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Wordpress 2.3 is ready to download. I think this have taggie and pending for review function. Moreover, this version finally has a new WYSIWYG (I am waiting for this so long).

My friends usually ask my advices for buying their new computer. They always ask me to recommend a set of configurations for them. Well, the first things I need to know is their budget. The major reason is they can get a better computer if they want to spend more money. I remember one of friends was putting a piece of paper with the components I recommended into a computer shop. And then he spent some time to talked a computer salesperson. The salesperson recommended some alternative recommendations with better performance and only cost a bit more. But $20 more for display, $30 more for motherboard, $10 more for case etc. End up, 50% over budget. My friend is a kind of person to like spending money. Finally, he paid 50% more and got a better computer.

Apple just launched iPhone in UK. O2 is the official carrier. I am disappointed that is still no 3G support.

Source: engadget

Software Prototype = Beta Version? No, 100% Not. Beta Version is a kind of pre-release version. This kind of software need to be passed the normal software development process. Moreover, This is really required to pass an internal testing. Normally, the purpose of Beta version software is to get some feedback from user community. On the other hand software prototype is to evaluate the feasibility. They are two different things.

b2evolution 2.0 has been released.
Please click here to download.
I will get the update very soon.

I found Delphi can write php web application as well. As well as, all others Modern Web Programming Language. Delphi for php has event-driven and RAID by using their own framework.I have watched their presentation, it is cool, but too short, a minute long. Click here to view.

I am using a lof of "Throw-away Software Prototype"."Throw-away Software Prototype" is a piece of software application which is not well engineered. It is not gone in a formal process for software development. It will be destroy after the initial stage of software life cycle.

I used this kind of software prototype to evaluate whether the requirements is possible to be implemented and verify whether my design is workable.

But there is very very important point, Don't try to improve the prototype and put that into a production. This is very high risk, because this type of prototype is not well design and analyzed. We don't know whether there are any hiding defects and design fault inside.

GlassFish is a OpenSource version of Java EE Application Server. So far, that works well for me. I am quite happy about this.

Now, GlassFish has V2 Final Release Candidates. Click here to download.

What is DML?
DML is "Data Manipulation Language". Simply, that are included "select","insert", "update" and "delete" in SQL.

WordPress 2.2.3 is released. They suggested to upgrade immediately. Go to WordPress.

My uncle's computer got some problems a few days ago. After the prower is on, there is only a black screen. He asked me why.
There are some possible cause:

• Hard disk/CD Rom failure, causing a kind of dead lock of the checking process
• Motherbroad burned down.
• RAM problem
• BIOS problems, maybe there are some kind virus

Finally, the tech guy found that is a RAM problem. After he changed a new set of RAM, all good.

Opensource vs Microsoft?No, No, No. That is Open Source at Microsoft They got their Open Source Software Lab.

P.S. Microsoft is announced Silverlight for Linux

Until this moment, I believe I did more jobs in C# rather than Java (included professional job and other hobby kind things), but I am still a hardcore Java man. Using C#, because Windows is a key OS in the area of general public. This is very hard to persuade my friends installing JRE. In contrast, this is easier to say, "Yeah, let's install .Net, that looks like a plug-in for your OS." That is the major reason I did a lot of things in C#.

For Java, I think more comfortable with Java and my programs can be use my Linux and Windows boxes. Moreover, that is more opensource framework in Java than C#.

P.S. I love Joomla 1.5 so much, that is coding style looks like Java too.

I got a lot of memory usage in FireFox. After I have opened several tabs, the memory usage will raise a lot.

Does anyone face this problem too?

I am finding a RSS for the extension directory joomla. But no luck for this at this moment. Why am I so keen about this RSS? Because I wish to know the latest updates for all Joomla components. Almost all RSS readers will notify the user if there is any new entries in RSS. In this way, keeping update that is so easy instead of visiting their "What's News" page daily. Thus, I think RSS is essential for the kind of "What's News" Component

Google Sky With Youtube demo,http://earth.google.com/sky/skyedu.html
Have a look, that is fun!

Last week, I watched "The man of year". In the movie, there is a election system with a bug. It will generate incorrect result. Even the candidate has the highest number of vote, he/she may lost too. The result is only reflect the alphabetic order of candidate's name.

In the real world, it is very low possibility to happen. Only possibility I can think about, there is a very very low level of bug in programming language complier. The sorting algorithm of array will be based on candidate's name instead of the number of vote. Yeah, it should be something like that, but that kind of bug should be very easy to find by the unit testing.

I found facebook is a great web application. So far, I don't find it uses some kind of very very high-end technologies. But the way it use the technologies. It captured the way of we communicating with people in the real world and bring them into the virtual world. In the real world, that is so common we know a friend from the other friends. In the facebook, you know "friends of your friends" by the "view friends".

Today, I found a friend of my friend put the wedding events on facebook. The facebook provides the functions to check who will attend. That is so great!