Following previous review on Streams and Network, here is the XML and Web Service. This is more and more important area in php I think since most Web2.0 applications use XML and Web Service technology. Also, PHP5 comes a new XML extension, SimpleXML. The exam seems requires you know the difference between SAX (Simple API for XML) and SimpleXML extension and DOM extension in PHP. Read the rest of this entry »

This post is a final review on Zend PHP5 Certification Exam of php’s Streams and Networks feature. Since for php, any file operations are also considered as stream manipulation, this post includes the well-known php file manipulation functions as well as some points on file system aspect. Streams functionality on networks, such as sockets also mentioned. Streams seem very important in the Exam, so you maybe watch out this topic carefully. Read the rest of this entry »

In this post, I list some of the aspects that you may need to refresh your memory on PHP5’s String and Regular Expressions feature. String and Regx are very important for any web development language, so you should have great grasp on them before you take the Exam. The funcitons listed here are no guarantee will be tested in the exam, they are just what I thought you should know them. Of course, these are just a fraction of the functions on php.net; I encourage you visit php official manual often! Read the rest of this entry »

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 »