I headed for a scheduled seminar at the EdTech center located inside Benavides Library. This seminar was a collaborative effort of two organizations, ISyS and TomasinoWeb, both of which are headed by students from the IS program. The seminar was about PHP (PHP Hypertext Preprocessor), a scripting language embedded in HTML. I’m quite acquainted to this as I’ve been researching about this for the past months now. Unluckily, this topic is not included in our curriculum. But still, with the hope of finding a career in Web Development, I find myself utilizing every possible way of getting information about PHP.

The speaker of the event was no less than the UST webmaster himself, Mr. Jun Dolor. We’re quite acquainted with each other as he was the one who taught me and my colleagues last summer, at the TomWeb Summer Training, the Joomla CMS and many other things involving Web Development. The program started with a short prayer and an introduction of the speaker. Then after that, Mr. Dolor proceeded to show us some of his past and current projects. He also encouraged us to collaborate Read the rest of this entry…

It’s been three weeks now that I get to sleep at 3 o’clock in the morning. This has been my way of life since the start of the semester due to my class schedule that starts late in the afternoon. After going home from class at around nine in the evening, I eat what is supposed to be dinner and do other stuff. One of that stuff is reading the book entitled Designing with Web Standards (2nd Edition)

On the first week of class, I got to hang out in the library because we didn’t have a lot of things to do. As I am assigned to redesign the TomasinoWeb.org website, I took the initiative to look for web design books concentrating on CSS based layouts with clean and minimalist design. After a while, I found this book written by Jeffrey Zeldman that according to the “About the author” section was one of the first web designers. Read the rest of this entry…