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Monthly Archives: October 2007

Mac OS X Leopard. Arriving October 26th. OFFICIALY!

I popped out my Safari and then there is was – the Apple homepage with a huge black image and a letter X in the middle. Behind the X is some sort of timeline-thingy effect. This will be the longest … Continue reading

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Free AJAX Training – 18-week Online Course

Java Passion provides an 18-week AJAX online course for free. I’m not sure if the guy responsible for this was the same guy I saw a couple of years ago in Waterfront Cebu – when I was attending a seminar/conference. … Continue reading

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Ruby on Rails instead of Java + Google Web Toolkit

An article where a couple of guys decided to use Ruby on Rails instead of Java and Google Web Toolkit. I would encourage everyone who is learning RoR to read the entire article. Don’t skip the last part of the … Continue reading

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40 ways to optimize your PHP Code

A must read for PHP Programmers. Here is the first half: If a method can be static, declare it static. Speed improvement is by a factor of 4. echo is faster than print. Set the maxvalue for your for-loops before … Continue reading

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Linux Cheatsheet for the average web developer

Here is a short list of basic Linux commands that I generally use when developing web applications. I update the list whenever I find something useful, so if you want to share something – this post is open for comments.

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My Philweavers Application

I’m back in Philweavers. I had to reapply because my account got deleted – I have been inactive for a few months. My profile is here. It’s good to back! FYI, Philweavers is an online group of Filipino web developers … Continue reading

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CSS: Float-clearing, getting containers to honor the height of floated elements inside of them

I accidentally stumbled on this article found at Agile AJAX. It talks about float-clearing, getting containers to honor the height of floated elements inside of them. Here is a sample CSS code: /* float clearing for IE6 */ * html … Continue reading

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Getting started with: Zend Framework, symfony and CakePHP

This article was posted at IBM developerWorks a few days ago – I don’t know how I missed it. The article gets you started on three of the most popular PHP MVC Frameworks. Surprisingly, Code Igniter, which is my second … Continue reading

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Design Tranced!

Just wanted to announce that my cousin, Francis, just launched his blog a few days ago. Finally after years of designing and creating websites for other people, he finally found time to make his own Quoted from his blog: finally, … Continue reading

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First Ever PHP Developer’s Conference in the Philippines

As quoted from AJ’s blog: PHP User Group Philippines, Inc. (PHPUGPH), a non-profit organization established to provide support for LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP) and open-source enthusiasts in the Philippines, will be holding it’s 1st ever PHP Developer’s Conference on … Continue reading

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