About
Petixe is the journal and portfolio of Rachel Jaro – a developer and a wannabe designer from Pampanga, Philippines. The word petixe came from the the tagalog slang word ‘pa petiks-petiks lang’ which means laid back, relaxed or easy going.
About Rachel
I am a woman who has been attracted both to technology and arts. Since my left brain dominates my right brain, I became a web developer since 2005. I use PHP and MySQL as my primary tools in providing quality, professional web solutions. I use different technologies such as CakePHP, Drupal, OsCommerce, Magento, WordPress and Zend Framework, whichever fits the job best.
My right brain activities, on the other hand, balances my life. I like cartoons, paintings, color, web design, interior designs and architectures. I also like to engage myself in sports. I have tried 2 things which I really like: hiking and badminton. I love traveling too. If given a chance (and I am working on that), I will travel my home country and then visit the others. I particularly like to go to Austria, Paris, Scotland, UK and northern China.
Career and Work
Solutions Architect at Promet Source
I am happily employed at Promet Source since 2006 (my profile). My main responsibility is to provide technical oversight to large-scale projects through the entire full lifecycle including requirements gathering, technical assessments, technical design, development, knowledge transfer, launch and support. That plainly says I’m involved almost in all phases of a project’s life cycle.
Independent Web Consultant
I work with people or companies outside my regular 8-hour job to work on things that interest me. Also, it helps pay the bills from my shopping and travel spree!
Jack of all trades at Tripsiders
My newly side project that is all about Philippine tourist spots! I work as a manager, developer, designer, seo expert, customer, helper, consultant and decision maker. Basically, anything that I can provide. I try to practice my entrepreneurial side.
Share
Life is not really only about yourself. So I try my best to connect with people and share whatever I can give.
- I volunteer in the PHP Roadshow project conducted by PHPUGPH. PHP Roadshow is an outreach to college students with the goal of reaching the same level of programming competency of our counterparts outside of the country.
- I contribute drupal modules
- I blog anything here, some cakephp tutorials and drupal stuff here.
Outside the IT world, I contribute to kiva.org who helps entrepreneurs funds their businesses. I like helping people who help themselves first. If you have a minute, please get to know them at kiva.org.
Get in Touch
You can contact me directly with your thoughts, critiques or what have you as long as it’s not a spam. I always check my email when I’m online (I’m always online except when I travel which is really rare)
6 Comments
rachel on May 18th, 2009
@jhoy, thanks. it’s actually just a free theme ^-^
tolitz on November 24th, 2009
Very nice tol…. Ive read hte entire petixe site of yours and it amaze’s me knowing that your a computer science grad but u manage to be a very good web developer/programmer.. very cool for a girl like you.. hoping to see u all together wd r barkada dis xma.. God bless and TC
Make Money Online with an Introvert on January 29th, 2010
kasanting na ning site mo, kabalen
John Arce on February 1st, 2010
Wow idol lady web developer
rachel on February 1st, 2010
thanks tolitz. lagpas ne ing xmas ala ku pang ikit metung man kekau. hehe
hey vicman, thanks kabalen
at john, haha. pti ikaw nahawa n rin ng mga taga phpug ha. hehe. tnx sa visit!




jhOy on May 18th, 2009
very nice design
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