“你不在我身邊的日子,我才是最愛你.”

追追追
作曲：Kay Wai　　作詞：曾紀諾　　編曲: Jony C

身披火箭 從小鬥進展
贏輸在於起跑線 從不想探險
身經幾百戰 認證就過千
精彩童年 光陰似箭 已經不見
如果 當天可以給我試多次
無論按大志 還是去亂試 統統都可以

由一枝筆 一粒糖 也滿意的我
今天竟 擔當起 充滿計算的我
焦燥困惱 害怕未來有差錯
無視我在浮華盛世得到甚麼
追追追 趕趕趕 散貨再追貨
忙忙忙 忙到尾 興致也摔破
當 到老年時看經過
無奈發現忙著用腦忘記有活過

青春捐了獻 為了賺美仙
風燭殘年 開刀拆線 卻不罕見

捱夜 急得死去活來沒意志
面對困難同時 害怕失掉理智 又懶得求醫

由一枝筆 一粒糖 也滿意的我
今天竟 擔當起 充滿計算的我
焦燥困惱 害怕未來有差錯
無視我在浮華盛世得到甚麼
追追追 趕趕趕 散貨再追貨
忙忙忙 忙到尾 興致也摔破
當 到老年時看經過
無奈發現忙著用腦卻特別難過

寫首詩 繪幅畫 我有醉心過
今天竟 甘心於 粗製濫作行貨
失去控制 害怕一世會枉過
其實我在洪流俗世景仰甚麼
追追追 趕趕趕 散貨再追貨
忙忙忙 忙到尾 興致也摔破
當 汲取教訓上一課
無奈發現頑疾病痛多 哪裡出錯

作曲：Kay Wai　　作詞：曾紀諾　　編曲: Jony C

www.rthk.hk/special/cash2011/

The show is this Sunday. Please purchase the tickets soon:
[ Jony C. x Fullcupmusic @ 2011.11.20 ]

http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/27/sony-video-unlimited-preview-brings-gracenote-metadata-to-sen/

http://www.ubergizmo.com/2011/09/sony-video-unlimited/

http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/27/tech/gaming-gadgets/ps3-video-unlimited/

I helped with this page for Sony GRO team for syndication to different countries. So far I found it on US and Canada. It may be live on other parts of the world.

One of the challenge was to make sure the JavaScript code (tho minimal) works on different frameworks. I wrote a “Agnostic.js” bridge to easily switch between prototype and jquery. I made it intentionally “dumb” so the developer can stub it out for their own framework if needed. It needs to be improved because it was a rush job. I think it works pretty well with jquery and prototype now. I wonder if there’s a place for such a library – Javascript Framework Agnostic adapter. Or it could just be polishing on turd.

Page on:

• Sony US
• Sony Canada

I like the reskining part of the job. I find it very satisfying to see the metamorphosis the site goes through. The biggest challenge had to be educating the clients. The stakeholders at PSTC are generally not very familiar with web development in general. We spent a great deal of time gathering and organizing the needed requirements and explaining why things are done in certain way and taking more time.

Taking the extra time was worth it as we wanted to make sure we have the right result. With the effort, the site went from being a totally amateur to professional and elegant.

Gone with the old, in with the new:

I’m looking forward to doing more of these, especially now that I don’t work on the web anymore. I miss the fast pace and the feeling of accomplishment launching beautiful designs and interactions.

About the B’z, the band is led by grammy award winning guitarist Takahiro Matsumoto, and  singer Koshi Inaba. Their stage presence is excellent,  superb, almost too perfect  like choreographed. The band was always pitch-perfect. I could not find one mistake or missing note.

The atmosphere of the concert was amazing. No seats. Everyone was jumping and the floor was shaking like an earthquake had struck San Francisco for 2 hours.  The Fillmore was small but really cozy venue. It was packed but not too crowded.

Some of my friends say it was the best concert they have ever been to. I definitely feel it was one of the best. I would definitely go to their concert again.

• The user interface is clean
• The privacy setting is easy edit for every single data field in your profile.
• Each post can have different privacy settings
• Instead of friend list on Facebook, the “circles” feature makes a lot of sense and much more easy to use with its drag and drop feature.
• Befriending/Following someone do not require you to be their “friend”. You can follow someone much like you are on Twitter. But it is reciprocal, you will see more posts from that person.
• A really nice feature is the Instant Upload feature on your android phones with Google+. Every photo and video will be sync-ed up to picasa privately and ready for you to share on Google+. This is really handy especially when there isn’t an easy way to upload videos onto Facebook from Android now.
• Group video chat called “Hangout” is really good. I especially like being able to watch YouTube videos together. More kitty videos to watch… TOGETHER.
• I like Sparks. It is a feature where you can pin up some topics (using keywords) and it will return results from the web.

Bad Things

• Re-sharing loophole can be dangerous especially posts are default to be re-sharable. Yes, you can turn it of individually.
• Somewhat confusing is the distinction between Buzz and Posts. Your buzz posts do not show up in your post section.
• When you first join, it asks if you want to link up your picasa albums. All in the sudden, all your photos in picasa is available to your new friends. I wish there’s a better way to handle this initial link-up.
• Sparks is nice but I’d like to be able to share my Google Reader feeds in Google+

Overall, I think Google+ is already a very good alternative to Facebook. It has some really good ideas like Hangout and Spark. I think with it’s strong existing user-base (i.e. gmail), it will definitely be a good contender to the social network giant – Facebook. Now if someone can please make a site that will consolidate all the social networks into one place, I would be much happier.

The most hyped and secretive area had to be PSP Vita. There were about 20 of the PSP Vita inside this closed cubicle. The gaming experience is definitely different and more robust. I can imagine that the new generation of gamers will use all 5 fingers to play hard-core games on this device and doing amazing things.

There was also the Wii-U. However, I had no interest to stand in line for it (not because I’m from Sony but) because I had no idea what the press release said about it and from what I saw, I couldn’t see anything interesting with it, yet.

Last but not least, it was great to see the Video On Demand App on display.

My take-away? Buy PSP Vita!

Things I like about this book:

• not written for specific JS framework (jQuery, prototype..etc).
• explains some of the essential concepts in JavaScript clearly
• goes over different design patterns one by one
• examples are easy to follow

That’s all for now.

I remember how the very first PlayStation site was – a badly designed, last-minute website which styles resembled a website from the 90s. But I – like many others, decided to put my credit card information on the site despite my doubts. I haven’t joined Sony at the time – or else I would’ve raised a flag about it. From a front-end developer point of view, that site was sub-par for a big corporation. I also wonder how much effort they spent on the back-end either. Now we know.

PSN should be back online soon. And I have a feeling that this is only the first of many cyber intrusions to come. The internet is a scary place.

Question 1:

//What is i?
var i=0;
var add = function(){
 ++i;
    return function(){
        i++;
        return function(){
            i++;
            add();
        }
    }
};
add()()();

Question 2:

//What is the value and data type of result?
var result = !!String("false");

Question 3:

//What is result?
var result = "1"+2+4;

Question 4:

//What is 'result' and why?
var result = (function foo(bar){
 return !bar;
}(false)? false: true);

Answers:
1) 4
2) false, boolean type
3) 124
4) false

Code source: http://jsfiddle.net/jonyc/8XSaS/4/

/*
*
*  AUTHOR: Jonathan Cheung
*  KonamiCodeTrigger.js
*
*/
var KonamiCodeTrigger = (function() {
    // Saves the returned API
    var self;
    // Key History
    var keyCodeHistory = [];
    // All the triggers are stored in an Array;
    var __triggers = [];
    // Constants
    var Key = {
        UP: 38,
        DOWN: 40,
        LEFT: 37,
        RIGHT: 39,
        ESCAPE: 27,
        a: 97,
        b: 98,
        A: 65,
        B: 66
    };

    // Here we store the winning Combinations..
    // The default is Up-Up-Down-Down-Left-Right-Left-Right-B-A / Up-Up-Down-Down-Left-Right-Left-Right-b-a
    var winningCombos = [
        String("" + Key.UP + Key.UP + Key.DOWN + Key.DOWN + Key.LEFT + Key.RIGHT + Key.LEFT + Key.RIGHT + Key.b + Key.a),
        String("" + Key.UP + Key.UP + Key.DOWN + Key.DOWN + Key.LEFT + Key.RIGHT + Key.LEFT + Key.RIGHT + Key.B + Key.A)
        ];

    //Let's save the original
    var originalKeyPress;
    if (document && document.onkeypress) {
        originalKeyPress = document.onkeypress;
    }

    document.onkeypress = function(evt) {
        var keyCode = Number(evt.keyCode);
        var charCode = Number(evt.charCode);

        //Process keyCode
        switch (keyCode) {
        case 0:
            break;
        case Key.ESCAPE:
            //Reset the history if ESC is pressed
            keyCodeHistory = [];
            window.scrollTo(0, 0);
            break;
        default:
            keyCodeHistory.push(Number(evt.keyCode));
            break;
        }
        //Process charCode
        switch (charCode) {
        case 0:
            break;
        default:
            keyCodeHistory.push(charCode);
            // Here's where we find out if the Konami code existed
            if (winningCombos.indexOf(keyCodeHistory.join("")) != -1) {
                __triggers.forEach(function(item, index) {
                    (typeof(item) == 'function') && item();
                });
            }
            break;
        }
        //Call our original keypress if it was there
        originalKeyPress && originalKeyPress(arguments);
    };

    return self={
        /*
         *  addTrigger()
         *  Adds a function to the callback stack.
         *  @callback {function} - The callback function you want to add
        */
        addTrigger: function(callback) {
            __triggers.push(callback);
        },
        /*
         *  removeTrigger()
         *  Removes a function from the callback stack.
         *  @callback {function} - The callback function you want to remove
        */
        removeTrigger: function(callback) {
            __triggers = __triggers.filter(function(item, index) {
                return item != callback;
            });
        },
        /*
         *   clearCombo()
         *   Clears the combo being used.
         *   @no prarameteres
         */
        clearCombo: function() {
            winningCombos = [];
        },
        /*
         *   addCombo()
         *   Adds a combo into the trigger. We can have multiple key combo to trigger the callback functions.
         *   @combo {string} - The string you want to use e.g. KonamiCodeTrigger.Key.A + KonamiCodeTrigger.Key.B
         */
        addCombo: function(combo) {
            winningCombos.push(String("" + combo));
        },
        /*
         *   removeCombo()
         *   Removes a combo.
         *   @combo {string} - The string you want to remove e.g. KonamiCodeTrigger.Key.A + KonamiCodeTrigger.Key.B
          */
        removeCombo: function(combo) {
            winningCombos = winningCombos.filter(function(item, index) {
                return item != String("" + combo);
            });
        },
        /*
         *   Key {}
         *   These are key constants.. You can add more to the Key costants above. Right now, only UP, DOWN, LEFT,RIGHT,A,B,a,b are in the constants as they are in the *original* Konami combo.
        */
        Key:Key
    }
})();

You can add more callback functions like this:

/* Put this guy in your onload */
KonamiCodeTrigger.addTrigger(function() {
    alert("BINGO! Now we do something interesting!");
});

And you can clear the original combo and add your own combo this way. (You need to assign the ‘Key’ object has the keyboard key mappings you want.)

//KonamiCodeTrigger.clearCombo();
KonamiCodeTrigger.addCombo("" + KonamiCodeTrigger.Key.A + KonamiCodeTrigger.Key.B);

This is nothing useful yet. It’s just capturing the audio, multiplying the signal and output them to the speaker/headphones. I guess you can run this patch if you wanna ears drop someone next to you.

http://puredata.info/downloads

I’m moving from Sony Electronics to Sony Corporate of America’s Sony Network Entertainment Inc. At SNEI, I will build Sony’s non-web experiences – such as device software and application. It will be a challenge as I have little experience with actual software development. I look forward to this opportunity as it will help me open up my horizon for new ideas and new projects.

In remembrance of my reign @ Sony Style, here are some screen shots of my contributions on SonyStyle.com today:

My room is 10′(W)x10′(L)x8′(H). I’ve laid carpet on the floor and I need to find some treatment for the walls, ceiling and the window. First, I looked into covering the whole room with acoustic foam. At musiciansfriend.com, they are $59 for 32 square foot(Auralex Studiofoam). The downside is they are not portable and the materials aren’t as durable.  After some research, I found an alternative is to go with fiberglass acoustic panels, yet they are very expensive (about $100 – $150 for each 24″x48″x2″ panel). If I want 3 on each wall totaling 12, I will need to spend $1800. That’s a little much for my Chinese-penny-pincher self. So, I decided to do-it-myself.

To make your own acoustic panel, you will need to still buy fiberglass foam – I don’t know how to make them from scratch. I bought the ATS Acoustics rigid fiberglass boards. They are direct replacement for the more expensive Owen Corning 703 boards. I never compared them side by side. But when I put my ears next to the ATS boards, I hear dead silence which is good enough for me.

Here is a checklist of things I got:

• 2 packs of 6 ATS Acoustics rigid fiberglass boards (~$60 x 2)
• 24 yards Burlap mariners Blue ($50)
• 3 Sanded plywood 4′x8′ (cut at Home Depot into 12 2′x4′) – ($19 x 3)
• 3M Super 77 adhesive spray ($10)
• Staple gun (I already own)
• Staples ($3)
• 30lb picture hanger – pack of 14 ($10)

The total was a little less than $300 but I ended up with 12 acoustic panels that I would have spent $1800 for. Good deal!

Here’s what you need to do:

1. Spray board with 3M adhesive spray and place foam on top. Wait for 30 minutes for it to dry
2. Next I placed the acoustic boards on the burlap fabric and cut it.  Make sure you leave enough room so you can staple the fabric onto the board in the back.
3. Spray fabric with 3M adhesive spray and stick the foam onto the fabric in place.
4. Staple the loose end of the fabric onto the back of the board.
5. Install wall hanger – remember to install them the same way.
6. Hang completed acoustic panel on the wall