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 »

It has been a long time since my last post. Busy at work. Since the youtube and facebook are all blocked in China. Internet is becoming more and more un-comfortable area for me. I want to share a music just for relax a little bit. This is one of my favorite songs from one of my favorite band: Beautiful South!

Enjoy this great song!

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Everybody want it, but few people actually get it.  Sucess, is a such troublesome word:  when it is ambiguous,  it makes me frustration, just to image only after a long time of hard work, you suddenly start to doubt  that what you were doing isn’t really what you want;  but when it is clear, I mean when it is made clear by others, parents, boss, friends and most importantly, the media,  it makes me angry,  because  your success can’t be defined by others! And it is certainly not just about fame and money. So, what is success? Read the rest of this entry »

For the past about six months, I am working on the eZ Publish CMS of the eZ System. I feel it has some unusual characteristic compare to other CMS: joomla, drupal, XOOPS to name a few. From the projects I built and asm building, I have outlined some points which a Project Manager may need to get clear before push the work to developers (If only this would be true, my life would be so much easier ). Read the rest of this entry »

The zend.com are initiating a beta certification program on Zend Framework. I received an email informed me that I could get a 50% discount on the exam fee and a free study guide if I schedule and attention the exam before the end of this month. I do have some working experience on the Zend Framework before ( I have built a small project use it recently ), but I feel my knowledge on Zend Framework is still not adequate for passing the exam. So, I have ordered the PHP Architect’s book: Guide to Programming with Zend Framework. Read the rest of this entry »

As a blogger, you probably already knew Darkroom, a minimalist full-screen text editor( inspired by the WriteRoom a similar processor offer on Mac OS). What’s good about Darkroom is that it forces your focus your writing content and nothing else. It has no window caption bar, status bar, menu bar, tool bar or window borders. Sitting on your screen nakely with its full dark background and green text, you will feel as if you are the famous hacker in “Matrix”.

While Darkroom can help your write better content, it is a desktop tool. And moreover, it is only available on Windows. For those like me use a *nix box, there is a Java-Version of Darkroom, JDarkRoom, which is still in beta. I tried install it on my OpenSUSE laptop, but it seems has some problems to start up.

So, here comes the Writer! A online clone of the Darkroom. Read the rest of this entry »

ThemesWiki.org is a new website designed to provide users with comprehensive, free guides for designing Web Themes and Templates. This site intends to ease the web design process by providing tutorials for a large number of systems at a common location.

It is often difficult to find a resource that is focused on providing quality, relevant and free information for designing themes and templates; specifically one that covers a wide range of applications. This is where ThemesWiki.org intends to step in. Launched initially with tutorials covering over 20 Content Management Systems, ThemesWiki.org is expected to grow into an exhaustive resource for the theming community, with users generating most of the content. Read the rest of this entry »