The Ji Village News

Author: Haidong Ji

  • My son’s Chinese exceeded my expectations

    During our trip to Dallas for spring break, I was pleasantly surprised that my first grader’s Chinese is better than I expected. My son was in a Japanese immersion Montessori school for pre-school (3-4) and kindergarten (5). We put him in the Japanese immersion program because Japanese is as close to Chinese as I could…

  • DotNetNuke 3.1.0 initial setup

    My own experience of setting up DotNetNuke (DNN) 3.1.0. Hopefully somebody will find it useful. 1. Installed a standard Windows 2003 server. Through Manage Your Server wizard, chose custom and installed as an Application Server (IIS and ASP.NET). FrontPage extension and ASP.NET were installed. Install media was required during IIS install; 2. Downloaded DNN 3.1.0.…

  • Don’t over do it, Sql Server; Watch out, Oracle

    SQL Server 2005 was released in November, 2005. I actually played with it much earlier than that. Overall, I am pretty happy with it. I think it is a great product, and will give Oracle’s namesake RDBMS a run for its money. Previously, there were a lot of arguments against Sql Server for its perceived…

  • Random thoughts and observations on 20060405

    1. I am disappointed that we couldn’t go back to China this year. I had hoped that I could bring Benjamin and Maria there for the first time, and have some quality time with my family; 2. After work, on my way to the train station today, there were kids giving out fortune cookies to…

  • Do you want a free book on Sql Server Integration Services?

    My publisher sent me some copies of our book, Professional SQL Server 2005 Integration Services. I have 5 or 6 copies that I would like to give away. I will sign each copy and make it the collector’s edition, so it is extra valuable 🙂 Here is the deal: 1. Priority will be given to…