even LOST has its season finale

Today is my last day at Qualcomm.

It still feels like yesterday when I set foot in this continent, started some fun with X2, enjoyed Brazil, had this meet-up in Cupertino, did little exploration around San Diego, and then got blessed with a cute boy. Time really flies. Now it's already time to move on, again (though this time without a geeky resignation).

I will miss Snapdragon (the pictured HTC EVO is powered by the said platform). Or any other dragons.

Those who are annoyed by a certain obsession of mine probably can guess where I'm heading to. In the grand mission of inspiring and pushing developers to write better and more exciting applications, a particular productivity barrier needs to be broken. And I dropped enough (subtle) hints in my previous blog entries already.

Stay tuned.

var Adam = new Child(Ariya);

> Adam.prototype
Human
> Adam.timestamp
1279148700
> Adam.length
50.17
> Adam.weight
3.4
> Adam.health
Checking.... Good
> Adam.mother.health
Checking... Good
> Adam.father.status
"Happy"

spring-to-summer: photo blog

Since I've not been blogging for a while, let me do a post on some pictures (plus the stories) instead.

On a weekend, Balboa Park is a very nice attraction. Rather than explaining it in details, I suggest to just drop the park a visit. Beside a lot of different types of museum, there is also this Japanese Friendship Garden. A small cafe there, the Tea Pavillion, is a very nice place to relax and enjoy the surrounding. They serve sencha and other types of tea. Hungry? Get a rice bowl:

If you are more a beach person instead, then there is a plenty of choices, for example Silver Strand Beach. It is rather small, but it is always a nice spot to enjoy the sunset.

When I was at Google IO, I took some pictures of the large overhang banners because I wanted to test the 8 megapixel camera of HTC EVO 4G that Google gave away (see more in the complete set):

Getting a fantastic gift for the Father's day? Thinking of something for the next Mother's Day? What about a beautiful pendant (get one from LuShae Jewelry) like what my other better half elegantly captured below?

camp kde: day two (sunday)

Again, just track all the tweets and blogs to know what happens in Camp KDE in almost real-time. For more pictures, check out KDE Events Pool at Flickr.

In one of the talks today, Romain "Frankenstein" Pokrzywka showcased KDE 4 on Windows. Though he blogged about it recently, it is definitely interesting to see a live demo, especially things like Plasma running (and crashing, occasionally) on Windows, and that some apps are really usable already. Well, who knows? In the not so distant future, it is definitely easier to convince Window users like Joe Sixpack to start using KDE apps.

camp kde: day one (saturday)

Showing up at this year's Camp KDE feels a bit weird. First of all, because I do not need to travel at all since I already moved to San Diego some time ago. In addition to that, while I was still with Nokia (Qt), usually I could only attend conferences only if I have something to present. It is a great relief not to worry about my own talks and just enjoy the event.

There were few talks today. As you can guess, you can pretty much follow them if you keep an eye on #campkde tweets and/or follow Planet KDE these days.

The keynote was from Professor Bourne, he had a presentation about open access to data, in particular in the field of science (in his example, pharmaceutical sciences), such as the initiatives with protein databank, Public Library of Science, SciVee. I fully agree with his opinions in this matter, especially since they resemble some of my observations when I was doing my graduate research years ago. In particular, "publish or perish" could potentially destroy the sharing spirit of researches. I do believe that competition is good, but I also do strongly believe that science is about sharing.

I hope more people will show up tomorrow. The sunset here is so fantastic, you just have to experience it yourself.

To be continued (to day 2).

"i" for innovate

As I have hinted before, somehow I aimed to move to some sunny place in California. Well, lucky as we could be, after days of experiencing the transient stage (with tons of good and bad experiences, what a roller-coaster), we slowly settle in San Diego, (arguably) a beautiful place to live. The proof is the following picture, basically I can enjoy watching sunset from our balcony every day when the weather permits (it does usually).

Few weeks ago, I started a new position within Qualcomm Innovation Center Inc., specifically in the new Web Technologies team. This center is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Qualcomm, one of the top 10 semiconductor sales leaders last year. The official party line of Qualcomm Innovation Center is best understood by what our president, Rob Chandhok, has expressed once: focus on such important open source initiatives as Linux and Webkit, and on open source operating systems such as Symbian, Android and Chrome.

Of course, faithful followers of my blog can quickly point out that this whole thing is just a cover-up for the real motive: the strong desire to live in a perfect symmetry :)

In addition, to convince you that the alignment of the planet has been planned for this, surely you know (perfectly) where the upcoming Camp KDE will be held?

See you in 2 weeks. Happy 0x7da!