The Ji Village News

Category: Technology

  • OmniFocus sync to iPhone through WebDav on MyDisk

    I have been going back and forth in search of better ways to manage my life. Time seems to be in short supply, especially for mid-aged adults with child(ren) at home in a modern society. It is sad, in a way, that we are so goal-oriented, and there are certainly way too much noise and…

  • AWS Management Console is nice

    If you want to play with Amazon cloud computing stuff, I think using AWS Management Console web interface is the best, easiest, and most intuitive approach, based on my experience so far. My usage with Amazon Web Services has been only with EC2 up to this point. Prior to AWS Management Console, I had to…

  • AnyDbTest

    I’ve been working in my spare time on a database testing tool, AnyDbTest, with my friend Liu Zhongwu (刘忠武）. The program is written in C#, based on the .Net Framework 3.5. It can be used in many scenarios: business analysts and QA can use it to confirm and validate data, recordsets data comparison; database developers…

  • WordPress 2.8, a step back

    Update below Reports in blogsphere about some WordPress blogs being hacked got me alarmed. So I decided to upgrade mine from whatever version it was at (2.3, perhaps, whatever the current version was a year ago) to 2.8, the latest, but certainly not the greatest. The upgrade process wasn’t hard, just a bit tedious. After…

  • In search of a better dev environment setup

    Now my make-shift working area is no longer the dining table after the move, I am eager to set up a proper environment for learning and developing software at home. My thought is to have one decent computer that powers a few virtual machines. I like the idea of virtual machines as opposed to physical…