NTS: Projects to be done.

Chris — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:43:13 +0000

Exam is coming up and I have no choice but to put my development life on hiatus and focus on my text books. ( CS 245 Logic and Computation is actually fun) Anyway, here is a list of stuff that I have worked on and planning to finish them up during the semester break after exam until the start of next school semester in September.

Iron-Cook.com
Iron cook ‘s main objective is to provide a portal for anyone to randomize their meal plan for the week and have the grocery list generated on their mobile devices. It’s the CS446 course project that me and my group mates have been working on since May 2010 and currently we have the back-end web service and android client cores ready.

HKGolden Samurai
Another web service for exposing HK Golden API to native clients. As of now, the caching mechanism has been implemented and more UI work has to be done. The final product will be consumed by HKG maize, which is the first (and only) client for HK Golden on android devices.

University of Waterloo Login
A simple portal for passing the username + password when logging in the uw-wireless network. (Credentials are needed everytime a client joins the network and Firefox/Chrome doesn’t allow users to store their credentials on the browser)

GuruOnFire
After working on iron-cook.com extensively for the past 3 months I noticed a rewrite is required to follow the django/python/app-engine convention.

StudyTimer
StudyTimer is a small utility I wrote for myself. Basically it’s a timer that switches between “study period” and “break period”. Currently the skeleton of the client application is there and I have yet to implement the server side stuff.

Haskell + OpenGL ES/DirectX – I have always wanted to learn functional programming and do some geometry work with openGL/DirectX (XNA on Xbox360, windows phone 7) , hopefully the 30 days vacation is enough to learn these stuff.

Using Google Voice without the need for internet connection / iphone application

Chris — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 14:36:58 +0000

I was hampered by Apple’s rejection of Google Voice application. On average I made calls to Canada 30 – 60 minutes per day and switching to Google Voice from Calling Card not only saves me money, but also gives me flexibility so that I don’t have to look up to the calling card and enter my pin and run into people recklessly on the street.

Long story short, I was under the impression that you need an internet connection to make a call, and this is NOT the actual case. A quick dirty way of making a call without any internet connection is to call your Google Voice number from the numbers associated with your google voice account (e.g. my cell phone) , press “2″ after you enter the voice catalog and enter the number you want to call.

I stored my google voice number on my iphone and that makes my life 200 times easier, what’s more, the rate of calling to Canada from the States is 0, which is free =)

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NTS: Projects to be done.

Using Google Voice without the need for internet connection / iphone application