CHARLES PENG

Hi, all, i’m sorry I didn’t write anything in the last month. For one thing, I was a little bit busy and had a lot of things to be done at the end of 2008, for another, I was somewhat bored of writing, as you may know, I have several blogs now… except this one, I have a personal “official” website, and another team blog writing together with some of my female friends, I spent most of my spare time writing these two of my blogs.. While, the most important is my English, my english is not good, sometimes, I didn’t know what and how to write an article…

This morning, I received several emails telling me some readers left me comments on the blog, I replied them one by one, and deleted several hundred of spam comments. For the last month, I didn’t even log in this blog, didn’t upgrade to Wordpress 2.7, I am so sorry to reply all comments so late… and I want to say sorry to all of my RSS readers if you subscribed my blog…

I’m back now… I made up my mind to renew at least once a week, please don’t leave… thanks

I am so happy to announce the luanch of my new forum Charles’ Readers Community for all my blog readers. This community is a forum based on bbPress. bbPress is a very good forum software with a twist from the creators of WordPress. It’s very ease of use, ease of integration, and speed. What’s most import is that it’s very light-weighted and powerful enough with add on features through its extensive plugin system.

Just because it has so many features to meet my requirements, and, it’s also a work of Wordpress developer team, it can be easily intergrated with my Wordpress blog, it became my readers’ community software.

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I tried my best tonight to move my English blog entries from Pengyulong.com to this new domain hosted in Hostgator. I didn’t major in computer related specialized field in unvierstiy, it’s really a shame because I met a lot of problems when moving them. I was so happy when all troubles resolved at last.

How did I move my English blog?

Well, first of all, I Exported pengyulong.com MySQL database from its host phpMyAdmin, and backed up all files in the old wp-content directory. Then, downloaded the lastest wordpress 2.6.2 and uploaded to the new host, and seted up a new MySQL database and made some necessary change of the wp-config.php file, and uploaded to the new host’s wordpress directory. After that, imported the mysql file which exported to the newly-created MySQL datebase. When I opened http://www.charlespeng.com, it was automatically redirected to http://pengyulong.com… it’s useless this way…

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I found myself so difficult to find a good hosting to blog, I just bought a Surpasshosting ONE LOVE TWO power plan, but the server IP assigned to me is blocked by the Great Firewall, although I made a decision to start English blogging, I don’t care Chinese people can access or not, because a few Chinese can read English even if what I write is just baby English(only some simple English), but it’s unconvinient for me to blog using Firefox + Tor, or upload & download files via FTP using a VPN software. So I finally refund Surpasshosting, their service is very good, I am sure, but I can’t  bear the speed, so I just moved Pengyulong Dot Com to a new one. So I hope all the user outside China continuing using their Power plan or other plans.

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