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U:Desk received an award!

(RONIA) — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:48:27 +0900

I had worked for full 6 months on the U:Desk project before I came to America.

It was so intensive due to the excessive amount of requirement and lack of time.

After all, at the end of the semester, I had to admit that I could not finish the project.

Moreover, I was not sure if the project was meaningful enough.

2 days ago, U:Desk won the gold prize in 2008 Soongsil University IT Contest.

I am so happy that my work was worthy, and I and my colleagues did a good job.

Based on what I have experienced through out the project period,

I am writing a paper about how the project went, what was the cause of overtime and overbudget, the lessons learned, and possible changes on the project for students working on their own projects over in Korea and any other students who are up on the same situation.

I sincerely thank all the project members who worked with me on U:Desk.

:D

"Half the industry uses Mac"

(RONIA) — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 04:45:04 +0900

"Half the industry uses Mac. So the Mac compatibility (multi-platform) is desired."

I was surprised, I'd rather say shocked, when I heard the requirement from the client.

I'm currently working on a project called "Theatre Script Online Database" as a Project Manager.

Its main purpose is to distribute acting script to the actresses and actors through the Internet, saving costs of copying and papers.

Back in Korea, I guess more than 95% of the people, who are not in the computer industry, use PCs.

They also use only Microsoft Internet Explorer as their primary web browser, which makes me, as a web developer, never need to care about any other platform when I work, even though I built everything to the web standards.

The world is big, the situation over in America is little bit different.

SAL Computer Lab, in Salvatori Computer Science Center, is filled with half PCs, another half Macs, and few Solaris machines.

It's not like one platform has monopoly, but competes each other.

We, the project team, finally decided to make it web-based, compatible to all the major browsers.

My friends in Korea, be open and get out of the jail of Microsoft.

Google Chrome has revealed!

(RONIA) — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 07:56:44 +0900

Google announced its first web browser - Chrome.

What they claim is that current web browsers are not well-tuned for rich web applications, and Chrome is developed from scratch to run those applications such as Google docs.

There's only Windows version by now, I hope Google keep working on the other platforms - Mac and Linux.

I'm doing just fine in LA

(RONIA) — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:02:33 +0900

Hello, my friends.

I'm getting used to living in Los Angeles pretty quickly.

I've got a cell phone, which is an iPhone :D, a car, a place to stay, and most of the things you could come up with.

The thing is that I do not have an Internet access yet, and that's what makes my life suffocated!

I'll be online soon!

MS IE Sucks!

(RONIA) — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 00:19:41 +0900

I'm working on the U:Desk project at this moment, and I really have to say this.

"Microsoft Internet Explore Sucks!"

I do understand that not every web browser perfectly follows the web standards, suggested by W3C, but IE seems like it seriously does not.

We, U:Desk team, test U:Desk on number of browsers such as Firefox, Safari, and of course IE. IE is the only browser that cannot show the web pages how we wanted them to show, while the other browsers do just fine.

These are the "W3C XHTML 1.0 valid" U:Desk snapshots.

U:Desk on Firefox 3

U:Desk on Internet Explorer 6

The bad news is that IE is the market leader, meaning more than half of the Internet users are using IE, so we have to look for a way for U:Desk to look fine on IE, by not following the web standards.

The web standards are not mandatorial, but they need to be kept for efficient web contents development.

I hope the next version of IE, which MS says it will consider the web standards, would keep the standards.

Booked A Flight

(RONIA) — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:25:38 +0900

I booked a flight to Los Angeles.

It's KE 17 on July 29th, non-stop flight from Incheon to LA.

I will miss everything and everyone in Korea.

Hope I would see you again in the future :D

Using Python for Systems Programming project

(RONIA) — Tue, 20 May 2008 02:01:12 +0900

After I decided to use Python for the Systems Programming project, I have stacked all the information I have collected during the project.

I would like to share the information with you even if I am no longer using Python for this project.

I hope these information and data would eventually help you to work on your project.

You can find my new project using Ruby on Rails instead here!

Open Draft

Final Admissions Posting

(RONIA) — Tue, 13 May 2008 14:20:24 +0900

The last admission decision has been made. Started in 2005, it took about 3 years to prepare and decide what school to go.

Here's my scores for you to understand about my status better, and hopefully, my application information would help you who are considering applying to graduate schools in the U.S..

Undergraduate GPA: 3.7/4.5 (Soongsil University, Seoul, Republic of Korea)
Undergraduate Major GPA: 3.9/4.5
Undergraduate Upper GPA: 3.9/4.5

TOEFL(iBT): 104(R/L/S/W - 28/27/20/29)
GRE General: 1340(V/Q/A - 540/800/3.5)

Recommendation Letters from:
Prof. Soo Dong Kim (at SSU)
Prof. Yongtae Shin (at SSU)
Prof. Seung Min Yang (at SSU)
Prof. Changjin Seo (at SSU)

Statement of Purpose: about 900 words

Major: Computer Science(specialized in Software Engineering and Web Technologies)
Degree: Master of Science

Admissions from:
Columbia University, New York City, New York
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
University of California, Irvine, California
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina

Rejections from:
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minnesota
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia

Financial Aid:
University of Florida: $12,507 for 2 years

Teaching Assistant/Research Assistant:
none

USC

(RONIA) — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:26:35 +0900

I finally decided to go to University of Southern California.

I appreciate your support.

It's been really hard for me to choose one of Columbia, USC, UFL, and NCSU. All of them have outstanding Master of Science in Computer Science programs that make me hesitate. The reason I chose USC is because there are more professors who major in Software Engineering or Web Technology, there are more job opportunities in California, and the weather is a lot better than anywhere else! It's California. :D (I heard it only rains for 35 days a year!)

Anyway, I will be posting new articles when I get there, Los Angeles!

;)

Ah, this is going to be my new e-mail address while I'm at USC:

" jaeyounb at usc dot edu "

Advanced Web Programming

(RONIA) — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:43:33 +0900

For those who take Advanced Web Programming:

You can find all the PDFs and MOVs at this address

http://203.253.4.122

the address has been changed!