Making things happen is interesting. It would even become more interesting when it is something like TEDx. We have prepared the event for months, and we finally reached the point when we could call for student ambassadors. I want to tell the data stories of student ambassadors because it just took one day for our applications to have less than 30 applicants to almost 300. This is a simple data analysis. It aims to find out a little about how to reach out to people in HKBU and how people act and think related to the event. I want to make it a reference for team members of TEDxHKBU as well as organizers from other events. The increasement was basically done by sending mass emails to a large number of students before one day of the application deadline. The strategy was done by accident,...

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From Douban

I want to touch freedom,
Live alone die alone.
At the end,
I call me genius,
They call me freak.

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So long as the nurse is in the room to keep an eye on me, I am allowed to dress myself and get ready for Brad. I slip on an old pair of jeans and a scarlet turtleneck sweater. I’ve lost so much weight that the jeans hang loosely from the bony points of my hips.

“Let’s go spend the weekend in Salem,” Brad says to me as he walks me out of the hospital, an arm protectively wrapped around my waist, “just the two of us.”

I wait in the car while Dr. West speaks with Brad just outside the hospital doors. I can’t hear them but I know what she’s telling him. “Make sure she takes her Oxetine every four hours. Don’t leave her alone for any length of time.”

Brad drives with a light touch on the pedals, the same way he used to when I was pregnant with Aimée. The traffic is smooth and light, and the...

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As web performance becomes a more and more important thing on the web, I think it's becoming critical to ensure that website are tested to make sure they can handle the load of visitors. Load testing is one way to accomplish this because it gives website owners and developers a chance to simulate real user load to ensure their servers are up to the task of a certain level of demand.

While there are a variety of testing tools available (such as HP's LoadRunner), the only one I know of that uses real browsers is Dotcom-Monitor's load testing tool. Real browsers are nice because they can allow you to simulate real user activity giving you a very realistic result. It's important to understand that...

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A programmer was troubled and sad, so he went to see his Master.

“When programming, I can write comments fluently, but when it comes to code, I have trouble doing it.” The programmer said in a confused voice, “I don’t know what I should write.”

Master opened his hands, and wind blowed over them. “The wind does not know his code either.” Said the Master, “It is the comments that reminded how much code he had wrote.”

Suddenly, the programmer was enlightened.

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As web developers, it's very important to help those less tech-savvy, especially when they have a good cause, like many nonprofit organizations. One of the things that nonprofits struggle with the most is building a good quality website, primarily because they don't have the means to employ developers.

Part of web development involves finding good hosting, and this can also be a struggle for many nonprofits as hosting plans for nonprofits aren't always easy to find. With that said, I did stumble across an instesting guide put out by a site called WebHostingBuddy that seems to address some of these issues, including the fact that Microsoft Azure has some nonprofit options, which many people don't know about. However, it's important to note that...

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This is orginally posted by Jano González, which I think is a really interesting philosophical article.

A programmer was troubled and sad, so he went to see his Master.

“Nobody recognizes my work” the programmer said with woeful voice.

The Master took him to a temple with a beautiful stone statue in the center and said “If you want your work to be recognized you must be like the person who made this statue”.

They kept walking for a couple of minutes util the programmer asked “Who made it?”.

“I don’t know” replied the Master.

Suddenly, the programmer was enlightened.

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