the X factor –=Every Little Thing =–

was so bo liao sitting in the office this afternoon. so took the opportunity to give my blog a new skin for the coming new year

this skin is modified a bit based on Qwilm! theme from http://oriol.f2o.org/qwilm/

好－－累－－啊！！！

没干什么呢，工作又不是很忙，怎么就觉得那么累呢？？？

由于project的需要，这两天在学CSS和其他一些WEB Standard的东西，还要学AJAX.

闷… 现在Web Developer也要做越来越多web design的东西了… 不过多学了一点东西是没有坏处滴，现在就发现CSS很有用，web design的潮流趋向于Designing Without Tables Using CSS。 用CSS而不是table来做网页的layout，好处就是比较灵活，每次改动page design的时候，只要去改动CSS file就行了。但也不是没有问题，其中一个问题就是标准兼容的问题，CSS的发展：CSS1 (level 1)， CSS2.1 (level 2 revision 1) ，CSS3 (level 3) 不同的browsers (比如IE和Mozilla)，甚至同样的browser不同的版本，对CSS标准的支持有微小的差别。因此在做design的时候要考虑到browser兼容的问题，有时候会有点头痛…

Chinese New Year快到了，顺便给blog换了个header image，图片是从Citibank的newsletter里偷来的～～

Finally my dear domain name www.xfai.net comes back liaoz~~ By now the 搬家 of my blog is completely finished:

• Changed hosthing provider to www.websg.net. Moved site to new server .
• Transferred domain name www.xfai.net to new server
• Get a new domain name www.xionghui.org
• Upgraded WordPress to version 2.0

Now http://blog.xfai.net is the main url to my blog while http://blog.xionghui.org is still accessible.

So guys, still keep your bookmark as http://blog.xfai.net ya~~

Juz upgraded my WordPress blog to be 2.0, which was released yesterday, the boxing day.

The upgrading progress is straightforward and fast (less than 5 mins). Here are the step-by-step instructions http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress

Have no time to explore the new features with version 2.0. Will updated this post later.

Just added in another plugin

This one is from Priyadi

Now can put in Yahoo! IM-like smileys into the post and comment. Here are some examples:

Just spend some time to write a plugin to pull out the thumbnails of the latest 30 photos in my gallery and play them in a slideshow using javascript.

Actually there is some “Official” plugin to link Wordpress and Gallery2. However it is just not working for me… Feeling it’s too complicated also, I just wrote one for myself.

Here is the UTF-8 version:

Note:

If the string is UTF-8 encoded, 1 Chinese Character is with length 3 if using PHP strlen().
If the string is GB encoded, 1 Chinese Character is with length 2 if using PHP strlen().

For example:

$str = “Hello你好么”;
print utf8_strlen2($str); // print 8
utf8_substr2($str, 0, 6); // print “Hello你”


/***********Start of Code ***************/

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Just now encountered a problem while using PHP to send out email with Japanese subject line. The Japanese subject line is not properly encoded although I have set the encoding in the email header:

$headers = “MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n”;
$headers .= “Content-type: text/html; charset=Shift_JIS\r\n”;

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