Phu Son Nguyen's Journal and Portfolio

Rebooted

After 3 or so years blogging on this site, time to move on to bigger and better things! It's time to say good bye to this good old site. See ya all later...just kidding! This site is participating in the 2006 CSS Reboot and May 1st Reboot. To see the new site if you haven't already found it. It's at http://phuson.com

This site will still remain online. Though, I will no longer maintain and post on it. All commenting are officially closed on here.

CSS Reboot - May 1st 2006

10 days to go...see ya soon!

Reskin

Here's what I have been working on for the past several months at my job. The site is compatible with all major web browsers, including Internet Explorer 5+, Firefox 1+, and Safari. The site was designed to take full advantage of the power of CSS. If you click on the Molina icon (upper left corner), you will see a completely different color scheme of the same site. The site currently is by no mean a full-blown web application yet. It is just the skin, template, and skeleton of what the real application will be like. Many of the pages on the site are mocked up as if how the real production site would look like fully functional. The next step is to optimize the site's XHTML coding and possibly the CSS and Javascript coding.

Click here or on the screenshot below to be taken to the site!

By the way, leave the username and password blank to log in. :)

DOOGOG.COM

One of the first few websites that I have done recently with the latest web standards in mind of using absolutely no table tags at all for structural formatting. The code is much cleaner than the old-school nested tables. The site is also XHTML 1.0 Transitional validated!

You can check the site out at DOOGOG.COM. He just recently got a job in the gaming industry so this resume/portfolio website is not much of any use anymore.

BRB

Be right back in a few. Busy quarter's heading this direction...

Happy New Year!

Another crazy year has gone by! It's been a hectic and busy year but nonetheless productive.

I had a weird dream last night that I was at one of my family functions and after seeing how fast all of my little baby cousins' growing up. I'm not quite sure why but I said something about darkness is coming sooner or later. I remember my aunt smiled and replied something witty to me that I cannot seem to recall. Anyhow, I think what I meant was that we should enjoy every year that's gone by and the ones to come as much as possible with the limited amount of time we are "here". Wow, that sounds so depressing and before I ruin everyone's new year with this, I'd like to stop it there! You just have to be there to understand everything, it was a long dream.

In short, have a wonderful, enjoyable, and safe new year celebration everyone! Hope the next year to come is as much {fun, happy, *fill in the blank*,...} or better than the previous!

Merry Christmas!!!

I wish everyone a merry Christmas. Take care and be safe this holidays! Hope you all receive plenty of presents and not just coals (even if you've been bad this entire year!).

For all the ITC Crew

UT 2007

Ahh!

Who said graduate school is easy?! I worked the hardest in school this quarter than any other times on top of working nearly fulltime at my job, and yet my grades for the quarter are slightly above mediocre! I guess it's all about the classes you pick and the professors you choose to take it with that make it all matter. Anyhow, I'm kidding...nobody said grad school is easy...maybe that's why! One more quarter of classes or two more classes to go to be exact and I'll be done with classes for my MS! I'll be walking in the ICS commencement this June! I can't believe I'm almost done!

You know you're a workaholic when you start working whenever you're bored.

Stuck in a stairwell

Yay! This quarter is finally over! I thought it would never end! I just hope I got good grades in all my classes! If I did, only one quarter to go!

So now that school is over, I have been working almost full time. Wait, never mind. Work is all I do. Wake up, work, eat, work, even when I go to the restroom I am thinking about how to fix whatever I'm stuck on. I figure I could be a millionaire if I never sleep and just work 24/7.

The office where I work is on the fifteenth floor of a building in Newport. Today, for some reason, I needed to go downstairs one level and I didn't want to use the elevator because it would take too long to get all the way up to the fifteenth floor, and I only needed to go down one floor. So I decided to use the stairs. But when I got down to the fourteenth floor, the door was locked. I didn't have the key to get through the door. So I went back up to the fifteenth floor, but it was locked too. So I ended up walking down fifteen floors, checking the door at each floor. When I got to the ninth floor, I thought "Oh my God, I'm not even halfway down!" At the third floor, I began to get lightheaded (okay okay I know...I need to exerise more often), and by the time I got to the second floor, I thought "I hope the door on the first floor is unlocked, otherwise I have to walk all the way back up to the fifteenth floor and call one of my coworkers to open the door for me!! The first floor was unlocked - freedom!!!! I then proceeded to take the elevator all the way back up to my floor while thanking Buddha, God or to whomever you believe in for the elevator!

Firefox 1.5 is out! School's too...almost!

This newly refined version loads up websites so quickly, it's actually quite refreshing. If you haven't gotten a hold of it yet, go download it and give it a test run. It is packed with new features (and downloadable extensions) and a MacOS-like user interface in the Option popup menu. One of the cool new features, which is quite useful is the ability to move tabs arbitrarily and organize it to however you want.

I've never been this excited about a browser before and being online as much as I am, it's nice to see websites being loaded and rendered as quickly as they are in the latest version of Firefox.

Download Firefox 1.5

On a more personal note, this dreadful quarter is almost over! I'll be done with school soon too. My luck hasn’t been very prominent lately. I just had to go and take the three most tedious graduate classes packed in one 10-week quarter, as if I haven’t had enough on my plate as it is with work. I'd say that I can't wait to start working in the “real world,” but I'm actually putting in almost 40 hours a week right now working as a contractor for a company nearby. I recently got a raise too, and I've only been working there for only a few months so far. I’m glad there are people who actually appreciate my hardworking.

Finals are next week, finally(!), unfortunately, I have back-to-back finals on three days consecutively (that shall be *fun*)...I can't wait until Christmas! Almost there!

Happy Birthday Son!!!!

Hehehe and once again I hijack the website...

It's Son's 24th Birthday today!!!! Happy birthday Son!!! Don't let work and your upcoming midterm get you down! Today will (hopefully) be a wonderful day for you, even though you are so gosh darned busy... HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!

Oh man...

This quarter is officially the worse! Everything that can go wrong has gone wrong...back to homework! Back to back reading/studying/working! The pressure of doing my best in both school and work is so ridiculously difficult! Hopefully I will survive!

Happy Birthday Allison!

You're almost not a teenager anymore! Almost...maybe in another year! hehe

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!

Okay I lied! The commenting feature still works for the time being. It has been so busy lately that I probably won't have the time to upgrade or update this blog. Maybe at the end of this year, I will find more time...hopefully...Anyhow, this quarter has been the worse in term of workload. I can't wait to Christmas! Wait that sounds like what I said a year ago as Derek pointed it out talking to me online a few minutes ago. But this time! It's a different kind of crappiness...or maybe the same...ahhh whatever(!)...anyhow, no time to sit here and figure out if it's really the same or not!

So to everyone I haven't called or contacted lately...I'm either at work, in class, trying to pay attention or reading for my classes. I'll come back every now and then to write more!

And also thanks to Allison for trying to take care and cook for me lately! :)