前天收到一封来自 Oracle 的邮件,通知我获得了 Oracle ACE award。颇有些意外之喜。
看完邮件,因为确认信还没有传真过去,网上 ACE 的页面也没更新,只和线上的几个朋友分享了一下这个信息,怕万一最后又被取消了可就糗大了。 过了一会儿看到 Kamus 的 Blog 说明,才知道其他几位朋友也都成为 ACE 了,也祝贺他们!
接到 Oracle 中国的 Jack Han 邀请填写提名表格的时候我刚好工作比较忙,内容都是匆忙间写的中文,英文翻译完全是 Jack 帮助搞的,谢谢 Jack! (也要谢谢另一位提名我的 Min Erh Mah , 我到现在还不知道他是谁.)当时也通知了几个朋友这件事情,可能因为他们年末也比较忙的缘故吧,要不这次应该会多几个人通过。至少我知道有几位朋友比我有资格的。
Oracle ACE 的成员有很多是资深的业界专家,技术精湛,难以望其项背,也有一些 Oracle 技术的鼓吹者,活跃在技术社区内,我属于后者。
有个同事把这个消息贴到了公司内网上,之后有不少同事见面和我开玩笑。我想这是我的 15 Minutes of Fame 。
今年如果有精力的话,准备拉几个朋友一起做一个中文的 Oracle Blog Network,也就是在现在 CNOUG.net 的基础上再进一步。
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an extremely large timeline depicting the archive of papers published in the prestigious Royal Society's scientific journal, from 1665 to 2005. the entire timeline has been segmented into 10 sections, each 20,000 x 2,000 pixels. this visualization displays papers chronologically, with paper titles radiating downward from the vertical midpoint at a 45 degree angle. the size varies linearly by the number of number of papers published during that year's volume. the size of the author's name reflects how prolific they were.
some patterns that can be observed: paper titles become shorter over time, & there is a notable decrease in the quantity of papers published per volume starting around 1761, which significantly rebounds in 1970.
[link: charrison.net]
2 different data visualization applications that use motion as the primary visual element for representing Usenet newsgroup data. these interfaces, Seascape and Volcano, use periodic animation loops to represent key social interaction features in online discussions. they are based on the assumption that motion may be particularly well suited for representing data about behavior & actions. size corresponds to the amount of threads in a group, activeness to the amount of messages in a group & recentness to thread initialization.
[link: mit.edu & mit.edu (pdf)]