1. Small/Micro kernel.
2. Powerful UI.
3. Simple Application development.

And what I can see now is it really has an innovative UI and I like it. The kernel should be neat althought it definitely will be based on Win CE. So what I really want to know is how to develop app based on this new UI. It should bring a tough switch… But let’s check it out on MIX10…

Last November, we were about to move to our new apartment in 4 weeks. The bathroom, living room were planned to be re-decorated completely and we planned to partially make kitchen and bedroom up. And we only had a small amount budget and we are both quite busy on our full-time job. But finally I think we are pretty successful on this project since following six things.

1. Good Plan
Stick to your budget, make a well plan according to your real needs and budget. Never trying to achieve more than  reality. Clearly write down the items into a backlog with milestones/check points.

2. Clear Defined Scope
This should be part of the plan, but I separate it since it is critical to the whole project.  If you really want to extend the scope, that means either the project will be delayed or you have to remove something from the scope finally.

3. A Good Team Lead
A good team is always required for any successful project. But a good team lead is much more important. A good team leader means a lot of things, like:
a. Accurate data of status which is also in time
b. Appropriated arrangement
c. Risks identified
d. Agile, frankly, without a great team lead (a good scrum master or project manager),  you are not able to be real agile.

4. Choose Good Suppliers
During the whole decoration period, you need to buy lots of stuff. If time is not a matter, it will be pretty OK to find cheap stuff with good quality. But it’s not the case to me. So there are only two places where I bought things I need, they are IKEA and B&Q. IKEA almost always has goods in stock while B&Q almost has everything. Another great thing of this kind of supplier is that they sell at expressly marked price and I can easily manage the account.

5. Delegation
You have to delegate many things to the project/team leader, as they are good at the decoration and you should put your time and effort to the things you most concern. So look back to your project backlog and see what you must to do in person.

6. Compromise
No perfect. You have to make trade-offs. Make decisions based on the values not the feelings.

1. Download nginx and php and install

• http://nginx.net/
• http://windows.php.net/download/ (I don’t like the installer)

2. Configure nginx and php

• PHP, no specific configuration, just do what you like to php.ini.
• Nginx
  Fast-CGI of php
  You can find sample from wiki.nginx.org, http://wiki.nginx.org/PHPFastCGIOnWindows, below works for me.

  location ~ \.php$ {
              fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9999;
              fastcgi_index  index.php;
              fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  D:/www/public/$fastcgi_script_name;
              include        fastcgi_params;
          }

  Configure for Zend Framework
  -f and !-f are used for checking whether file exists.

          error_page 404 /index.php;
  
          if (!-f $request_filename) {
              rewrite ^.*$ /index.php last;
              break;
          }

3. batch script to start and stop nginx + php-cgi

I’m using RunHiddenConsole to hide the prompt window and actually you also can use vbs to run nginx.

start-nginx.bat

@ECHO OFF
ECHO Starting PHP FastCGI...
C:\nginx\RunHiddenConsole.exe C:\PHP5\php-cgi.exe -b 127.0.0.1:9999
ECHO Starting nginx...
C:\nginx\RunHiddenConsole.exe c:\nginx\nginx.exe

stop-nginx.bat

@ECHO OFF
ECHO Stopping nginx...
taskkill /F /IM nginx.exe
ECHO Stopping php-cgi...
taskkill /F /IM php-cgi.exe

but php-pfm doesn’t work on Windows unless you are using cygwin.

resources.view.helperPath.Zend_View_Helper = APPLICATION_PATH "/views/helpers"
resources.view.helperPath.My_Custom_Helper = "/path to helpers"

The “My_Custom_Hepler” is the prefix, so that you can support your different modules’ help path without hard coding in php codes.

while using linux, I thought subversion client should natively support http schema,  but actually it doesn’t. By reading installation instruction, it says I need Neon… Then I download Neon and configure with –with-neon=<neonpath>, doesn’t work! try copy neon to subversion source code, reconfigure it… without –with-neon option… still doesn’t work! Shit… via looking into configure log, it says…

checking neon library version… 0.29.0
You have a neon/ subdir containing version 0.29.0,
but Subversion needs neon 0.28.4.

An appropriate version of neon could not be found, so libsvn_ra_neon
will not be built.  If you want to build libsvn_ra_neon, please either
install neon 0.28.4 on this system

or

get neon 0.28.4 from:
    http://www.webdav.org/neon/neon-0.28.4.tar.gz
unpack the archive using tar/gunzip and rename the resulting
directory from ./neon-0.28.4/ to ./neon/

no suitable neon found

… download 0.28.4, copy to sub folder, configure… yeah… works, finally. You can check whether it supports http via “svn –version”, there should be a ra_neon module.

Frankly, most of the newsletters in my mailbox are unread, and I just realize how useful and interesting those newsletters are recently, like this one. I have my DSLR several years ago, but I never tried to learn how to take real good photo… In early 2009 2008, I began to take photo weekly, although finally I re-created an account on flickr for some reason, I did enjoy those photos and I’m considering to learn something. So reading newsletters from photojojo and cleaning my DSLR might be a good new start point.

In China, we call lens are 镜头, and everyone has a brain, I mean head, which we call 头. So it is always said that the 头 (brain) behind camera is more important than the 头 (lens) which is at front.

Developed by Microsoft P&P.

Spring.Net, http://www.springframework.net/, Apache 2.0 License

Port from the famous Spring framework.

Castle, http://www.castleproject.org/, Apache 2.0 License

The first .Net IoC Container?

StructureMap, http://structuremap.sourceforge.net/, Apache 2.0 License

Looks good.

The fifth?

[updated on Sep 14th]

Yes, just know the fifth,

Ninject: http://code.google.com/p/ninject/ Apache 2.0 License. No comment yet…

WUA: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949104