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Producers and Consumers
Last week, a tweet from @webgeekph got me thinking about the current state of local “tach” scene: Looking at the top local technology blogs, you’ll see that almost all of them are geared towards...
View ArticleBaguhan Biyernes: Pag Natanggap sa Trabaho
Congratulations, natanggap ka na sa una mong trabaho! Pwede ka nang mamahinga at makakuha ng limpak-limpak na salapi mula sa iyong pinagtatrabahuhan! Sa kasawiangpalad, hindi nagtatapos ang kwento mo...
View ArticleOn Recruiters and Referrals
Every once in a while, I get a recruiter sending me an e-mail or pinging me on Skype. I turn most of them down simply because they fail at reading; it shouldn’t be hard to understand the simple...
View ArticleBaguhan Biyernes: Laman ng Portfolio
Sabi nga natin noong nakaraang buwan, mas mabuti na gumawa ka na lang ng sarili mong portfolio kaysa maghabol ka ng mga certification, mas lalo na’t libre lang gumawa ng Github account para ipakita mo...
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September Meetup Videos and RailsFTW 0.11
Just a couple of quick Ruby related updates. Last Thursday we held our September meetup at the Friendster office in Ayala. Here are the videos of the event: More pictures are posted at the Facebook...
View ArticleTayo’y Maglaro: Towns v0.60a
Been busy for the past few weeks. Took a break from work to record a 1-hour Tagalog Let’s Play of a beta indie game I’ve been playing for the past few months, Towns. (best viewed in HD) Apologies for...
View ArticleProject Araro – Bigas Hackathon
In a C-Cup meeting the week before the IRRI/Smart Bigas Hackathon, MRTtrackr‘s Michie suggested I do a Farmville type game for the event. I originally didn’t want to do it, instead favoring more...
View ArticleMy Startup Academy – Global Startup Battle entry
Please vote for our entry in the Global Startup Battle! http://bit.ly/RR8apT (You may have to like the page, though =/)
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How to Vote in the Global Startup Battle (because the site sucks)
From our testing and based on the large discrepancy between the number of likes and the number of votes on the entries, we’ve concluded that the Global Startup Battle’s voting site’s usability sucks....
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Unofficial Solutions to DevCon C-Cup 2012 Problems
Two weekends ago, DevCon held its Code Challenge Cup (C-Cup) at Xavier School Greenhills. Now while I am the current VP for Technology of the said group and spent 6 hours painstakingly checking a good...
View ArticleProgramming Joke
A wife asks her husband, a programmer, “Could you please go shopping for me and buy one carton of milk, and if they have eggs, get 6?” A short time later the husband comes back with 6 cartons of milk...
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How to Fix “Your Conference Presentation”
A few days ago, a PHD Comics cartoon appeared on the Startup PH Facebook group: While it’s not there anymore (possibly because it deals with academic conferences and not tech/startup conferences and...
View ArticlePessimism Porn
Pessimist political blogs. You’ve probably seen their articles posted and shared on Facebook, Twitter, or whatever social network you’re using. The theme is always the same: it’s about how the...
View ArticleI am not a “Blogger”
I’ve been recently getting emails from various sources grouping me with the local blogging community. I usually just ignore them, giving a passing glance at those that may contain usable information....
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Fixing broken earphone plugs
What do I do if I want to buy in-ear headphones that won’t break? Seriously these things always break down after 6-12 months of use. @ramio — Rico Sta. Cruz (@rstacruz) March 31, 2013 Rico’s tweet a...
View ArticleHaswell, Laptops, and MBPs
Intel officially released Haswell, it’s latest processor series, at Computex 2013 this week. While there’s not much to say about in terms of performance so desktop users using Sandy/Ivy Bridge...
View ArticleA Vim demo
(…also Ember.js.) If you’re wondering why we Rails developers use vim as our main development editor, this video of James Florentino should give you a glimpse of how quickly we can make changes to code...
View ArticleAdditional Steps for RailsInstaller in Windows 8
If you’ve tried using RailsInstaller in Windows 8, you might think it works out of the box — that is, until you open a page that uses the asset pipeline and get a cryptic message related to your...
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Long-term Backup Solutions 2013
I just realized how much disk space my videos eat up. PhRUG videos have now reached > 100GB, and with the new HD camera I’m expecting to use more space soon – Startup Weekend Manila 5 videos alone...
View ArticleRetirement
My 7-month paid gig(s) this year confirmed my hunch: that I was permanently damaged by the crazy stuff that happened around 7 years ago and I could not tolerate working with bullshit without further...
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