Training to be soldier

out of nowhere, i suddenly remember this song, the number one hit of our army times : "training to be soldier" LOL and this term : "have you ever wonder, why must we serve~" and search you-tube..

back then, I asking myself ...Why must i serve...!@#$%
wasted 2 year and 4 mth of my youth..WTF...

However, After at least 6 year since i ord and left Singapore ever since ord....think back now, its quite fun. missed all the tegan session, all the outfield, all the clean arms, washing toilet, wash drain, clean vehicle, break track, run soc (low wall, jacob ladder..), all the route march, 4NTM, all the parades, guard duties, NDP, GOH, airport duties, talk cock session in bunk at night, watch tv together at bunk, nights off.

No doubt missing it, even thou have more pain than joy while doing it. However, looking back after all these years, maybe one day my son ask me, he want to go back Singapore join the army, ha, maybe it will be a "YES" from me as well.definitely not wasted the times, maybe just makes myself stronger to endure whatever things happens. Because, as we always said, nothing is worse than being in the army. (other than in real prison)

Interest in SOA ....

actually already been making an composite web application using .NET WCSF and WSSF for the past 4 mths...in sunlife (HK)...it gets me more and more interested in not only focus on the technical implementation aspect of SOA. it reach the point that i realise even thou as a developer, It is easy to ignore service-oriented business modeling and simply focus on service-orientation as it applies to technology and technical architecture. Therefore i started recently to do some research on internet about SOA and hopefully i would take the 000-664 test. I seriously think SOA, and Event-driven architecures like workflow(WF) wil rules the next coming 10 yrs...btw, i found some nice websites talking about SOA, instake of the only recommended by IBM:

Business analysis and SOA part 1 of 6: The benefits of business services

http://searchsoa.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid26_gci1168438,00.html


i am also interested in ESB...i am still gathering info about this subject...
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Enterprise-Service-Bus




i came across this webpage :

The obstacles to the adoption and successful realization of Service-Oriented Architecture

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-antipatterns/

SOA entry points, Ideas from IBM:
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/uk/soa/innovation/getting_started.html

C+偵探 (The Detective)

what to say..this movie is one hell of shocker to me, i never expect the storyline. my parents were visiting me last weekend and i thought of bring them to a movie which is less"heavy". but i was very wrong. hahaha anyway, just to say this movie really change my view about Aaron kwok. I truly recommend this movie. this is a great HK movie well anticipated.

facebook

Just recently found out this wonderful online application known as FACEBOOK, which is based on Web2.0. i personally love this website cos its really fun especially with those third party application design via their API (which support many plaform, JAVA, .NET, PHP, python..etc). ppl who dont have an account really should signup for a account..this really rocks. Three cheers for excellent WEB 2.0 Deployment~

WSSF, WCSF vNEXT

ha i heard that WCSF vNext version will remove pageflow...ha ha...i spend quite some time researching on pageflow and found that it really affect the performance...then really they remove the pageflow in this coming version...anyway, i already changed pageflow to WF(workflow foundation), which is more lightweight than WCSF's pageflow (due to the fact WCSF v1.1 pageflow have persistence state stored in db, which i think not all application requires that)

btw, WSSF(Web Service Software Factory is a even more greater, or i should say easier to learn and more powerful) so ppl who are interested in WCSF should try WSSF first:)

Server.Transfer vs Response.Redirect

just came across this article and i remembered that in my previous job, i encounter this situation whereby the old coders used server.transfer as all part of transfers. this is cool cos u get the exact same url as the first page. however, if u need to pass parameter in the url as we did(a lame requirement thou, due to the fact that external program is called). this is a gd thing to take note as a .net web developer. Cos server.transfer is faster due to the fact that it save on step of client needing to request the new url from server.(since server.transfer, transfer the web client once its called, whereas response.redirect need to re-request the new url after getting reply from server.

"InBody" body scan

last Sunday, when i was in physical(kornhill), i noticed that they had a new machine named (inBody...or any other name which i cant remembered clearly), which was used to take measurement of ur whole body physical health. I was amazed that i score almost a perfect score which almost every part of my body is in gd condition...(except the leg muscle is just barely touching the gd condition) hahaha. this machine is a gd reference for those who wanna keep track of they body stats thou. if u are member of physical, you should try.
Last Sunday ghost @metro station 997 is very scary, especially the part where the father try to be as exorcist and try to exorcise a evil spirit from an man. they record the whole incident on tape and was broadcast via the radio, one word to describe it ..."EVIL".

And yesterday night on tvb, there is a gd show named :大國崛起 which showed around 1030PM. i think this show is great cos it teaches us history and also the presenter (whom i forgot the name of her) always had a debate over china issue which i felt shes very right in some sense, even thou some of her saying sound like bullshitting to me, some of her words seems very correct. so if u like history, u should watch the show.

1408

This movie from Stephen King is just...a good job...this movie never had a single moment of boredom, makes ppl really turn crazy if in the main actor situation. imagining urself thought of already woke from a nightmare and its actually that you are still inside the nightmare. i love the part where he tried to climb to another room thru window to another room..thats one of the coolest thing...i think i got that nightmare situation before also..hahaha