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I will be making a simple pong sharing the same concepts as the one found in the ipod except that my version will be even simpler. Why make such a stupid thing for a final project? Well, the main reason being that we are using VHDL to synthesize this so that it can work on the hardware level. Writing something in VHDL and having its simulation running does not mean that it is hardware-implementable. And that is a situation I do not wish to encounter after writing 1000 lines of VHDL code. The second reason being that I am more concern with having a working project. And lastly, I might add that I have little faith for my lab partner who has not contributed anything useful to all of our experiments.

I will be making a separate page that is to be hosted on my .mac homepage so that it is public accessible. I will put my source code and the report online. Hopefully someone finds it useful.

Here is the .mac page for it: ECE249

Since blosxom relies on perl so much, I figured that it would be beneficial to read up on it. Moreover, perl is one of the P-Languages (Perl, Python, PHP, ....) that is good to learn since they differ pretty much from the C-Languages. Thus, to help in this endeavor, I have looked upon the wisdom of Learning Perl by O'Reilly. I have the book Perl In a Nutshell too in my online collection but opinions on it are not as supportive. I do not think that Perl is a hard language to learn; it might be hard to master, though.

What I hope to accomplish with Perl is to be able to dissect and understand everything about blosxom.cgi; not that I do not understand it now, but I really want to understand it.

A demonstration of what can be accomplished visually through CSS-based design.... [css Zen Garden: The Beauty in CSS Design]

This site has given me a new enlightenment into the things that one can accomplish through proper css-based design. I was particulary impressed by the ability to create something new while maintaining all the text--something that I knew can be done but have yet to see it done properly.

I believe that soon most site will follow the design zen expressed here and we would be rid of all the tabled-alignment atrocities we see too often on other sites. This will provide the impetus to solidify a standard for CSS that ALL browsers should support.

This proves to be an interesting book to show all the tricks, or as O'Reilly calls it: hacks, that can be accomplished in Flash. The level of actionscript is not too advanced and the scripts themselves are relatively short which makes them even better hacks; things which normal people will never have thought of. Chapter 1 was interesting enough to pique my appetite.

Will showcase some of the flash tricks that I have modified soon. Really soon.