments to be usable by all people, to the greatest extent possible, without the need for adaptation or specialized design.
These seven principles may be applied to evaluate existing designs, guide the design process and educate both designers and consumers about the characteristics of more usable products and environments.
These are two important principles for a good object-oriented design (OOD).
The Open-Closed principle states that well-designed code should be open for extension and closed for modification. In other words, in a well-designed program, new functionalities are added by adding new code rather than by modifying already working code. It is the foundation for building software that is maintainable and reusable. This principle was coined by Bertrand Meyer in his book titled Object Oriented Software Construction. The second edition of this book is introduced here in Eiffel Software.