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Comment on 5 tips on teaching software – delivery by Gurmet Singh

Gurmet Singh — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 01:31:16 +0000

Very good tips. Well done and thanks for sharing. Most of us don’t even realise that until we read this.
Keep up the good work.

Gurmet

Comment on TEDx Singapore Talk: The Princess, the Witch, and the PowerPoint by WT

WT — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:46:17 +0000

Hi Mr Yee CT! What an interesting presentation;) you should do more of it!:)

Comment on Permanent Whiteboard Markers by Andy Croll

Andy Croll — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 04:00:21 +0000

You know if you scribble over the permanent writing with the non-permanent marker the solvents dissolve the permanent ink as well… and you can rub the mistake away.

Hat tip to Carl “whiteboard saver” Coryell-Martin for that one.

Comment on TEDx Singapore Talk: The Princess, the Witch, and the PowerPoint by Priscilla

Priscilla — Tue, 10 May 2011 12:13:59 +0000

i remembered hearing you present this some long time ago and now that I randomly came to your blog and watched it again, thought it’s really very good! Are you created a new version? :p

Comment on Accessibility on Singapore Government websites by coleman yee

coleman yee — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 04:25:16 +0000

@mightytrashcan there’s no straightfoward answer to your question. There was a point in my life when I would keep insisting that I’m right (since I know I’m right), until something/someone breaks. I’ve since learnt to pick my battles. Learn to be more persuasive. Understand their perspective first, then see if I can shift their perspective to mine.
The good thing is, since I’ve written this blog post almost 2 years ago, things have improved significantly among the gov sector here. So things are changing, although not always at the pace that we’d like.

Comment on Accessibility on Singapore Government websites by mightytrashcan

mightytrashcan — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 14:33:58 +0000

@coleman Thanks, Ye, I shall continue in what I believe in despite the bad module grade back then. However this bought a sudden thought in me, what if you are working on a new project with colleagues or superior in the work place who doesn’t believe in such stuffs? How far would you go to try convince them before giving up and follow them in doing things the “outdated” way?

I believe this is something which pledge many of the government websites too. At 1 point, you want to see a better “product”, yet at another end, there will always be colleagues/superiors who will never be able to see the obvious and you will be forcing yourself doing things the bad way.

Asking this cause I’m going to an interview soon on a gov related job which may involve some maintenance of existing “outdated” sites. I figured I might touch lots of dirty markups if I manage to pass the interview.

Comment on Accessibility on Singapore Government websites by coleman yee

coleman yee — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 09:45:21 +0000

@mightytrashcan It’s unfortunate that your lecturer wasn’t competent. But don’t let that stop you from doing the right thing

Comment on Accessibility on Singapore Government websites by mightytrashcan

mightytrashcan — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 09:18:31 +0000

Sorry for such a late post, just happen to stumble upon this post. Yes, I agree very much with what you have said, especially in regards to horrific web education. I still remember the time when I focus alot on accessibility, web standards issues in my poly course work.

Yet my lecturer marked me down terribly when I mentioned it as 1 of the key point (I do completed all required parts of the website too)

He simply commented to the class that my team are spending effort on useless stuffs, like someone “who keep washing their hands because he thinks it’s not clean enough”.

It was a big blow to me. Especially when I have managed to convince my team mates that improving accessibility and web standards are the way to go after we had totally finished all the website requirements. Unsurprisingly, my lecturer is quite a supporter of table based layouts.

I personally think there is a need to make accessibility, web standards stuffs as the law/requirements for government based website or websites shall never improve over here.

Comment on Why the Matrix Will Not Happen by Earl Fox

Earl Fox — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 20:49:46 +0000

Why God didn’t gave us ability of sending thoughts to each other directly (really without using the words)? Because we can’t manage our word-based restricted world. Yes, words sets for us straight rules and put us into frame which restrict us in damaging other brains (though even today we can use words for damaging minds: deceiving, saying bad things about each other, misleading through showing the reality which doesn’t exist, etc).

Words are like an HTTP protocol, and our mind is like a web-server who handles (or not handles) all the requests. If our security systems in mind are weak, we let others manipulate us through the words (rich corporations do it through the words of thousands and millions of people which maintained by one structure)

So, programming languages are like words and they create a whole new world for expressing thoughts the way we want and by even creating the world the way we want, and that’s why I believe that Matrix is possible. But personally I would expected from the Matrix something more than was represented in movie.

Comment on Why the Matrix Will Not Happen by Earl

Earl — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 05:17:56 +0000

Security matters will be solved really easily if technology of connecting our brains into network will exist. Logical providing of security will look like forbidding users having direct access to brains, people will have access only to the virtual world – it will be almost the same like living in our current world, but in comparison with virtual one there will be the way of changing reality (but not changing the minds)