http://www.g9labs.com Andrew Hao’s thoughts on design, Web development, and anything shiny. Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:25:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hi, I'm Andrew. Nice to meet you. You may know me from the one-man design/development shop g9Labs* Design Studio, specializing in graphic/interface design and Web applications. You may also know me as one of the guys behind Wejoinin, the easy way to make a signup sheet online. I do the design ... http://www.g9labs.com/about/ A few weeks ago, I couldn't seem to connect my laptop to the wireless AP in my apartment. Additionally, I'd be getting weak signals from all these weird corners in my apartment. Since I had a spare AP lying around at home, I decided to do some online research to ... http://www.g9labs.com/2008/11/05/setting-up-a-multi-ap-wireless-network/ http://www.g9labs.com/photography/ Wejoinin Web programming, interface design, Web design: Site in progress. Wejoinin is a signup-sheet application that I'm working on with a group of friends at the Porkbuns Initiative. We're trying to make signup sheets quick, easy and painless, and we're having a lot of fun doing it too. Site still in progress. Good Shepherd ... http://www.g9labs.com/portfolio/ One trend on the Web these days is to move away from traditional full-stack frameworks (like Rails) toward client-side, full-stack Javascript frameworks (among them Dojo, GWT, SproutCore, and Cappuccino). There's been a lot of buzz about SproutCore and Cappuccino, because of their design elegance, shiny Mac-ness and promises of really ... http://www.g9labs.com/2008/10/02/first-look-at-sproutcore-and-cappuccino/ Since I'm in the process of doing some housekeeping around the blog, I've begun moving my old design portfolio over to Flickr. This is sort of an intermediary step to another intermediary step of overhauling my portfolio (yeah, I've been meaning to do this for the past five years). Watch this ... http://www.g9labs.com/2008/09/24/updated-portfolio-sort-of/ Contact (email hidden; JavaScript is required) http://www.g9labs.com Education University of California, Berkeley B.S. Electrical Engineering Computer Science (EECS) B.A. Mass Communications Management of Engineering and Innovation Certificate Expected graduation: Dec 2008 GPA: 3.58 Relevant Courses CS 61A - Structure & Interpretation of Computer Programs CS 61B - Data Structures CS 61C - Machine Structures CS 160 - User Interface Design CS 162 - Operating Systems CS ... http://www.g9labs.com/resume/ Do any fellow geeks out there follow any GettingThingsDone (GTD) practices? (I'm trying to get my life organized�a futile attempt before the sledgehammer of school and responsibilities drops. Organized as in... prioritizing, managing time, et cetera.) A couple things I've done: GTD-ized my Thunderbird client (heck, I never knew labels could be ... http://www.g9labs.com/2006/09/02/geek-brief/ Many of you have wondered what it's like daily indulging in the opulence that are the FAQQLY offices. Allow me to take you on a tour. These are known as cubicles. There are many of them, and they all look the same. Don't let their similarities to prison cells fool you. ... http://www.g9labs.com/2006/07/31/the-faqqly-tour/ In Spring 2008, I took an information architecture course in the UC Berkeley School of Information, taught by Erik Wilde (disclaimer: I dropped the course after a month because of schedule conflicts). An interesting part of my research for that class involved investigating the nascent Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE) ... http://www.g9labs.com/2008/09/17/a-laymans-guide-to-the-oai-ore-data-aggregation-protocol/