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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Is today’s analytical service becoming more complex with irrelevant data? Here comes the pertinent solution entitled KPMRS.com, which is accomplished with packaged data and allows for the fundamental analysis of the performance of any website. It is a very ideal, rapid and useful keyword monitoring tool for the SEO Professionals, Website owners and Bloggers in the Internet Marketing arena. Read the rest of this entry »

This is the greatest song I ever heard! If you have watched the movie, Garden State, you probably will remember this song; you know, the song Natalie Portman listening to in the movie? Since I discovered the shins, they become one of my favorite band ever!

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Just found out the if I use PHP5.3 on windows, I can’t connect to my Mysql5 server. It says my client is too old. After I switch back to PHP5.2.9, things get normal. So, it means the PHP5.3 for windows used a older version of library to compile the code? I don’t know. It took me a while to find out the problem.

For us in China these days, access internet is a tedious chore given the major web sites are blocked including Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and the popular Online TV network, TVU network. GFW (So called “”Great Fire Wall”) and the possible “Green Dam” in the future, the “Information control” is strong. Fortunately, there are ways to climb the “Wall”. Basically, as far as I know, there are three tools can do this. Most of users use FreeGate, a free proxy client to by pass the internet blocking; there are some other users use Tor Proxy, which is essentially the same proxy idea but target more technical savvy users. But, if you don’t know how to do it by now, there maybe some difficulties to get it to work; just trying to search “FreeGate” in Google and click any result url you will get a “connect reset” error. It seems they have blocked any “sensible keywords” appear in a url or a page. So, how do you get the tools at the first place? Read the rest of this entry »