Hongkong Trip - Day 3 - Mongkok and Victoria’s Peak

Day 3
After a long day and a long walk yesterday in Disneyland, I woke up still tired and my feet still felt sensitive and hurt. Our plan for that day was to move to Mongkok to a find a new place to stay. We wanted to explore Hongkong. So we went on and found the [...]

Hongkong Trip - Day 2 in Disneyland

Happy new year! This is going to be my first post for 2010 so bless this post! Hehe. I’m already sleepy but I just want to accomplish something today. I am already finished marketing the PHP conference 2010 so now, I’m gonna continue my long story about my Hongkong Trip. Today is Day 2!
Day 2
We [...]

PHP Developers Summit 2010

Good news guys, PHPUGPH is organizing another conference this coming January. The website is undergoing heavy development so here is a little info for you:

PHP Developers Summit 2010 - January 30, 2010
Date: January 30, 2010, Saturday
Time: 8.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Venue:
Hotel Rembrandt
26 Tomas Morato Extension Quezon City, Philippines
Location Map
In partnership with Microsoft Philippines, PHP [...]

Hongkong Trip - Day 1 at Ocean Park

Two of my childhood dreams finally came true!
When I was a child, I never often stayed in a place for too long. I think it became a habit and became one of my wish - to travel the world or atleast visit 1 country other than Philippines. With only a very limited budget, Gerold [...]

State of Ecommerce in PH - 2009

I have a lot to tell but I was too lazy to write anything. The whole November and first half of December is probably my busiest days in 2009. Only 2 more weeks left and it’s already 2010 so I’m pushing myself a little harder this week.
I went to the Ecommerce Summit last Nov. 12 [...]

Zend Studio 5.5 - Windows 7 Fix

Installed Windows 7 and unfortunately zend studio 5.5 won’t start. Here is a quick fix from xlim5 that worked for me:

After install Zend studio, right click to shortcut and choose:
Troubleshoot compatibility > troubleshoot program > The program worked in earlier versions of Windows but won’t install or run now.
Click next and choose “Window Vista” and [...]

May ecommerce law pala tayo!

I attended the webinar of DigitalFilipino about ecommerce yesterday because I’m curious up to what extent it covers. I’m still in awe even though I read it before because the Philippines actually have ecommerce law! Can you believe that?! LOL
It was a long discussion but I noted a few points from the webinar:

The ecommerce law [...]

The “em dash” (—)

This info really struck a cord in me because I always use triple dots, double dash or parenthesis in place of the em dash. I guess I need to slowly change that, at least in formal writing if I ever have to.
This is a tip from Daily Writing Tips.

Em dashes are the width of [...]

Toinks - today’s blooper

It took me 8 hours to finally give up and ask assistance from my brother for a problem that I have been struggling to figure out. This story of one of the reasons why using framework isn’t always good
I was recreating a facebook app made from cakephp to a bare php coded version. [...]

SEO in Plain English

Recently, I joined the 30day Challenge which for me taught me the basics of SEO. The following video summarizes what I learned in the 30day challenge.

The 30day challenge really touched those areas. If you want to dig deeper, I recommend you register for the challenge (I think it is still open).