Drinking Beer
Jul. 2, 2009 Uncategorized / 0 CommentsI had never seriously drunk beer before I came to Syrup. I had it sometimes, but I never aware what I was drinking most of the time. Beer was not my first choice if I had other beverages to drink. One day, it was a hot and sweaty afternoon in 2006, when Omino, who always [...]
Brian Fu
Mar. 4, 2009 Uncategorized / 0 Comments“My momma always said, ”Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you”re gonna get.” – Forrest Gump” About five years ago, with luggage, I came to New York alone. I thought I was alone, but actually not. The first year was tough, everything for me was challenging. Luckily, when I came [...]
Laurel Beversdorf
Mar. 3, 2009 Uncategorized / 0 CommentsI have been in this country for almost 5 years. Sometimes I really regret that I didn”t spend enough time on learning English when I was young. I am not saying that I have troubles communicating with friends or colleagues, but it’’s just not good enough. So, I looked up every possible way to improve [...]
Include or Require
Feb. 12, 2009 Uncategorized / 0 CommentsRecently, Jayson, one of my colleague asked me what the difference was between include and require in PHP. I had no idea, so I discussed with Oskar, another back-end developer, and he was not clear about that as well. Until yesterday, I was reading some PHP documentation about Smarty, then I grasped the differences. Basically [...]
A Jouany to Taipei
Feb. 11, 2009 Uncategorized / 0 CommentsTwo weeks ago, I flew back to Taiwan, my sweet home, for my short five-day vacation to celebrate the Chinese New Year with my family. My younger sister got married last Oct, so this Chinese New Year was the first one we celebrated without my sister. For eastern-Asian people, family gathering and sharing their happiness [...]
Zumba Dance Cardio
Dec. 18, 2008 Uncategorized / 0 CommentsAlright, I admit it, after I starting to work at Syrup, I seldom did any exercise. When I was at school I used to play basketball a lot, go to the gym constantly, and walk often. So, after I graduated from school and worked for almost 3 years, I gained more than 30 lbs. That’’s [...]
The Best Mate for Cold Weather
Nov. 20, 2008 Uncategorized / 0 CommentsThe weather has been getting colder and colder recently. For a man like me who was born and raised at Taiwan, a tropical country, living New York in the winter is really a painful experience. However, the best way to fight off the cold is by eating something really warm. A “Hot Pot” is the [...]
Gaia framework
Nov. 12, 2008 Uncategorized / 0 CommentsRecently, I came back to my old skill set, actionscript (my first title at Syrup was Flash Developer). I thought I was gonna build an application for people to vote on their favorite photos in Flash, but it turned out to be a HTML development eventually. I had been hearing about Gaia for a while [...]
Hello World
Nov. 4, 2008 Uncategorized / 0 Comments…finally I have my personal blog here, let’’s see how it goes…. I hope this will be a good place for lots of memories in the future. I would like to share some thoughts about life, and all my explorations in RIA technologies. Front end technologies are something I love to do, though sometimes I [...]