Recently I was setting up a website for my church (PKCMC); and decided to signup the hosting package from 3ix (www.3iX.org) which only cost RM146 for 2 years.
One of the reasons I pick 3iX was because it has this “Fantastico”, Fantastico (wikipedia) is a commercial script library that automates the installation of web applications to a website. And wordpress is one of the features that had ready.
After installing and looked simple till I realized something not right when using Chinese Character and it display “?????”; well, I don’t have this problems on other blog (creadaq.wordpress.com). Searching through google and found out there were many type of answers.
Most commons from Wordpress Support, however, it doesn’t help and I keep on looking at some blog with the same file (wp-config.php) which it have this code…
define(’DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8′);
define(’DB_COLLATE’, ”);
But it was working fine. So, don’t remove or replace it. It might corrupt your WP database.
Then I found out some resources about SQL database setting for WP. The main issue is that for most systems when you create a database, the collation is set at “latin1_swedish_ci” as default. You’ll need to change that to “utf8_unicode_ci” for all the tables where you plan to include Chinese characters in.
If you have cPanel, try look for mySQL Database or PhpMyAdmin
Well, first I though it was changed by just select it from the drop down. NO! There was many more to be done. Let me show the steps and screens. Please click screen to enlarge.
You’ll see something like this, might defer from yours as some plugins will add their own tables.
Anyway, on this screen, under the “collation” column, if you see latin1_swedish_ci, you’ll need to change that to utf8_unicode_ci!!! Click on the button 2nd from left on the column that says “Action”.
You’ll reach a page that says Structure as shown below, check everything that says latin1_swedish_ci, then click on the edit button which looks like a pencil.
You’ll reach another page like the one above, change everything to utf8_unicode_ci, then click Save.
Then, when you finished saving, go to the tab that says “Operations”.
Change again setting to utf8_unicode_ci, then press “Go”.
Repeat steps for all that are not “utf8_unicode_ci”. Make sure you click each of the list on the left menu.
Finally, you should be able to write in Chinese characters now. See pkcmc.org.
I think 2009 is the year of Twitter, it was hot and everyone has owned one account. Even our Malaysian PM- Najib has one, wonder what has he used it for, calendaring or his though of twitting it. Well, I was not interested to be his “follower”. 
And surprisingly, I have seen some of them come with million followers. Anyhow, people has engaged it and realize there were some designers have created some beautiful icons and buttons for twitter, especially the Blue bird. Just lovin them all…
So, there were some nice twitter icons for downloads.
TMS had developed and approach another great application “tmsWorkflow“, to allow user to design their own workflow modules easily to mange the complex mechanism without any hard-code or special customization.
Well, team has decided to brand it as Open Source software and given a name called ‘JOGET‘.
What is Joget?
The Joget is the most popular traditional dance throughout Malaysia. It is performed at cultural festivals, wedding celebrations and other social functions. Joget (video) is a couple dance and the tempo is fairly quick with a feeling of teasing and playing between the partners.
The concept and idea of using Joget, it has interpreted an application featured with flexibility and dynamic. It was how the dancer’s movement and way of performance. I was using the styles from each of them, especially the hand of dancers.
This logo should also design for impact, reliability and exceptionality. The shapes embody the spirit of strength and cohesion. The various elements are unified into a central theme of strength and vitality, yet they remain unique.
The original logo displayed shapes of hands. The approach was already overused and the Olivedrab mixing well with yellowgreen color did express energy, dynamic, active, and represents the continuous movement that characterizes the applications.
Well, the team has decided the final logo’s font type and colors.
The logo displayed on the screen of application.
