Fri Dec 30 19:39:56 AEDT 2011 From /weblog/xml

BPEL learning guide

A lot resource for BPEL, see if anyone interested - http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com[..]027HOUSE&Offer=WStssnl516bpel#quickstart

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Fri Dec 30 19:39:56 AEDT 2011 From /weblog/science

Energy

Now the richest man of China is the scientist who research on solar cell
http://hk.news.yahoo.com/060112/12/1kcl1.html

Biodiesel -
http://www.google.com/search?q=Biodiesel
http://www.google.com/search?q=glycerol+methanol+caustic+soda

菠菜發電 - http://www.google.com[..]h?q=%E8%8F%A0%E8%8F%9C%E7%99%BC%E9%9B%BB

Nuclear battery - http://www.techbabu.com/2009/10/nuclear-batteries-now-a-reailty/

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Fri Dec 30 19:39:56 AEDT 2011 From /weblog/xml/web+service

Interoperability

Top Ten Tips for Web Services Interoperability

* Watch out for Empty Arrays
* Use Package and Type Name Options when Generating Client Proxies
* Testing Generated Java Beans for Null
* Null Dates and Times are recognized by Java, but not by .NET
* Always use compareTo() when comparing dates/times
* Use Trace Tool to Investigate
* Add Option to Change Host and Port
* Ensure Document/Literal when generating Web Services
* Use Unit Tests to Test Interoperability
* Use XSD First

http://weblogs.asp.net/smguest/archive/2004/08/12/213659.aspx

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Fri Dec 30 19:39:56 AEDT 2011 From /weblog

TV_program

Good progam from RTHK

情迷博物館II - http://programme.rthk.org.hk[..]I&d=2011-06-15&p=5076&e=142941&m=episode

ATV

香港風華 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE9_zZl9uSU

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Fri Dec 30 19:39:56 AEDT 2011 From /weblog/quote

The Wealth of Nations

Very insightful:

This division of labour, from which so many advantages are derived, is not
originally the effect of any human wisdom, which foresees and intends that
general opulence to which it gives occasion. It is the necessary, though
very slow and gradual, consequence of a certain propensity in human nature,
which has in view no such extensive utility ; the propensity to truck,
barter, and exchange one thing for another.

http://www.online-literature.com/adam_smith/wealth_nations/2/

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Fri Dec 30 19:39:56 AEDT 2011 From /weblog/xml

The problem of SOA

Make sense for me:

http://elementallinks.typepad.com[..]/bmichelson/2006/05/observations_fr.html
http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=40396
http://cafe.elharo.com/web/rest-vs-soap-a-parable/

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Fri Dec 30 19:39:56 AEDT 2011 From /weblog/xml

XQuery

Use Tiday to convert HTML to DOM document and work with XQuery - http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-jtp03225.html

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Fri Dec 30 19:39:56 AEDT 2011 From /weblog/xml

XSLT

Some problem of using XSLT as UI template - http://martinfowler.com/bliki/MovingAwayFromXslt.html

But there is still a lot of use case for XSLT, like using XSLT to sort XML - http://www.geekzilla.co.uk[..]A41FF312-8AED-4E53-BF6D-64D1DC48812D.htm

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Fri Dec 30 19:39:56 AEDT 2011 From /weblog/xml

alternatives

Yaml - http://unserializableone.blogspot.com[..]alternative-to-properties-file-yaml.html

An article discussing readability of XML, and compair it with Yaml - http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001114.html

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Fri Dec 30 19:39:56 AEDT 2011 From /weblog/xml

basic

http://jamescrisp.org[..]l-when-to-attribute-and-when-to-element/

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Fri Dec 30 19:39:56 AEDT 2011 From /weblog/quote

environment

PS: If this is a typical day on planet earth, humans will add fifteen
million tons of carbon to the atmosphere, destroy 115 square miles of
tropical rainforest, create seventy-two miles of desert, eliminate
between forty to one hundred species, erode seventy-one million tons
of topsoil, add 2,700 tons of CFCs to the stratosphere, and increase
their population by 263,000 - Konstantin Ignatyev

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Fri Dec 30 19:39:56 AEDT 2011 From /weblog/xml

feed

opml, Someone hate this, but this is the standard - http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com[..]gView?showComments=true&entry=3324585297

ATOM tutorial - http://www-128.ibm.com[..]/xml/library/x-atom10.html?ca=drs-tp3105

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Fri Dec 30 19:39:56 AEDT 2011 From /weblog/quote

fun quote

What is the difference of software architect from software designer? About 30k http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?design.4.491003

The law of conservation of energy - If there is no work, sleep.

Money is not everything. There's Mastercard & Visa.

One should love animals. They are so tasty.

Save water. Shower with your girlfriend.

Love the neighbor. But don?t get caught.

Behind every successful man, there is a man. And behind every unsuccessful man, there are two.

Every man should marry. After all, happiness is not the only thing in life.

The wise never marry, And when they marry they become otherwise.

Success is a relative term. It brings so many relatives.

Never put off the work till tomorrow what you can put off today.

Love is photogenic. It needs darkness to develop.

Children in backseats cause accidents. Accidents in backseats cause children.

Your future depends on your dreams.? So go to sleep.

There should be a better way to start a day than waking up every morning.

Hard work never killed anybody.? But why take the risk?

Work fascinates me.? I can look at it for hours!

God made relatives; Thank God we can choose our friends.

When two?s company, three?s the result!

A dress is like a barbed fence. It protects the premises without restricting the view.

The more you learn, the more you know, The more you know, the more you forget. The more you forget, the less you know. So why bother to learn.

Edward Abbey "Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second."

Ashley Montagu "The idea is to die young as late as possible."

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Fri Dec 30 19:39:56 AEDT 2011 From /weblog/science

green house effect

愛斯基摩人成為全球暖化首批氣候難民

地球暖化日益嚴重，全球民眾受害，而住在北極圈附近的愛斯基摩人更是首當其衝，因為他們居住的極地小島日漸縮小，有可能遭海水淹沒，因此迫使他們遷移，這使得愛斯基摩人成為全球第一批氣候難民。根據紀錄，美國阿拉斯加地區的氣溫過去30年上升了攝氏4度，導致冰河溶化，海水上升，當地一座小島「沙里契夫」的面積已經減半，北極圈內許多愛斯基摩村莊都面臨不保威脅。當地一名愛斯基摩人說，全球暖化使得他們週遭的風浪一年比一年大，土地流失一年比一年嚴重，漁獲量也不如從前，不少村民已經陸續遷移，但仍有不少人因為經濟無力負擔，留在原地，前途未卜。

ref: http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/070305/1/b5eu.html

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Fri Dec 30 19:39:56 AEDT 2011 From /weblog/quote

inspiration

複雜的事情要簡單做。 簡單的事情要認真做。 認真的事情要重複做。 重複的事情要創造性地做。

Franklin D. Roosevelt - "Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds."

Given all that fear and panic, it's no surprise that otherwise rational people sometimes (often!) ignore rational arguments.

"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition."

"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer." --Albert Einstein

Friedrich Nietzsche - "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."

Denzel Washington - "You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it."

James Thurber - "Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more."

Henry David Thoreau - "The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it."

Francis Bacon - "A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."

George Burns - "You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old."

"You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive." - http://johnhaller.com/jh/

"In theory there is no difference between theory and practice - in practice there is." - http://tomicic.de/BlogQuotationOfTheWeek.aspx

“At twenty we worry about what others think of us; at forty we don't care about what others think of us; at sixty we discover they haven't been thinking about us at all.”

John Ruskin - "All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time."

Winston Churchill - "this paper by its very length defends itself against the chance of being read".

Niccolo Machiavelli - It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

"True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen."

"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary." - Vince Lombardi

"The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now." - Bill Cosby

Victor Hugo - "There is nothing like a dream to create the future."

Robert Benchley - "A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three
times before lying down."

Plato - "There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain."

Christopher Marlowe - "Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position."

Satchel Paige - "Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines."

Robert Half - "When one teaches, two learn."

Abigail Van Buren - "The less you talk, the more you're listened to."

Eric Butterworth - "Don't go through life, grow through life."

Oswald Chambers - "The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone."

If you keep talking… You miss the valuable things that other people have to say. Listen, reflect, and then comment. Not before. - http://www.thekua.com/atwork/2007/10/23/if-you-keep-talking/

Paul Tournier - "Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can."

Managers manage resources... , People are not resources. http://digerati-illuminatus.blogspot.com[..]m/2006/12/managers-manage-resources.html

"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence." --Robert Frost

Everyone at these conferences focus on tools like value stream mapping and 5S. But the tools are only 25% of the story. Lean is about people, not about waste. Focus on the employees -- all other benefits are just by-products. - http://jchyip.blogspot.com[..]ean-is-about-people-not-about-waste.html

"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars." - Les Brown

“Your attitude has been affecting other departments”, he said. “And I want to thank you for it.” - http://blog.objectmentor.com[..]-attitude-is-affecting-other-departments

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. - George Edward Woodberry

"Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned." - Harold S. Geneen

"Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith." - Paul Tillich

所以我认为同学们不要妄自菲薄，见到自己不懂的，或似懂非懂的，就认为是高深学问，畏而敬之。更不要骗自己，不懂却认为是懂。同学要问︰皇帝何来新衣了？不久前一位同学问及他高举的诺斯的某术语何解。我说不懂。我怎会不懂诺斯呢？同事十三年，好几个学期他旁听我的课。诺斯对问题重要性的感受好，这是天赋，是他的本钱，创造术语只不过是他的成名玩意，而这种颇为流行的玩意他的本领只是一般。是的，经济学行内有走不同路线的人，本领各各不同，有些成名，有些被认为是笨蛋。同学不要管这些。要管的是分析，因为这是脑子的操练，对整生的任何一方面都有好处。论分析，其中一个要点是任何术语，甚至任何一个字，其意思或理解都不要放过。坚持要知道，要明白。这样，三几年后同学会体会到学问有真假之分。是的，做学问要执着。 - http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_47841af70100cw6c.html

Tough times never last, but tough people do. - Robert H. Schuller

Emile Zola - "The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."

Vivien Leigh - "Life is too short to work so hard."

Plautus - "The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money."

Benjamin Franklin - "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin - "The world is round so that friendship may encircle it."

Paulo Coelho - "Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience."

‘To achieve great things, two things are needed, a plan and not quite enough time.’ — Leonard Bernstein

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must."

Vash Young - "Any experience can be transformed into something of value."

Dwight L. Moody - "If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me."

Eric Hoffer "It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor."

Jose Ortega y Gasset "I am I plus my circumstances."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau "The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless."

“An expert is [someone] who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field” – Niels Bohr

Robert Lynd - "Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with."

Auguste Rodin "I invent nothing, I rediscover."


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Fri Dec 30 19:39:56 AEDT 2011 From /weblog/science

light

Interesting, test speed of light with ping - http://physics.stackexchange.com[..]experiments-to-derive-the-speed-of-light

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Fri Dec 30 19:39:56 AEDT 2011 From /weblog/quote

love

"The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character." -- Peter De Vries

"Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it." -- Josh Billings

Lucretius - "We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another."

Robert Louis Stevenson - "Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police."

Nicolas de Chamfort - "There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love."

Edward Abbey "Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing."


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Fri Dec 30 19:39:56 AEDT 2011 From /weblog/xml

office

Reference of MS office format - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office_Open_XML

and a blog of experience of using this - http://sixlegs.com/blog/java/java-opc.html

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Fri Dec 30 19:39:56 AEDT 2011 From /weblog/xml

problem of xml config

Somebody complaint that is just not possible to debug without try and error, which I feel it is not that bad

http://www.theserverside.com[..]/blogs/thread.tss?thread_id=36130#182452

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Fri Dec 30 19:39:56 AEDT 2011 From /weblog/science

research

Richard Hamming (inventor of, among other things, hamming codes) - http://infoproc.blogspot.com/2011/07/what-is-difference.html http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html

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Fri Dec 30 19:39:56 AEDT 2011 From /weblog/quote

trading

* "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." - Thomas Edison.

* "The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane." - Nikola Tesla

* "Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus." - Alexander Graham Bell

* "A problem well stated is a problem half-solved." - Charles Kettering

* "The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil." - Thomas Edison

* "There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly." - R. Buckminster Fuller

* "A successful person isn't necessarily better than her less successful peers at solving problems; her pattern-recognition facilities have just learned what problems are worth solving." - Ray Kurzweil

* "It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again." - Charles Kettering

* "What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are." - George Eastman

* "God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper." - R. Buckminster Fuller

* "Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits." - Thomas Edison

* "When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us." - Alexander Graham Bell

* "We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work." - Charles Kettering

http://traderfeed.blogspot.com[..]/life-insights-from-great-inventors.html

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Fri Dec 30 19:39:56 AEDT 2011 From /weblog/science

work-induced attention-deficit disorder

OH! In fact being distract count as disorder: http://www.microisv.com/archives/2006/01/14/do-you-have-wiadd/

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Fri Dec 30 19:39:56 AEDT 2011 From /weblog/xml

xml in binary

Use binary encoding for web service, I think this is an interesting idea, but also make me think it is mean web service is too complicate for many cases?

http://developer.java.sun.com[..]alArticles/WebServices/fastWS/index.html

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Fri Dec 30 19:39:56 AEDT 2011 From /weblog/xml

xml testing tools

List various xml diff tools

http://www.manageability.org[..]/stuff/open-source-xml-diff-in-java/view

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Fri Dec 30 19:39:56 AEDT 2011 From /weblog

派比安

The fact of the typoon in 5-8-2006 http://weatherblogger.mysinablog.com[..]ndex.php?op=ViewArticle&articleId=224496

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