Understand the language (of business)

A business partner came to me yesterday excited to share his solutions in our current problem. It’s a rare scenario because he talked about leveraging! Before, I can hardly open up the idea of using others money or effort so we could grow the business. Not that he is closed to the idea but I [...]

House Escapo

Working at home can sometimes get boring and it makes me crazy. I have been thinking of going out of the house but my problem is the place to stay and the cost. I have been looking for a place with free wifi in our area but I haven’t found one except for Starbucks but [...]

Doing something different this year

I was meaning to write a post about some entrepreneurial plans I have for this year until I read Cal Evans post on entreprenureship which gave me a little boost of confidence. I also have a lot of ideas throwing out to people around me. Few were approved, most weren’t. Some ideas that I think [...]

Summer at Puerto Galera

Before I forget about summer due to heavy rains this past few days, I finally found the urge to update my blog! Yay! Last April 4 - 5, my employer treated all its employees to an overnight stay in Puerto Galera. Luckily we are allowed to bring any number of friends or families so the [...]

A question about sickness and death

My uncle Bert, Roberto David, died last March 9, 2009 due to diabetes, cancer and more complications I do not know. We are not close but their family is a role model to us. They are a rugs to riches story and they raised their children very well, very down to earth and respectful children. [...]

Implementing Release early, Release often in the Offline World

I don’t know what to say and how to introduce it but here it is — we opened up a Digital printing service! Yey!
With background in web development, we have been tremendously influenced by the terms and practices here. We applied the concept of release early, release often in the business. Last 2 weeks ago, [...]

CSS Font Size and Family Cheatsheet

Here is a cheatsheet for Conversion from Points to Pixels (and Ems and %) and List of Web Safe Fonts. I did not create them, I got them from other sites and the original links are included for reference. It’s just handy when I have to convert PSD designs to HTML.
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Ruby Gotcha - PP not printing

So I have been studying Ruby and Ruby on Rails since last year — for a change. I am currently creating my first rails application and stumbled on a very confusing problem — I could not print a line in controller!
In cakePHP, debug() function is one of those tools I could not live without because [...]

New theme for a new year (2009)

Happy New Year!! It's that time of the year again when it's ok to always start something new. I'd like to say goodbye to my old orange skin and hello to the new Petixe! The theme is a free wordpress template from WooThemes and I just love the outline. It is clean and elegant although [...]

How to find RSS links fast in a site

Are you also having trouble looking for rss links in some websites? Well, I did and not just once or twice but a couple of times! It really annoys me when I find a good blogs but doesn't provide that little useful link in making me stick in their site. Sometimes they are just plainly [...]