John Dang

John Dang

Born	February 15
Occupation	BSD Student
Expected Graduation	2009
Email	jqdang@learn.senecac.on.ca
Blog	http://jdeport.wordpress.com/

John Dang is a Software Developer. He enrolled in the Bachelor of Software Development (BSD) Program at Seneca College in the winter of 2006 and graduated from this program in 2009.

He was elected President of the Seneca College School of Computer Studies Windows Club for the school year 2008-2009. He implemented a structure that consisted of standards, procedures and guidelines to assist the club to plan, execute and evaluate events, and to manage and monitor member recruitment and activities.

Open Source Development

DPS909 - Topics in Open Source Development

Further information: DPS909

Course Schedule

DPS909 and OSD600 Winter 2009 Eclipse WTP Weekly Schedule

Helpful Web Tools Platform (WTP) Tutorials

DPS911 - Open Source Project

Further information: DPS911

Course Schedule

Summer_2009_DPS911-OSD700_Weekly_Schedule

Course Activities

Week	Date	Activity	Contribution
Week 1	May 11	Added personal information to Summer 2009 Eclipse WTP Student Team Analyzed and reviewed bugs on Bugzilla for WTP
Week 2	May 18	Downloaded and Extracted/Installed both Eclipse WTP RCP/Plug-in and WTP 3.1M7 Produced screencast for how to get Eclipse WTP working (Jordan's written tutorial) Selected Eclipse WTP Bug #241429 for term project	Eclipse WTP - Downloading & Extracting/Installing beta
Week 3	May 25	Gave a 5 minute presentation on my experience with creating a screencast (including tools used) Gave a 15 minute presentation about Eclipse WTP Bug #241429
Week 4	June 1	Attended other student presentations and offered valuable feedback
Week 5	June 8	N/A - away for work
Week 6	June 15	Worked on reproducing Eclipse WTP Bug #241429 with basic scenario Worked on reproducing Eclipse WTP Bug #241429 with break-point scenario
Week 7	June 22	Worked on producing screencast for reproducing Eclipse WTP Bug #241429 with basic and break-point scenario
Week 8	June 29	Produced screencast for reproducing Eclipse WTP Bug #241429	Eclipse WTP Bug #241429 beta
Week 9	July 6	Worked on reproducing Eclipse WTP Bug #241429 with Thread.sleep method
Week 10	July 13	Propose two theoretical solution for Eclipse WTP Bug # 241429 (quartz job scheduling, message/disable button) Give a 10 minute presentation on current project status
Week 11	July 20	Worked on creating Lab 1 - How to Create Your Seneca Wiki Page [beta]
Week 12	July 27	Worked on creating Lab 2 - How to Create Your Blog Page (WordPress) [beta]
Week 13	August 3	Worked on creating Lab 3 - How to Get Help on IRC [beta]
Week 14	August 10	Finalized written Lab 1, Lab 2, Lab 3	Open Source @ Seneca Lab 1 Open Source @ Seneca Lab 2 Open Source @ Seneca Lab 3
Week 15	August 17	Give a 20 minute presentation on work status and contributions

Open Source Contribution

Open Source @ Seneca

Further information: Main_Page

Pages Added

User:John_Dang (this page)

Pages Updated

User:JAnastasiade
- implemented a Wikipedia User structure template
- added a very brief introduction to user
- added user online community information
- added user image

User:Fardad
- implemented a Wikipedia User structure template
- added a very brief introduction to user
- added user online community information
- added user image

Apple Development

DPS913 - Foundations of Apple Application Development

Further information: DPS913A.STSY.20091

Apple Mac OS X v10.5.6

Keyboard Shortcuts

Action	Mac OSX
Exit Dialog	ctrl + eject
Quit All Applications and Restart	⌘ + ctrl + eject
Sleep	⌘ + opt + eject
Force Quit	opt + ⌘ + esc
Log Out	⇧ + ⌘ + Q
Log Out Immediately	opt + ⇧ + ⌘ + Q
Move to Trash	⌘ + Del
Empty Trash	⇧ + ⌘ + Del
Empty Trash with No Dialog	opt + ⇧ + ⌘ + del
Eject	⌘ + E
Right-Click	ctrl + Click
Spotlight	⌘ + spacebar
Find	⌘ + F
Hide Find	⌘ + H
Hide Others	opt + ⌘ + H
Hide All Windows Except Current Window	opt + ⌘ + H
Minimize Window	⌘ + M
Minimize All Windows	opt + ⌘ + M
Close Window	⌘ + W
Close All Window	opt + ⌘ + W
New	⌘ + N
Open	⌘ + O
Save	⌘ + S
Save As	⇧ + ⌘ + S
Print	⌘ + P
Get Info	⌘ + I
Add to Favorite/Sidebar	⌘ + T
Undo	⌘ + Z
Redo	⇧ + ⌘ + Z
Cut	⌘ + X
Copy	⌘ + C
Paste	⌘ + V
Select All	⌘ + A
View as Icons	⌘ + 1
Hide Toolbar	⌘ + B
Show View Options	⌘ + J
Back	⌘ + [
Forward	⌘ + ]
Go to My Computer	⇧ + ⌘ + C
Go to iDisk	⇧ + ⌘ + I
Go to Applications	⇧ + ⌘ + A
Go to Favorites	⇧ + ⌘ + F
Go to Folder	⇧ + ⌘ + G
Connect to Server	⌘ + K
Turn on Zoom	opt + ⌘ + 8
Zoom In	opt + ⌘ + '+'
Zoom Out	opt + ⌘ + '-'
Negative View	ctrl + opt + ⌘ + 8
FKA - Turn on Full Keyboard Access	ctrl + F1
FKA - Highlight Menu	ctrl + F2
FKA - Highlight Dock	ctrl + F3
FKA - Highlight Window/Next Window	ctrl + F4
FKA - Highlight Toolbar	ctrl + F5
FKA - Highlight Utility Window	ctrl + F6
Show/Hide Dock	opt + ⌘ + D
Switch Application	⌘ + tab
Turn VoiceOver on/off	⌘ + F5
VoiceOver Menu	ctrl + opt + F7
VoiceOver Option UtilityProxy-Connection: keep-alive Cache-Control: max-age=0	ctrl + opt + F8
Take Picture of Screen	⇧ + ⌘ + 3
Take Picture of Selection	⇧ + ⌘ + 4
Take Picture of Screen to Clipboard	⇧ + ⌘ + 4, ctrl + select
Take Picture of Selected Window	⇧ + ⌘ + 4, spacebar

Objective-C

Further information: Objective-C

String Format

Symbol	Display
%@	id
%%	a % character
%c	unsigned char as ASCII
%C	unichar as Unicode
%d, %D, %i	long
%e, %E, %f, %g, %G	double
%hi	short
%hu	unsigned short
%o, %O	unsigned long printed as octal
%p	void *
%qi	long long
%qu	unsigned long long
%s	char *
%S	unichar *
%u, %U	unsigned long
%x, %X	unsigned long printed as hexadecimal

String Conversion between NSString and C strings

NSString *nsstr;
const char *cstr = "Open Source!";

// Convert a C string to a NSString
nsstr = [NSString stringWithUTF8String:cstr];

// Convert a NSString to a C string
cstr  = [nsstr UTF8String];

Automatically Called Methods

(void)awakeFromNib

Essential Objects and Their Commonly Used Methods

NSObject

- (id)init

NSObject *newNSObject = [[NSObject alloc] init];

- (NSString *)description

NSLog(@"Open Source Account Number: %d is %@", i, accountToPrint);

is equivalent to

NSLog(@"Open Source Account Number: %d is %@", i, [accountToPrint description]);

- (BOOL)isEqual:(id)that

// compares the logic written in the isEqual methods
if ([this isEqual:that]) { ... }

may not be equivalent to

// compares the values of the two pointers
this == that;

NSArray

- (NSUInteger)count

NSArray *nsarray = [NSArray initWithObjects:@"Open Source!", nil];

NSUInteger *count;
count = [nsarray count];

- (id)objectAtIndex:(NSUInteger)index

NSArray *nsarray = [NSArray initWithObjects:@"Open Source!", nil];

NSObject *nsobject = [nsarray objectAtIndex:0];

- (id)lastObject

NSArray *nsarray = [NSArray initWithObjects:@"Open Source!", nil];

NSObject *nsobject = [nsarray lastObject];

- (BOOL)containsObject:(id)that

if ([this containsObject:that]) { ... }

- (NSUInteger)indexOfObject:(id)that

NSArray *nsarray = [NSArray initWithObjects:@"Open Source!", nil];

NSUInteger *index;
index = [nsarray indexOfObject:@"Open Source!"];

NSMutableArray

- (void)addObject:(id)that

NSMutableArray *nsmarray = [NSMutableArray initWithObjects:@"Open Source!", nil];

[nsmarray addObject:@"Open Mind!"];

- (void)addObjectFromArray:(NSArray *)that

NSMutableArray *nmsarray = [NSMutableArray initWithObjects:@"Open Source!", nil];
NSArray *nsarray = [NSArray initWithObjects:@"Open Mind!", nil];

[nsmarray addObjectFromArray:nsarray];

- (void)insertObject:(id)that atIndex:(NSUInteger)index

NSMutableArray *nsmarray = [NSMutableArray initWithObjects:@"Open Source!", nil];

[nsmarray insertObject:@"Open Mind!" atIndex:1];

- (void)removeAllObjects

NSMutableArray *nsmarray = [NSMutableArray initWithObjects:@"Open Source!", nil];
[nsmarray addObject:@"Open Mind!"];

[nsmarray removeAllObjects];

- (void)removeObject:(id)that

NSMutableArray *nsmarray = [NSMutableArray initWithObjects:@"Open Source!", nil];
[nsmarray addObject:@"Open Mind!"];

[nsamrray removeObject:@"Open Source!"];

- (void)removeObjectAtIndex:(NSUInteger)index

NSMutableArray *nsmarray = [NSMutableArray initWithObjects:@"Open Source!", nil];
[nsmarray addObject:@"Open Mind!"];

[nsmarray removeObjectAtIndex:0];

NSString

- (id)initWithFormat:(NSString *)format, ...

NSString *nsstring = [NSString initWithFormat:@"Open %@!", @"Source"];

- (NSUInteger)length

NSString *nsstring = @"Open Source!";

NSUInteger *length;
length = [nsstring length];

- (NSString *)stringByAppendingString:(NSString *)that

NSString *nsstring1 = @"Open";
NSString *nsstring2 = @" Source!";

NSString *nsnewstring;
nsnewstring = [nsstring1 stringByAppendingString:nsstring2];

Apple Xcode v3.1.2

Keyboard Shortcuts

Action	Mac OSX
Build and Go (Run)	⌘ + return
Display Console Window	⇧ + ⌘ + R
Clear Console Messages	ctrl + opt + ⌘ + R
Display Documentation Help	opt + double-click + method
Display Preferences Window	⌘ + ,
Switching Between .h and .m Files	opt + ⌘ + up

Apple Interface Builder v3.1.2

Keyboard Shortcuts

Action	Mac OSX
Display Inspector Window	⇧ + ⌘ + I
Display Preferences Window	⌘ + ,

References

External links

Eclipse WTP

Installing Mac OS X on a Windows PC

http://pcwizcomputer.com/index.php?Itemid=48&id=76&option=com_content&task=view
http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2005/01/18/PearPC.html
http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Vmware_how_to - [Tested (2009/01/18): Works]
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=109102 - My "OS Test" Disk Identifier: "disk0s3" [-v rd=disk0s3]

Understanding the Corporate Hierarchy

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/77749.html

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John Dang

Open Source Development

DPS909 - Topics in Open Source Development

Course Schedule

Helpful Web Tools Platform (WTP) Tutorials

DPS911 - Open Source Project

Course Schedule

Course Activities

Open Source Contribution

Open Source @ Seneca

Pages Added

Pages Updated

Apple Development

DPS913 - Foundations of Apple Application Development

Apple Mac OS X v10.5.6

Keyboard Shortcuts

Objective-C

String Format

String Conversion between NSString and C strings

Automatically Called Methods

Essential Objects and Their Commonly Used Methods

NSObject

NSArray

NSMutableArray

NSString

Apple Xcode v3.1.2

Keyboard Shortcuts

Apple Interface Builder v3.1.2

Keyboard Shortcuts

References

External links

Eclipse WTP

Installing Mac OS X on a Windows PC

Understanding the Corporate Hierarchy

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