Prince of Persia by Hilary Goldstein IGN

In truth, Elika is really just a manifestation of actions we've been performing in games for years. We've all seen a double jump before and heroes who mix in magic with their swordplay. All Ubisoft did was take these very standard gameplay elements and give them a physical form. It's because Elika is such a natural extension of the gameplay that it's easy to care for her.

To play Prince properly, you need to relax (yes, relax) and feel the cadence of the Prince's movements. You will never furiously tap any button while free running. It's more like: Jump, pause, jump, pause, jump, use Elika, pause, jump. Finding the right rhythm can lead to some spectacular-looking and amazingly fluid sequences. And if you can't get the rhythm, your punishment is having the Prince briefly pause on beams and poles, waiting for you to get it together. When done right, you are treated to some spectacular animations both from the Prince and Elika. It's like playing a Cirque de Soleil video game at times.

Getting the flow of combat is more difficult than getting into the acrobatics. It's going to be difficult -- perhaps even impossible -- for some to break their old habits. For those who can't get into POP's flow, the experience may be short-lived. Prince of Persia isn't for everyone. You are either going to love it or just not get it at all. If you can embrace the idea that this is more about an experience than about the traditional "beating the game" mentality, then you are in for something special.

Tip

For chaging file permission in Windows XP, use "CACLS" command:
http://www.shell-tips.com/2007/01/18/files-and-directories-user-permissions-on-windows-xp/

Integration

For those using other kinds of social networking or publishing, aggregating RSS feeds from them to be displayed in www.walkingonthesea.net can be primitive yet effective way to concentrate the purpose of gathering of people's thoughts in one place. Allowing them to keep the structure of their content management and yet opening the thoughts from them to the www.walkingonthesea.net is the most important fruit of this project.

Learn how to aggregate and display the RSS feeds from other blogging systems, Cyworld, Facebook, Naver, Tistory, Tattertools, and etc.

Social Networking #1

Bible Chapter reading statistics. Every member submit their daily readings of chapters from the Bible, and the statistical result will show which chapter is being read by many, for how often. Good way of finding who reads the same chapters.

Learn from Facebook and Myspace, for its global usage. Learn the disadvantages of Cyworld.

Smooth Migration

http://www.stillwaterkbc.org/ will be redirected to a subdomain under http://www.walkingonthesea.net/ for temporarily, or permanently to adhere to the purpose of using the non-localized domain name. Keeping the domain name http://www.stillwaterkbc.org/ is inevitable for a long period of time.

LEARN: PHP and MySQL and JavaScript for AJAX. Become the Master as soon as possible!

Started managing StilwaterKBC.org

About a week ago, [fxceed.com] started managing http://www.stillwaterkbc.org/ website. Weekly updating church announcements, uploading media files, and developing new website, [fxceed.com] has begun to be tested for its professional aptitudes. This will be the first project of [fxceed.com] which will guide it to learn how to successfully develop a new website.

TASK 20081104: Created a page for downloading media files. Used http://www.box.net/ service for streaming audio files. Had to be careful about copyright issues for certain presentation files, thus changed its exposure from open to closed, only will be available by request.

NEXT: Must find the smooth way to migrate from old way of using CGI to new way of using PHP and MySQL, without causing any difficulties, confusion, or frustration. [fxceed.com] wants to please the customers. Need to develop better board system for efficient and safe use. Realizing how out of date the site has been, this new development will require drastic adoption for new technologies. AJAX perhaps?

First day with WordPress

Installed WordPress in my computer. Finished only the first setup, doing it twice to make it work for Korean. My first initial idea was to develop my own theme that can be used for my church's new website. Designing something graphical is not easy for me. And I need to get good help. Trusting people is something I have big trouble with. It's always problems caused by me.
I feel hasty. And hasty will ruin this project. Please hold me firmly.

From now on, I must spend good deal of time for studying the code throughly to understand the causes and the effects. Sacrificing time for sleep and meeting people. Keep me alive.

Inspiration

Maybe I can open up my room to bring people in here. While we are playing for the night, I can still show them what I am working on. That's the reason why I have this big room. To fill it with people.
Never be afraid to ask for help, especially to those in church and academia. This project is worth by its attempt, process, not by its end result only. This will be a good story we can tell to anyone who is interested in hiring us. Challenging ourselves with the limited resouces, time, personnel, and yet proving that this project can be done, it will be a good story people will want to follow and imitate. The project done not by the professionals, but by a group of volunteers. Our working will surely be rewarded. Please help us.

Mixed feelings

Strangely, I just can't stop dreaming about building a successful website that does contribute and becomes a great Rightful property for so many people. Without not knowing the specific tools to be used, and attained the level of mastery for professional development, I just can't shake it off. Yet, I know the requirements, the labor and dedication sacrificing some of my comforts. I fear how I will disappoint myself by not achieving the goal, and being regretful for what I had sacrificed. And the anticipatory challenges toward me, attacking my soul, body, and my people. I just don't have enough courage to respond; react to this call. Please let me do what You want me to do. Whatever it is, build it to be servile, bringing joy to Your people.

New Domain name Candidate: http://c******.***.**t

Realization?

Maybe I'm forcing myself to think about the project to be too big and ambitious. Probably, I can even attempt is simply making similarly operating website with new design, or interface. Daring to make something great would lead me to be frustrated since there may not be adequate acknowledgement or support, unless I announce it publicly. But most of all, it's due to my lack of creatively striking idea that will definitely entertain people. Must think simply and in user's point of view. Never be too proud to do something for contribution. Don't tempt myself to do something great and expect or command respect from those I should serve.

However, examining the way I use my time like this weekend, I just need more motivation or incentive. Being focused to do something valuable is such a great gift.

What to do and why

1. Find the hosting service: I consider EasyCGI to be the best for it's capability for support both ASP.NET and PHP

2. Register the Domain name: http://www.stillwaterkbc******.org/ Can't think of anything really good.

3. Open source: Respect the spirit of collaboration. Since I will heavily borrow many solutions from other developers, it's my duty to properly keep good reference to their sincere work.

4. Multi-lingual: This is for anyone coming to the website from anywhere. Thus, additional to Korean contents, it will be required to have the identical or at least the similar contents in English. Currently, there is no prospect for supporting other languages due to my inability.

5. Altruistic Intention: Though this site will be developed only by myself, it will not be owned by me. Rather, I will strongly encourage people to particapate in tinkering and reforming. As this project will support my preparation for real professional career development, I hope it will motivate other students and job seekers likewise. By not taking my ownership, this site will be owned by everyone and have much longer life.

Developing New Website

After many speculations, fxceed.com has decided to pause maintaining its site for a while. And will start developing an additional, and eventually the substitution website for the Korean Church in Stillwater. Initially, this development will focus on expanding its accessibility to non-Korean speaking church members and future users, whether they are attending church or not. One great aspect of Internet is its unlimited openness to anyone from anywhere.

First thing, is that fxceed.com is not skilled enough to handle this project specification: AJAX, ASP.NET, File Uploading, Applying other professional site types, Security, etc. This is the first project to be considered real professional task.

From this day on, this blog will keep the development journal. Starting from what I cumulatively learn for mastering new techniques, and to actually developing the website for real use.

Good luck, to myself.