Ran in the newly built sports park I ran 6.38 kilometers in the newly built Changying Sports Park this evening. It took me almost 48 minutes. The weather was hot but the air was much better after yesterday’s heavy rain. The park was good but there were too many people in it. Most of them were old men, women and kids. Some of them danced with music on the square. It’s good to have a sports park near my home.

Documents of Open Platform I read some documents of Open Platform of WeChat this morning. The English version of the documents was so hard to read and I thought it might be translated by machine. So I switched to Chinese version. The mechanism of providing developing service through Open Platform was a little complicated. It took developers hours to get ready for coding.

Delayed Project I called a meeting with the product manager of QX and CTO this afternoon. The project of QX has postponed more than 30 days and there are still a few critical bugs not fixed. Most members of the development team are just waiting there and do not know what to do. Colleagues from operation department are desperately anxious to use this product but there is nothing they can do.

Running with classmates I ran in the Chaoyang Park with some of my classmates this afternoon. We started running at 5 p.m. The weather is not so stuffy as yesterday but still hot and humid. It took me 40 minutes to run 5.5 kilometers. My heart rate reached 205 per minute when I ran too quick. I kept telling myself to slow down and do not compete with those tough guys. Finally I reached the terminal.

Learning Accounting I kept learning accounting today. As people used to say, accounting is the language of business. By studying accounting, I have come to recognized the time value of money. Balance sheet is an amazing tool. I have some trouble in remembering the names of so many accounting items. But I believe these names will become more and more familiar as I keep learning.

Training Session about Mini Program I run a training session on Mini Program this afternoon. Colleagues from marketing, developing departments attended the session. At first, I gave a brief account of what Mini Program is and how it works. Then I compare it with Public Account and native application. After that, I pointed out that the system of WeChat Mini Program has following shortcomings including weak reviewing mechanism, confusing settings of different platforms, only can be reached through WeChat, too many different kinds of parameters make it difficult for developers to access WeChat Pay, etc. At last, I presented some leading products from competitors and offered my suggestions for our product development strategy. --------------- Thanks for your help!

The Beginning of Mini Program on Wechat Allen Zhang, creator of Wechat, said on Sep. 22th, 2016 that Mini Program was the kind of app that can be used without downloading and installation. It realised the dream that apps were at your fingers. Users could launch apps instantly by scanning QR code or searching them in Wechat. It reflected the idea of “get things done and move on”. Users do not need to worry about whether they have installed too many apps or not. Apps would be everywhere and were always ready. There was no need to uninstall them. At first, Allen wanted to call it “App Acount”. However, Apple did not like it because it contains “App” and refused to release it on App Store. So Allen change the name to “Mini Program” and launched it on Jan. 9th, 2017. Why Jan. 9th? The reason might be that day is the day that Steve Jobs, founder and former CEO of Apple inc., launched the first generation iPhone ten years ago.