Today is the sixteenth anniversary of this blog ( Read more... )

I went to Ho Chi Minh City from December 16 to December 21 for a short break from the awfully busy work, and I brought my mother along. I selected this location because I have not been to Ho Chi Minh City before, and also mainly because the compact structure of the city which meant that relatively little planning logistics was needed. Ho Chi Minh ( Read more... )

This post continues on my learning journey on Docker and its related technologies, where I pen down my understanding of some aspects of using Docker and friends for running software services. This is an extremely huge topic, which can never be adequately covered in one short post ( Read more... )

Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP), is a server-client communications protocol for controlling multimedia streams, such as starting, pausing, and stopping these streams, as well as providing descriptions of these streams. Interestingly, RTSP itself does not deal with the actual transmission of the media data. Rather, the responsibility of the ( Read more... )

The Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) is the national examination in Singapore taken by Primary 6 pupils. Over the years, the Mathematics paper is well known to contain very challenging questions for students for that level ( Read more... )

Climate change is one of the major topics in this year's National Day Rally. Indeed, it recognized that Singapore has become noticeably hotter, and the speech outlined some mitigation measures such as coastal protection in the face of rising sea levels. The speech also prods us citizens to do our part by reducing the amount of waste ( Read more... )

I did more than 10 years in Java before properly looking into C++. As a result, a lot of basic C++ concepts took quite a while for me to digest when I took a serious dabble into C++. One such concept is Resource Acquisition Is Initialization (RAII).

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Curiously Recurring Template Pattern, or CRTP, is a design pattern originated in C++ template programming. Its general form is as follows:

template
class Base {
...
};

class Derived : public Base {
...
};Basically, we have a Base template class, and any Derived class will subclass from an instantiation of the Base template class with ( Read more... )

I often get excited whenever new transport infrastructure is announced. The Land Transport Authority has released the Land Transport Master Plan (LTMP) 2040 report, which projects land transport infrastructure improvements into the future ( Read more... )

I take the last bus of service 82 from Punggol Interchange often enough to recognize the faces of a few regulars. Likewise, at least a few of these people must recognize this person who show up in a running singlet and compression shorts, and do cool down leg stretching exercises in the middle of the bus ( Read more... )