Ladies and gentlemen, this blog post is brought to you courtesy of http://www.writely.com. For those of you too lazy to click on the link, Writely is a web based word processor that allows you to publish stuff online and collaborate on document creation. I had heard about this earlier in the TopCoder forums, because snewman - one of the best red coders at TC - actually works there. It was forgotten all this while, until we heard that snewman was going to be missing the TopCoder Open onsite finals. It turns out that the blogosphere suddenly discovered Writely, and users began to register in droves, forcing snewman to give up on the TCO and scale out their servers. Good thing he did too - they got slashdotted, and we all know what that does to your traffic...
I decided to register since I figured we might find this useful next semester while writing our project report. And naturally, when I noticed that they supported posting to Blogger, I decided to give it a whirl. This is still a slightly experimental service, so let's see how it works out. At the very least, I can give them a bug report.
Minor update - we had our Digital Signal Processing vivas, and things went much better than I expected. The external was one of those chaps who keeps on smiling at you - a few minutes into the viva I noticed that the rest of the viva group(3 other guys) all had equally imbecilic smiles plastered on their faces as well. Thankfully, I was able to resist this, though my control did falter on a few occasions. My finest hour was when he finally asked us what convolution really was. This was something I'd been trying to figure out all semester, so I was able to tell him without too many problems - and his real question turned out to be "Why do you have to fold one of the signals?" This was straight out of the derivation, which apparently only I remembered, plus a couple of properties of linear time-invariant systems...After that, he finished it off with a couple of questions about details that no one really remembers, and that was that. As vivas go, it was pretty good.
The last viva is on Wednesday - Image Processing, to be precise. After that we just have the project presentation the next day, which is mostly a waste of time - I'll be astonished if there's anyone capable of asking perceptive questions - especially after they suffer through the humdrum average projects that appear every year with minor variations.
I think I'll take a nap now. If you're seeing this post, then obviously Writely's interface with Blogger is working, so here goes...
I decided to register since I figured we might find this useful next semester while writing our project report. And naturally, when I noticed that they supported posting to Blogger, I decided to give it a whirl. This is still a slightly experimental service, so let's see how it works out. At the very least, I can give them a bug report.
Minor update - we had our Digital Signal Processing vivas, and things went much better than I expected. The external was one of those chaps who keeps on smiling at you - a few minutes into the viva I noticed that the rest of the viva group(3 other guys) all had equally imbecilic smiles plastered on their faces as well. Thankfully, I was able to resist this, though my control did falter on a few occasions. My finest hour was when he finally asked us what convolution really was. This was something I'd been trying to figure out all semester, so I was able to tell him without too many problems - and his real question turned out to be "Why do you have to fold one of the signals?" This was straight out of the derivation, which apparently only I remembered, plus a couple of properties of linear time-invariant systems...After that, he finished it off with a couple of questions about details that no one really remembers, and that was that. As vivas go, it was pretty good.
The last viva is on Wednesday - Image Processing, to be precise. After that we just have the project presentation the next day, which is mostly a waste of time - I'll be astonished if there's anyone capable of asking perceptive questions - especially after they suffer through the humdrum average projects that appear every year with minor variations.
I think I'll take a nap now. If you're seeing this post, then obviously Writely's interface with Blogger is working, so here goes...
2 comments:
I didn't read the tech stuff(coz I don't use Opera), but what I do remember is that they said Opera didn't support 'design mode' - which apparently makes it possible to create their text editor...
And don't cut down...Comments are *always* welcome.
It didn't appear right away for me either. Took a little while and involved some republishing - I found it in the drafts section, for some odd reason. They're still working out the bugs on that, so I'll wait...
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