Week 14

19 Jan

We started to discuss on how we should write our article as soon as we reached the lab. We were unsure how we should write it, whether is it better to write it in an question and answer style or as a 3rd person. After discussion, Wilson and I went for a "photoshoot" for Kevin's Lightdraw paper while the rest started on the article.

After that, I went on working on the multi-user function for the whiteboard application and Wilson went helping the rest to do the article. We also tried the Macspeech Dictate, a speech recognition tool for Mac.

20 Jan

Today was spent to work on the multi-user function.

21 Jan

Today is a short day as Wilson and I have to go back to Temasek Polytechnic for a feedback session with the director. I started working on the multi-suer function as soon as I reached the lab since today I'm leaving early. Later Wilson and Ming Hong came and Help out with the multi-user function. I tried to test whether the split()  function in Quartz Composer is working by reading it directly as a string and it was proven that it had worked. With some research done and the help of Ming Hong we found a way to convert string to integer by just adding a "+" sign before the string. 

Then Terence came in and we showed him our progress on the whitebpard application.

After lunch, we left for TP.

22 Jan

Wilson was testing the toggle on/off function in the morning but it does not seem to be working as what it should be. After that I continued to work on the multi-user function for the rest of the day. I'm not very sure what is the problem with Quartz Composer. It hung alot of times today. I'm suspecting that it was the javascript that I was writing was way too long or maybe it because Cheng Teng was encoding the video for Lightdraw in another account. While in the shuttle bus on the way to the MRT, Ming Hong said maybe adding a prev in lightdraw would make life much easier.

23 Jan

Leonard and I started to do some "spring cleaning" at the lab as lunar new year was round the corner and the lab look really messy. Ming Hong started changing the codes in lightdraw, adding a matching algorithm inside it so that doing multi-user function would be easier. 

After lunch, Kevin came it and asked us to tidying up our lab and he is "moving" into the lab. We were split into 2 teams, Ming Hong, Wison and I would be working on the whitebpard application and Leonard, Ryan and Kevin will start working on the 3D loader application. We will only join them after we are done. Our desk and seats had also changed. Wilson and I were shifted to seat beside the Mac Pro and Ryan and Leonard will be using the iMacs.

Ryan had also got himself an iPhone 3G. Kevin started talking about podcasts and told us to look for some interesting one that we had listen and learn from it. We also commented on the article we wrote for the newsletter and shows us some examples of how other had wrote it and wanted us to write our own individual experiences in IHPC which will be due after CNY.

Reflection:

This week, I have learnt that it is not easy to write a good article. This reminds me of what a lecturer had said: "Everybody can read a book, but not everyone can write a book. Even if you can, it may not be a good one". It is unlike the reports we have wrote in schools. We were given a template and we just have to follow it. It definitely not as simple as it seems.