I have made an online professional portfolio earlier using the Google pages creator. However, according to Google, they are no longer accepting new sign-ups for Page Creator because they have shifted their focus to developing Google Sites. More importantly, my portfolio site seems to be down for a long time now.
I tried the Google sites thing, but it doesn't seem like a good choice for a personal site, such as a portfolio. It's more like a wiki pages creator. Just as they said it on the homepage: simple, secure group websites. The design and functionality of it are more oriented for groups. The targeted users are more like a hobby club, a company website, or a team project site, etc.
I will probably still make a portfolio using the Google sites, since I really want to have a working one to meet my very-soon job hunting needs. But I guess I am more eager to have my professional portfolio somewhere else. Currently I'm aiming for the Google App Engine. I was thinking about to put up a Flex site on the GAE, but didn't get it working still. Plus, the Flex application size is greatly confined by the GAE size limit, which is not good. Now I'm trying to make it all python by using the Django framework, but I gotta learn this new framework from ground-up, and it's not like I know python very well either. Well, the programmers have to learn new thing almost every day, I think it doesn't hurt too much to have one or two more. :D
UPDATE: ok never mind, it's simply that I couldn't access the googlepages service in China. My portfolio is still sitting there (I'm back to the U.S.). You can view it from here.
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Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
How to build a simple survey using Google Docs
Today I discover the new feature of the Google Docs spreadsheet, and I think it would be cool to share the process with the others:
So first of all, you would need a Google account. Duh. Then now go to the Google Docs page and create a new spreadsheet. It will open a window like this:
You don't really have to put anything into the spreadsheet, unless you want to. The survey almost take cares it all. Now click on the Share tag on the top-right corner, you will see a prompt for naming the spreadsheet, and after that, you will see a window like this:
You can check the "Anyone can view this document at". It will generate a link to view the document. By doing that, you can let people to see the result without even publishing the document. But for people to view it without the Google account, you will still have to publish it. Then now check the "to fill out a form" option, and the page will become like this:
As obvious as it shows, you can now "start editing your form". A new window will show up, and you can edit the form in the several ways. Here's a sample one I just made:
After you done playing with the form, click the "choose recipient" button, and now you can specify who would like to survey:
Finally, click the "invite people" button, then you are done! The recipient will get an email with the survey and once they fill it out and submit, the answers of the survey will automatically transfer to spreadsheet, very neat, isn't it?
By now I hope you understant how to do it on your own!
So first of all, you would need a Google account. Duh. Then now go to the Google Docs page and create a new spreadsheet. It will open a window like this:
You don't really have to put anything into the spreadsheet, unless you want to. The survey almost take cares it all. Now click on the Share tag on the top-right corner, you will see a prompt for naming the spreadsheet, and after that, you will see a window like this:
You can check the "Anyone can view this document at". It will generate a link to view the document. By doing that, you can let people to see the result without even publishing the document. But for people to view it without the Google account, you will still have to publish it. Then now check the "to fill out a form" option, and the page will become like this:
As obvious as it shows, you can now "start editing your form". A new window will show up, and you can edit the form in the several ways. Here's a sample one I just made:
After you done playing with the form, click the "choose recipient" button, and now you can specify who would like to survey:
Finally, click the "invite people" button, then you are done! The recipient will get an email with the survey and once they fill it out and submit, the answers of the survey will automatically transfer to spreadsheet, very neat, isn't it?
By now I hope you understant how to do it on your own!
Monday, January 28, 2008
My First Professional Portfolio
I have just built my first professional portfolio. After this learning experience, I feel strongly that I am still not in the good shape of being a decent computer science professional.
The reason I had that feeling comes from the fact that I have almost literally nothing to say about my expertise when it comes down to a serious level. Although I have been an ICS student for almost four years, I barely had done something that is profound and significant enough that I would like to put down on my portfolio to show to the other people. I had written several C/C++ and Java applications, but those are merely for the course assignments and they hold no important value in terms of demonstrating my computer skills.
The only completed project that I finally put on the portfolio is the MyISERN project that I had been working for the last semester. However, even with such a project that I almost spent the whole semester on, I still feel like it is not good enough as a showcase product. There are still many things can be improved, or have done better. The other project that I put on is the Informative Workspace that I will be working on for this whole semester, and hopefully by the end of this semester it can become a project that I am proud to show to the other people.
Besides the projects, actual work experience that is related to the computer science field is another thing that I found myself missing. I had worked for a while before, but my jobs were totally unrelated to my field. I strongly felt the severe lacking of practical experience as well as the skills and knowledge towards my major.
However, things are not as bad as I mentioned after all. After doing my portfolio, I realized many of my weakness in terms of professional skills and knowledge, and I am more motivated to develop these weaknesses into strength in the future. I believe this is a good thing that I learned from building my first professional portfolio.
The reason I had that feeling comes from the fact that I have almost literally nothing to say about my expertise when it comes down to a serious level. Although I have been an ICS student for almost four years, I barely had done something that is profound and significant enough that I would like to put down on my portfolio to show to the other people. I had written several C/C++ and Java applications, but those are merely for the course assignments and they hold no important value in terms of demonstrating my computer skills.
The only completed project that I finally put on the portfolio is the MyISERN project that I had been working for the last semester. However, even with such a project that I almost spent the whole semester on, I still feel like it is not good enough as a showcase product. There are still many things can be improved, or have done better. The other project that I put on is the Informative Workspace that I will be working on for this whole semester, and hopefully by the end of this semester it can become a project that I am proud to show to the other people.
Besides the projects, actual work experience that is related to the computer science field is another thing that I found myself missing. I had worked for a while before, but my jobs were totally unrelated to my field. I strongly felt the severe lacking of practical experience as well as the skills and knowledge towards my major.
However, things are not as bad as I mentioned after all. After doing my portfolio, I realized many of my weakness in terms of professional skills and knowledge, and I am more motivated to develop these weaknesses into strength in the future. I believe this is a good thing that I learned from building my first professional portfolio.
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