Lloyd Leung

Category: Technology

Technology stuff

  • For wick2o, Logic

    Lisp function logic
    Store as “CubeSize”, “CylinderSize”, “ShrinkBy”, “Count”
    prompt “What dimension do you want for the cube?”
    prompt “What dimension do you want for the cylinder?”
    condition: Cylinder diameter must be smaller than cube
    prompt “What factor do you want to shrink each cube by??”
    prompt “Total Number of cubes in the end”
    MasterCube = {
    Draw cube, with it’s centre at 0,0,0
    Draw THREE cylinders, along each exists, with it’s length intersectin along an axis in the cube.
    subtract the three cylinders from the cube.
    }
    for (i=0; i 0,0,0 @ // creates new object
    shrink previous object by ShrinkBy
    }
    find out what the cylinder hole size is for smallest cube.

  • LL – Gallery 0.5

    LL – Gallery version 0.5. here
    Modifications:
    – created some CSS
    – changed colors
    – borders around stuff
    – added checking for a single textfile name “folder.info” which is HTML safe. So I can give a description of the folder, and contents.

  • HD Based MP3 Players

    I look at the large capacity ( > 5 gigs ) players, such as the Zen, and iPod (mini, and original), and the prices are all over $290CDN + taxes
    Where the iPod 60 gig is cresting around $800CDN today. (more…)

  • New gallery app I made

    I was fed up with not being able to find a simple, elegant design.
    The apps I saw out there we all kind of overkill to me. I don’t need comments to my photos, and just was a pain to manually upload a lot of photos through a web interface to get the images up and running.
    Features that I required:
    – manually parse a directory full of pictures.
    – generate a thumb in small and medium sizes, cached to save server processing
    – create a easy to use and understand interface [more html than programming]
    – show the filename as the description of the photo.
    – have subfolders as albums.
    – link to the original large photo.
    Features that I added:
    – ability to show the size of the original file, in denominations of bytes, kilobytes, megabytes.
    What I originally wanted to do was have to create and .htaccess file to link to a specific file at all times. So I would only need to upload the pictures. However I couldn’t figure it out, so I just put a < ? include("..index.php");?> as the index.php file in all folders, except the initial gallery page. Where it reference the actually gallery.php file.
    If you have any suggestion to add to this same, simple app… let me know, I may add to it.

  • My theory on major software developers skipping version numbers beginning with 4

    My theory, and only a theory, on why major software developers skip software version numbers beginning with the number 4.
    If you go around looking, you’ll notice that many software vendors skip the 4. In a few oriental languages, the number 4 is an unlucky number. Forexample in Chinese, it means death. (more…)

  • Chinese mutant gene is HIV resistant

    A very interesting article I found, here. claims that researchers have found a mutant gene that is resistant to HIV.
    However, it’s too small of a sample to infer any facts.
    Hope it’s a step closer to the AIDS epidemic cure; which lately seems to have been put on hold. I find it strange, while it’s still prevalent.

  • MSIE and how it's not CSS compliant.

    CSS is supposed to be a standard. However, Microsoft has managed to bungle the thing up so much, that it’s barely useable.
    Those that develop webpages and are informed usually make pages so that the code displays properly for the VAST majority of pages. I know many far too many that don’t — and these people really shouldn’t be coding for a living. These people have great design skills, but they only can make it work for the shrinking percentage of MSIE users.
    I’m just wondering when they will learn, or perish without knowing, of other important, standards compliant browsers out there. I personaly will stick to the major brands, as that will cover the 98% of users. If it works for mozilla, and MSIE, it’ll work for almost everyone.
    Firefox is great, but it’s many rendering issues have me annoyed as well.
    Flash is something else I’ve started to tinker with. It has the visual interface, and the actionscripting which is catching my attention. With a combination of mysql + php + flash and actionscripting, combined would make a very presentable and pleasing web portal/application.
    Flash would just bypass the CSS crap, and all the browser non-standardness. Flash works on LINUX, WIN32, and Mac. So I don’t see any issue of compatibility. How it looks on one OS will like the same on all the other supported OSes. Though it is not standards compliant (that I know of), it’s still a route I’m willing to take, because of the issues of compatibility.
    The actual writing of code is not the challenge to me, it’s getting it to display the same on all platforms.
    For example, I spent a few hours today, tinkering with the CSS on this blog… I could have spent my time on better things, but it’s learning, and hopefully developing it into a useful skill.