I am a opensource programmer. I am looking for some opensource packages for my personal projects. Mainly, they are a new presonal website and a website for my fellowship. They are not some kind of serious projects. But there are some common requirements same as other kinds of commerical projects. Firstly, the packages need to do the tasks I need. Moreover, I need they have some kinds of documentations. Well, you can say they are opensource. I can understand the functions by looking into the codes. But the code is the logic from others people and this kind of task is very time consuming. I really don't want to spend three years just to understand a framework!

I just had a quick look on Joomla Framework. Finally, I like that, because that looks like a java framework. Moreover, they have a more clear architecture than previous version.

I am reading a book about NHibernate. Of course, I know how to use NHiberate. I have used that during this half year. But I need to know the theories, then I can use the theories to explain my work to others people.

I read an article about Windows Home Server in APC. This is completely not my choice. I chose Linux. This is free of charge. Moreover, it works with low end computers as well.(Be fair, even I try Windows Home Server, I don't know whether Windows Home Server works well too). For another reason, I am a developer. I can free develop and customize the software in Linux. Most of software in Linux world are open source. Linux, this is my choice.

I am doing customization for the web site of my church. I have a big headache for BIG5. All Chinese Characters can't get into Mambo 4.6.2. After Googling on the web for two hours, I found a number of entries across different forums, Mambo 4.6.2 only supports UTF-8. Please be aware this point.