I don’t always post about software projects that I am involved in, but this one is interesting, because it is the first app our company created for a customer who does not speak English! This is a shopping app where people can purchase products, and earn credit as they participate and refer other people to…
This is a prayer my grandparents read to me by my bedside as I was preparing to go to sleep as a child: “Father, we thank you for the night and for the beautiful Morning light, for rest and food and loving care, and all that makes the day so fair. Help us to do…
In the blink of an eye 20+ people were shot at the studio where I worked for 10 years. The manager that hired me, Mr. Ma, who I knew very well, is diseased. A man I sang Chinese songs with, Valentino Alvero, has also passed away. A dance teacher I saw every week, Kai Wen,…
I always try to keep one fun project for myself that consumes around 10% of my time. Over the years I have dabbled in many different software development projects, and occasionally I hit on something that is really useful and worthwhile, while a good percent of the time I am just having fun. 🙂 But…
Mostly I write here simply to document my progress in Chinese. With each book I read, I look up fewer and fewer characters, but it still requires a lot of concentration. 骆驼祥子 (LouTuoXiangZi) is about a rickshaw puller in Beijing back in the 40s when the Japanese had invaded, and life was really hard. He…
My grandmother maintains many records about our family, which I believe my mother has now, but here follows a little bit of what I have: Images
I never realized that there is an actress named Tippi Hedren who was in the movie The Birds, and who was an inspiration to Vietnamese people who then went on to create their nail salon businesses and beauty schools. When she helped some refugees who came over around the time of the fall of Saigon…
Perhaps there are millions of people related to Charlemagne, but I am one of them, and my grandmother was an avid genealogist, who spent hours and hours researching these things before we had the internet, so this is both interesting and sentimental for me. Charlemagne Family Tree Charlemagne(768-814)=Hildegard Pepin, King of Italy Bernard, King of…
Just made a couple of small edits (I don’t like broken links or bad formatting). At the time, I was probably using Dreamweaver. June 4th, 2002 – Day 1 of David-DuVal.com. Hosting with PHP and mySQL: I’ve been trying to learn more about building websites that interact with databases. The current hosting package that I am…