Google+ has games

Just tried a moment ago. It has many popular games including Angry Birds, which was available only in Chrome for browsers. Now I can play it in Firefox.
Great!

Google Image Search

Just tried google's image search for curiosity. I use the profile picture from Szechuan Legend Restaurant's Facebook page.
The result comes with many colorful bamboo design. and the suggested keyword is "bamboo background". Not bad in my opinion.

New Phone System

We had the new phone system today in our office. Looks fancy however ...
The phone is feature rich, but it's IP phone. Anyway, I guess the company is just trying to lower the cost. 5330 for me is too complicated. I may not use many of them in the life time.

蜀香苑网站上加入了Facebook 和 Twitter

今天更新了网站，在抬头上加上了“Facebook” Page 的链接和 “Twitter” Follow。而且在每页上也植入了“Like”和“Tweet”功能。原来从来没研究过，原来Facebook还有这么多机关，而且推广网站和推广在Facebook上的Page还有很大不同。Tweet也是，还没搞的太清楚。
朋友对我网站界面的赞赏，很是让我激动啊！希望以后的“真功夫”也能接纳。呵呵...

蜀香苑有 Facebook Page 了

不晓得这种推销方式在中国人中流不流行，不过先加上个链接再说吧。
这个Page刚建立，还不到25人，所以还不能有一个URL，争取让更多人去加“Like”。
这个Vanity URL 还不好挣哦。暂时，这个链接是可以的。
Facebook Page：蜀香苑川菜馆-Szechuan-Legend-Restaurant .

餐厅网站制作－Up and Running

Version 1.0 完成了，昨天集中精力把拖了很久的网站建设完成了。朋友的餐厅这两天就开张了，没太多时间去完善全部功能，就没去想和执行动态更新网页方法，V2的时候再说了。V1相对于草图来说，就加了些底纹图案，地图和菜单链结。

把他们的信息放上来，有空去光顾哦，不会让你失望的，至少菜哈。

餐厅名称叫
【蜀香苑】川菜馆

电话
905-889-7883

地点就在
505 HWY 7 E, Unit 91&92(Commerce Gate),
Richmond Hill, ON
L3T 7T1

网站地址是
http://www.sichuanlegend.com

餐厅网站制作－草图

昨天把草图做出来了，可行的话，网站coding就能开始了，如果可能争取能在不刷新的情况下显示页面和同步显示相关的图片。
草图：

Cairngorm 3 and Parsley in Flex

Past a couple of years, I involved a few projects using Flex tech. we had some problems in my team when developing enterprise project. One is the code maintenance. As the project grows, AS commands, servce controls and UI mxml always involved together and hard to decouple. The other is unit test. The Flex is a very powerful event driven framework. However, when I wrote the unit test for a particular part of code, it because very hard to handle when the data is ready cause I don't know when the event will be triggered to generate the data required for unit tests if testing part involving UI operations.
Starting this year, we introduce Cairngorm 3 framework guideline and Parsley injection framework library. These techs hopefully help us to address the issue. MVC is a long existing framework, which decouple commands, views and controls. The idea of Cairngorm guideline is a implementation of decoupling in Flex. The Parsley lib is a popular IoC framework lib to use.
The resources I found are very useful:

1. Adobe Cairngorm Home
   The first place you should go.
2. Parsley lib Home
   Where you can find the guide to using Parsley and it's API.
3. Arturo Alvarado's Quick Dive into Parsley
   A very good step-by-step guide to know about Parsley.

Unlike Cairngorm 2, Cairngorm 3 is a general guideline with a couple of helpful libs to develop Flex project. I hope there's no much obstacle to use the framework for my project.

"Hello World" App of Flex+Google App Engine+BlazeDS

I've been long time to look some way to develop my sample server host app without a penny.
I registered Google App Engine and Google Site a few years ago, but they both has some limits to start building a site.
Today, after I read this post, I think I may start to build a Flex site, which I can use Flex, Messaging Server and Data Communication Objects. Let's see when I will have my first app posted.

Flint Particle System - Cool Flex Effects

Flint Particle System is a very cool open-source library to add effects in Flash. It can be added in AS, Flash or Flex project. The site also provide many example to get started.

Google's gmail phone works for me

Read the news about the google phone in gmail yesterday. It said the offer is for US only and free for US and CA by the end of year.
I curiously tried to install the feature. There's no "Call phone" button displayed in chat panel when I restarted browser. Can't figure it out.
However, when I get to the office and open the browser, The button is shown. Can't wait to try it even I don't have a head mic. It works.
I probably won't use it much, but it still a nice feature. I hope google can integrate all voice feature with gmail.

Link: 28 Rich Data Visualization Tools

This is a list of data visualization tools for RIA:
28 Rich Data Visualization Tools

from InsideRIA .

Flex Resources and Blog Collection

Flex Blog Collection
Doug McCune: http://dougmccune.com/blog/
David Coletta: http://www.colettas.org/
Ely Greenfield: http://www.quietlyscheming.com/blog/
Eric Cancil: http://blog.3r1c.net/
Peter Ent: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/pent/
Ben Stucki: http://blog.benstucki.net/
Darron Schal: http://weblog.cahlan.com/
Brendan Meutzner: http://www.meutzner.com/blog/index.cfm
Arpit Mathur: http://www.arpitonline.com/blog/
Andrew Trice: http://www.cynergysystems.com/blogs/
Mike Nimer: http://blog.mikenimer.com/

Component, Widget List
http://www.brightworks.com/technology/adobe_flex/components_widgets_etc.html

List of 31 Flex APIs, Libraries, Components and Tools
http://seantheflashguy.com/blog/2007/08/21/list-of-31-flex-apis-libraries-components-and-tools/

Flex 2 Primitive Explorer
http://www.3gcomm.fr/Flex/PrimitiveExplorer/Flex2PrimitiveExplorer.html