Author: Kah Hong


Posted on: 29th November 2008

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Category: School

That’s the number of semesters I have left before I graduate, and minimally as well. I finished my last paper today, out of four, and I’m glad that the ordeal is finally over. Time has flown pretty quickly this past semester, and I’m sure many will share that sentiment. It won’t be long before this [...]

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Author: Kah Hong


Posted on: 21st November 2008

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Category: Design, Web

I just downloaded the soft copy of this book from SitePoint, and it’s being given away for free for only two weeks. I’ve never formally learnt CSS, nor can I remember how I picked it up, but nonetheless it’s a powerful tool for web design. I’m definitely looking forward to starting on this book once [...]

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Author: Kah Hong


Posted on: 20th November 2008

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Category: Design, School

The lessons for the term are over, and in NM2216 Introduction to Interactive Media Design, I learnt about design concepts more pertinent to an interactive interface itself. What I learnt before the mid-semester break was mostly about design dimensions, and this time around the topics were more interesting yet challenging to understand.
Affordances and Constraints
The second [...]

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Author: Kah Hong


Posted on: 11th November 2008

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Category: Projects, School

Assembla was introduced to me a few months back from one of my brothers, and it’s an online workspace designed for software development. It has typical collaborative features like wiki pages, discussion threads, file-sharing, milestones and also version control features like Subversion, Git and Mercurial. I didn’t have much experience using similar workspaces, and decided to [...]

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Author: Kah Hong


Posted on: 7th November 2008

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Category: Programming, School

Object-oriented programming has been the tripping stone for me in Java programming module so far, yet it essentially represents the core of the language. It’s taken me a bit of time to accustom to the idea of constructors, accessors and mutators, but writing methods for these have easily become habits now. 
I’ve spent quite a fair [...]

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