On 16th, December, 2007, I have passed the new Zend PHP 5 certification exam . Well, I feel the actual exam is very easy; it should not difficult for any php user who has certain level of php development experience. In this post, I will publish some information regarding how to prepare and attend the exam. Of course, since Zend has stopped back up the old PHP (PHP4) certification exam, PHP5 exam is the only exam right now you can choose to take. Read the rest of this entry »

Do you use Google Reader, a Google’s web feed web(not desktop client) aggregator? I do. I even set it as my Firefox’s home page. Well, I didn’t know that Google Reader broadcasts my shared feeds to everyone in my google talk contact list; not until I see this article today at WebProNews! Read the rest of this entry »

Sometimes it is hard to believe the time pasts so fast, I clearly remember the last Christmas: I and my family had a great movie night; plus, I learned say THE LORD’S PRAYER first time. I am not very religion though, it is just I am an regular Chinese guy and living in China really have little religious (should I say spiritual?) experience; and I studied much western culture, always want to bring what I learned into my actual day to day practice–anyway, that’s a whole different story.
So, it comes the time of the year again! Merry Christmas everyone! Read the rest of this entry »

Wikipedia.org is the most valuable source for most internet users. Unfortunately, for every average Chinese citizen, he or she has the very difficulty to access the site. I usually use Vidalia (a tor plus privoxy combined nice program with easy to use GUI) to access Wikipedia, but this is really a pain in the neck, for the speed of a proxy server is really slow! There already has a long history in which China authorities deliberately filter out Wikipedia; In my memory, it was, only occasionally, two to three times lifted the restriction during the last three or four years.

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I didn’t aware that the tags links on my blog are not working. In past few days, I got very sick, and didn’t check my online work very much; besides I just used the built-in tags feature comes with the WordPress, so I’d though there were should no problems on my blog. Until today

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Well, it acutally WordPress 2.3.1, cause this version was out one day ago. Every blogger who use WordPress probably know that 2.3 has big changes. First, let’s look into the database schema: taxonomy, terms…hello, Drupal? Maybe, it will not long WP start call its posts as “Node”? I mean, WordPress database really changed a lot in this release; the nerdy-geeky names used in the WordPress database table reflecting that the method of manage content in modern CMS are becoming more and more abstract and complex also at the same time flexible. Other “big” changes including automatically inform upgrade information on plugins and core updates, built in tags and tag cloud support. This blog has run WordPress 2.2 smoothly for a couple months now, after a month the official 2.3 release, I finally sat down to upgrade my blog to take advantage of the new features. Read the rest of this entry »

Today, superfundo.org temporary suspended its regular website updating due to the growing traffic it receives. On its home page, the website operator posted a message to require donation in order to buy “A BRAND NEW,DEDICATED SERVER THAT SHOULD BE VERY FAST”. The target amount is about US$140.00 by this weekend, September 23th. But within three hours, the site has already received US$311.01. Read the rest of this entry »

the legendary BitTorrent site Suprnova will be relaunched by thepiratebay.org! Former owner of Suprnova.org Sloneck has donated the domain to thepiratebay.org, the later will relaunch Suprnova.org in the nearly future. You can login to suprnova.org by now, and wil see a title “sweat revenge” and “Ok, Boy! we should set up a countdown at here, so soon you will come back” on its homepage. Read the rest of this entry »

Apple has released the Safari web browser 3 public beta for a while now. For a long time, I always want to try the Safari browser, cause the credibility it gets from its well applying to the W3C specification and the web standards. And finally, Safari 3 can run on windows now! Read the rest of this entry »

I love English! In fact, when I graduated from college several years ago, I felt everything I learned in school was useless and not interesting.

Well giving my particular situation: I stayed in one major ( has something to do with OA——Office Automation ) for two years, and then transfered to another major ( has some thing to do with information management ) for the rest two years so I could get a bachelor degree. Did you ever hear hear your parents told you “Diploma is important”? But the fact is: Even though my education level is “4 year College or University”, I actually didn’t have an integrity major course finished in place.

“Everything is gone except English.” —— that was what I thought at the time. So I continued working on improve my English, not for getting a diploma paper or pass some English exams, but to learn English with my own interesting. English to me, is very funny, comfortable and precious. I remember one famous writer once said, each language of mankind is a particular ways to see the world; if you really learned a second language, it will feel like a new horizon wide open in front of your eyes, and you will have a whole new way to see the world.

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