Archive for March, 2008
March 30, 2008
This morning I’ve spent drawing. I was creating the mind-map for Steve Pavlina podcast about solving problems I listned recently. Before I created my maps using a FreeMind program but then I decided to do it manually. The main reason is that when you are drawing it you are thinking about the subject of the mind-map and understanding it more deeply. Morover it brings me more joy to spend a certain amount of time creating something and eventually see the results, especially if I like what I get. Creating this map took me about an hour. Of course it’s not ideal and even now I can see a great deal of things to rething and to improve. First of all it’s that my map is not clearly centered, then I think it’s better to make all the arrows more thinny. But it’s almost my first map and I’ll take into account all ideas and mistakes when I’ll create my following maps.
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March 28, 2008
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March 28, 2008
I love listening podcasts and do it regularly. During the last half of year I’ve formed a list of podcasts which I physically have time to listen to and which are interesting for me. I prefer a professional podcasts and here I mean the quality of sound, the diction of a presenter and a quality of the material. I usually listen them on commuting to work and on the way back. As a rule it takes about a 20-30 minutes thus the preferable length of each podcast is up to 30 minutes. Also I don’t like very short podcasts less than 10 minutes because it takes more time to download them and copy to my mp3-player than listen. Probably not much more, but definitely comparable time. As for my favorite themes, here the short list of them: IT, travels, life in different countries, technologies and educational podcasts for those who study English language.
Here the list of my favorite programs:
on learning English
on personal development
podcasts for people interested in java-related technologies
latest news of the world of digital-technology
on different themes
russian podcasts
I’m still looking for more interesting podcasts and will add what I’ll find to these list.
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March 26, 2008
I’ve got a two more DVDs of Friends 
Let’s have a fun!
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March 22, 2008
I’ve just finished watching a best series of 4th season of Friends TV show. Now after I’ve seen it in english I think it’s a great and funny movie. I didn’t like it before when I saw a couple of series on TV. Probably the reason why I change my mind is the bad translation, maybe something else. On the DVD I have there is a 50-minutes film about how all these was made. I was really exited about this. It’s a really hard, scrupulous, but funny work. The most exciting thing was how writers were brainstorming the jokes, changing them on the go, if they found them not really funny. That’s great.
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March 15, 2008
New design for
sandlex.com is ready
Now it includes just 3 images, 1 css file and 1 html file. The simplest desicion.
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March 15, 2008
I don’t like the design of my web-site
sandlex.com again. In November 2007 when I did it I thought it was the best what I could do and I really liked it. But now I think it looks quite ugly. So I have I great wish to redesign it and make it more simple.
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March 15, 2008
My Windows died again and I didn’t managed to make it run within an hour, so I decided start using Ubuntu for programming. I’ve downloaded NetBeans 6.0.1 and it works prefectly. WTK works fine as well so I haven’t any reasons to attemts other efforts for restoring Windows.
As for
VocRecaptor I’ve started using SVN for subversioning. I will try wiki and other services which
assembla.com provides. I think it will be much convinient to use their bug tracking systems instead of FreeMind which I used to use before (and still using now).
This week I have to solve the problem with VocRecaptor - it doesn’t work on MacOS X and some versions of Linux (for example on Ubuntu with all visual effects switched on). So I was given a piece of advise - why should I always use system tray if it causes all mentioned problems? So this week I have to fix it and make a release.
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March 12, 2008
VocRecaptor v2.0 is published today.
Today. What’s new:
- Added following exercises for word study: Cards, Translation guessing, Writing, Definition guessing, Translation choice, Definition choice, Mosaic
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March 11, 2008
To enable support of the touchscreen in
WTK:
WTK2.5.2\wtklib\devices\DefaultColorPhone\DefaultColorPhone.propertiesand set touchscreen support parameter to true:
touch_screen=trueHere WTK2.5.2 depends on your WTK home directory and DefaultColorPhone directory and the name of property file depends on you emulator device.
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