Rejuvenating GownFull

GownFull ( a.k.a AjaxIME ) is a project initiated by the passion of wonghang to make something useful, and my wish to coach local students to explore the web programming outerspace.

Our momentum once reach a summit in last year Summer holiday. It had gone crazy as the framework is made within one week, a javascript IME prototype for ChangJie zh_TW was already made possible. Wonghang is such a genius. Then I kept pumping ideas beyond traditional thoughts of input, connecting with similar projects, and bring in new members. The whole piece of current code is in fact consolidated last October. Thanks to the contribution by Vinci, Charles and Kuen. We all have fun.

However I have been busy and disconnected with the Campus since switched jobs. Vinci, Charles and Kuen were overwhelmed by their new semester. Thus the team cooled down.

There are still much to do. There are still many innovations untapped. Believe or not, we joked about our foresight to have what Mozilla Ubiquity actually accomplishing. We get excited when Google V8 engine and upcoming Mozilla TraceMonkey breakthrough speed.

Shall we regroup interested people for real work ? ( We work hard, I am sure )

Currently wonghang and I are actually working on a new communication hub. Think about a simplified yet extensible Twitter. With tools like jQuery, we do code less and do more.

I want to share the fun with local students as before. Are there any brave and interested ?

Email me ( lxb at hkday dot net ) . Tell me who you are, how much of time ( and when ) are you willing to devote and learn. What you can expect is something similar to Google Summer of Code, plus small group barcamp every month !

( What a shame! No SoC 2008 mentor / student in HK )

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Barcamp 2008

Barcamp 2008 is coming. This year, barcamp Hong Kong 2008 will be hosted at Oxford House in Taikoo Place, on the conference floor of Turner International Asia Pacific. GownFull development team will join the event and will demonstrate our input method in the event.

If you are interested, go to http://barcamp.org/BarCampHongKong or join the event in facebook.

Wong Hang
Chief Software Architect, GownFull
wonghang@ajaxime.com

Chinese Calligraphy

Hello everyone, we seem to be stopped the development for half a year. Why? Almost of our developers are just full-time student in Hong Kong. After our summer holiday of 2007, we are all busy with our school works.

Of course, when we have spare time, we will develop something and fix some bugs in our IME. Just one week ago, we have done a proof-of-concept program to see if it is possible to output Chinese Calligraphy by using vector graph (SVG) on browser.

http://ajaxime.com/~wonghang/svgpoc/
(The page is a simple DHTML to see SVGs, you can resize the SVG by dragging the small box on right-bottom corner)
Firefox has native support for SVG. If you are using IE, you might need to install Adobe SVG Viewer in order to see it.

Isn't it interesting? We are able to output a Chinese Calligraphy (just simply HTML code) to RichEdit when we are inputting Chinese using GownFull IME.

Tomorrow is the new year Chinese Lunar Calendar. GownFull Development Team wishes everyone has a happy Lunar New Year!".

Wong Hang
Chief Software Architect, GownFull
wonghang@ajaxime.com

丁亥年癸丑月丙子日