I was contracted out as a consultant for a new company three weeks ago. They had a computer ready for me but it was not set up correctly so I could actually do work. I finally got my new one last Thursday. I guess they made it a worthwhile wait. It’s pretty decent ya think?
Tables are very important parts of the web interface. They are (hopefully) used for tabular data. It is one of the oldest and most basic HTML presentation tag but in order for it to smoothly fit into the new CSS age, we need to look at the most practical way in correctly setting up the markup and the CSS.
Nowadays, we no longer wish to make separate instances of a similar application for different clients. We want to thrive on making a single application that will fit the needs of as many clients as possible. This task is very challenging. In my opinion the ideal situation is to have the clients and developers both understand the benefits of the end goal and compromise to reach it. As developers we can always dream to have a single application reach the level of customization we can accomplish with many separate applications and yet don’t confuse the heck out of the end users. While I am unsure if that’s ever a possibility, I know ways that might help get us closer.
One of the biggest challenges is to give each client who uses the same application their own unique UI presentation. This is no small task and I only plan to address a small issue you might encounter in accomplishing this task. That’s how to mark up a table with the most amount of UI flexibility.
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i don’t know why i came to work today.
the weather is hell. this morning freezing rain fell. then snow pellets, thunder & lightning. tonight we are supposed to get 5 inches of snow. misty was a scared little puppy. she always has been a chicken.
i was woke up by the loud thunder at 6am and was debating if i should go to work ever since. for a while i thought for sure i was NOT going. it all changed around 8 o’clock. i thought maybe the road won’t be as bad.
WRONG! trying to stop for a red light, i did a 180 at an intersection. FORTUNATELY there was no car behind or next to me. otherwise i’d wipe out all three lanes. that really scared the **** out of me. i knew i should have turned around but i kept going. after i got on interstate 80, i found out the right lane was not ploughed at all. the left lane seemed clean. patiently i waited for all the cars on the left lane to pass me and then got on the left lane and drove about 45mph all the way close to the exit. then i was terrified when i had to change back to the right lane to go on the off ramp. i know from my past experience how much control i would be in getting on top of a pile of snow. i just told myself, go slow slow slow. it was still probably pretty risky because by the time i got to the right lane, the car behind me was almost about to hit my rear end. i slowed down to 25mph when i reached the off ramp.
thank god now i’m safely sitting in my cube. of course i will be surprised if even 10% of the IT employees came. all the meetings i have on my schedule have been cancelled.
maybe it’s time to really get some work done? LMAO
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i think my cubicle is pretty cool. the first time i saw it i was actually surprised about how big it was. i mean for an entry level position, i was expecting a stall sized cubicle. haha.. not to say it’s really big or anything. you can’t fit another person in there easily but still for myself, it’s good enough.
a picture of my cubicle for your viewing pleasure. btw, the bubo graphic you see. it’s a print out of this haha
i also made a new layout for my tabulas. it’s not done tho. and hrm now i kind of realize the pain of making customized layouts for centralize blog service.. you don’t have all the control over the code.. like when someone on your friends list post bad code, it will affect your layout and messes it up XP. darn.
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i just got my own phone at work. and guess what? about 20 minutes after my phone was set up, i got a phone call. the conversation went like this:
lady: hi, i need to vertify past employment
me (totally confused): hrm i was last employed by the Unversity of Iowa as a student employee?
lady: oh no, not you but someone who used to work there.
me: who is this someone?
lady: ____ fill in a random name ____
me: i do not know this person.
lady: well that’s the number she put down.
me: well, i must have gotten her old number.
lady: her employer was ____ fill in another random name _____, does that person still work there?
me: no. let me find you another number to call.
me (looking for the secretary and found that she was not there. then flipping through the ACT phone book and only found the extension for the Human Resources Department. Guessing it begins with 337 and told her) here the HR number is 337-1277.
lady: thank you very much.
me: bye
quite an unexpected first phone call at work. i realize i could have transferred the call but hey that’s the very first time i’ve used the phone. don’t expect me to be so familiar with the whole system.
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i guess it’s a natural feeling. i went through an intensive orientation for my teaching assistant job that would start on monday. there are lots of stuff i need to prepare for and learn. as a graduate student whose first language is not English, i’m required by the department to take a TA certification test. i took it yesterday and i got the highest rank which allows me to “take full responsibility for a lecture/discussion class”. this means i am allowed to teach alone. for the class i will be TAing, i will not teach alone. there’s a professor who does the lecture. i will just have to lead the discussion sections. i will be teaching 4 sections everyday from T-F 8:30 – 9:30a.
i’m excited to stand up in front of a class to be the person in control. i don’t think i will be too nervous when i know people look up to me. the thing i’m concerned is how well i will teach. a professor gave a presentation on the principles of teaching today. he got me thinking about various things i didn’t think before. will i be able to convince the students what they are learning is meaningful to them? can i provide a pleasant learning atmosphere? will the students truly LEARN something from my classes?
how well i will connect with my students is a mystery. i always feel i’m not very sociable in real life. that concerns me a little but i’m full of confidence. i know i will run into problems and have lots to learn before i can teach them. i’ve heard quite a bit about the class “computer analysis” as a lab monitor so it’s not too new but i know how frustrating that class may get for the students if they are behind.
our school started this herky on parade event to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the historic Kinnick Stadium, home of the University of Iowa’s varsity football program. they placed 75 differently designed Hawkeye mascots Herky on iowa city streets. unfortunately some immature college students are busy vandalizing the newest additions to iowa city streets. what a shame. i personally don’t think they are the best art in the world but at least i appreciate the artists who put them together.
10 abstract algebra proofs = our third take home midterm in the abstract algebra class. on the test it stated you are allowed to use your notes, the course textbook, and old homework. you are also allowed to talk to the instructor. you are not allowed to use other books, or to talk to anyone else about the exam (including the TA).
there’s one problem on the test, i originally thought i did it correctly but since the teacher talked specifically about the definition of the problem today in class, i know i got it wrong. just to make sure, i asked him to look at my proof. he confirmed my proof is not correct. the notation i used for the commutator subgroup seemed familiar to him. he asked me where i got that. i seriously had came up with that myself. it’s nothing too fancy. they defined the set that generated the commutator subgroup to be
{xyx^-1y^-1 : x,y in G}
and usu. conjugate is written by ghg^-1 for g in G. in this case, i will have to write something like gxyx^-1y^-1g^-1 which is very messy so i wrote as g[x,y]g^-1 where [x,y] stands for xyx^-1y^-1. the teacher said he guessed i’ve seen a proof in our course textbook considering the commutator subgroup. i seriously did NOT. but since he mentioned it to me, i checked the textbook out. now i found a proof in our textbook proving the EXACT PROBLEM on the take home test. it blowed my mind. apparently if i have seen this proof beforehand, why would i bother asking him if i got the problem right or wrong. but OMG, how there can be an answer in the textbook to the problem on the test when we are allowed to use the textbook?!
i felt so weird that i emailed the teacher:
On Apr 14, 2004, at 1:10 PM, Ying Zhang wrote:
> since it’s stated on the test
> that we are allowed to use the course textbook, this shouldn’t be
> considered cheating, should it?
No. It’s not cheating. When I assigned the problem I didn’t realize the proof was in the book, however.
But you are allowed to use anything in the book that you want.
my professor said the department has decided to accept me to the graduate school even tho i haven’t taken GRE yet. i can take the test as late as the fall semester. but i do want to take it this summer. not too much can go wrong now. starting the fall semester i will be getting a full scholarship for the tuition for 5 years plus TA or RA for a monthly wage studying toward a Ph.D in management science. i’m sooooooooo happy 
things seem to have settled quite fast
it’s SNOWING today; can you believe it? and i thought it’s going to be warm and wore sandles.
another shocking policy set up by the chinese. i just read on hailey’s blog that her school is banning all students from owning computers in their dorms. i just don’t get what is the point of that. esp. for college students, how they should treat their academic studies is their own damn business. the school treats them as if they are three year olds who can’t make mature decisions between playing games and doing homework. i always view the internet as a window of getting in touch with the world. you can meet more interesting people and learn cooler stuff from the internet than in real life. i just finished writing my personal statement for my graduate school application. i wanted to enhance the internet and human interaction with my graduate studies. and this policy makes me wonder if the people running the school really understands what today’s world is about. absolutely shocking.
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