Posted in FOSS Advocacy, Filipina, IT Articles, Women, tagged apache, archiva, asf, ewin oliva, exist, Filipina, odea ching, open source, pinay, winston damarillo, women in open source on May 7, 2008 | No Comments »
During the awarding of PSIA Honor Award
Speaking infront of PSIA members about Case Study on IP
Making the news in the IT field these past few days is a Filipina named Ma. Odea “Deng” Ching. She made a big feat by being elected as the Vice President of Archiva, a community based Open Source project of [...]
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Posted in FOSS Advocacy, IT Articles, tagged alvin marcelo, diana bandojo, duke awards, erwin oliva, filipino, inquirer, james gosling, java, java award, ma. jaymee gatapia, programming award, prospero naval, raggie santos, sun microsystems, university of the philippines on April 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Hooray! so proud of our very own Filipino Geeks, Mabuhay!
RP-made app for poisoning diagnosis wins programming award
By Erwin Oliva
INQUIRER.net
First Posted 16:18:00 04/08/2008
MANILA, Philippines–James Gosling, one of the creators of the Java programming language and environment, has chosen a Philippine made Java-based application aimed at helping doctors in rural areas manage poisoning cases as among the [...]
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Posted in IT Articles, Stuff on the Web, tagged ajax, company social response, computer science, cs curriculum, free learning, google code university, java, karma, learn programming, python, tutorials, video lectures, web security on March 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The GOOGLE Code University, where anybody can be a student
Living up to its motto of “Do no Evil” , Google certainly is doing a magnificent work in its way of contributing to the society. Their CSR (Company’s Social Response) is obviously high and that could probably have been one of the reasons why a lot [...]
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Posted in FOSS Advocacy, IT Articles, Stuff on the Web, tagged ISO, microsoft, odf, openxml, standard format, sun, winston damarillo on March 17, 2008 | No Comments »
We Filipinos have a custom that when big decisions in life were to be made, we seek older, wiser and more successful people to explain the consequences that might happen after. We value assurances and opinions from people that matter.
So when Winston Damarillo openly shared his views on the status of OpenXML to be considered [...]
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I love startup companies.. they are so vibrant, idealistic, and fresh that you get hooked immediately to their applications or ideologies.
I found another one again today, and it’s name is Scribd
Scribd is a Silicon Valley startup creating technology that makes it easy to share documents online. You can think of Scribd as a big [...]
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Google has lots of surprises, and this is surely one of them. The OC (Obsessive Compulsive) and highly organized people will surely love this GMAIL feature.
Official Gmail Blog: 2 hidden ways to get more from your Gmail address
2 hidden ways to get more from your Gmail addressWednesday, March 05, 2008 8:10 AMPosted by Robby [...]
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ZOHO WRITER
Post to your blog
Being on the web, you can post to your blog from within Zoho Writer. As you have seen above, Zoho Writer’s WYSIWYG editor is more feature-rich than a typical blog editor’s. Be it Blogger.com, WordPress.com, LiveJournal, TypePad or any blog that supports metaWeblog API, you can make the post [...]
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I love reading some online tech magazines, I got this habit from my husband who frequents Slashot, Linuxmag and some other geek online readings. He told me about his new find this morning and it’s called Jooce. Jooce, according to the article from techcrunch is a WebOS that targets the Cybercafe generation. So if you [...]
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Growth Equity in Mindanao a program under USAID has announced that is now ready to accept applicants for the CIPYML Batch 7. My dear friend Faida Latip, a CIPYML Batch 4 Alumni, informed me of this and asked if I can help dessiminate information so that other young Muslims in different areas of Mindanao will [...]
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About - Document Freedom Day
Document Freedom Day (DFD) is a global day for document liberation. It will be a day of grassroots effort to educate the public about the importance of Free Document Formats and Open Standards in general.Complementary to Software Freedom Day, we aim to have local teams all over the world organise events [...]
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