December 3, 2005
Mars Attacks, is better than War of the worlds
War of the worlds is a shocking movie of this year. It has the famous star Tom Cruise, and the costs is very high. It was very successful. The farther did all he could to do to protect his daughter, which impresses me very much. The war machines made by computers were also very alive. But the movie Mars Attacks, which was published on 1996, is 9 years old now. The computer science at that time was not so adult as nowadays. But this movie is also very successful. It’s a comedy, and it’s very funny. This movie told us Martions are not friendly. They come to earth and kill people everywhere. They just want to destroy the world. They have high technology and even nuclear weapons can’t hurt their saucers. They kill the people, and people fight against them. Many heroes appeared in the war. And the martions’ weakness was finally found. It’s music that kill the enimies in the end, which sounds droll. But this movie is a comedy, every unbelievable situation is acceptable. Everything is possible in the real world, so who can deny the possiblity that music can kill outspace creatures? By the way, the president in this movie is stupid. I’m very glad he was eventually killed.
December 2, 2005
pyut is not so bad
Some days ago when I searched “python uml” on google, I met across pyut. But I didn’t try it immediately because I found its newest realease is at 2 years ago. I don’t like to use tools which are not so alive. But when I can’t find any newer tool for days, I decided to have a look at it. When I downloaded and run it, I found that it’s not so bad as I thought to be. In fact, it’s good enough for me. I import a py file and it generates the uml class diagram for me, here is the screenshot:
December 1, 2005
IronPython demo video on MSDN
The video has been on the msdn site for 20 days but I just happened saw it today. Jim Hugunin, the author of Jython, is now working in ms on IronPython project. I heard it a few months ago. The demo shows how to use clr classes from inside ironpython, and then gives a few UI examples. There’s also a good news that the full feature of debuging in visual studio are available for ironpython. I hope vs will offer some good support in the python editing. Python is so lack of a powerful IDE like visual studio. But I think when ironpython 1.0 realeases, this will be totally changed, because ironpython will offer nearly full support for CPython. I can write CPython script in visual studio then. I really can’t wait it.
November 30, 2005
Python thread puzzled me
I wanted to scratch a net-spider like thing. Since python has some convenient html-parsing tools , I decided to use python to try it. I found a powerful hmtl parsing tool named beautiful soup, which really make it much easier to deal with real life html. After read its document, I tried and I extracted the links and content without any problems. But I finally stuck in the python Thread class. It got dead after running for some time. I don’t know how to find out the problems, because I am not familiar enough with python thread apis. After tried some more times, I think I should leave it as it is and turn to C# to achieve this.
November 27, 2005
Freaky Friday, another happy family
Freaky Friday is an exciting comedy. It’s another story about happy family after the one named Meet the Fockers I watched some days ago. Generation gap will exist ever because the world is always changing. So every kind of problem can come out between parents and children. How can they understand each other? It’s impossible to know what any other people experienced and what he thinks, except exchange body to him. The body-exchage idea is right what happens in this movie. The daughter and the mother turned into each other, and after they take part in another’s activities, they got to know each other, and they love each other more than ever. The grandpa and the cute little brother and a feature dad, this is a very happy family.
Together2006 now supports eclipse3.11
Yesterday when I download the together 2006 from borland site I found that the file is much larger than the previous together2006, so I guess it’s been updated. After 30 minutes I finished downloading it but when I tried to install it I failed again and again. I unzipped the eclipse 3.1 and told the location to together installer, everytime I can’t find any together stuff from inside of eclipse IDE. I tried eclipse 3.1, 3.11, then 3.1 again, and everytime the together features would never show to me. Eclipse compatibility is really a big problem, many plug-ins is not version-exchangable. I decided to try the last time, I would give up if I fail again. The last time during the installation, I noticed some useful hints on a dialog which said it’s only for eclipse 3.11 and to use the eclipse packaged with the installation program is recommended. So I didn’t specify any other eclipse, and I succeeded this time in the end.
Eclipse is very good, and it’s not slower then vs2005. But the version problem is often frustrating, especially when trying to add a plug-in to it. And toghether 2006 now is stronger than the last version I used. Last time when I try to generate a sequence diagram by it, it stuck in the middle and eclipse got unresponsable. I had to kill it from the task manager. But when I tried to use it again today, after some smooth progressbars, I got the amazing sequence diagram. Together is really powerful.
November 26, 2005
Earthquake? It’s horrible
This noon when I came back from outside and read the news, I got to know that many citizens said they had just experienced an earchquake thing. And then after I got some deeper information I knew it was just a slight one, it was because an earchquake has just occured at another city and affected here. Some one on the internet said he felt his room shaking and a mirror on the wall nearly felt down. Will the shake come again? I’m kinda worrying about it.
November 25, 2005
After thanksgiving day
I wouldn’t have known it was thanksgiving day if my roommate didn’t told me about it last night on our way to the west gym playing table tennis. But I didn’t think it means anything to me, until I read a post on the bbs. The hotest one of top 10 is some guy said he bought food for a peasant worker from Anhui province who was not able to find a job and very very hungry. There are many commets to that post, nearly every one supports it and some people were even moved to burst into tears. I think the next thanksgiving day will mean a lot to me, because I realized there are many many good peaple who should be thanked and respected. They make it a better world.
November 22, 2005
Class Diagram in vs2005 is just nicer than together
Together can visisualize the class hierarchy among the existing class from .net dlls, but I didn’t find this function in class diagram of vs2005.
And, there’re no design pattern templetes in the class designer. Except it’s a little nicer, Class Diagram really sucks. It’s just like a toy. Just look forward to together for vs2005.
I use vs2005 professional. Does that of team version has any more functions?
