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Posted June 15th, 2007 by Mgccl

Added CSS to support very-cute-Wii-like-button [FOR FIREFOX USERS!]:
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Thx for the code here from Hedger Wang. Dude, he is amazing!

I finished my finals today, so I guess I should start pick up everything I didn't do from last year.
Plans:

Optimize this website. There is so many rich UI, it hurts the bandwidth.
Qunu button around this site so you can ask question to live online helpers(include me)
Create a javascript free sidenote module for Drupal. The Javascript version I'm using now doesn't help with SEO. Also feed readers can't see anything.
Going to learn and master C++ and embedded programming in the next 2 month
Non tech related fields I'm going to advance into in the next 2 months: Cooking, Dancing, Magic, Fundamental Calculus, Chemistry and Classical Physics.
Start up a website for LF2 players. (Currently, I'm the No.1 LF2 player in US)
Finish my ray casting 3D engine in PHP
Visualize statistics in my WhatPulse Application for facebook.
Come up with very cool subject specific pickup lines for chemistry, physics, mathematics and programming(especially PHP).
Going back to China on July the 10th, and promote my coolest Asian in the world Google Bomb.

Readers back from 2006 might have found out there is a transformation on the blog's narration style. During the start of the site till beginning of 2007, this site was not a blog, but "kinda strict Journalism" + "Editorial". Now, I'm using "I" in almost each one of my posts. Funny, back then I strongly opposed people seeing my site as a blog(see editorial at bottom).

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"Going to learn and master

On Jun/16/2007 19:49:51 Adam D. Ruppe (not verified) says:

"Going to learn and master C++ and embedded programming in the next 2 month"

Learn, maybe. Master? No possible way. Mastering a programming language, especially one as complex as C++, takes a very long time. I have been writing code for over 7 years now, and have still not actually mastered a language. It is likely I never will - new stuff comes out too fast to keep up with it.

C++ is huge, and embedded programming is probably even huger; there are tons of devices out there. Any idea which one you would like to specialize in?

Rather than trying to master it all up front, try to get enough of a foundation so you can learn new stuff quickly when you need it. That will prove much more useful in the long term.

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I know C++ and embedded

On Jun/16/2007 20:59:10 Mgccl says:

I know C++ and embedded programming are 2 vast subject.
I mean I'm going to master C++ language... I just need to understand the language and do some programming with it, the rest is just build up the experience.

most microprocessors out there support C++. I only need to learn how things functions and what is everything for, then I can look into specific areas and improve my skillz.

Yeah, maybe I should not use the word "master" since I don't know how deep is the pond.