Saturday, March 29, 2014

2014。三月

2014年的三月是个多事之秋。

MH370 失踪了,
据说已经坠落印度洋。

许多愤愤不平的中国人迁怒在
无辜的马来西亚人身上。

一些年少的马来西亚人也借机迁怒在政府上。

我,只是一位普通的马来西亚年轻人。
我不是不关注马来西亚的政治,
只是觉得没必要把那件事政治化。
我只是希望大家都平安,
希望大家除了不停地谩骂,
要学会好好珍惜生活。

有那么的一个文章,
我觉得写得还算好的,
至少看了能让别人更了解马来西亚华人:
http://bbs.m4.cn/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=282797&page

我是马来西亚华人。

希望最近所有不幸的事都过去了吧!

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为了分享更多technical 的 computing 经验,
我开多了一个 blog : http://pharaoh-sharing.blogspot.sg/
有兴趣的人就来支持吧!谢谢! ^^

我真心觉得分享很重要,
因为要获得一个经验,
需要付出蛮大的代价。

如果,人人都分享这些经验,
那么大家都能更快地进步。

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三月真的是很忙的一个月。
我花了很多时间准备考试,
花了很多时间做TaskPad(我的project名字),
却少了很多时间给自己,给家人,给朋友。

我不知道为什么自己会那么拼,
把那个module搞到workload 很重,
可是,我知道一切是值得的:

我赚到的是不少的知识,
我赚到的是和组员之间的默契。

其实我真的没想过我会在CS2103T里面认识到,
能够和我有默契的组员,
毕竟要和我有默契真的很难。
呵呵。我真的很幸运。

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摘自:


看到这个机器人你会想到什么呢?

如果我告诉你这是大学生做的呢?

这个机器人来头可不小哦,
名为 BumbleBee,
是一群NUS 学生辛勤工作出来的结果。

必须要肯定他们的努力,
因为要制作这样的一个机器人所花的时间不是普通的多。

重点是,他们拿到了冠军。 :)
恭喜他们啦!

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我的其中一位组员也是 BumbleBee 的组员。
她和大家分享了:这个

蛮有意思的。建议大家看看。

很开心在大学也能认识这样的一个团体:
不现实,
不功利。

如果为了赢比赛而参加,
很多人早已经放弃,
可是他们却坚持到最后。

很多人从来都不知道自己的机会多么难得,
因为一些奇怪的理由而选择了放弃,
而他们选择了坚持,
所以他们拿到了冠军。

看着这篇的你,怎样想呢?

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这年三月,我参加了我觉得蛮有意义的活动:教小孩子。
多小?
小学生。 :)

那是NUS的一个慈善组织,名为 BP Mentoring。



教小孩子是很有意思的。

他们没有心机,
他们如果感觉你没恶意,
就会什么都告诉你了。

他们好玩,
可是很正常,
没有小孩子不喜欢玩。

呵呵。
其实,真的很开心参加了这个团体,
每个星期都做一件有意义的事。

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刚刚在网上看到的一个短片:



呵呵。
共勉。
希望大家珍惜自己所拥有的一切。
希望大家不要这样邪恶。 xD

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昨天上 CS2103T 的时候看到了这个有趣的短片。

理论上来说就读商业的大学生应该比小孩懂得多,
但他们的表现却不比小孩好,
为什么?

短片给出的总结是:
Prototype and testing.

小孩一边做一边试,
商学生只是做,到最后才试。

但它给我的另外一个启发是:
我们年纪越大,想得越多。

那年我和其恩、心凌去参加造船比赛,
输的其中一个原因就是,
我们以为自己已经练习够了,
并没有当场做试验,
而是花很多时间在制作过程上。

那年初中科学营,
我的组的牙签架构非常不稳固,
也是因为没一直做试验,
到最后才发现。

很多时候我们太有信心了,
结果换来的只有失败。

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最后,
是时候要准备考试了,
星期一还有考试。 =_=

感谢你们的支持,
感谢你们看到了这里。

听闻最近台湾也发生了一些事,
可怜的五月天受牵连了。
希望他们没事。 :)

我喜欢五月天的歌,
在这里分享一首经典曲,
希望大家喜欢。 ^^



愿大家都知足常乐。
愿 安、康。


法老
29/3/14
1:45a.m.

Saturday, March 8, 2014

Comments on PowerPointLabs

I did not make comments on open source project often,
nor did I write some tutorials for programming before,
but I shared some of my coding experience here.

I always looked at others blog when I don't know how to code,
maybe I should try more of  this often,
so that I could help others also!

This is my first attempt to write comments on open source project.
Perhaps I should write comments on JNativeHook later and
even try to share my experience in coding also.

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PowerPointLabs is an add-ons for powerpoint that aims to make your powerpoint presentation becomes more interactive, you can get it from the link here.

If you are the one who often have presentations, probably you can try out this add-on. I personally think that PowerPointLab really makes our life easier in doing the animations.

Comments on some of the important features in PowerPointLabs that I might use quite often in the future:
1) Spotlight

(Take this image from PowerPointLabs website)

I saw my CS2103T used this feature quite often. This feature can attract user's attention to a main point quickly. I did not know how to do this without finding the help of PowerPointLabs.

However, I personally don't use to using feature like this because I will always use hand to point to a certain point. Maybe I would try to use this for my next presentation? (CS2103T project presentation?)

2) Easily Transaction

(Take this image from PowerPointLabs website)

I like this idea of Easily Transaction. If you used powerpoint animations before, you would probably find out that, to move a thing to a certain position, you need to draw out some lines to do that, which I find it is quite irritating to do it all the time.

For Easily Transaction, you just need to enter two slides:
First slide with initial position, second slide with end position,
then click a button: create auto-animated slides,
then the transaction is done!

3) Animation in slide

(Take this image from PowerPointLabs website)

To do this in powerpoint animations, you would need to use a lot of "show/hide" method.
For PowerPointLabs, all you need to do is to try to create all those objects that you want 
to show, then click create animation in slide, then you have done with your job.


4) Zoom in
(Take this image from PowerPointLabs website)

This is a feature that we would use quite often in Prezi and I think that this feature is good to have in 
powerpoint.
Probably good when you want to talk about the pictures that you share in a slide,
focus on the picture, then explain why you put this picture,,

5) Drill Down, step back.
 
You know, sometimes when you want to focus on one point,
you zoom in to that point, and after elaborating your points,
then you zoom back to the home page..
Yup. It is available in powerpoint now and you would think that it's a bit like
Prezi's style! The truth is, it becomes a lot easier to use this in powerpoint! 


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These are the features that I think that it is good to have PowerPointLabs installed
 in our powerpoint.
Well, it's free and user friendly!
So, if you are wondering whether you should install this add on,
just try it out first! 
I believe that you won't regret that and even if you regret, you can uninstall it. 
So what do you have to lose? Just try it out! ;)

Personal opinion: 
It really simplifies a lot of animations jobs which are good for lazy peoples like me. xD

Jun Wei
8/3/14
7:18a.m.