I still continue to get the certification, first because it’s already my plan since last year, second PHP is not their concern and third its just for a PHP foundation and I would like to get PHP certification while I ‘m still waiting for php 5.4 and finally get the certification on Zend.

The w3school offer is good enough to document my knowledge in PHP, The exam is quite good not easy but never to tough is 70 random question about PHP and MySQL.

I passed the exam but to far to get perfect score or to get the Excellency Degree notation for those who get 95%.

Overall is good experience and nice to have PHP certification, I can’t wait to PHP Zend Certifcation but I still need to wait for PHP5.4 to come.

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1 month before when I get news that Philippines will be having its first Startup Weekend organize by ProudCloud and Globe Telecommunication, It’s so excited to attend to this event and as I started to prepared some stuff and the idea that I would like to pitches I’m hoping that I could build a team and win this event.

From the original 38 registered pitches its blow up to 62 scheduled pitches and on that day everyone is so cool and great in sharing their ideas, I’m amaze to hear every one’s idea, some have a cool name but not that so interested there is also cool and funny idea but it’s already existing.

I prepared my pitches 1 week before but as the floor is getting hot I need to change some of my lines to get some attention.

Here my pitch on startup weekend.

Hi I’m Aris Royo software engineer at Accenture, [for passion I use Gnu/Linux, PHP and MySql on web development .] and I came here to solve your entire problem (They all laugh)

Today’s web is becoming more destructive and un-friendly; we share a lot of information that important to us but boring for someone. We do this not intentionally but because of temptation and design of the social networking around us.

I would like to build social tools where users have a full control on a social content and that will also act as a social journal. Technology like curation and object tagging will be use to filter out information. For example you can add a friend and select only his/her post and photos that is only related to technology that aligns to your preference.

To make this idea materialize I need a designer and a marketer. So please welcome my idea slumnote!

People vote ideas that sound interested to them until I realize the problem that people doing on startup week end that made the event spirit broken.

Some ideas has already existing product and website and the most discouraging is that there is a group of person joined the event produce by well known proprietary software and It’s a shame that they also like to monopolize this independent event.

I joined on LaunchUr.WS group a search and listing tools for first time sites the idea is great and we always been ask what our different with Google.

The most important thing that I learn is the verification of idea because you don’t want to waste your time working on the product that there’s no one is going to use, each team talk about what they think about each other idea and we also talk and discuss our idea to startup weekend mentor.

Three 3 day of knowledge and experience sharing is really fun.
Over all is great experience, the 3 days is an overwhelming knowledge, expertise, fun and excitement.

The top 6 winner is really deserving and the two of them was invited me to join on first day but since I already committed to LaunchUr.WS I spent my time to this great group of people that almost new to me.

Scenes-from-startup-weekend-manila

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So Starting today I will leaving (but not on the jet plane) the developer community facebookgarage.ph to JP Loh a developer enthusiast that will now be handling the coordination and will take lead the Facebook Developer Garage in Philippines , Welcome him and support our new Garage Host.

I will now take my time and focus on my personal project.

Hosting the facebook garage in Philippines brings me a wonderful and unique opportunity to meet and take lead in some matters our great developer in the country.

Once again change do happen, there’s a wide range of opportunity that in the end it’s how are we going take this new opportunity.

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Trisquel 4.5 “Slaine” is the latest released of Trisquel, Although Slaine is based on Ubuntu 10.10, and as always it contains just free software, 100% free operating system that gives real freedom.

It’s simple design and application grouping provide a quick and more collaborative way to work in trisquel.

Trisquel is a fully free operating system based in GNU/Linux, for home users, small enterprises and educational centers. – http://trisquel.info

Last but not the least it’s better than windows!

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I really doubt about this email so I re-search on web and I find almost similar post and question regarding this scam.

Here the email scam, I remove their URL and some information not because I’m afraid, I just don’t want to give them key word on my website where basically one of their tactic.

I really doubt that in some matters my domain name extension is still free to register.

Dear Manager:

This email is from Country domain name registration center, which mainly deal with the domain name registration and dispute internationally in Country and Asia.
On February 21st 2011, We received ABC company’s application that they are registering the name ” timepers ” as their Internet Keyword and ” timepers .cn “、” timepers .com.cn ” 、” timepers .asia “domain names etc.., It is Country and ASIA domain names. But after auditing we found the brand name been used by your company. As the domain name registrar in Country, it is our duty to notice you, so I am sending you this Email to check. According to the principle in Country, your company is the owner of the trademark, In our auditing time we can keep the domain names safe for you firstly, but our audit period is limited, if you object the third party application these domain names and need to protect the brand in country and Asia by yourself, please let the responsible officer contact us as soon as possible. Thank you!
Best regards,

John
Oversea marketing manager
Tel:+86(0)21 1234567
Fax:+86(0)123456789011
web:www.someurl.com.cn

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Ramon Pastor of Numlock Solutions share about mobile apps development and market information. He is experienced mobile developer and marketer of his owned company’s mobile apps.

So I would like to thanks Philippine Tech Startup for continuing support and effort to bring this great opportunity to developer and technopreneurs to mobilize, connect and inspired.

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I arrive early since my office is near at Ortigas Pasig City and at exactly 6:30 every one is starting to show up, this event I really great to meet and to talk to people on what they doing what business they have and also a great opportunity to get a contact info of great people around the web and tech industry here in the Philippines.

So thank you to ITProsAsia.com to make this event successfully happened.

http://webgeekph.com/events/webgeekph-meetup-tjs-tijuana-mexican-grill-city-golf-plaza-ortigas/

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I believe that html5 and css3 will soon going to be stable and it will soon be fully supported by different browser.

Below is a list of cool links about HTML5.

HTML5 TUTORIAL
http://diveintohtml5.org/
http://www.html5rocks.com/
http://www.w3schools.com/html5/default.asp

HTML5 DEMO
http://html5demos.com/

HTML5 TOOLS
http://html5.validator.nu/

HTML5 WORK GROUP
http://www.whatwg.org/

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While waiting for some good response and for dedicated people out there, I start to wonder why I doing this things and why I’m really want to build my own project and after reading some startup books below is my Startup Flavors.

Personal Project Startup:

Start with a small but persistent happiness. It could be a gap between you and some existing program or web app, a feature no one seems to realize is needed, or just a desire to see what you can code. Add a skilled developer with dedicated time with a desire and belief on your idea to make his or her side project a full-fledged startup.

Key ingredients: KISS Keep It simple stupid!  And Get Real! Build from free software/open source and interact to existing tools, apps and web.

Pros: Personal projects are great résumé builders personally and for the team, it’s a great satisfaction for you from other programmers and to show to others developers the tools or web application that you contribute to a world wide web. They can also be the starting point for any one of the other kinds of startups.

Cons: Dedication is the important resource, sometime project suffer from low financial support and its required highly skilled and dedicated developers.

Bottom line: Personal projects are a great way to build your reputation, contribute new tools, service and technology. You don’t naturally like to get a reward (money)  and you know it will come along the way naturally if a lot of people are happy to use it.

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The information very exhausted for a one whole day event, there is a lot and exciting tools to know directly from Google and it’s nice to know that they pushing HTML5, with their latest browser chrome.

But as I expected they don’t answer my question.

Is Google going to build or having a plan to create their owned social networking?

The answer is pretty straight forward.

Sorry! We can’t comment on that!

I know it’s still a rumor about Google Me and according to this post of mashable.com

The big rumor that’s recently been making the rounds is Google Me, Google’s upcoming social network and a full-fledged competitor to Facebook.

While there’s virtually nothing official on the record for this project, Kevin Rose recently said it exists, and now more and more people close to either Google() or Facebook have been confirming that Google indeed has something along these lines in the works.

http://mashable.com/2010/06/30/google-me-rumors/

Google is working on a social service to rival Facebook, if web rumors are to be believed.

http://mashable.com/2010/07/01/google-facebook-rival/

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