不知何時起，短訊交傳，時興講「中秋快樂」。
中國傳統的中秋節，天心月圓，追求的是一份自在圓滿，「但願人長久，千里共嬋娟」，是比所謂快樂，更高的一層境界。
「快樂」這個詞彙，概念完全是西方的：Merry Christmas and Happy New Year，新年快樂。快樂一詞一旦叫濫了，譬如「你Hap唔Happy」，即有一絲「越墮落越快樂」之現代惡俗。
中國傳統文化，「快樂」不是最高境界。「竹裏坐消無事福」，「福」比「快樂」更高。能享清福，是超越「快樂」的。「快樂」只是大氣層，而有福，是太空無重的層次。
「千里共嬋娟」是講不出來的圓融之感，而圓融，正切合中秋賞月的心情與期待。中秋的祝願是很抽象的，比「快樂」更難形容，就像佛家講的湼槃，比耶教說的天堂更高。住在天堂，據說有無窮的歡快，但湼槃了就不同，無所謂喜與悲，是人世無從領悟的大圓自在。
Continue reading 陶傑 – 中秋圓福
Previously i have published a post about using for loop in Ant to read a text file line by line.
The <for> task requires a list attribute containing a comma separated string. Here is an example.
<echo message="The first five letters of the alphabet are:"/>
<for list="a,b,c,d,e" param="letter">
<sequential>
<echo>Letter @{letter}</echo>
</sequential>
</for>
Continue reading Apache Ant – Iteration within a specific number range
In Ant script we could write Javascript code using the <script> task. In the following example, i will pass 2 Ant properties to Javascript and print the square value to the console. Also at the end, i will assign the greeting to a new Ant property.
Continue reading Apache Ant – Get and Set Ant property in Javascript when using the script task
This is an example showing how to concatenates files using Ant script.
1. Assume you have the following files in your Ant project folder.
ant-for-example | - build.xml | - Text-1.txt | - Text-2.txt | - Text-3.txt
It doesn’t matter what dream you choose to follow, as long as you have one. Go follow your dream, and laugh while you’re doing it!
Christoph Rehage
Reference: 主場新聞 – 每日一圖：走最遠的路
「通識教育」觸礁，中國歷史科本來是選修的，親中政團又呼籲梁班子改向「必修」了。特區十六年，從「母語教育」之失敗而「微調」，到「國民教育」之政治洗腦，小特府將下一代的大腦當做白老鼠，好似六十年來的鄰近地區，試驗完馬列的大鑊飯，又試驗「文革」，最後又推倒，「撥亂反正」，輪到「改革開放」了；然後又輪到復辟毛左。小特府沒有方向，將下一代胡亂糟蹋，大學「三改四」，廢除會考，又設立一個什麼DSE文憑試，其中又要將一份設計愚蠢的中文卷考合格，才可以進特區人民港大，難怪今年香港教育氣氛，空前淒慘，有錢人嘴巴說「愛國」，看見薄瓜瓜也去英國，當然不是傻瓜，也紛紛送子女上前殖民宗主國寄宿學校，不跟你特區政府瞎纏了。
英國的教育界朋友覺得好笑，問：你們香港的權貴，既然那麼戀慕英國的教育，當年他們為什麼又支持中國收回香港？
我笑答：這就是中國人的虛偽了，這種虛偽，其下流之處，是西方文明國家很難想像的。
Continue reading 陶傑 – 氣氛低迷
Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share a common life. What matters is that people of different backgrounds and social positions encounter one another, and bump up against one another, in the course of ordinary life.
Michael J. Sandel
(Skyboxification in What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets)
假設某天你在路旁看見三個小孩在爭執，為的是一支竹製的笛子應該屬於誰。你為了調解紛爭，於是要求每人說出笛子應該屬於他（她）的理由。
好了，聽罷這三個理由，你認為笛子應該屬於誰？
Continue reading 李偉才 – 正義的理念
In the HKNA project, i exposed a flag in a view but it turns on the available option names are True and False instead of Yes and No.
Continue reading Drupal 7 – Override the Flag option names in Views Exposed Filter using String Overrides
The Ant-Contrib library also provides <trycatch> task for error/exception handling. Here is an example of build.xml which demonstrate the usage and again it requires the ant-contrib-1.0b3.jar which i place it in the ant-lib folder.
Continue reading Apache Ant – Error/Exception Handling
Eureka! 