JCU IEEE president 2008 voting system

Today I was doing a voting system, for this IEEE president election in JCU singapore.
Actually I am not very familiar with Java Swing programming, so by this chance, I have done some reading of Swing.
Basically, GUI for an application is just a skin, never be the core. but I have to say it is also very time consuming for GUI programming. for this voting system, I spent more time on GUI than the actual voting algorithm.
At the end, I found what was really annoying me is the layout manager, in order to make my desired layout of all my elements, I have tried all kind of layout managers, such as FlowLayout,GridLayout,BoxLayout and so on. Luckily finally I made my elements there..hehehe, so for GUI programming, what is really important is how much experience of the Classes you have known. . .

I will upload the ugly picture of the Voting System once I have completed. . .
I have to say, I am really bad on designing..heheheh

JMF progress

I started this JMF project 4 weeks ago.
Basically, it is about remote controlling webcam.
The first thing I am doing now is to implement the transmitting of the vedio from one PC to another.
It is always difficult to do one thing at the begining stage.

The first problem I encountered was that the video did not show where there was no error in the program itself at all. At the end, I figured it out, the reason was that I did not add visual components to the class I created.
the significant code was
"this.add(player.getVisualComponent());
this.add(player.getControlPanelComponent());
"

The second problem I encountered was that the video I transimitted from the server can not be displayed in client side. Actually I was testing this in my local machine, (since I have only one PC), it was sloved at the end, the reason was that in client side, I did not initialize the local address probably, the significant code was:
"SessionAddress localaddr = new SessionAddress(InetAddress.getLocalHost(),3000);"
where you can see "InetAddress.getLocalHost()".
then I did "mymgr.initialize(localaddr);"

Now there are still a lot of errors waiting for me to slove,
but at least I get started, and it was working in the sense of transimitting. cheers.

And Hope my little experience would help ppl who are working on similar projects.

First Article

After a long time of being away from blog, I finally decided to make a own blog for my technical articles , or I will say some thoughts in Information Technology area.
I am currently studying IT in James Cook University Sinapore , and graduating on June. Since my IT major is General Computing, there is no forcused area in terms of studying. but persoanlly I am more interested in Programming, and have done some freelance work related to web programming.
I wish I could make some friends who have something in common through this blog. so we can share our thoughts , comments in IT field.