William Chang

I’m happy I made the right choice as an application developer. The years of curiosity, creativity, and practice in my profession finally caught up to my expectations. And, I finally see myself as an architect, the creator or inventor, of applications.

The tools to produce and company start-up costs are inexpensive nowadays thanks to open source technologies and the Internet, you can cut out the middleman for product and service distribution. When developing applications for the Internet, personal computers, and smartphones you will find endless opportunities if you just open your eyes to creativity. There is nothing stopping from producing something from an idea to a product or service, but keeping yourself consistent with perseverance.

I find that a lot of people around me don’t see what I see, there are a lot of opportunities being an application developer. They seem to be all caught up with social activities and stopped innovating themselves to be lazy and too comfortable with their repetitive routines.

Ultimately, my number one passion is not about getting rich, but to see my ideas help make people’s lives better. That is my secret that drive me forward and I feel it is a key of success and getting rich is just an undisclosed perk that comes with the package.

I decided to switch domains from “diehard.cc” to “babybluebox.com” because of pop culture. The word “diehard” was misunderstood many times and a few people find it as a bad word. I use “diehard” exclusively as my Internet nickname during my teen years, but time has changed and I decided to use my real name on the Internet for formal recognition. Thanks to my work experience in developing web applications and doing personal projects, my real name will help employers track me down as I continue to build cool applications.

It’s been a long time I update this site. I made many changes under the hood and started replacing “diehard” with something else, either my real name or “Baby Blue Box”. The auto renew is off and the “diehard.cc” domain will expire at 2010. I will miss the “diehard.cc” domain because of the popularity among search engines, to help rank linked websites and towards itself.

Off topic, I would like to announce my good old friend, Brad Muirhead, propose to Kellie Feingold and the proof of video is on YouTube: Brad’s Proposal to Kellie. They were together for about half a decade and finally engaged. Congratulation to them!

I feel that I need to spend more of my spare time on my hobby projects than playing around. I find productivity is becoming more important than wasting it all on social activities like partying and hanging out. But, I truly believe these daily social activities will always be around. In order to catch my big break (to be a bread winner and guarantee financial security) I have to seed my profession. My spare time has been distorted lately by school, work, friends, and drowsiness. But, it is a good thing I practiced my skills and established my network slowly through the years. Made my own platform, a foundation, to stand on and grow because I know what I need to get there without basing on much luck.

I’m at that point where I pass the basics and I understand how to use the tools, I am ready to develop some good applications. With my spare time, I’m going to continue developing the game engine for Developers Club (aka Creative Crew) and attempt to create an application in the mobile phone market. I decided this week to take a shot at the Google’s Android Developer Challenge with $10 million in awards, so wish me luck!

You know when my site-seeing list gets long, it signals me to update this website. If you notice I’m trying something new with my posts using at least one image to spice up my blog a little. Thanks to “ImageShack Uploader Plugin” and ImageShack to help upload and host images for my posts. DieHard signing out!

Through my lifetime I observe the hardships and looped relationships people are facing. This is not about minor things, but long term difficulties and well being. I can only give you a small window of a complicated topic of people getting trapped in their superficial beliefs and their experiences from their own superficial community. When dealing with hardships and looped relationships they default to the most comfortable solution. I find it interesting that they try again with another comfortable solution, even though at the end they all failed because it is all technically similar, it is just a matter of time.

I find this group of people share a common attribute is that they can’t exit and choose an uncomfortable solution to a radical journey. Because, fears drive them away and so they end up superficially happy, but constantly complaining to themselves until the day they died. If they share a mutual history with someone or with their superficial community, then they become ignorant and allow themselves to be fooled again by peer-pressure time after time.

The superficial community or relationship with someone that they feel is going back and forth like an endless loop has to stop now. The damage was done and it is a disaster if they act nothing has happen because of their mutual history. They cannot take another comfortable solution and receive more foreseen damages to their well being. They must exit out from their relationship or their superficial community and choose an uncomfortable solution to a radical journey. Thus, they can live happily ever after.

I updated my “About” page with my life’s to-do list because I want to diversify my life with activities and adventures. Recently, I’ve been uploading a lot of photos to Flickr that received from my friends, even though I don’t own a camera yet. DieHard signing out!