Web Design Update

After 3 years of reading up on web designing, particularly PHP and PEAR, I have finally stumbled on somthing known as Model-View-Controller (MVC) paradigm. I always felt web designing seemed a whole lot chaotic and unstructured.

Now, thanks to the MVC methodology and a good PHP framework like Yii, I have managed to develop the basic structure of my web application/site with the basic login processing.

Although, there are many PHP frameworks out there such as Akelos and CakePhp, but I found the Yii well documented for beginners. So, after I got the blog tutorial to work, I sat down to design the whole database schema of my application before I go on further. I'm only got it done half which is enough for now.

Right now, the website only exist on my local development machine. I've been configuring and reconfiguring my production machine since the web hoster did their upgrade, which messed up everything for me. I just can't get to change my [include_path]. I contacted tech support and the genius on the other end had no clue what the hell she was doing. But, I've managed to find a way around the problem. Although, it would make my life easier if I can edit the [include_path].

Lenovo Ideapad S10e

I bought a Lenovo Ideapad S10e (Notebook) a couple of days ago and it just arrived today. From the looks of it...its alright. I spent half the time today installing and updating windows and its applications.

Configuration:

• CPU: Intel Atom N27 1.6GHz
• RAM: 1GB
• Hard Drive: 160GB
• Monitor: 10.1 inches
• Networking: LAN, WLAN, Bluetooth
• Battery: Lithium ION, 4-6 hours
• Extra Features: 2 USB2.0 ports, 2 internal speakers, 1 internal microphone, jack for each external mic and speakers, 2 PCI expansion slots, 1 internal webcam.
• OS: Linux Quick Launch and WinXP Home.
• Color: Black
• Total Weight: 1.2kg

I specifically bought it for mobile and simple use. For example, Internet surfing, email, online chatting, simple word proccessing and nothing too heavey like running high powered applications like webserver or video editing. Plus, it will come in handy on a road trip, like if I have to look up a map to somewhere, I can look it up on google maps in the car.

Personally, I prefer a PC over anything, but I bought this for someone else's use. I did a lot of reasearch before buy it. Checked out the user reviews and everything. The whole thing came around to AU $482.00.