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Yesterday, I read a Javalobby News from dzon.com titled “5 reasons you don’t really want a jack-of-all-trades developer”. It made me think about this question again. I asked myself this question many times cause right now there are so many open source CMSes out there, and choose the right one is not an easy task. Read the rest of this entry »

It is really a sad fact that in China here, nearly no school library has some important books, such as the George Orwell’s “1984″. Why don’t let the kids in high school read these books? Heck, while every America high school student knew about what “totalitarianism” means; in our society, even an English study college student doesn’t recognize the word! Read the rest of this entry »

Today, some colleagues and me discussed some ideas difference between China and U.S. . I am a regular Chinese, and have no abroad living experience, have never actually been to America. But I like English and Reading. Through this interesting discuss, I got to a thoughts that, maybe, the most problem on this planet is that people don’t understand each other because they knew so little about each other, especially their history. Read the rest of this entry »

Google is a “Fine” company. For the geeks, it is the ultimate destination of a dreaming place to wok in; For most internet user, it is the starting point of “getting-on-the-web”; for online business owners and marketers, it is the “God”. Superior products and services is the key for Google’s success. Jeff Jarvis even wrote a book about Google’s customer service, titled “What would Google do“. Google is the model for other companies who want to succeed in this information era. For me, since I read the John Battelle’s “The Search“, The “Do no evil” Google is my personal admiration. However, a week ago, my previous account was compromised. I must admit that this kind thing rarely happened to me; I didn’t even considered this could happen so there was a part of my own responsibilities for I didn’t prepare any records for the incidents. This is the first time I tried the Google’s customer service. And, there are some factors really surprised me. Read the rest of this entry »

In the part I, we started create the siteaccesses and set all the configuration values for the siteaccesses to work correctly. However, there are still other things to do, such as set up and configure the site design and svn version control tool for the project. So, let’s continue. Read the rest of this entry »

In the past, I wrote a post briefly introduced the eZ Publish CMS. In these two series post, I will get into the technical details on how to actually start a new eZ Publish project. We are going to set up a starting point of eZ Publish project, named “Multiline”. This project will contain two independent web sites under the same installation. The two web sites, one of which will be accessed via a single domain with language switch between French and English, and another will accessed by a different domain with only the French language available. At the end of this article, you will learn how to get eZ Publish ready for different projects requirements, include: multi-sites, multi-language, different access method and SVN integration. Read the rest of this entry »

Recently, I received a friend’s invitation to Google Wave. This means, I will have the opportunity to invite others too. So, if you are interested, just send me a message, I will put you in my Nomination List ( I have 5 spots left ) .

1. Get lazy
2. Rely on principles
3. To see through but not to know
4. Explain everything except how to earn money
5. Be consciously rational and pragmatic
6. Buidling strategies

Conclusion: Make yourself feel smart but dangerous at the same time; mono economics is bad.

Brooke Fraser, I can’t wait to get her next album!

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